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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe House Without a Key
Earl Derr Biggers · 210 pages
Raven Black
Ann Cleeves · 379 pages
Raven Black begins on New Year's Eve with a lonely outcast named Magnus Tait, who stays home waiting for visitors who never come. But the next morning the body of a murdered teenage girl is discovered nearby, and suspicion falls on Magnus. Inspector Jimmy Perez enters an investigative maze that leads deeper into the past of the Shetland Islands than anyone wants to go.
The Blackhouse
Peter May · 501 pages
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis with the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin MacLeod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his troubled past. Every step in solving the murder takes him closer to a dange
The Lighthouse
P.D. James · 381 pages
From Amazon.com: A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling series of murders.Combe Island off the Cornish coast is a restful haven for the elite. But when one of its distinguished visitors is found hanging from the island’s famous lighthouse in what appears to have been a murder, the peace is shattered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to h
Murder on Brittany Shores: A Mystery
Jean-Luc Bannalec · 384 pages
"Ten miles off the coast of Brittany lie the fabled Glenan Islands. Boasting sparkling white sands and crystal clear waters, they seem perfectly idyllic, until one day in May three bodies wash up on shore. At first glance the deaths appear accidental, but as the identities of the victims comes to light, cantankerous Commisaire Dupin is pulled back into action for a case of what seems to be cold-bl
My Friend Maigret
Georges Simenon · 176 pages
"A small-time crook has been murdered on the island of Porquerolles, the night after boasting of his 'friend' Maigret in a crowded bar. Chief Inspector Maigret is glad to leave rainy Paris to investigate the crime in the sunshine of the island, accompanied by a Scotland Yard detective studying French detection methods. But on Porquerolles they find no one with an obvious motive. Is someone trying
The Blind Man of Seville
Robert Wilson · 434 pages
A Seville police detective investigates the death of a man found bound and gagged in front of his TV with self-inflicted wounds testifying to his attempts to avoid the images in front of him.
Entanglement
Zygmunt Miloszewski · 295 pages
The morning after a grueling psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henryk Telak is found dead. World-weary State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki feels that life has passed him by, but this case changes everything. His search for the killer unearths another murder that took place twenty years earlier-- and to facts that, for his own safety, he'd be better off not knowing.
Forty Words for Sorrow
Giles Blunt · 378 pages
In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is quickly identified as Katie Pine, a teenager who had disappeared months ago. At the time, Detective John Cardinal insisted that Katie was no ordinary runaway. His relentless pursuit and refusal to give up on the case got him demoted from Homicide. But now the Canadian police force wants Car
The Dark Lake
Sarah Bailey · 384 pages
The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As mu
A Carrion Death
Michael Stanley · 467 pages
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.The detective's p
The Blessing Way
Tony Hillerman · 289 pages
Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Joe Leaphorn must stalk a supernatural killer known as the "Wolf-Witch" along a chilling trail of mysticism and murder.When Lt. Joe Leaphorn of The Navaho Tribal Police discovers a corpse with a mo
Murder in Mykonos
Jeffrey Siger · 325 pages
A young woman on holiday to Mykonos, the most famous of Greece's Aegean Cycladic islands, disappears. No one notices, until a body turns up on a pile of bones under the floor of a remote mountain church. Then the island's new police chief--the young, politically incorrect, former Athens homicide detective Andreas Kaldis--starts finding bodies, bones, and suspects almost everywhere he looks. Just w
The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny · 395 pages
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.
Dry Bones in the Valley
Tom Bouman · 288 pages
Chasing the Devil's Tail
David Fulmer · 327 pages
In 1907 Storyville Louisiana someone is killing red-light district prostitutes. As Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr tries to solve the murder he encounters a cast of historical characters.
The Holy Thief
William Ryan · 348 pages
As Stalin's great terror begins, a killer strikes. Moscow, 1936. A young woman's mutilated body is found on an alter in a deconsecrated church. Korolev is asked to investigate. The victim is discovered to be an American citizen, and now one false move will mean exile to the Zone, the frozen camps of the far north.
Death at La Fenice
Donna Leon · 283 pages
When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice police, must sift through several suspects.
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin · 320 pages
When the Ottoman Empire of 1836 is shattered by a wave of political murders that threatens to upset the balance of power, eunuch intelligence agent Yashim Togalu conducts an investigation into clues within the empire's once-elite military forces.
The House of Dolls
David Hewson · 448 pages
The Face of a Stranger
Anne Perry · 345 pages
The Cold Cold Ground
Adrian McKinty · 320 pages
The Skull Mantra
Eliot Pattison · 406 pages
When a headless corpse is found on a remote Tibetan mountainside, veteran inspector Shan Tao Yun is the perfect candidate to solve the crime--except he's been stripped of rank and imprisoned in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before the arrival of high-profile American tourists, the district commander grants Shan a temporary release.