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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDeath Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen
To Love and Be Wise
Josephine Tey · 255 pages
The whole art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed with popular authoress Lavinia Finch when she remarked about her American guest: “I’m sure he must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece.” The too-handsome, rich, famous Leslie Searle had created havoc at Salcott. He was about to break up an engagement and ruin a smug broadcaster; he'd already insulted a leading playwright a
Sherlock: A Study in Pink
Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss
"Holmes and Watson tackle brain-teasing crimes in modern-day London in this stunning Manga, presented in its original right-to-left reading order, and in the full chapters as originally serialized! Meet Holmes and Watson for the first time... all over again!"--Amazon.com
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 003
Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki · 200 pages
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Seicho Matsumoto · 313 pages
A Sleeping Life
Ruth Rendell · 202 pages
Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night. Thirty minutes later he was in a field outside the neighboring village of Kingsmarkham gazing down at a woman viciously stabbed to death. (from the dust jacket)
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie · 276 pages
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet
Henrietta Who?
Catherine Aird · 188 pages
It seemed like a straightforward case of hit-and-run when a middle-aged woman is struck down and killed at a blind corner outside her village. After the police pathologist makes a few discoveries, it's murder -- one with old and well-hidden roots. Soon there's another killing, and the dead woman's daughter may very well be next.
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle · 190 pages
Even Sherlock Holmes, well-accustomed to the bizarre, finds the elements of this case unusual; the scene of the crime, a moated English country house; the wapon, a very American sawed-off shotgun; the bereaved, strangely dry-eyed; and the solution, backward in time and deep in a VALLEY OF FEAR...
The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Leah Moore, John Reppion
Murder on Cold Street
Sherry Thomas · 344 pages
Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 1
Brian Michael Bendis · 456 pages
Batman: The Long Halloween
Jeph Loeb · 369 pages
Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.
The Old Contemptibles
Martha Grimes · 333 pages
Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury becomes involved in a love affair with a pretty widow and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation.
Samurai Deeper Kyo, Volume 01
Akimine Kamijyo · 192 pages
Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers · 272 pages
This is the first in the Lord Peter Wimsey series of stories that includes Harriet Vane. Harriet is introduced as she stands in the dock on trial for murder. Lord Peter immediately determines that she is innocent and sets out to prove it - falling in love with her in the process.
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Donald J. Sobol · 88 pages
Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov · 207 pages
In the future you will walk down the crowded streets of New York City not knowing if the bodies brushing past you are humans or androids. With tensions already mounting between humans and robots, the murder of a Spacer must be handled in a politically-correct fashion so Detective Elijah Baley is assigned a robot partner. Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw become like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock H
The Angel of the Crows
Katherine Addison · 448 pages
Heat Rises
Richard Castle · 368 pages
"In the third book of the New York Times bestselling Nikki Heat series, following HEAT WAVE and NAKED HEAT, Richard Castle's new thrilling mystery continues the story of NYPD Homicide Detective, Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. In what's sure to be another smash sensation by blockbuster author R
Delusion in Death
J.D. Robb · 553 pages
***After years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now.*** It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified. The crowd s
The Thin Man
Dashiell Hammett · 197 pages
Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy of manners.
Voice of the Violin
Andrea Camilleri · 249 pages
Inspector Montalbano, praised as "a delightful creation" (USA Today), has been compared to the legendary detectives of Georges Simenon, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. As the fourth mystery in the internationally bestselling series opens, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Among the suspects