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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBryant & May and the Burning Man
Christopher Fowler · 399 pages
No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators are
Mademoiselle de Scuderi
E.T.A. Hoffmann · 101 pages
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie · 249 pages
"By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes."William Shakespeare – Macbeth (Act IV, Scene 1)When visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada in her nursing home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents, Mrs Lancaster, being the strangest of them all. Her incessant reference to 'something behind the fireplace' and a 'poor child' seems at first the incoherent ramblings of an elderly woman, though whe
We Chase Shadows: A We Solve Murders Mystery
Richard Osman
**Back together. ** **Back on the case.** **And back to solving murders . . .** **At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man.** Back at We Solve Murders HQ, Amy, Rosie, and Steve leap at the chance to take on their first proper case. So what if their new client seems to have
The Troubled Man
Henning Mankell · 496 pages
"Every morning Hakan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his home in Stockholm. However, one winter's day he fails to come home. It seems that the retired naval officer has vanished without trace. Detective Kurt Wallander is not officially involved in the investigation but he has personal reasons for involving himself in the case as Hakan's son is engaged to his daughter Linda. A few months e
Flesh & Blood
John Harvey · 345 pages
Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder is pulled back into a 14-year-old unsolved mystery when a possible suspect is released from prison, and another girl is found dead.
Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney
Emily Brightwell · 262 pages
Fair Game
Josh Lanyon · 266 pages
A crippling knee injury forced Elliot Mills to trade in his FBI badge for dusty chalkboards and bored college students. Now a history professor at Puget Sound University, the former agent has put his old life behind him--but it seems his old life isn't finished with him. A young man has gone missing from campus--and as a favor to a family friend, Elliot agrees to do a little sniffing around. His i
Monk's Hood
Ellis Peters · 268 pages
A stiff-necked old man deeds his estate to Shrewsbury Abbey, then dies via poison in a meal sent over by the abbey. Among the suspects Cadfael must work through are himself for brewing the poison and being part of the abbey, a hot-headed step-son, a bastard, and a villein.
Self's Punishment
Bernhard Schlink, Walter Popp · 256 pages
A Grave in Gaza
Matt Rees · 340 pages
During a trip to the Gaza Strip with his new boss Magnus Wallender, Omar Yussef, principal of a UN school near Bethlehem, becomes entangled in a web of murder, kidnapping, corruption, and violence.
The Judge and His Hangman
Friedrich Durrenmatt · 128 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.
A Dying Light in Corduba
Lindsey Davis · 446 pages
Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Real Estate
Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran
The Norfolk Mystery
Ian Sansom
'The County Guides' are a series of detective novels set in 1930s England. The books are an odyssey through England and its history. In each county, the protagonists - Stephen Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton Morley - solve a murder. This book is set in Norfolk.
The Final Solution
Michael Chabon · 131 pages
An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret.
Second Watch
J.A. Jance · 452 pages
When a series of dreams take him back to his days in Vietnam, reminding him of people and events he hasn't thought about in years, J. P. Beaumont, recovering from knee replacement surgery, is plunged into one of the most mind-blowing mysteries he has ever faced.
Death on the River Walk
Carolyn G. Hart · 336 pages
Murder Wears a Cowl
Paul Doherty · 256 pages