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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorDeath 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
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle · 230 pages
The Singing Sands
Josephine Tey · 224 pages
The House Without a Key
Earl Derr Biggers · 210 pages
Now May You Weep
Deborah Crombie · 400 pages
Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never questioned her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming--and that fellow hotel guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover, despite a vicious, long-standing feud between their rival fine-whiskey-distilling families. And
Strange Shores
Arnaldur Indridason · 296 pages
The Face of a Stranger
Anne Perry · 345 pages
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett · 189 pages
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 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.
The Old Silent
Martha Grimes · 425 pages
Dans une auberge du Yorkshire, Nell abat froidement son mari sous les yeux du commissaire Jury et remet aussitôt son pistolet au policier. Puisque la meurtrière est arrêtée, l'affaire semble close. Mais quel était donc le mobile du crime?
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Seicho Matsumoto · 313 pages
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen · 396 pages
Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu
The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler · 324 pages
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
The Last Coyote
Michael Connelly · 487 pages
Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime. With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens
The Bat
Jo Nesbo · 369 pages
Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry befriends
Winter House
Carol O'Connell · 320 pages
A reclusive senior citizen kills an intruder-but there's more to the story. In Carol O'Connell's new novel New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past-and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy.
Miami Blues
Charles Willeford · 208 pages
After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room at the un-illustrious El Dorado Hotel and nurses a glass of brandy. With his guard down, he doesn’t think twice when he hears a knock on the door. The next day, he finds himself in the hospital, badly bruised and with his jaw wired shut. He thinks back over ten years of cases wondering who would wan
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux · 226 pages
Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins
Reed Farrel Coleman · 342 pages
In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man's, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does th