20 must-read thriller books like The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

Cover of The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

By: Richard Osman

4.37

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w…

"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

If you liked the thriller plot in The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

1. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

2. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

3. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

4. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Cover of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) by Robert Galbraith

5. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Galbraith's The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

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6. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

Cover of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

7. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

8. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Cover of Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1) by Ian  Moore

9. Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)

By: Ian Moore

3.27

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Vall… read more

Similar categories in Ian Moore's Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) by Nita Prose

10. The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

By: Nita Prose

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover t… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all make mistakes. It’s what we do after that matters."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"Mr. Grimthorpe and I have always maintained that books can rehabilitate anyone."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"You can fight monsters you can see, or you can run away from them. But the invisible ones are inescapable."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"It's a matter of polish," I say. "With most things, especially masterpieces, it's about removing the tarnish to reveal the shine."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

Cover of How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

11. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

12. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) by Anthony Horowitz

13. The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER? New York Times bestselling auth… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Word is Murder (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer

14. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

Cover of The Appeal (The Appeal, #1) by Janice Hallett

15. The Appeal (The Appeal, #1)

By: Janice Hallett

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The Fairway Players, a local theatre group, is in the midst of rehearsals when tragedy strikes the … read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Appeal (The Appeal, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

16. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin   Stevenson

17. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.79

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than onc… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But I promised to be reliable, not competent"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart …"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

Cover of The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

18. The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

By: Richard Osman

4.37

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"La gente que nunca se pierde no ha viajado nunca a ningún sitio interesante."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

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19. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

20. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) by Robert Thorogood

21. The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years … read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) book and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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