16 Best thriller books like Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28) by Donna Leon

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Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

By: Donna Leon

4.13

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?," his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, obs…

"They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger."

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger."

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one’s unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you were going to step on something disgusting or bang your toe into a rock."

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one’s unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you were going to step on something disgusting or bang your toe into a rock."

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

If you liked the thriller plot in Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28) by Donna Leon , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Istanbul Passage

By: Joseph Kanon

3.64

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos a gripping tal… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The Dark Vineyard (Bruno, Chief of Police, #2)

By: Martin Walker

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Bruno Courrèges, chef de la police municipale, est réveillé au milieu de la nuit: un incendie s'est… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Children Return (Bruno, Chief of Police, #7)

By: Martin Walker

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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4. Fatal Pursuit (Bruno, Chief of Police, #9)

By: Martin Walker

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

A pair of murders, a romance and rivals in pursuit of a long-lost vintage car of unfathomable value… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Devil's Cave (Bruno, Chief of Police, #5)

By: Martin Walker

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Mystery, food, and wine in the French province of Dordogne--the latest offering from Martin Walker,… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

6. The Templars' Last Secret (Bruno, Chief of Police, #10)

By: Martin Walker

3.38

Format: None pages,

Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back… read more

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7. The Patriarch (Bruno, Chief of Police, #8)

By: Martin Walker

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

A beloved village, a renowned family, a suspicious death--it's the latest adventure in the Dordogne… read more

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8. The Crowded Grave (Bruno, Chief of Police #4)

By: Martin Walker

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Another delectable serving of mystery and the pleasures of the Dordogne from the newest master of s… read more

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9. Bruno, Chief of Police (Bruno, Chief of Police #1)

By: Martin Walker

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoit Courreges, a po… read more

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10. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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11. Una voce di notte (Commissario Montalbano, #20)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Tutto congiura perche Montalbano prenda atto del proprio compleanno e, bravando e brontolando, si l… read more

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12. The Road to Murder (Tuscan Mystery, #4)

By: Camilla Trinchieri

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment of the acclaimed Tuscan Mystery series, the sole witness at a crime scene… read more

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  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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15. A Chateau Under Siege

By: Martin Walker

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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16. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

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  • contemporary
"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

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17. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

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18. Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

By: Donna Leon

4.13

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?," his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, obs… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28) book and Donna Leon's Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
"They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger."

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"As he started down towards his office, Brunetti thought about how taking a look at one’s unconscious motives and prejudices was like walking barefoot through cloudy water: you never knew whether you …"

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"He heard footsteps coming from the kitchen and turned to see his wife approaching. In that instant he wanted to take some sort of emotional photograph so that he could, sometime in the future when th…"

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

"Yes, I was just thinking.’ ‘About what?’ ‘About how a writer can make the most awful things…’ Brunetti didn’t want to say ‘beautiful’, but that was what he meant. ‘Can make them powerful,’ he chose i…"

-Donna Leon, Unto Us a Son Is Given (Commissario Brunetti, #28)

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19. The Other End of the Line (Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #24)

By: Andrea Camilleri

4.06

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have be… read more

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  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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21. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23) by Andrea Camilleri

22. The Overnight Kidnapper (Inspector Montalbano, #23)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.94

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

The day gets off to a bad start for Montalbano: while trying to break up a fight on Marinella beach… read more

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  • italy
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Body by the Sea (Commissaire Dupin, #8)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In all of Commissaire Georges Dupin’s time living in Brittany, there has never been a murder on his… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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24. The Body in the Castle Well (Bruno, Chief of Police, #12)

By: Martin Walker

4.15

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing art student. An international investigation. A secret that will shatter the village of St… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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25. To Kill a Troubadour (Bruno, Chief of Police, #15)

By: Martin Walker

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish na… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
Cover of A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police, #11) by Martin  Walker

26. A Taste for Vengeance (Bruno, Chief of Police, #11)

By: Martin Walker

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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27. Vihreä sali

By: Sirpa Kähkönen

3.58

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Mitä seuraa unelmien murskautumisesta? Väkevä tarina vie 1960-luvun Kuopiosta aina 1910-luvun Pieta… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Sicilian Method (Inspector Montalbano, #26) by Andrea Camilleri

28. The Sicilian Method (Inspector Montalbano, #26)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.89

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series… read more

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  • italy
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. The Pyramid of Mud (Commissario Montalbano, #22)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The 22nd novel in the internationally and New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery s… read more

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  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. The Venetian Candidate

By: Philip Gwynne Jones

4.24

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the cit… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • italy
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31. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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