28 must-read audiobook books like A Fatal Lie (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #23) by Charles Todd

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A Fatal Lie (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #23)

By: Charles Todd

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead…

If you liked the audiobook plot in A Fatal Lie (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #23) by Charles Todd , here is a list of 28 books like this:

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1. Rainbow's End (Richard Jury, #13)

By: Martha Grimes

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of "The Old Contemptibles" -- the latest Inspector Richard Jury mystery… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Having little to do with the present, Mr. Beaton had plenty of room for the past. Oh, yes, he read the papers and knew that governments came and went ("Conservative, Labor, Sociopath," Mr. Beaton wou…"

-Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End (Richard Jury, #13)

"Polly was a writer of many deadlines. There were the ignorable deadlines, the not-to-be-taken-too-seriously deadlines: the deadlines-before-the-deadlines deadlines, and finally, the no-kidding-around…"

-Martha Grimes, Rainbow's End (Richard Jury, #13)

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2. Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)

By: Martha Grimes

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richar… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Who Buries the Dead (Sebastian St. Cyr, #10)

By: C.S. Harris

4.24

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebas… read more

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  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Through the Evil Days (Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries, #8)

By: Julia Spencer-Fleming

4.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The eighth book in the Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery series. On a frigid Januar… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

By: Martha Grimes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

6. What Darkness Brings (Sebastian St. Cyr, #8)

By: C.S. Harris

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

London, September 1812. After a long night spent dealing with the tragic death of a former military… read more

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7. 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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8. The Lantern's Dance (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #18)

By: Laurie R. King

4.41

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caugh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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9. A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel focusing on Scotland Yard detect… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 thriller
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • 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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13. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

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14. The Last Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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15. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
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  • historical fiction
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  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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17. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Penny for Your Secrets (Verity Kent, #3)

By: Anna Lee Huber

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

England, 1919. In Anna Lee Huber’s latest mystery, former Secret Service agent Verity Kent is findi… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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19. What the Devil Knows (Sebastian St. Cyr, #16)

By: C.S. Harris

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious serial killer had been brought to justice until a shocking se… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Fourth Enemy (Daniel Pitt #6)

By: Anne Perry

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Daniel Pitt prosecutes a beloved philanthropist whose good deeds may hide dark--and dangerous--secr… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. 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
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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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22. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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23. Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr, #18)

By: C.S. Harris

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united agai… read more

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  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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24. When Blood Lies (Sebastian St. Cyr, #17)

By: C.S. Harris

4.31

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has spent years unraveling his family’s tragic history. But the… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

By: C.S. Harris

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in thi… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I believe we are all connected, every living thing one to the other, so that I owe to each what I would owe to myself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Bringing this man’s murderer to justice was more important to Sebastian than he could begin to explain, even to himself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

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26. Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr, #14)

By: C.S. Harris

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

The death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"What the bloody hell is wrong with us? What kind of society turns its back on the neediest amongst them? They call themselves Christians. They smugly go to church every Sunday and pat themselves on t…"

-C.S. Harris, Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr, #14)

"I know what he was like,’ said Sebastian. McCay’s daughter made a harsh, scoffing sound in her throat. ‘Do you? Ashworth came close to ruining us. He did it as deliberately and casually as a normal p…"

-C.S. Harris, Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr, #14)

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27. A Fatal Lie (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #23)

By: Charles Todd

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In one of his most puzzling cases, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge must delve deep into a dead… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Death in Rough Water (A Merry Folger Nantucket Mystery #2)

By: Francine Mathews

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Fresh from her first murder case, Nantucket detective Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her s… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Death in Focus (Elena Standish, #1)

By: Anne Perry

3.89

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

In the start of an all-new mystery series set in pre-World War II Europe, an intrepid young photogr… read more

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  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"You do not need to believe evil, only to use its methods. You will get accustomed to them, until eventually they are not your last choice, but your first. For awhile, you can justify it to yourself, …"

-Anne Perry, Death in Focus (Elena Standish, #1)

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31. An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox, #11)

By: Charles Finch

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, An Extravagant Death finds… read more

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  • british literature
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  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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  • audiobook

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