12 Top thriller books like The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny

Cover of The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny

The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma…

"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

If you liked the thriller plot in The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1) by William Kent Krueger

1. Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian, Cork is having difficulty dealing with the marital meltdown th… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve."

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

"Word is you heard the Windigo too." I did. The difference is I'm ready for the son of a bitch." --Cork O'Connor"

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

" "He looked at his hands. Big hands. How useless a man’s hands were, he thought, when it came to fixing the important things." "

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

" They fasted the rest of the day and breathed in the smoke of a cedar fire. At first light next morning, they blackened their faces with the cedar ash, a sign to the spirits of the deep woods that th…"

-William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake (Cork O'Connor, #1)

Cover of Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) by Jacqueline Winspear

2. Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence--and the patronag… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1) by Deborah Crombie

3. A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)

By: Deborah Crombie

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Du… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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

4. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more

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5. Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the he… read more

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Cover of Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3) by William Kent Krueger

6. Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.17

Format: 428 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the prestigious Loft-McKnight Fiction Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, W… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor, #3) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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

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

8. 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 Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

10. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

11. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

12. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

13. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

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

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • 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)

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

15. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of The White Lady by Jacqueline Winspear

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

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

17. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Cover of The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

18. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

Cover of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton

19. State of Terror

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.09

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thril… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Rodham Clinton's State of Terror book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

20. 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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny

21. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) book and Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

  • adult fiction
  • detective
  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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3.97

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3.59

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0.00

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