25 best-selling mystery books like The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan

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The Winter Guest

By: W.C. Ryan

3.79

Format: 326 pages, ebook

January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new, civil war is raging. The once-grand K…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. The Darkening Field (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #2)

By: William Ryan

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dedicated policeman caught in terrifying circumstances, Captain Alexei Korolev of Criminal Invest… read more

Similar categories in William Ryan's The Darkening Field (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #2) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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2. The Return of Captain John Emmett

By: Elizabeth Speller

3.69

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

London, 1920. In the aftermath of the Great War and a devastating family tragedy, Laurence Bartram … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Speller's The Return of Captain John Emmett book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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3. The Dancing Bear

By: Michael Morpurgo , Christian Birmingham

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

A gentle and moving story of a young girl and her bear, from bestselling children's author Michael … read more

Similar categories in Michael Morpurgo's The Dancing Bear book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. The Twelfth Department (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #3)

By: William Ryan

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Captain Alexei Korolev has nothing to complain about. He has his own room in an apartment, a job in… read more

Similar categories in William Ryan's The Twelfth Department (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #3) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime

5. The Constant Soldier

By: William Ryan

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

1944. Paul Brandt, a soldier in the German army, returns wounded and ashamed from the bloody chaos … read more

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6. The Holy Thief (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #1)

By: William Ryan

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Moscow, 1936, and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is f… read more

Similar categories in William Ryan's The Holy Thief (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #1) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

7. Gengældelsen (Jensen & Sander #2)

By: Steffen Jacobsen

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Danmark mister sin uskyld, da en selvmordsbomber udloser en spraengladning under en af Tivolis mest… read more

Similar categories in Steffen Jacobsen's Gengældelsen (Jensen & Sander #2) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

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8. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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9. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Terror in Topaz (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #4) by A.M.   Stuart

11. Terror in Topaz (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #4)

By: A.M. Stuart

4.37

Format: 373 pages, ebook

The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES. The chance to pursue a new opportu… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Stuart's Terror in Topaz (Harriet Gordon Mystery, #4) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

12. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

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13. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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14. Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***In the fourth rip-roa… read more

Similar categories in Vaseem Khan's Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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15. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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16. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

Similar categories in Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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17. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1)

By: Simon Mason

4.16

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classe… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. A Bitter Remedy (The Oxford Mysteries, #1)

By: Alis Hawkins

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to… read more

Similar categories in Alis Hawkins's A Bitter Remedy (The Oxford Mysteries, #1) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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20. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Winter Guest by W.C. Ryan

21. The Winter Guest

By: W.C. Ryan

3.79

Format: 326 pages, ebook

January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland a new, civil war is raging. The once-grand K… read more

Similar categories in W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan, #2) by Karen Odden

22. Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan, #2)

By: Karen Odden

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, a fatal disaster on the Thames and a roiling polit… read more

Similar categories in Karen Odden's Under a Veiled Moon (Inspector Corravan, #2) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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23. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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24. Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1)

By: Karen Odden

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, Karen Odden’s mystery introduces Inspector Michael Corr… read more

Similar categories in Karen Odden's Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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25. The Honey and the Sting

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Three sisters.Three secrets.Three ways to fall . . . England, 1628. Forcibly seduced by the p… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Fremantle's The Honey and the Sting book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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26. The Clockwork Girl

By: Anna Mazzola

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Clockwork Girl book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2) by K.J. Maitland

27. Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2)

By: K.J. Maitland

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Whispers haunt the walls and treachery darkens the shadows this captivating historical novel for re… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Maitland's Traitor in the Ice (Daniel Pursglove #2) book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie Loewenstein

28. Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In her gripping follow-up to the widely acclaimed Dust Bowl Mystery Death of a Rainmaker, Laurie Lo… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Loewenstein's Funeral Train: A Dust Bowl Mystery book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Blood Like Mine

By: Stuart Neville

3.79

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

STAY ON THE MOVE. STAY OUT OF SIGHT. In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray … read more

Similar categories in Stuart Neville's Blood Like Mine book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Treasure Hunters Club by Tom   Ryan

30. The Treasure Hunters Club

By: Tom Ryan

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollickin… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's The Treasure Hunters Club book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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31. The Witches of El Paso

By: Luis Jaramillo

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A lawyer and her elderly great-aunt use their supernatural gifts to find a lost child in this richl… read more

Similar categories in Luis Jaramillo's The Witches of El Paso book and W.C. Ryan's The Winter Guest

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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3.90

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3.69

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The Dancing Bear

Michael Morpurgo , Christian Birmingham

4.27

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4.06

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Katie Lumsden

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