12 best-selling detective books like The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12) by Elly Griffiths

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The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four …

If you liked the detective plot in The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12) by Elly Griffiths , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.86

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Shining Skull (Wesley Peterson, #11)

By: Kate Ellis

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Little Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and when he never returned home, his grieving family … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • archaeology
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3. The Funeral Boat (Wesley Peterson, #4)

By: Kate Ellis

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

When young Carl Palister unearths a skeleton on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson and his bo… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • archaeology
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4. The Flesh Tailor (Wesley Peterson, #14)

By: Kate Ellis

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • archaeology
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5. The Bone Garden (Wesley Peterson, #5)

By: Kate Ellis

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discover… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • archaeology
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6. The Cadaver Game (Wesley Peterson, #16)

By: Kate Ellis

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When the decaying body of a murdered woman is discovered, DI Peterson has difficulties establishing… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. A Painted Doom (Wesley Peterson, #6)

By: Kate Ellis

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which exci… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • archaeology

8. The Plague Maiden (Wesley Peterson, #8)

By: Kate Ellis

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

When a letter arrives at Tradmouth police station, addressed to a DCI Norbert it causes quite a sti… read more

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9. The Merchant's House (Wesley Peterson, #1)

By: Kate Ellis

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's first day finds him investigating the death of a young woman w… read more

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10. The Marriage Hearse (Wesley Peterson, #10)

By: Kate Ellis

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes som… read more

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11. The Armada Boy (Wesley Peterson, #2)

By: Kate Ellis

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Norman Openheim is an American veteran of the D Day Landings on a sentimental journey with his old … read more

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12. An Unhallowed Grave (Wesley Peterson, #3)

By: Kate Ellis

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a middle-aged woman is found hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy Churchyard, th… read more

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13. The Skeleton Room (Wesley Peterson, #7)

By: Kate Ellis

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

When workmen converting former girls' boarding school, Chadleigh Hall, into a luxury hotel discover… read more

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14. 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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15. The Blood Pit (Wesley Peterson, #12)

By: Kate Ellis

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. The victim, Charles Marrick, has… read more

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16. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.05

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. 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
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) by Robert Galbraith

20. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • 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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21. 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
  • fiction
  • 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)

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

22. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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)

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23. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.95

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."

-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

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24. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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)

25. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12) by Elly Griffiths

26. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • archaeology
  • audiobook
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27. De hvide nætter (Liv Jensen, #2)

By: Katrine Engberg

3.75

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

En tidlig forårsmorgen vågner teenagepigen Shirin i et telt på øen Vorsø ved Horsens Fjord. Hendes … read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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28. Uforløst (Hjemvendt, #3)

By: Lone Theils

3.99

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Dybt inde i en skov i det nordlige Norge finder politiet en forladt rygsæk med fire pas, der viser … read more

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  • crime
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29. Troskyldigheden selv (En Nora Sand krimi, #6)

By: Lone Theils

3.90

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

En kvinde fra Storbritannien findes druknet i en pool på den danske vestkyst i et sommerhus. Men va… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

30. 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
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. Budbringeren

By: Elsebeth Egholm

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Gribende roman kombinerer kærlighed og spænding. Anna bor og arbejder i udlandet, da hendes tvil… read more

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4.01

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4.61

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