16 must-read thriller books like The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan

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The Busy Body

By: Kemper Donovan

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about pe…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. 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 Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The fourth instalment in the delightful series following safecracker Electra McDonnell fighting Naz… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Weaver's Locked in Pursuit (Electra McDonnell #4) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Mystery Writer book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

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5. 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 Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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6. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

By: C.L. Miller

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious d… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

By: Catherine Mack

3.53

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Mack's Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

11. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace

12. The Framed Women of Ardemore House

By: Brandy Schillace

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to fi… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Schillace's The Framed Women of Ardemore House book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead by Jenny Hollander

13. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

By: Jenny Hollander

3.28

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine ye… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1) by John Shen Yen Nee

14. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

By: John Shen Yen Nee

3.62

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more

Similar categories in John Shen Yen Nee's The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."

-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

15. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan

16. The Busy Body

By: Kemper Donovan

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about pe… read more

Similar categories in Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wharton Plot by Mariah Fredericks

17. The Wharton Plot

By: Mariah Fredericks

3.38

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in … read more

Similar categories in Mariah Fredericks's The Wharton Plot book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Murder Most French (American In Paris Mystery, #2) by Colleen Cambridge

18. A Murder Most French (American In Paris Mystery, #2)

By: Colleen Cambridge

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Postwar Paris is surging back to life, and its citizens are seizing every opportunity to raise a gl… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Cambridge's A Murder Most French (American In Paris Mystery, #2) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart

19. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

Cover of The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1) by Kat Ailes

20. The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1)

By: Kat Ailes

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Fresh, funny and heartfelt, The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of s… read more

Similar categories in Kat Ailes's The Expectant Detectives (The Expectant Detectives, #1) book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Puzzle Me a Murder

By: Roz Noonan

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Empathetic to a fault, librarian Alice Pepper always had a natural talent for figuring out people a… read more

Similar categories in Roz Noonan's Puzzle Me a Murder book and Kemper Donovan's The Busy Body

  • murder mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook

19 must-read mystery thriller books like The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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The Mystery Writer

Sulari Gentill

3.42

Transform Your Habits

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

3.80

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The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Tana French

4.12

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Mystery Writer

Sulari Gentill

3.42

Transform Your Habits

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Kristen Perrin

3.80

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