15 Best mystery thriller books like The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth George

Cover of The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth  George

The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

By: Elizabeth George

4.19

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the …

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth George , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Dirty Duck (Richard Jury, #4) by Martha Grimes

1. The Dirty Duck (Richard Jury, #4)

By: Martha Grimes

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Nothing ever happens in Stratford," insisted Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard. Unfortu… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's The Dirty Duck (Richard Jury, #4) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Mourn Not Your Dead (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #4) by Deborah Crombie

2. Mourn Not Your Dead (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #4)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.05

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An important and powerful policeman has been murdered, bludgeoned to death in his own kitchen. Few… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's Mourn Not Your Dead (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #4) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23) by Reginald Hill

3. The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23)

By: Reginald Hill

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Reginald Hill is quite simply one of the best at work today." --BostonGlobe There is no end to the… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Control by Andy Diggle, Andrea Mutti, None, Angela Cruickshank, Vladimir Popov

4. Control

By: Andy Diggle , Andrea Mutti , None , Angela Cruickshank , Vladimir Popov

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Detective-Sergeant Kate Burnham isn't making any friends in the Washington, DC Police Department. T… read more

Similar categories in Andy Diggle's Control book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) by None, P.D. James

5. The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

By: None , P.D. James

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing ho… read more

Similar categories in None's The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable fl…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We m…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefi…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

Cover of Shadow Unit 6 by Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Leah Bobet, Kyle Cassidy

6. Shadow Unit 6

By: Elizabeth Bear , Emma Bull , Will Shetterly , Leah Bobet , Kyle Cassidy

4.06

Format: 344 pages,

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares huma… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bear's Shadow Unit 6 book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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. Cold Comfort (Inspector Ian Rutledge #0.5)

By: Charles Todd

3.75

Format: 352 pages, ebook

It's 1915, and the Great War is barely six months old. Lieutenant Ian Rutledge has left behind his … read more

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Cover of End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20) by Ruth Rendell

9. End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspec… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) by Behcet Kaya

10. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

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

11. 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 Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

12. 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 Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

13. 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 Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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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14. 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 Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

15. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

16. 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

Similar categories in Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

17. 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 Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth  George

18. The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

By: Elizabeth George

4.19

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

19. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) book and Elizabeth George's The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History by Wayne Coffey

20. They Said It Couldn't Be Done: The '69 Mets, New York City, and the Most Astounding Season in Baseball History

By: Wayne Coffey

4.12

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

"The story of the 1969 Miracle Mets, unlikely world champions against the backdrop of the space rac… read more

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Cover of A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back by Aaron Fischman

21. A Baseball Gaijin: Chasing a Dream to Japan and Back

By: Aaron Fischman

4.57

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Like many American boys, Tony Barnette yearned to one day make it to "The Show," playing baseball p… read more

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17 Top mystery books like The Punishment She Deserves (Inspector Lynley, #20) by Elizabeth George

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Martha Grimes

3.93

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Deborah Crombie

4.05

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The Price of Butcher's Meat (Dalziel & Pascoe, #23)

Reginald Hill

4.22

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Andy Diggle , Andrea Mutti , None , Angela Cruickshank , Vladimir Popov

3.84

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4.25

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Michael Connelly

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