19 Best mystery books like That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries) by Harry Kemelman

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That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

By: Harry Kemelman

3.95

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The rabbi looks into a professor’s death, in the New York Times–bestselling series that’s “the Amer…

If you liked the mystery plot in That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries) by Harry Kemelman , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Blood Sport

By: Dick Francis

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

English agent Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three weeks of vacation with only his tormented pas… read more

Similar categories in Dick Francis's Blood Sport book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

By: Ellis Peters

4.16

Format: 250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the Summer of 1143, two visitors arrive at the gates of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul … read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"What are wits for unless a man uses them?"

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

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3. The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A late spring in 1142 brings dismay to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, for there may be no… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"In happiness or unhappiness, living is a duty, and must be done thoroughly."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

"Questions are as supple as willow wands, it's easy to brush by them and slip them aside, and no one the worse for it."

-Ellis Peters, The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)

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4. The Nun's Tale (Owen Archer, #3)

By: Candace Robb

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spring 1366, Beverley, England--a ghostly pale young woman claims to be the resurrected Joanna Calv… read more

Similar categories in Candace Robb's The Nun's Tale (Owen Archer, #3) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. In the Frame

By: Dick Francis

4.40

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Charles Todd--a renowned painter of horses--is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald's hous… read more

Similar categories in Dick Francis's In the Frame book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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6. The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)

By: Ellis Peters

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a … read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. The King of Clubs: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

3.71

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The King of Clubs: A Short Story book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

8. Double Homicide

By: Faye Kellerman , Jonathan Kellerman

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. Did… read more

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9. Stardust (Spenser, #17)

By: Robert B. Parker

4.00

Format: 186 pages,

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10. Belles on Their Toes

By: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. , Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest … read more

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11. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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12. The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)

By: Candace Robb

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets... Christmastide, 13… read more

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13. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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14. Free Fall in Crimson (Travis McGee #19)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

McGee tracks killers who brutally murder an ailing millionaire. He renews unfinished adventure with… read more

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15. Pastime (Spenser, #18)

By: Robert B. Parker , David Dukes

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Pastime is a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past.… read more

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16. Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)

By: Donna Leon

3.57

Format: 271 pages,

Donna Leon's charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti series continues with Su… read more

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17. Double Deuce (Spenser, #19)

By: Robert B. Parker , David Dukes

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hawk wants Spenser to wage war on a street gang. Susan wants Spenser to move in with her. Either wa… read more

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18. Hotel Paradise (Emma Graham, #1)

By: Martha Grimes

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Internationally acclaimed Martha Grimes once again turns her hand to crafting a story of such rich … read more

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19. A Savage Place (Spenser, #8)

By: Robert B. Parker

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heav… read more

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20. The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19)

By: Ellis Peters

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of St.… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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21. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

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22. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

Similar categories in Ellis Peters's The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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24. The Diva Goes Overboard (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #17)

By: Krista Davis

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis returns with a delicious new Domestic Diva Mystery s… read more

Similar categories in Krista Davis's The Diva Goes Overboard (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #17) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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25. Dietrich

By: Don Winslow

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Gritty and suspenseful, Dietrich is a hard-boiled whodunnit from Audible Award-winning and internat… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Dietrich book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2)

By: Ellison Cooper

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In Ellison Cooper's suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Ellison Cooper's Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

By: Harry Kemelman

3.95

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

The rabbi looks into a professor’s death, in the New York Times–bestselling series that’s “the Amer… read more

Similar categories in Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery thriller
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • cozy mystery
  • religion
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #14)

By: Krista Davis

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

She's a young Martha Stewart...in Old Town Virginia! New York Times bestselling author Krista Davis… read more

Similar categories in Krista Davis's The Diva Serves Forbidden Fruit (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #14) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Vanishing Act (Sisterhood, #15) by Fern Michaels

29. Vanishing Act (Sisterhood, #15)

By: Fern Michaels

4.25

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a hot, sunny afternoon on the mountain top, and the sisters are enjoying sitting around the po… read more

Similar categories in Fern Michaels's Vanishing Act (Sisterhood, #15) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Big Crazy (Skip Langdon #11)

By: Julie Smith

4.41

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

PHONES ARE OUT AND THE CITY’S UNDER WATER— A FIELD DAY FOR CRIMINALS! AND LOTS OF THEM ARE COPS…Aug… read more

Similar categories in Julie Smith's The Big Crazy (Skip Langdon #11) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
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31. Murder at a Scottish Castle (A Scottish Shire Mystery)

By: Traci Hall

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sweater shop owner Paislee Shaw never feels more at home in Scotland than when she hears the bagpip… read more

Similar categories in Traci Hall's Murder at a Scottish Castle (A Scottish Shire Mystery) book and Harry Kemelman's That Day the Rabbi Left Town (The Rabbi Small Mysteries)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Debbie Macomber

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