26 must-read crime books like The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15) by Mark Billingham

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The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15)

By: Mark Billingham

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today” (Gillian F…

If you liked the crime plot in The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15) by Mark Billingham , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #3)

By: Val McDermid

4.02

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Coming to terms over her breakup with criminal profiler Dr. Tony Hill, Chief Inspector Carol Jordan… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You are Tadeusz Radecki? I am in the right place?' 'I know who I am. What I want to know is who you are."

-Val McDermid, The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #3)

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2. A Dark So Deadly

By: Stuart MacBride

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae seri… read more

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  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. The Retribution (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #7)

By: Val McDermid

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

4. Kick Back (Kate Brannigan, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

'Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, … read more

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5. Crack Down (Kate Brannigan, #3)

By: Val McDermid

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

'Crime writing of the very highest order ! Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleu… read more

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6. The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2)

By: Val McDermid

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runawa… read more

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7. A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)

By: Val McDermid

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1984, Fife. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant & her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes h… read more

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8. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Dead of Winter

By: Stuart MacBride

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dyi… read more

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  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Picture You Dead (Roy Grace, #18)

By: Peter James

4.21

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry and Freya, an ordinary couple, dreamed for years of finding something priceless buried amongs… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19)

By: Peter James

4.35

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Left You Dead (Roy Grace, #17)

By: Peter James

4.35

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

NO BODY. NO TRACE. NO CRIME? Niall and Eden Paternoster start their Sunday the same way they al… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Mothers (DI Kim Stone, #20) by Angela Marsons

17. Guilty Mothers (DI Kim Stone, #20)

By: Angela Marsons

4.54

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. K… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Blood Road (Logan McRae #11)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.25

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Some things just won’t stay buried… Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Broadly Speaking

By: Stuart Broad

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Stuart Broad is the ultimate competitor - someone addicted to the pressures of Test cricket, the bi… read more

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20. The Last Goodbye (David Raker, #12)

By: Tim Weaver

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

TWO DISAPPEARANCESAt the country's newest theme park, Tom Preacher and his son Leo are queuing for … read more

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  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)

By: Val McDermid

4.21

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. S…"

-Val McDermid, Still Life (Inspector Karen Pirie, #6)

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22. The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15)

By: Mark Billingham

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today” (Gillian F… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15) book and Mark Billingham's The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15)

  • adult fiction
  • detective
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. Bury Them Deep (Inspector McLean #10)

By: James Oswald

4.40

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lost and Never Found  (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) by Simon Mason

25. Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Mason

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Ma… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of When Evil Wakes: The serial killer thriller that will have you gripped (The Holly Wakefield Thrillers Book 4) by Mark Griffin

26. When Evil Wakes: The serial killer thriller that will have you gripped (The Holly Wakefield Thrillers Book 4)

By: Mark Griffin

4.49

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

'Truly frightening . . . a British Silence Of The Lambs' DAILY MAIL'A thrilling new talent' PETER J… read more

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

27. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. Breaking

By: Amanda Cassidy

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s every mother’s worst fear On a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missin… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion by Jonathan Levi and Emma French

29. Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion

By: Jonathan Levi and Emma French

3.59

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

HMP Wakefield. 'Monster Mansion'. Hell to be inside. Almost impossible to escape. This prison has s… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. I Died on a Tuesday

By: Jane Corry

4.00

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

THERE’S THE STORY EVERYONE BELIEVES . . . The victim: Eighteen-year-old Janie leaving home for … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher by Lee Child

31. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

25 Top fiction books like The Killing Habit (Tom Thorne, #15) by Mark Billingham

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Val McDermid

4.02

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A Dark So Deadly

Stuart MacBride

2.57

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The Retribution (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #7)

Val McDermid

3.71

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Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

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The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

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Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

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The Wrong Sister

Claire Douglas

4.09

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Love as Always, Mum xxx

Mae West

4.17

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