19 Top crime books like The Burn (Detective Betty #2) by Kathleen Kent

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The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

By: Kathleen Kent

3.95

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

In this "deeply satisfying" thriller, Detective Betty Rhyzyk is up against a string of mysterious a…

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1. Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1)

By: James Thompson

3.68

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

SNOW ANGELS is a chilling and resonant debut from author James Thompson. Kaamos: Just before C… read more

Similar categories in James Thompson's Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Years ago, when I was working on my master's thesis, I went to New York for a semester as an exchange student. What struck me most was the sky. On that side of the world, so far away from the North P…"

-James Thompson, Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1)

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2. The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)

By: Martha Grimes

4.03

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A severed finger found at the scene of a baffling murder in the village of Littlebourne leads local… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.05

Format: 369 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past deva… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You can only do things one day at a time, sport. Sometimes life is so bloody that's the only way you can get through it. But the good bit about living one day at a time is that when nice things happe…"

-Deborah Crombie, Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

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4. The Art of Detection (Kate Martinelli, #5)

By: Laurie R. King

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new crime novel that ingeniously bridges Laurie R. King's Edgar and Creasey Award… read more

Similar categories in Laurie R. King's The Art of Detection (Kate Martinelli, #5) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Cold Killing (DI Sean Corrigan #1)

By: Luke Delaney

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detect… read more

Similar categories in Luke Delaney's Cold Killing (DI Sean Corrigan #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Woman with a Secret (Spilling CID, #9)

By: Sophie Hannah

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders--in the ranks of Ruth Rendell, Debora… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's Woman with a Secret (Spilling CID, #9) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Rule 34 (Halting State, #2)

By: Charles Stross

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan… read more

Similar categories in Charles Stross's Rule 34 (Halting State, #2) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Huntress Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, #1) by Alexandra Sokoloff

8. Huntress Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, #1)

By: Alexandra Sokoloff

3.50

Format: 93 pages,

FBI Special Agent Matthew Roarke is closing in on a bust of a major criminal organization in San Fr… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Sokoloff's Huntress Moon (The Huntress/FBI Thrillers, #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #3)

By: Alex Grecian

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

They thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more. Scotla… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's The Devil's Workshop (Scotland Yard's Murder Squad, #3) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, #8) by Stuart MacBride

10. Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, #8)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. … read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, #8) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

11. The 7th Victim (Karen Vail, #1)

By: Alan Jacobson

2.35

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Dead Eyes Killer lurks in the backyard of the famed FBI Profiling Unit. His brutal murders conf… read more

Similar categories in Alan Jacobson's The 7th Victim (Karen Vail, #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

12. Romance (87th Precinct, #47)

By: Ed McBain , Evan Hunter

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Romance is the name of a new play opening uptown--a play about an actress who gets stabbed. But whe… read more

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13. Gun Street Girl (Detective Sean Duffy #4)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.24

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (R… read more

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14. The Wings of the Sphinx (Inspector Montalbano, #11)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Food, love, and murder-Sicilian style-in the gripping eleventh installment of The New York Timesbes… read more

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15. Taming Flame

By: Therisa Peimer

4.30

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more

Similar categories in Therisa Peimer's Taming Flame book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • fiction
"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"

-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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16. Murder At The Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case And Cover Up!

By: Bob Marmion

4.37

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was fo… read more

Similar categories in Bob Marmion's Murder At The Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case And Cover Up! book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

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17. The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

By: J.K. Franko

4.33

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

What would you do if the law failed you? The college Halloween party was supposed to be a night… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Franko's The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • thriller
  • fiction
"From the start, I told you! We should’a just handled this ourselves. You should’ve handled it the way my daddy would’ve."

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

"And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’ “And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he …"

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

"It was golden hour in Tarrytown. An incandescent sun cast long shadows that pointed in unison toward nightfall. Birds sang. But their melodies were drowned out by crescendos of cicadas’ chattering. N…"

-J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior (Talion #0.5)

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18. O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

By: A.G. Russo

4.34

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

*Author "I have never used AI in my writing." A.G. RussoThe homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New … read more

Similar categories in A.G. Russo's O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery
"A uniformed cop around 6’4"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them."

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

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19. Killing Johnny Miracle

By: J.K. Franko

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Miracle is in love... but not with his wife. He's going to divorce Mary, and he has leverage… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Franko's Killing Johnny Miracle book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
"Pretty isn’t permanent."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"It’s a divorce, not cancer."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"Blood only flows in one direction."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"The snake you don’t kill today may kill you tomorrow."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

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20. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

Similar categories in I.S. Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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21. Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1)

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk abou… read more

Similar categories in Reed Farrel Coleman's Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

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23. Murder Book

By: Thomas Perry

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Murder Book book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide

24. The Goodbye Coast

By: Joe Ide

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Raymond Chandler's iconic detective, Philip Marlowe, gets a dramatic and colorful reinvention at th… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's The Goodbye Coast book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Orchids (Paradise Crime Mysteries, #1) by Toby Neal

25. Blood Orchids (Paradise Crime Mysteries, #1)

By: Toby Neal

3.95

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water—but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there’s a dark sid… read more

Similar categories in Toby Neal's Blood Orchids (Paradise Crime Mysteries, #1) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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26. Inside Threat

By: Matthew Quirk

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Quirk's Inside Threat book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Red London (Red Widow, #2) by Alma Katsu

27. Red London (Red Widow, #2)

By: Alma Katsu

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

CIA agent Lyndsey Duncan has a new asset to turn, in order to prevent the most calculated global in… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's Red London (Red Widow, #2) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Burn (Detective Betty #2) by Kathleen Kent

28. The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

By: Kathleen Kent

3.95

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

In this "deeply satisfying" thriller, Detective Betty Rhyzyk is up against a string of mysterious a… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

29. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

3.48

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting h… read more

Similar categories in Gary Phillips's One-Shot Harry book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Stolen Child (Maggie D'arcy #4) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

31. A Stolen Child (Maggie D'arcy #4)

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy is now officially a G… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stewart Taylor's A Stolen Child (Maggie D'arcy #4) book and Kathleen Kent's The Burn (Detective Betty #2)

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

24 Best fiction books like The Burn (Detective Betty #2) by Kathleen Kent

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Snow Angels (Inspector Kari Vaara, #1)

James Thompson

3.68

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The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)

Martha Grimes

4.03

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Kissed a Sad Goodbye (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #6)

Deborah Crombie

4.05

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The Art of Detection (Kate Martinelli, #5)

Laurie R. King

3.85

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21 must-read fiction books like A Stolen Child (Maggie D'arcy #4) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

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Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

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Before She Finds Me

Heather Chavez

3.82

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Home at Night (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #5)

Paula Munier

4.20

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The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

Ann Cleeves

4.01

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