9 best-selling crime books like Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King

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Back to the Garden

By: Laurie R. King

3.92

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal …

If you liked the crime plot in Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19) by Deborah Crombie

1. A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel focusing on Scotland Yard detect… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

By: Marcia Muller

3.57

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Muller's Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9) by Deanna Raybourn

3. A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, i… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A man cannot choose to die when he has not yet learnt to live." Stoker"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"If I could have created a perfect woman, I could never have imagined you. But that is my failure. Not yours."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Not everyone shares your tendency to scorn the company of others." "Scorn the company of others! Thanks to you, I speak to entirely too many people, entirely too often."

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

"Do you mean to dissuade me? Point out the flaws in my plan? Express your objections with vehemence and eloquence?" He tipped his head. "Actually, no." "Are you entirely well? Have you a fever? Should…"

-Deanna Raybourn, A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

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4. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is looking forward to her first ever turn as hostess for her very own house … read more

Similar categories in Rhys Bowen's The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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7. The Last Hope

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All will be revealed in the no-holds-barred finale of the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Awar… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's The Last Hope book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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10. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.00

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

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11. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.19

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte, now the Countess of Wrexford, would like nothing more than a summer of peace and quiet w… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Penrose's Murder at the Serpentine Bridge (Wrexford & Sloane, #6) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8) by Deanna Raybourn

13. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7) by Sherry Thomas

14. A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7)

By: Sherry Thomas

4.18

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Holmes’s brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at… read more

Similar categories in Sherry Thomas's A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

15. 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 Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • 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)

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16. Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr, #18)

By: C.S. Harris

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

June 1815. The people of London wait, breathlessly, for news as Napoleon and the forces united agai… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's Who Cries for the Lost (Sebastian St. Cyr, #18) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Peril in Paris (Her Royal Spyness Mystery, #16) by Rhys Bowen

17. Peril in Paris (Her Royal Spyness Mystery, #16)

By: Rhys Bowen

4.11

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpec… read more

Similar categories in Rhys Bowen's Peril in Paris (Her Royal Spyness Mystery, #16) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We had a creamed turnip soup followed by a terrine that was composed of delightful layers of goodness knows what. Then a poached fillet of sole with pommes dauphine and finally a baba au rhum and cof…"

-Rhys Bowen, Peril in Paris (Her Royal Spyness Mystery, #16)

Cover of The Cliff's Edge (Bess Crawford, #13) by Charles Todd

18. The Cliff's Edge (Bess Crawford, #13)

By: Charles Todd

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two familie… read more

Similar categories in Charles Todd's The Cliff's Edge (Bess Crawford, #13) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Back to the Garden

By: Laurie R. King

3.92

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

A fifty-year-old cold case involving California royalty comes back to life--with potentially fatal … read more

Similar categories in Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Secrets of the Nile (Lady Emily, #16) by Tasha Alexander

20. Secrets of the Nile (Lady Emily, #16)

By: Tasha Alexander

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a brilliant homage to Agatha Christie, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander sends Lady Em… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Alexander's Secrets of the Nile (Lady Emily, #16) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nubian’s Curse (Benjamin January #20) by Barbara Hambly

21. The Nubian’s Curse (Benjamin January #20)

By: Barbara Hambly

4.12

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arr… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Hambly's The Nubian’s Curse (Benjamin January #20) book and Laurie R. King's Back to the Garden

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery

21 Best fiction books like Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King

Transform Your Habits

A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

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Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

Transform Your Habits

A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)

Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

Elly Griffiths

4.41

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20 Best fiction books like A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

Transform Your Habits

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Deborah Crombie

4.25

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Desert Star (Renée Ballard, #5; Harry Bosch, #24; Harry Bosch Universe, #37)

Michael Connelly

4.49

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