16 Best fiction books like Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell

Cover of Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell

Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chill…

"As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently."

-Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

If you liked the fiction plot in Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9) by None, P.D. James

1. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

By: None , P.D. James

3.90

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."

-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

Cover of The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2) by Giles Blunt

2. The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2)

By: Giles Blunt

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A stylish, atmospheric, psychological thriller which follows Giles Blunt's Silver Dagger Award winn… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5) by Elizabeth  George

3. For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)

By: Elizabeth George

4.02

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and da… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Anna's Book

By: Barbara Vine

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Anna is a young Danish woman living in London at the turn of the century. Homesick and lonely for h… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. No Fond Return of Love

By: Barbara Pym

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Dulcie Mainwaring, the heroine of the book, is one of those excellent women who is always helping o… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell

6. Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chill… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) book and Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • police
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently."

-Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

Cover of King Solomon's Carpet by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

7. King Solomon's Carpet

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.00

Format: None pages,

King Solomon's magic carpet is the London Underground, running past the disused old school building… read more

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

8. 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

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  • 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 Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19) by Ngaio Marsh

9. Death of a Fool (Roderick Alleyn, #19)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo... At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Faith Severn's aunt was hanged for murder, the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Finer End (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #7) by Deborah Crombie

11. A Finer End (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #7)

By: Deborah Crombie

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James return i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7) by Colin Dexter

12. The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Much too early on New Year's Day, a grumpy Inspector Morse is summoned to investigate a murder at t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13) by Colin Dexter

13. The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis… read more

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

14. Lone Wolf (Zack Walker #3)

By: Linwood Barclay

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Newspaper writer, family man, and reluctant hero Zack Walker has stumbled onto some dicey stories b… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hardcastle's Obsession (Hardcastle Mysteries #9) by Graham Ison

15. Hardcastle's Obsession (Hardcastle Mysteries #9)

By: Graham Ison

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The new mystery featuring Detective Inspector Hardcastle in this popular First World War series - S… read more

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  • mystery

16. Now May You Weep (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #9)

By: Deborah Crombie

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

A gripping story of family rivalry, romance and sinister deeds, set in the haunting Scottish Highla… read more

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

17. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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18. The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11)

By: Colin Dexter

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"AUDACIOUS AND AMUSING. . . MAY BE THE BEST BOOK YET IN THIS DESERVEDLY CELEBRATED SERIES." --The W… read more

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19. Murder In My Backyard (Inspector Ramsay, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Kindle Edition

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry . . . . . . But here she is, murdered … read more

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20. In Vino Veritas (Harry Vicary #5)

By: Peter Turnbull

4.43

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into an… read more

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21. The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks, #4)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And w… read more

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22. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)

By: None

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more

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23. Deception on His Mind (Inspector Lynley, #9)

By: Elizabeth George

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but … read more

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24. Fiddlers (87th Precinct, #55)

By: Ed McBain , Otto Penzler

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who do… read more

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25. The Whites

By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more

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26. Black Dog (Ben Cooper & Diane Fry, #1)

By: Stephen Booth

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

As helicopters search Northern England's Peak District for fifteen year-old Laura Vernon, Detective… read more

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27. 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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28. 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

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Cover of O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted by A.G. Russo

29. 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

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  • 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

Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

30. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) by Behcet Kaya

31. 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

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"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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