29 Best mystery books like The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3) by Doug Johnstone

Cover of The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3) by Doug Johnstone

The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3) by Doug Johnstone , here is a list of 29 books like this:

Cover of The Black Friar (Damian Seeker, #2) by S.G. MacLean

1. The Black Friar (Damian Seeker, #2)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.38

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the best writers of Historical crime' Sunday TimesRebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Black Friar (Damian Seeker, #2) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Dark So Deadly by Stuart MacBride

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

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's A Dark So Deadly book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Destroying Angel (Damian Seeker, #3) by S.G. MacLean

3. Destroying Angel (Damian Seeker, #3)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.43

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Captain Damian Seeker has gone north. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-gene… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's Destroying Angel (Damian Seeker, #3) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) by Mark Billingham

4. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) by Val McDermid

5. 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

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Profile K

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’v… read more

Similar categories in Helen Sarah Fields's Profile K book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) by Callum McSorley

8. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

By: Callum McSorley

4.10

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more

Similar categories in Callum McSorley's Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1) by Jo  Callaghan

9. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

Similar categories in Jo Callaghan's In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) by Ambrose Parry

10. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Devil You Know (DS Max Craigie, #5) by Neil Lancaster

11. The Devil You Know (DS Max Craigie, #5)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.54

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

A CASE GONE COLD Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was neve… read more

Similar categories in Neil Lancaster's The Devil You Know (DS Max Craigie, #5) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of For Our Sins (Inspector McLean #13) by James Oswald

12. For Our Sins (Inspector McLean #13)

By: James Oswald

4.42

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

The wages of sin is death. The partial collapse of a disused Edinburgh church reveals a dead bod… read more

Similar categories in James Oswald's For Our Sins (Inspector McLean #13) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Girls in the Glen (Detective Shona Oliver #3) by Lynne McEwan

13. The Girls in the Glen (Detective Shona Oliver #3)

By: Lynne McEwan

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

If the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell? With her daughter on an archaeological di… read more

Similar categories in Lynne McEwan's The Girls in the Glen (Detective Shona Oliver #3) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2) by Jo  Callaghan

14. Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of In the Blink … read more

Similar categories in Jo Callaghan's Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Mind of a Murderer (Dr. Olivia Winter, #1) by Michael    Wood

15. The Mind of a Murderer (Dr. Olivia Winter, #1)

By: Michael Wood

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

A DARK PAST Dr Olivia Winter is a forensic psychologist whose job is to understand the minds of … read more

Similar categories in Michael Wood's The Mind of a Murderer (Dr. Olivia Winter, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan #1) by Caro Ramsay

16. The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan #1)

By: Caro Ramsay

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A macabre massacre of a wealthy family brings DCI Christine Caplan to the Highlands in her first th… read more

Similar categories in Caro Ramsay's The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

17. Deadly Animals

By: Marie Tierney

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery… read more

Similar categories in Marie Tierney's Deadly Animals book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4) by William  Shaw

18. The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4)

By: William Shaw

4.26

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A DOUBLE MURDER The naked corpses of Aylmer and Mary Younis are discovered in their home. The only… read more

Similar categories in William Shaw's The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Gathering Storm (Detective Shona Oliver #4) by Lynne McEwan

19. The Gathering Storm (Detective Shona Oliver #4)

By: Lynne McEwan

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Shona Oliver’s past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate – now a famous acto… read more

Similar categories in Lynne McEwan's The Gathering Storm (Detective Shona Oliver #4) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • scotland
Cover of Strákar sem meiða by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

20. Strákar sem meiða

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

4.09

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Maður finnst myrtur í sumarbústað í Skorradal. Á veggnum fyrir ofan hann hafa verið skilin eftir bl… read more

Similar categories in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's Strákar sem meiða book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Bonehead by Mo Hayder

21. Bonehead

By: Mo Hayder

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrifying accident... Alex Mullins knows she is one of the lucky ones. When a fatal coach crash … read more

Similar categories in Mo Hayder's Bonehead book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

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

22. 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

Similar categories in Simon Mason's Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11) by Denzil Meyrick

23. No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.39

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

A potent new drug has hit the streets of Kinloch, and DCI Daley and Scott are struggling to catch t… read more

Similar categories in Denzil Meyrick's No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3) by Doug Johnstone

24. The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.13

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

The discovery of a human foot in an Edinburgh park, the inexplicable circumstances of a dying woman… read more

Similar categories in Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood

25. Finding Sophie

By: Imran Mahmood

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they g… read more

Similar categories in Imran Mahmood's Finding Sophie book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) by Robbie Morrison

26. Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.34

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set the… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Morrison's Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

27. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) by Mark Billingham

28. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Dark Island (Orkney Mysteries, #1) by Daniel Aubrey

29. Dark Island (Orkney Mysteries, #1)

By: Daniel Aubrey

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.Reporter Freya Si… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aubrey's Dark Island (Orkney Mysteries, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8) by Steve Cavanagh

30. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessab… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8) book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Vengeance Is Mine by Michael    Wood

31. Vengeance Is Mine

By: Michael Wood

4.13

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series and Dr Olivia Winter series, comes a st… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wood's Vengeance Is Mine book and Doug Johnstone's The Great Silence (The Skelfs, #3)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

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