9 best-selling mystery thriller books like The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,…

"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with all kinds of unknowns. Bullshit. Once you decide the universe is knowable, all kinds of answers become available to you."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with all kinds of unknowns. Bullshit. Once you decide the universe is knowable, all kinds of answers become available to you."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1)

By: Tom Miller , Tom Miller

3.89

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling debut from ER doctor turned novelist Tom Miller, The Philosopher’s Flight is an epic hi… read more

Similar categories in Tom Miller's The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No sense in proving your relative equality only to demand special treatment."

-Tom Miller, The Philosopher's Flight (The Philosophers Series, #1)

2. The Girls' Guide to Love and Supper Clubs

By: Dana Bate

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, D.C., … read more

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3. The Swimming Pool

By: Holly LeCraw

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A heartbreaking affair, an unsolved murder, an explosive romance: welcome to summer on the Cape in … read more

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4. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

Cover of Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles, #4) by Suzanne Palmer

5. Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles, #4)

By: Suzanne Palmer

4.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth and final installment of the Finder Chronicles, a hopepunk sci-fi caper described as Mac… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Palmer's Ghostdrift (Finder Chronicles, #4) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Framed Women of Ardemore House

By: Brandy Schillace

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to fi… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Schillace's The Framed Women of Ardemore House book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

7. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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9. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

10. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

Similar categories in Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

Cover of We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) by Cadwell Turnbull

11. We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

In We Are the Crisis—the second book in the Convergence Saga from award-winning author Cadwell Turn… read more

Similar categories in Cadwell Turnbull's We Are the Crisis (Convergence Saga, #2) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

12. The Lost Story

By: Meg Shaffer

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale fo… read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Lost Story book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Waste of a Life (Decluttering Mysteries #3) by Simon Brett

14. Waste of a Life (Decluttering Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Brett

3.69

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in this third light-hearted declutteri… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

Cover of The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal by James Crews

16. The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal

By: James Crews

4.38

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies How to Love the World and The Path to Kindness  pr… read more

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Cover of A Wicked Yarn (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #1) by Emmie Caldwell

17. A Wicked Yarn (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #1)

By: Emmie Caldwell

3.90

Format: 285 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A killer may craft the perfect crime, but as every knitter worth her yarn knows--murder wool out. … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
Cover of Stitched in Crime (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #2) by Emmie Caldwell

18. Stitched in Crime (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #2)

By: Emmie Caldwell

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When murder pierces the fabric of the close-knit Crandalsburg Craft Fair, it's up to the Ninth Stre… read more

Similar categories in Emmie Caldwell's Stitched in Crime (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #2) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Knits, Knots, and Knives (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #3) by Emmie Caldwell

19. Knits, Knots, and Knives (Craft Fair Knitters Mysteries #3)

By: Emmie Caldwell

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It will take the Ninth Street Knitters all the sleuthing skills they have to untangle the threads o… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Controversial Cover (A Booktown Mystery #18) by Lorna Barrett

20. A Controversial Cover (A Booktown Mystery #18)

By: Lorna Barrett

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

When a famous children's author is murdered at the library, Tricia Miles has to find the killer bef… read more

Similar categories in Lorna Barrett's A Controversial Cover (A Booktown Mystery #18) book and Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Westside Saints

By: W.M. Akers

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Return to a twisted version of Jazz Age New York in this follow up to the critically acclaimed fant… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

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