13 Best crime books like Witness by Alex Wheatle

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Witness

By: Alex Wheatle

3.23

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

To tell the truth? Or protect his family? Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary sc…

If you liked the crime plot in Witness by Alex Wheatle , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Double Clue: And Other Hercule Poirot Stories

By: Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah , None

3.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for the… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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2. Hello Mum

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.69

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chi… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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3. Dead Simple

By: Jane Casey , Clare Mackintosh , Antonia Hodgson , C.L. Taylor , None , Mark Billingham , Angela Marsons , Harry Bingham

3.65

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman reports a crime to the police, with unexpected resultsThe grieving widow who finds that she… read more

Similar categories in Jane Casey's Dead Simple book and Alex Wheatle's Witness

  • crime
  • short stories
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4. Wrong Time, Wrong Place

By: Simon Kernick

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time? You are hiking in the Scottish highlands w… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories

5. The Other Side of You

By: Amanda Craig

4.01

Format: 275 pages,

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6. Boys Don't Cry

By: Malorie Blackman

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "… read more

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7. One False Move (Quick Reads 2017)

By: Dreda Say Mitchell

4.62

Format: 290 pages,

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8. Dead Man Talking

By: Roddy Doyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight. A b… read more

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9. The Kiss

By: Santa Montefiore

3.69

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes your biggest mistake can also be a blessing . . .Madison has always known she had a diffe… read more

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  • short stories
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10. Blind Spot

By: Paula Hawkins

3.27

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

'How can you say things like this? How can you be so blind?' Since they were kids, Edie, Jake an… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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11. The Swimmer

By: Graham Norton

3.86

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and qu… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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12. The Black Mountain

By: Kate Mosse

3.66

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

The Black Mountain is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Kate Mosse. It is May, 17… read more

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  • short stories
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13. Those People Next Door

By: Kia Abdullah

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A Quick Reads story from award winning author Kia Abdullah ‘Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John… read more

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14. The Skylight

By: Louise Candlish

3.75

Format: None pages, Audiobook

They can’t see her, but she can see them… Simone has a secret. She likes to stand at her bathroom w… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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15. Wish You Were Dead (Roy Grace, #17.5)

By: Peter James

3.71

Format: 97 pages, Kindle Edition

Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James.Roy Grace and hi… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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16. The Cutting Season

By: M.W. Craven

4.11

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

Poe's just hanging around on a Saturday afternoon... Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plan… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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17. Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game?

By: Matt Cain

3.80

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle and Becoming Ted, abrand new enemies-to-love… read more

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  • short stories
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18. A Fresh Start (Quick Reads) (Quick Reads 2020)

By: Fanny Blake

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

From wronged wives to nosy neighbours, from distant dads to new-found family, from secrets to lies,… read more

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  • short stories
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19. Six Foot Six

By: Kit de Waal

3.69

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A funny and heart-warming novella by the internationally bestselling author of My Name is Leon read more

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  • short stories
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20. The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

By: Karen Swan

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sh… read more

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"forcing her mind away from the past, even though the shadows slunk over her at every turn."

-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

"How many times had she crept into them as a little girl, playing hide and seek with Mhairi and Flora and their many brothers? Why couldn't one of those boys have grown into a man who made the very ed…"

-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

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21. The Donor

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

She gave you everything. But what does she want in return?When Lizzie's daughter Meg is given a lif… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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22. Witness

By: Alex Wheatle

3.23

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

To tell the truth? Or protect his family? Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary sc… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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23. Sofia Khan and the Baby Blues

By: Ayisha Malik

3.54

Format: 117 pages, Kindle Edition

THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE HILARIOUS ROMANTIC COMEDY SOFIA KHAN IS NOT OBLIGED'The perfect bal… read more

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24. Darkness Rising (Harry Virdee, #0.5)

By: A.A. Dhand

3.68

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Detective Inspector Harry Virdee has a lot on his plate. His team is facing government cuts, tensio… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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25. The Replacement Centre

By: Fflur Dafydd

3.38

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Set in a slightly alternative reality, when a husband or wife in the community dies the grieving pa… read more

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26. Saving the Day

By: Katie Fforde

3.63

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

She has only one chance to turn her life around... Allie is bored with her job and starting to w… read more

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  • short stories
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27. The Motive

By: Khurrum Rahman

3.44

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has be… read more

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  • short stories
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28. Notting Hill Carnival (Quick Reads): A West Side Story (Quick Reads 2020)

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.42

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Sapphire is the hot-headed leader of the Red Roses in an area where gang loyalty is all that matter… read more

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  • short stories
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29. Cut Off (Quick Reads)

By: Mark Billingham

3.50

Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition

Step into a thrilling Quick Read from number one bestselling crime fiction author Mark Billingham.I… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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30. Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024

By: Kit de Waal

3.33

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother… read more

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31. My Name Is Why: Quick Reads 2022

By: Lemn Sissay

4.31

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

SPECIALLY ABRIDGED FOR QUICK READSHow does a government steal a child and then imprison him?How doe… read more

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21 must-read short stories books like Witness by Alex Wheatle

Transform Your Habits

The Double Clue: And Other Hercule Poirot Stories

Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah , None

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Dead Simple

Jane Casey , Clare Mackintosh , Antonia Hodgson , C.L. Taylor , None , Mark Billingham , Angela Marsons , Harry Bingham

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

Simon Kernick

4.12

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20 Top fiction books like Wrong Time, Wrong Place by Simon Kernick

Transform Your Habits

The Double Clue: And Other Hercule Poirot Stories

Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah , None

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Blackout

Emily Barr

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Sawbones

Stuart MacBride

3.66

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