25 Top thriller books like The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8) by James Oswald

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The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

By: James Oswald

4.33

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

A truck driver loses control in central Edinburgh, ploughing into a crowded bus stop and spilling h…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8) by James Oswald , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of In the Cold Dark Ground (Logan McRae, #10) by Stuart MacBride

1. In the Cold Dark Ground (Logan McRae, #10)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.29

Format: 518 pages, Hardcover

Sergeant Logan McRae is in trouble… His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Well of the Winds (DCI Daley, #5)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.20

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Second World nears its end, a man is stabbed to death on the shoreline of Kinloch, in the sh… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Flesh House (Logan McRae, #4)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Als in einem Container im Hafen von Aberdeen menschliche Leichenteile in den Fleischvorräten für ei… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Dark Blood (Logan McRae, #6)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.12

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't happy to be part of the team helping convicted rapist Richard … read more

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Now We Are Dead

By: Stuart MacBride

4.16

Format: 144 pages, ebook

From the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series, comes a standalone spinoff featuring D… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Missing and the Dead (Logan McRae, #9) by Stuart MacBride

6. The Missing and the Dead (Logan McRae, #9)

By: Stuart MacBride

2.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One mistake can cost you everything... When you catch a twisted killer there should be a reward, ri… read more

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Blind Eye (Logan McRae, #5)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

8. Dark Suits and Sad Songs (DCI Daley #3)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.39

Format: 288 pages,

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, #8)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. … read more

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

10. Cold Granite (Logan McRae, #1)

By: Stuart MacBride

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter… read more

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11. The Rat Stone Serenade (DCI Daley, #4)

By: Denzil Meyrick

3.90

Format: 15 pages,

It's December, and the Shannon family are returning home to their clifftop mansion near Kinloch for… read more

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12. Broken Skin (Logan McRae, #3)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.15

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A new Logan McRae thriller from the bestselling author of 'Cold Granite' and 'Dying Light', set in … read more

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13. Dying Light (Logan McRae, #2)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

It's summertime in the Granite city: the sun is shining, the sky is blue, & people are dying. It st… read more

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14. Shatter The Bones (Logan McRae, #7)

By: Stuart MacBride

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Granite and Dark Blood, the new Logan McRae thriller takes a look at the te… read more

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15. The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie, #2)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.33

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Think Jack Reacher fronting Line of Duty’ Ian Rankin You get away with murder. In a remote sea… read more

Similar categories in Neil Lancaster's The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie, #2) book and James Oswald's The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Dead of Winter

By: Stuart MacBride

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dyi… read more

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All That’s Dead (Logan McRae #12) by Stuart MacBride

17. All That’s Dead (Logan McRae #12)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.20

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Scream all you want, no one can hear… Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The trouble with Scotland is a bunch of numpties saw Braveheart and now they think if we could only sod about the hills in kilts all day, flashing our arses at the English, somehow everything will be…"

-Stuart MacBride, All That’s Dead (Logan McRae #12)

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18. The Blood Road (Logan McRae #11)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.25

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Some things just won’t stay buried… Logan McRae’s personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but … read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's The Blood Road (Logan McRae #11) book and James Oswald's The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie, #3)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.33

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

He’ll watch you. A lawyer is found dead at sunrise on a lonely clifftop at Dunnet Head on the nort… read more

Similar categories in Neil Lancaster's The Night Watch (DS Max Craigie, #3) book and James Oswald's The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Runs Cold (DS Max Craigie, #4) by Neil Lancaster

21. Blood Runs Cold (DS Max Craigie, #4)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.46

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

She was taken against her will. On her fifteenth birthday, trafficking victim Affi Smith goes fo… read more

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  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19) by J.D. Kirk

22. Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.59

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the pulse-pounding new thriller from multi-million selling Scottish crime fiction author… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Big Chill (The Skelfs, #2)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.05

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Running private investigator and funeral home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the S… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

By: Doug Johnstone

3.94

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Three generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI business… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"It's hard to stay alive, but sometimes it's the only choice we have."

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"There was no escaping this, she was part of it, linked to everyone here, everyone on the planet, drowning in sorrow, sinking in sadness, looking for a reason to keep going."

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"There were an infinite number of pathways your life could take. How do any of us really know what to do with our lives? And how, after seventy years, do we know whether it was all a waste of time?"

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"It's about finding out who you are', he said eventually. He pointed out of the window. 'Without any distractions. Without anyone else getting in the way. Finding out what kind of person you want to b…"

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

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25. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • scotland
Cover of Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie, #1) by Neil Lancaster

26. Dead Man’s Grave (DS Max Craigie, #1)

By: Neil Lancaster

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

This grave can never be opened. The head of Scotland’s most powerful crime family is brutally murd… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. 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 James Oswald's The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. Terms of Restitution

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.15

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Gangland boss Zander Finn is so sickened by the brutal murder of his son in a Paisley pub, he decid… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8) by James Oswald

29. The Gathering Dark (Inspector McLean, #8)

By: James Oswald

4.33

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

A truck driver loses control in central Edinburgh, ploughing into a crowded bus stop and spilling h… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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30. Black Hearts (The Skelfs #4)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.09

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Death is just the beginning… The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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31. Broken Ghosts

By: J.D. Oswald

4.35

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve year old Phoebe's world is falling apart. It's the summer of 1985 and she has just buried he… read more

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  • fiction

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Stuart MacBride

4.29

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4.20

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Stuart MacBride

4.12

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L.J. Ross

4.64

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Rhys Dylan

4.59

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J.M. Dalgliesh

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