25 Best crime books like The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7) by Lesley Thomson

Cover of The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7) by Lesley Thomson

The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7)

By: Lesley Thomson

4.03

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed forever. Stella D…

If you liked the crime plot in The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7) by Lesley Thomson , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. Losing You

By: Nicci French

3.81

Format: 215 pages,

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. The Shadow Collector (Wesley Peterson, #17)

By: Kate Ellis

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eighteen years ago, Lilith Benley and her mother - rumoured to be witches - were convicted of the b… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

3. The Book of Tomorrow

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.50

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Tamara Goodwin has always lived in the here and now, never giving a second thought to tomorrow. Unt… read more

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4. Fear is the Key

By: Alistair MacLean

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico - a… read more

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5. Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (Vivian Apple, #2)

By: Katie Coyle

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Hardcover

"GET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we're willing to break our han… read more

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6. A Bird In The Hand (George & Molly Palmer-Jones, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.48

Format: 208 pages,

From the author of Shetland and Vera In England's birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sight… read more

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7. Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally suc… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"Remorse is eating his soul like a caterpillar in a cabbage."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

"But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)

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8. Shot With Crimson (Josephine Tey, #11)

By: Nicola Upson

4.15

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Violence finds its way to old Hollywood in the eleventh Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of … read more

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

9. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. 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
  • crime
  • fiction
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12. It Should Have Been Me

By: Susan Wilkins

3.99

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

A Prequel to The Detective Jo Boden Case Files – an updated new edition for 2023. A murdered sis… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19)

By: Peter James

4.35

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. The Harbour Lights Mystery (Shell House Detectives #2)

By: Emylia Hall

4.34

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

As The Shell House Detectives try to solve a family mystery, their investigation runs dangerously c… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Talisker Dead (The Misty Isle #3) by J.M. Dalgliesh

16. The Talisker Dead (The Misty Isle #3)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.43

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulling on the threads of your past... is enough to kill you... When a teenage islander goes mis… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Dalgliesh's The Talisker Dead (The Misty Isle #3) book and Lesley Thomson's The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7) by Elly Griffiths

17. The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. The Ghost Village Murders (Dorset Crime #9)

By: Rachel McLean

4.53

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed DCI Mackie? DCI Lesley Clarke thinks she’s close to solving her predecessor’s murder.… read more

Similar categories in Rachel McLean's The Ghost Village Murders (Dorset Crime #9) book and Lesley Thomson's The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. The Cairn (Cumbria Crime #3)

By: Rachel McLean

4.47

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Zoe Finch has survived her first winter in Cumbria CID. She’s learning to trust her team, even … read more

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22. Death at Paradise Park (DS Ashley Knight, #2)

By: Ross Greenwood

4.16

Format: 468 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body is discovered at Hunstanton seaside, DS Ashley Knight and her Major Investigation Team … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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23. Identity Crisis

By: Ben Elton

3.78

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A s… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"I threaten to kill lots of people. But it doesn’t actually mean that in a tweet.’ ‘Mean what?’ ‘Mean that you actually want to kill them. It’s more like “Oh, I disagree with you. Maybe you should thi…"

-Ben Elton, Identity Crisis

Cover of Deadland (DS Alexandra Cupidi #2) by William  Shaw

24. Deadland (DS Alexandra Cupidi #2)

By: William Shaw

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least th… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi #3)

By: William Shaw

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Protest. Rebel. Die An unidentified body is found in a freezer. No one seems to know or care wh… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7) by Lesley Thomson

26. The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7)

By: Lesley Thomson

4.03

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Forty years ago, in the dark of the playground, two children's lives were changed forever. Stella D… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Thomson's The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7) book and Lesley Thomson's The Playground Murders (The Detective's Daughter, #7)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel (A Helen Dexter Cosy Crime Mystery) by Glenda Young

27. Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel (A Helen Dexter Cosy Crime Mystery)

By: Glenda Young

4.13

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

The second in the page-turning cosy crime series from Glenda Young, this unputdownable whodunnit is… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Cuillin Dead (The Misty Isle, #4) by J.M. Dalgliesh

28. The Cuillin Dead (The Misty Isle, #4)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.43

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is full of choices. Death... is chosen for you...When the body of a missing tourist is discove… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Murder Mile (Dr. Jo McCready #1) by Lesley Mcevoy

29. The Murder Mile (Dr. Jo McCready #1)

By: Lesley Mcevoy

4.32

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

"Jo, it's me. We've found another body." A body is discovered on a canal towpath in the small York… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Leave No Trace (Detective Karen Hart, #9) by D.S. Butler

30. Leave No Trace (Detective Karen Hart, #9)

By: D.S. Butler

4.50

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

Three boys were taken and murdered fifteen years ago. The killer is in jail. So why is history repe… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in the Countryside (A Miss Underhay Mystery #17) by Helena Dixon

31. Murder in the Countryside (A Miss Underhay Mystery #17)

By: Helena Dixon

4.47

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A meandering drive on a beautiful day, a visit to a local apple orchard, a chance for Bertie the do… read more

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Nicci French

3.81

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4.23

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Dorothy L. Sayers

4.24

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