10 Top mystery thriller books like Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3) by Kwei Quartey

Cover of Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3) by Kwei Quartey

Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

By: Kwei Quartey

4.09

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, …

"Truth never sells; only lies."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"Truth never sells; only lies."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"She wasn’t everything to him. Money was."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"She wasn’t everything to him. Money was."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3) by Kwei Quartey , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Tomorrow Died Yesterday

By: Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

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Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • thriller
  • africa
  • fiction
Cover of Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1) by Gabriel F.W. Koch

2. Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1)

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.29

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

Marlowe Black, a WWII combat veteran, walks the streets of New York with a PI license to serve just… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel F.W. Koch's Beholden (Marlowe Black Mystery, #1) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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3. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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Cover of Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

4. Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A complex and timely mystery, Blood Betrayal proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer … read more

Similar categories in Ausma Zehanat Khan's Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Seif privately suspected Julie would be hearing from the sheriff for letting not one but two interlopers into the inner sanctum without prior consent. Julie's policy seemed to guarantee admission as …"

-Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

Cover of Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2) by Walter Mosley

5. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)

By: Walter Mosley

3.87

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Middle Daughter

By: Chika Unigwe

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more

Similar categories in Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • africa
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. A Good Name

By: Yejide Kilanko

4.00

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Twelve years in America and Eziafa Okereke has nothing to show for it. Desperate to re-write his st… read more

Similar categories in Yejide Kilanko's A Good Name book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • africa
  • fiction
Cover of Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) by Stephen Spotswood

8. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2) by Harini Nagendra

9. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more

Similar categories in Harini Nagendra's Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

11. A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

3.89

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more

Similar categories in Nilima Rao's A Disappearance in Fiji book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Spanish Diplomat's Secret (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #3)

By: Nev March

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In The Spanish Diplomat's Secret, award-winning author Nev March explores the vivid nineteenth-cent… read more

Similar categories in Nev March's The Spanish Diplomat's Secret (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #3) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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13. Daughter in Exile

By: Bisi Adjapon

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of  The Teller of Secrets  returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, sto… read more

Similar categories in Bisi Adjapon's Daughter in Exile book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • ghana
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) by Femi  Kayode

14. Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2)

By: Femi Kayode

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a mi… read more

Similar categories in Femi Kayode's Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Authentic Mama

By: OLUNOSEN LOUISA IBHAZE

3.75

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Paulina Omoregbe aka Iye Baby rules the night life of Nimbe town from her beer parlour with her mag… read more

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Cover of Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3) by Kwei Quartey

16. Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

By: Kwei Quartey

4.09

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, … read more

Similar categories in Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3) book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • ghana
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Truth never sells; only lies."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"She wasn’t everything to him. Money was."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"When love comes knocking like this, you can only let him in."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

"This is not an enemy issue, it’s a big-gun-small-dick issue."

-Kwei Quartey, Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

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17. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
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18. Iya Beji

By: Adesuwa O'man Nwokedi

4.00

Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition

Isio is pregnant...with twins! She longs dearly to be a family with her Baby-Daddy, her childhood l… read more

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19. Swarm

By: Guy Morris

4.28

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

SLVIA . . . decades ago, an AI program escaped the NSA Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and has never… read more

Similar categories in Guy Morris's Swarm book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • thriller
  • fiction
"He doesn’t have a fear of intimacy; he has a gut-wrenching terror of it."

-Guy Morris, Swarm

"A prison cell of silver and silk is still a prison, isolating and solitary."

-Guy Morris, Swarm

"Without boundaries and values, any choice becomes self-serving and destructive."

-Guy Morris, Swarm

"We went on a Senate kiss-ass tour, but apparently, I have a genetic inability to pucker."

-Guy Morris, Swarm

Cover of No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1) by Nigel Seed

20. No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)

By: Nigel Seed

4.26

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

From the filthy back streets of Dublin to the deserts of the Sudan to fight and die for the British… read more

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"Will they stand sir?"

-Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)

"You know sir. When we get home nobody is going to believe this. How the hell could anybody be that brave? It makes no sense."

-Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)

"The millions of flies did not bother the dark skinned tribesman as he wandered through the mass of bodies scattered around him."

-Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)

"Haroun shook his head. “This is not a thing for rifles. If they are seen there will be questions. For tonight we have daggers only."

-Nigel Seed, No Road to Khartoum (Michael McGuire Trilogy 1)

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21. My Dearest Miss Fairfax

By: Jeanette Watts

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

While Miss Emma Woodhouse is occupied with matchmaking among the residents of Highbury, Miss Jane F… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Watts's My Dearest Miss Fairfax book and Kwei Quartey's Last Seen in Lapaz (Emma Djan Investigation #3)

  • fiction
"Jane hid her trembling hands inside her muff. She wished there was a way to hide the fact that she was trembling all over. “I understood you from the first moment I saw you,"

-Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

"Mr Churchill caught the end of one of the long ribbons from her bonnet, which were flying madly in the strong breeze. He toyed with it for a long while, then looked up into her eyes. “Do you believe …"

-Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

"heir eyes met. They both smiled, aware that they were in public, where anyone could see them on the street and in the window. But the rest of the world did not matter. For that moment, everything els…"

-Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

"Frank Churchill was waiting for her when she arrived. He had now been a convenient sixth with their party on multiple occasions, escorting Jane following the Campbells and Dixons, and it seemed so na…"

-Jeanette Watts, My Dearest Miss Fairfax

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