30 Top mystery books like Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe, #16) by W.J. Burley

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Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe, #16)

By: W.J. Burley

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycl…

If you liked the mystery plot in Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe, #16) by W.J. Burley , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe, #16)

By: W.J. Burley

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A respectable bookseller is found bludgeoned and strangled and it's up to Chief Superintendent Wycl… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Monster in the Box (Inspector Wexford, #22) by Ruth Rendell

2. The Monster in the Box (Inspector Wexford, #22)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Monster in the Box takes Chief Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks, #8) by Peter Robinson

3. Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks, #8)

By: Peter Robinson

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When last seen alive, sixteen-year-old Deborah Harrison was on her way home from school. Her friend… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4) by None, P.D. James

4. Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

By: None , P.D. James

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"You feel sexy" Dalgliesh gave the question serious attention. "No. I'm too old to feel sexy when I'm cold and tired. At my age you need the creature comforts if you're to perform with any pleasure to…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

"He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Wor…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

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5. The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

By: Colin Dexter

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

"Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to…"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

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6. Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chill… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently."

-Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

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7. A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks, #2)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It's Inspector Banks second big case after arriving in the north from London; could it be any more … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7) by Ruth Rendell

8. Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.87

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It see… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1) by Caroline Graham

9. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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10. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

By: Margery Allingham

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."

-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

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11. From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.68

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. Thes… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5) by Caroline Graham

12. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11) by Reginald Hill

13. Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11)

By: Reginald Hill

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspect… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) by Ruth Rendell

14. Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Ma… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) book and W.J. Burley's Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (Wycliffe, #16)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. Moon Tiger

By: Penelope Lively

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospi… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"We all act as hinges - fortuitous links between other people."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"God," she says, 'is an unprincipled bastard, wouldn't you agree?"

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

"Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message."

-Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

Cover of A New Lease of Death (Inspector Wexford, #2) by Ruth Rendell

16. A New Lease of Death (Inspector Wexford, #2)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even mor… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1) by Peter Robinson

17. Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to the first of an exciting police procedural series. A Peeping Tom is frightening the w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"I think it's true that at least one of the reasons for the rise in sex crimes is the increase in stimulation — and that includes fashion, pornography, advertising, films, TV, the lot.' 'And who deter…"

-Peter Robinson, Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)

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18. Innocent Blood

By: None , P.D. James

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter o… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."

-None, Innocent Blood

"The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. "

-None, Innocent Blood

"Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity."

-None, Innocent Blood

"People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?"

-None, Innocent Blood

Cover of The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14) by Ruth Rendell

19. The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a ki… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7) by Margery Allingham

20. Flowers for the Judge (Albert Campion Mystery, #7)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead i… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1) by Elizabeth  George

21. A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)

By: Elizabeth George

4.04

Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hu… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
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22. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

By: Colin Dexter

3.84

Format: 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin."

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

"Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from un…"

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-p…"

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

Cover of Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6) by None, P.D. James

23. Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

By: None , P.D. James

3.94

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his b… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"I used to think that we can have almost anything we want from life, that it's just a question of organization. But now I'm beginning to think that we have to make a choice more often than we'd like. …"

-None, Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

Cover of End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20) by Ruth Rendell

24. End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspec… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of One For the Ages (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #16) by J.D. Kirk

25. One For the Ages (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #16)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.61

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

When a blood-soaked old man is spotted wandering through a sleepy fishing village in the far north … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28) by Peter Robinson

26. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of A Spoonful Of Murder (Liz, Pat and Thelma, #1) by J.M.   Hall

27. A Spoonful Of Murder (Liz, Pat and Thelma, #1)

By: J.M. Hall

3.18

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Retirement can be murder… Every Thursday, three retired school teachers have their ‘coffee o’clo… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon

28. The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret

By: Georges Simenon

4.10

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated lite… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Angel Maker (DI Jamie Johansson, #1) by Morgan Greene

29. Angel Maker (DI Jamie Johansson, #1)

By: Morgan Greene

4.31

Format: 444 pages, Kindle Edition

Every angel deserves their wings... A teenage girl is found dead in the woods. The kill bears a … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1) by Colleen Cambridge

30. Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1)

By: Colleen Cambridge

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colle… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9) by Ann Cleeves

31. The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
"And miles to go before I sleep . . ."

-Ann Cleeves, The Darkest Evening (Vera Stanhope, #9)

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