25 Best fiction books like The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19) by Peter Lovesey

Cover of The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19) by Peter Lovesey

The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

By: Peter Lovesey

4.04

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of Am…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19) by Peter Lovesey , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Murder in the Museum (Fethering, #4) by Simon Brett

1. Murder in the Museum (Fethering, #4)

By: Simon Brett

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Bracketts, an Elizabethan house near town of Fethering, is about to be turned into a museum. Once t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #7) by Cara Black

2. Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis (Aimee Leduc Investigations, #7)

By: Cara Black

3.60

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Parisian P.I. Aimee Leduc finds herself caring for an abandoned infant while trying to track down t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Golden Calf (Inspector Huss #5) by Helene Tursten

3. The Golden Calf (Inspector Huss #5)

By: Helene Tursten

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

Soho's perennially popular Swedish crime series featuring Detective Inspector Irene Huss--jiujitsu … read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Rags of Time (D.C. Smith #6)

By: Peter Grainger

3.50

Format: 240 pages,

Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfa… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2) by Martin Edwards, John Bude

5. The Sussex Downs Murder (Superintendent Meredith, #2)

By: Martin Edwards , John Bude

4.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murde… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature

6. Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)

By: Colin Dexter

3.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." -… read more

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7. The Glass Devil (Inspector Huss #4)

By: Helene Tursten

3.27

Format: None pages,

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8. Persons of Interest (D.C. Smith #4)

By: Peter Grainger

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

In the peace and tranquillity of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone beg… read more

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9. Piece of My Heart (Inspector Banks, #16)

By: Peter Robinson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

1969... In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a rec… read more

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10. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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11. The Death of Kings (John Madden, #5)

By: Rennie Airth

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth novel in the John Madden mystery series, Inspector Madden is called upon to assist Sco… read more

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12. The Camera Man (D.C. Smith #10)

By: Peter Grainger

4.61

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Jo told him the phone call had been about a woman who wanted to have her husband declared dead. Smi… read more

Similar categories in Peter Grainger's The Camera Man (D.C. Smith #10) book and Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

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

13. 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 thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Roxanne (Kings Lake Investigation #3) by Peter Grainger

14. Roxanne (Kings Lake Investigation #3)

By: Peter Grainger

4.45

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Life, as Smith used to say, is just one thing after another - as one investigation ends, a new one … read more

Similar categories in Peter Grainger's Roxanne (Kings Lake Investigation #3) book and Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch, #9) by Paul Doiron

15. Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch, #9)

By: Paul Doiron

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Paul Doiron's Stay Hidden, a supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Another Girl (Kings Lake Investigation #5) by Peter Grainger

17. Another Girl (Kings Lake Investigation #5)

By: Peter Grainger

4.55

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

“She’s just watching, thinking about it again, when a big flash car pulls up outside. No one gets o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Chateau Under Siege by Martin  Walker

18. A Chateau Under Siege

By: Martin Walker

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
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19. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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20. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

Cover of Not Dark Yet (Inspector Banks, #27) by Peter Robinson

21. Not Dark Yet (Inspector Banks, #27)

By: Peter Robinson

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Robinson is an author with amazing empathy, a snare-trap ear for dialogue, and a clear eye for the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other End of the Line (Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #24) by Andrea Camilleri

22. The Other End of the Line (Inspector Montalbano Mystery, #24)

By: Andrea Camilleri

4.06

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A wave of refugees has arrived on the Sicilian coast, and Inspector Montalbano and his team have be… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

Cover of What Will Burn (Inspector McLean, #11) by James Oswald

24. What Will Burn (Inspector McLean, #11)

By: James Oswald

4.40

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The eleventh book in the Sunday Times-bestselling Inspector McLean series, from one of Scotland's m… read more

Similar categories in James Oswald's What Will Burn (Inspector McLean, #11) book and Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2) by Tom   Mead

25. The Murder Wheel (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #2)

By: Tom Mead

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

26. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cook of the Halcyon (Inspector Montalbano, #27) by Andrea Camilleri

27. The Cook of the Halcyon (Inspector Montalbano, #27)

By: Andrea Camilleri

3.88

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series … read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in the Village (DI Hillary Greene #4) by Faith Martin

28. Murder in the Village (DI Hillary Greene #4)

By: Faith Martin

4.31

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Author's note: This is a revised edition of a book first published as By a Narrow Majority. A wo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19) by Peter Lovesey

29. The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

By: Peter Lovesey

4.04

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

On the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, Peter Lovesey, Mystery Writers of Am… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19) book and Peter Lovesey's The Finisher (Peter Diamond, #19)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

30. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15) by Spencer Quinn

31. A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15)

By: Spencer Quinn

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Spencer Quinn's A Farewell to Arfs is a return to the adventurous New York Times and USA Today best… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

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