21 Best suspense books like The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) by Peter Papathanasiou

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The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

By: Peter Papathanasiou

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery. A local schoolteacher i…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) by Peter Papathanasiou , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) by Garry Disher

1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

By: Garry Disher

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"

-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

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2. Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic, #1)

By: Emma Viskic

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, pic… read more

Similar categories in Emma Viskic's Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

3. Kittyhawk Down (Inspector Challis, #2)

By: Garry Disher

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"A missing two-year-old girl, and the body of an unidentified drowning victim have brought Homicide… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Kittyhawk Down (Inspector Challis, #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

Cover of Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) by Chris Hammer

4. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of Day's End (Hirsch, #4) by Garry Disher

5. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

By: Garry Disher

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Day's End (Hirsch, #4) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) by Chris Hammer

6. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor

7. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) by Chris Hammer

8. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Sanctuary by Garry Disher

9. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Sanctuary book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1) by Adrian Hyland

10. Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1)

By: Adrian Hyland

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two bodies. One long hot summer. A town that will never be the same. When Adam Lawson’s wrecked … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Hyland's Canticle Creek (Jesse Redpath #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) by Dinuka McKenzie

11. Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.00

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's … read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • detective
  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2) by Adrian Hyland

12. The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2)

By: Adrian Hyland

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder made to look like an accident. A disgraced cop trying to forget his past. Nash Baker was… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Hyland's The Wiregrass (Jesse Redpath #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. Murder Town

By: Shelley Burr

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Gemma Guillory knows her once-charming town is now remembered for one reason, and one reason only. … read more

Similar categories in Shelley Burr's Murder Town book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1) by Simon  Rowell

14. The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1)

By: Simon Rowell

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A summer of relentless heat. A local surfer named Ray Carlson is found dead in a house not far from… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rowell's The Long Game (Detective Zoe Mayer #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3) by S.R. White

15. Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3)

By: S.R. White

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pu… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1) by S.R. White

16. Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1)

By: S.R. White

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to i… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) by Dinuka McKenzie

17. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) by Margaret Hickey

18. Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.07

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End. … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Stone Town (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Way It Is Now by Garry Disher

19. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Consolation (Hirsch, #3) by Garry Disher

20. Consolation (Hirsch, #3)

By: Garry Disher

4.16

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is steal… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Consolation (Hirsch, #3) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) by Dinuka McKenzie

21. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Peace (Hirsch, #2) by Garry Disher

22. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Peace (Hirsch, #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) by Sarah   Bailey

23. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bailey's Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Good Dog (Detective Zoe Mayer #3) by Simon  Rowell

24. The Good Dog (Detective Zoe Mayer #3)

By: Simon Rowell

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

After gunshots echo through the summer night on Mount Macedon, Detective Sergeant Zoe Mayer and her… read more

Similar categories in Simon Rowell's The Good Dog (Detective Zoe Mayer #3) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of White Ash Ridge by S.R. White

25. White Ash Ridge

By: S.R. White

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's White Ash Ridge book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • crime
  • australia
Cover of Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2) by S.R. White

26. Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2)

By: S.R. White

3.92

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

24 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HIS CELL HE WAS DEAD. CAN SHE FIND OUT WHY?'S. R. White is the real deal.' C… read more

Similar categories in S.R. White's Prisoner (Detective Dana Russo, #2) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • thriller
  • crime
  • suspense
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27. Headland

By: John Byrnes

3.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A coastal town is evacuated after record floods. Three young police officers are left behind. With … read more

Similar categories in John Byrnes's Headland book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • australia
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28. Wild Dogs

By: Michael Trant

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Wild Dogs is a page-turning action thriller set in the WA outback, introducing Australia’s answer t… read more

Similar categories in Michael Trant's Wild Dogs book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lowbridge by Lucy Campbell

29. Lowbridge

By: Lucy Campbell

3.83

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Where everybody knows everyone, how can somebody just disappear? A missing girl. Decades of silenc… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Campbell's Lowbridge book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) by Peter Papathanasiou

30. The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

By: Peter Papathanasiou

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

A small town in outback Australia wakes to a crime of medieval savagery. A local schoolteacher i… read more

Similar categories in Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • australia
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
Cover of No Trace by Michael Trant

31. No Trace

By: Michael Trant

4.17

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

From the author of WILD DOGS comes an electrifying combination of outback action thriller and the c… read more

Similar categories in Michael Trant's No Trace book and Peter Papathanasiou's The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1)

  • suspense
  • australia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

27 must-read fiction books like The Stoning (DS George Manolis, #1) by Peter Papathanasiou

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Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

Garry Disher

4.04

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Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic, #1)

Emma Viskic

3.91

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Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

Chris Hammer

4.07

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Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

Garry Disher

4.12

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19 Best fiction books like Murder Town by Shelley Burr

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The Drowning

Bryan Brown

3.56

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The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

Chris Hammer

4.23

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

Margaret Hickey

4.06

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