14 Top mystery books like Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith

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Hear No Evil

By: Sarah Smith

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne…

If you liked the mystery plot in Hear No Evil by Sarah Smith , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. And the Land Lay Still

By: James Robertson

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Michael Pendreich is curating an exhibition of photographs by his late, celebrated father Angus for… read more

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2. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Bookseller of Inverness book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
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3. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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8. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

By: Callum McSorley

4.10

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more

Similar categories in Callum McSorley's Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery
  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
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9. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
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10. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

Similar categories in Emma Flint's Other Women book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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11. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of For Our Sins (Inspector McLean #13) by James Oswald

12. 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

Similar categories in James Oswald's For Our Sins (Inspector McLean #13) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery
  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
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13. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Fair Botanists

By: Sara Sheridan

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Fair Botanists book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • 19th century
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Music in the Dark

By: Sally Magnusson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more

Similar categories in Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Homes

By: J.B. Mylet

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There were good people in The Homes. But there were also some very, very bad ones... A thousand … read more

Similar categories in J.B. Mylet's The Homes book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery
  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
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17. Hex

By: Jenni Fagan

3.85

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

IT'S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591. On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floor… read more

Similar categories in Jenni Fagan's Hex book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A witch-pricker's finger can be pointed at any one of us. It chose me."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I’ve got the voice of a siren – it’s not a voice to launch a thousand ships, it’s a voice to sink them."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis? - What? - A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free"

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

"I have memories to give away before I meet God — so you can have them, Iris from the ether. Are you listening? Nobody else will write them down."

-Jenni Fagan, Hex

Cover of The Big Chill (The Skelfs, #2) by Doug Johnstone

18. The Big Chill (The Skelfs, #2)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.05

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Running private investigator and funeral home businesses means trouble is never far away, and the S… read more

Similar categories in Doug Johnstone's The Big Chill (The Skelfs, #2) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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19. Ginger and Me

By: Elissa Soave

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Soave's Ginger and Me book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Queen Hereafter by Isabelle Schuler

20. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

Similar categories in Isabelle Schuler's Queen Hereafter book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Nothing Left to Fear From Hell by Alan Warner

21. Nothing Left to Fear From Hell

By: Alan Warner

3.35

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

A BATTLE LOST. A DARING ESCAPE. A LONG WALK INTO OBLIVION. In the aftermath of the catastroph… read more

Similar categories in Alan Warner's Nothing Left to Fear From Hell book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. Saltblood

By: Francesca De Tores

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In a rented room outside Plymouth in 1685, a daughter is born as her half-brother is dying. Her mot… read more

Similar categories in Francesca De Tores's Saltblood book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Secrets of Blythswood Square

By: Sara Sheridan

4.19

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

You wouldn't suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square... 1846. Glasg… read more

Similar categories in Sara Sheridan's The Secrets of Blythswood Square book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago, #3) by Leonora Nattrass

24. Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago, #3)

By: Leonora Nattrass

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. a murderer at large... Disgraced former Foreign Office c… read more

Similar categories in Leonora Nattrass's Scarlet Town (Laurence Jago, #3) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

25. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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26. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) by Robbie Morrison

27. Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.34

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set the… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Morrison's Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F. Ross

28. There's Only One Danny Garvey

By: David F. Ross

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Danny Garvey was a sixteen-year old footballing prodigy. Professional clubs clamoured to sign him, … read more

Similar categories in David F. Ross's There's Only One Danny Garvey book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • scotland
Cover of Hear No Evil by Sarah              Smith

29. Hear No Evil

By: Sarah Smith

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Betrayal of Thomas True by A.J.  West

30. The Betrayal of Thomas True

By: A.J. West

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One … read more

Similar categories in A.J. West's The Betrayal of Thomas True book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) by Pat Barker

31. The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3)

By: Pat Barker

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Pat Barker's Number One bestseller THE WOMEN OF TROY Continuing the story of th… read more

Similar categories in Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (Women of Troy, #3) book and Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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S.G. MacLean

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3.94

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Kate Foster

4.05

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Philip Paris

3.95

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Jennifer Saint

3.75

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Ferdia Lennon

4.24

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Rosie Hewlett

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