17 best-selling mystery books like The Understudy by Julie Bennett

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The Understudy

By: Julie Bennett

3.81

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Immersed in the underbelly of the theatre world in the gritty streets of Sydney in 1973, this addic…

"We think we are in control of our own lives, but more often than not, someone else is pulling the strings."

-Julie Bennett, The Understudy

"We think we are in control of our own lives, but more often than not, someone else is pulling the strings."

-Julie Bennett, The Understudy

"We think we are in control of our own lives, but more often than not, someone else is pulling the strings."

-Julie Bennett, The Understudy

If you liked the mystery plot in The Understudy by Julie Bennett , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Road Back

By: Di Morrissey

3.57

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the mountains to the valleys, from big cities to tiny towns, to the outback and our islands, D… read more

Similar categories in Di Morrissey's The Road Back book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

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2. Black Sheep

By: Judy Nunn

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Black sheep - there's one in every family . . . Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determi… read more

Similar categories in Judy Nunn's Black Sheep book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • historical fiction
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3. An Ideal Husband

By: Erica James

4.11

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

The Langfords are a perfectly happy family. Louisa and Kip, happily married for nearly forty years,… read more

Similar categories in Erica James's An Ideal Husband book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
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4. How to Kill a Client

By: Joanna Jenkins

3.84

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Taking on law's old boys club can have deadly results... A gripping thriller from a bold new voice … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Jenkins's How to Kill a Client book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
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5. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3) book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
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6. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • australia
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7. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
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8. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • adult
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9. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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10. The Butterfly Collector

By: Tea Cooper

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the ma… read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Butterfly Collector book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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11. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Joy Moody is Out of Time book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • australia
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12. It Takes a Town

By: Aoife Clifford

3.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her?   Everyone dies fa… read more

Similar categories in Aoife Clifford's It Takes a Town book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
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13. Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

By: Kate Solly

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like h… read more

Similar categories in Kate Solly's Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • adult
  • australia
"The problem was with the constant deliciousness of a new idea. It was always more exciting to start a new project than to plod away with one whose appeal had gone stale."

-Kate Solly, Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance

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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 Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
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15. The Running Club

By: Ali Lowe

3.92

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep … read more

Similar categories in Ali Lowe's The Running Club book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
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16. 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 Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • australia
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17. Five Bush Weddings

By: Clare Fletcher

3.98

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Fletcher's Five Bush Weddings book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • australia
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18. A Shadow at the Door

By: Jo Dixon

3.84

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The House of Now and Then comes a vividly portrayed story that revea… read more

Similar categories in Jo Dixon's A Shadow at the Door book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • mystery
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19. The Revenge Club

By: Kathy Lette

3.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

When the odds are against you, it's time to get even.Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Lette's The Revenge Club book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

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20. The Radio Hour

By: Victoria Purman

4.24

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the gold… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Purman's The Radio Hour book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • australia
  • historical fiction
"Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no …"

-Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

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21. The Cane

By: Maryrose Cuskelly

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ONE MISSING GIRL. NO SUSPECTS. A TOWN ABOUT TO IGNITE. Quala, a North Queensland sugar town, t… read more

Similar categories in Maryrose Cuskelly's The Cane book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • adult
  • australia
  • historical fiction
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22. The Lost Jewels

By: Kirsty Manning

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Song of the Jade Lily comes a thrilling story of a family secret that leads … read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Manning's The Lost Jewels book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • adult
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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23. The Understudy

By: Julie Bennett

3.81

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Immersed in the underbelly of the theatre world in the gritty streets of Sydney in 1973, this addic… read more

Similar categories in Julie Bennett's The Understudy book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • romance
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
"We think we are in control of our own lives, but more often than not, someone else is pulling the strings."

-Julie Bennett, The Understudy

Cover of The Paris Gown by Christine   Wells

24. The Paris Gown

By: Christine Wells

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From perennially popular historical novelist Christine Wells, the delightful tale of three young wo… read more

Similar categories in Christine Wells's The Paris Gown book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • historical fiction
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25. Suddenly Single at Sixty

By: Jo Peck

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An uplifting, witty and hilarious memoir about the road from the shock and despair of a sudden marr… read more

Similar categories in Jo Peck's Suddenly Single at Sixty book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

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26. Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

By: Ariane Beeston

4.57

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recoveryAriane Beeston is a ch… read more

Similar categories in Ariane Beeston's Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

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27. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Pomare's 17 Years Later book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
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28. With Winter Comes Darkness

By: Robbi Neal

4.26

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible accident burns down a family's life on the same day a murder is committed. From the ashe… read more

Similar categories in Robbi Neal's With Winter Comes Darkness book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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29. The Hidden Girl

By: Lucinda Riley

4.38

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Sweeping across two generations, from the ghettos of Europe during the Second World War to the encl… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Riley's The Hidden Girl book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • historical fiction
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30. Girl Falling

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Girl Falling book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • mystery
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31. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

Similar categories in Jane Tara's Tilda Is Visible book and Julie Bennett's The Understudy

  • australia
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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Rachael Johns

4.16

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Tea Cooper

3.82

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3.96

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Kate Solly

3.97

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Shankari Chandran

4.18

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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Glenna Thomson

3.97

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Annie de Monchaux

4.05

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