11 Top mystery books like The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White

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The Fountain in the Forest

By: Tony White

3.25

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex Ki…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Fountain in the Forest by Tony White , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Innocent Wife

By: Amy Lloyd

3.41

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

You Love Him. You Trust Him. So Why Are You So Scared? Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lloyd's The Innocent Wife book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Birdsong

By: Sebastian Faulks

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be r… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. London Fields

By: Martin Amis

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction

5. Quicksand

By: Nella Larsen , Thadious M. Davis

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has … read more

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6. The Exclusives

By: Rebecca Thornton

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 1996, Josephine Grey and Freya Seymour are best friends and on the brink of great success. Both … read more

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7. Look at Me

By: Anita Brookner

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and ple… read more

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8. Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII h… read more

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9. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

By: Edwin A. Abbott , Banesh Hoffmann

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertai… read more

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10. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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11. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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12. Let Me Tell You What I Mean

By: Joan Didion

3.84

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces t… read more

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"Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"In short I had no past, and, every Monday-Wednesday-Friday at noon in Dwinelle Hall, it seemed increasingly clear to me that I had no future."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or so I thought, another story."

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"Well, there it was. I got out fast then, before anyone could say "serenity" again, for it is a word I associate with death, and for several days after that meeting I wanted only to be in places where…"

-Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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13. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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  • fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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14. Keep Her Secret

By: Mark Edwards

4.03

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sinister tale from 4 million copy bestselling author Mark Edwards, a deadly secret turns a … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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17. Companion Piece

By: Ali Smith

3.82

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of companionship in all its timeless and contemporary, legendary and unpindownable, s… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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18. Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Ho… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"I traded in my life for a sliver of middle-class comfort. For a future."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Explain air. Convince a sceptic. Prove it's there. Prove what cant be seen."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Because they watch (us). They're taught how to, from school. They are taught to view our bodies (selves) as objects."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

"Everything now is profit. I am what we’ve always been to the empire: pure, fucking profit. A natural resource to exploit and exploit, denigrate, and exploit."

-Natasha Brown, Assembly

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19. Let Me In

By: Claire McGowan

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of What You Did comes the story of a young couple who are about to disc… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Case Sensitive (Cassie Raven, #3) by A.K.   Turner

20. Case Sensitive (Cassie Raven, #3)

By: A.K. Turner

4.21

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

When the dead are silent, she will be their voice . . . Goth-girl mortuary technician Cassie Rav… read more

Similar categories in A.K. Turner's Case Sensitive (Cassie Raven, #3) book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. Daughter of the Reich

By: Louise Fein

4.29

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Nightingale and All the Light We Cannot See, a spellbinding story of impossible lov… read more

Similar categories in Louise Fein's Daughter of the Reich book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • fiction
Cover of Beware the Past (DCI Matt Ballard, #1) by Joy Ellis

22. Beware the Past (DCI Matt Ballard, #1)

By: Joy Ellis

4.35

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

One terrible case always haunted detective Matt Ballard. Now many years later, the killer seems to … read more

Similar categories in Joy Ellis's Beware the Past (DCI Matt Ballard, #1) book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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23. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

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24. Mercury Pictures Presents

By: Anthony Marra

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's It… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Being broken delicately is what I call being whole."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Your father is the worst thing that's ever happened to me," her mother said. "He also happens to be the love of my life."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Artie had named the canary Charles Lindbergh, on account of it being an excellent aviator but otherwise a real piece of work."

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

"Vincenzo told him he was naïve, but was it naïve to believe documentary photography could serve as an antidote to the propaganda poisoning the body politic?"

-Anthony Marra, Mercury Pictures Presents

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25. A Sky Full of Stars

By: Dani Atkins

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning romance writer Dani Atkins returns in this heart-breaking love story, in which a newl… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Cecily

By: Annie Garthwaite

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"Rebellion?" The word is a spark. They can start a fire with it, or smother it in their fingertips… read more

Similar categories in Annie Garthwaite's Cecily book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • fiction
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27. One Minute Later

By: Susan Lewis

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

How well do you know the people you love? For one young woman returning to the past, the answer cou… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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28. The Narrow Land

By: Christine Dwyer Hickey

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

1950: late summer season on Cape Cod. Michael, a ten-year-old boy, is spending the summer with Rich… read more

Similar categories in Christine Dwyer Hickey's The Narrow Land book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • novels
  • fiction
Cover of The Fountain in the Forest by Tony   White

29. The Fountain in the Forest

By: Tony White

3.25

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a Covent Garden theatre, Detective Sergeant Rex Ki… read more

Similar categories in Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest book and Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest

  • detective
  • murder mystery
  • dark
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Other You (DI Silas Hart, #2) by J.S. Monroe

30. The Other You (DI Silas Hart, #2)

By: J.S. Monroe

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Kate used to be good at recognising people. So good, she worked for the police, identifying crimina… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

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Amy Lloyd

3.41

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Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

4.32

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3.66

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London Fields

Martin Amis

4.04

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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