14 must-read crime books like Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1) by Steve Turnbull

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Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

By: Steve Turnbull

3.63

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A gruesome death. An airship full of suspects. A true steampunk whodunnit. Maliha Anderson, a br…

If you liked the crime plot in Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1) by Steve Turnbull , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Way Station

By: Clifford D. Simak

4.03

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he has done for over a cen… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Delectable,"

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He needed sun and soil and wind to remain a man."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

"He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world."

-Clifford D. Simak, Way Station

Cover of Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (Mrs. Pollifax, #11) by Dorothy Gilman

2. Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (Mrs. Pollifax, #11)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The last thing Mrs. Pollifax expects to find in her closet is a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk in… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax Pursued (Mrs. Pollifax, #11) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • cozy mystery
Cover of Scourged (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #9) by Kevin Hearne

3. Scourged (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #9)

By: Kevin Hearne

4.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author Kevin Hearne returns with the finale to his wildly popular action-… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Hearne's Scourged (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #9) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • fantasy
Cover of Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, #21) by Donna Leon

4. Beastly Things (Commissario Brunetti, #21)

By: Donna Leon

4.20

Format: None pages,

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing onl… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

5. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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6. A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)

By: Deanna Raybourn

3.67

Format: 348 pages,

In her thrilling new series, Deanna Raybourn, the New York Timesbestselling author of the Lady Juli… read more

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7. Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing: Spiritual Preparation for the Office of Confession

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Douglas V. Steere

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, the Danish writer Sore… read more

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8. Nil (Nil, #1)

By: Lynne Matson

4.32

Format: 224 pages, ebook

On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days--to escape,… read more

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Cover of The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) by Malka Ann Older

9. The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

By: Malka Ann Older

3.64

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set … read more

Similar categories in Malka Ann Older's The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • science fiction
Cover of Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1) by Anastasia Hastings

10. Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1)

By: Anastasia Hastings

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1885: London, England. When Violet's Aunt Adelia decides to abscond with her newest paramour, she l… read more

Similar categories in Anastasia Hastings's Of Manners and Murder (Dear Miss Hermione Mystery, #1) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dance with Death (Barker & Llewelyn, #12) by Will Thomas

11. Dance with Death (Barker & Llewelyn, #12)

By: Will Thomas

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tses… read more

Similar categories in Will Thomas's Dance with Death (Barker & Llewelyn, #12) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5) by Andrea Penrose

12. Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

By: Andrea Penrose

4.13

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The upcoming marriage of the Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane promises to be a highlight … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"Without laughter to counter the injustices and absurdities of the world, life could so easily crush one's spirit."

-Andrea Penrose, Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

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13. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

Similar categories in Tan Twan Eng's The House of Doors book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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14. The Spare Man

By: Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space li… read more

Similar categories in Mary Robinette Kowal's The Spare Man book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

15. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

Similar categories in Neil Bradbury's A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • crime
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

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16. The Picture House Murders (Miss Clara Vale #1)

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

4.06

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Murder is no occupation for a lady... or is it? 1929: Miss Clara Vale is a woman ahead of her ti… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Veitch Smith's The Picture House Murders (Miss Clara Vale #1) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10) by T.E. Kinsey

17. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

Cover of What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) by C.S. Harris

18. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

19. Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

3.85

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • historical fiction
"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

Cover of Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection by Ben Aaronovitch

20. Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.03

Format: 139 pages, Kindle Edition

Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times b… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fantasy
"I found that when people are nursing a grievance it’s a waste of time trying to explain the ubiquitous nature of coincidence in the universe. People always want things to happen for a reason."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection

Cover of The Secret of the Lost Pearls (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #6) by Darcie Wilde

21. The Secret of the Lost Pearls (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #6)

By: Darcie Wilde

4.17

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Beyond the glittering ballrooms and elegant parties of Regency London lurk all manner of unexpected… read more

Similar categories in Darcie Wilde's The Secret of the Lost Pearls (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #6) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) by Ellis Peters

22. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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23. An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.39

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s The… read more

Similar categories in T.E. Kinsey's An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
  • historical fiction
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24. Miss Kopp Investigates (Kopp Sisters, #7)

By: Amy Stewart

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Life after the war takes an unexpected turn for the Kopp sisters, but soon enough, they are putting… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • historical fiction
Cover of Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

25. Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

3.96

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinét… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"You know people who love you don't hurt you like that," he says, eyes steady on me. "Love's not supposed to try to kill you."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)

Cover of Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die (Emma Frost, #4) by Willow Rose

26. Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die (Emma Frost, #4)

By: Willow Rose

4.11

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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27. Cat Pictures Please and Other Stories

By: Naomi Kritzer

4.28

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed writer Naomi Kritzer's marvelous tales of science fiction and fantasy are now collected i… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself by Haylock Jobson

28. Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself

By: Haylock Jobson

4.41

Format: 533 pages, Kindle Edition

A world abandoned by the gods, mystifying cosmic forces, unimaginable power for those willing to as… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Murder on the Blackboard (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries) by Stuart   Palmer

29. Murder on the Blackboard (The Hildegarde Withers Mysteries)

By: Stuart Palmer

3.82

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

While overseeing detention, Miss Withers finds a fellow schoolteacher’s corpse Anise Halloran is… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
Cover of Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1) by Steve Turnbull

30. Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

By: Steve Turnbull

3.63

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

A gruesome death. An airship full of suspects. A true steampunk whodunnit. Maliha Anderson, a br… read more

Similar categories in Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1) book and Steve Turnbull's Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1)

  • cozy mystery
  • steampunk
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • science fiction

9 must-read fantasy books like Murder out of the Blue (Maliha Anderson, #1) by Steve Turnbull

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Clifford D. Simak

4.03

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Kevin Hearne

4.37

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The Spare Man

Mary Robinette Kowal

3.75

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Even Though I Knew the End

C.L. Polk

3.85

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Chosen (Alex Verus, #4)

Benedict Jacka

4.16

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Hidden (Alex Verus, #5)

Benedict Jacka

4.04

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A Trail Through Time (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #4)

Jodi Taylor

4.32

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Benedict Jacka

4.11

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