14 Best thriller books like A Fine Madness by Alan Judd

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A Fine Madness

By: Alan Judd

3.37

Format: None pages, Audiobook

*SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH, MARCH 2021* ‘Absolutely spellbinding. I gobbled…

If you liked the thriller plot in A Fine Madness by Alan Judd , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

Similar categories in Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

2. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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3. The Intelligencer

By: Leslie Silbert

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

London, 1593:It is three weeks before the murder of Christopher Marlowe, playwright and spy in Quee… read more

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4. Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1)

By: John Lawton

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from common moralit… read more

Similar categories in John Lawton's Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Lehrter Station (John Russell, #5)

By: David Downing

3.66

Format: 256 pages,

Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty… read more

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6. The Unfortunate Englishman (Joe Wilderness, #2)

By: John Lawton

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness fi… read more

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7. Toby's Room (Life Class, #2)

By: Pat Barker

4.02

Format: 360 pages, Hardback

From Booker Prize winner Pat Barker, a masterful novel that portrays the staggering human cost of t… read more

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8. Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4)

By: John Lawton

4.07

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Moscow Blues begins in Washington, D.C., in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growi… read more

Similar categories in John Lawton's Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. 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 Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit

By: Ron Shelton

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning screenwriter and director of cult classic Bull Durham, the extremely enterta… read more

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11. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's The Scarlet Papers book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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13. Blood & Sugar

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

3.93

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded… read more

Similar categories in Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Blood & Sugar book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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15. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

Similar categories in Charles Beaumont's A Spy Alone book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Devil's Blaze

By: Robert J. Harris

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set in London during World War II, a thrilling murder mystery where the world’s greatest detective … read more

Similar categories in Robert J. Harris's The Devil's Blaze book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest families is found floating in… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Morrison's Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)

By: S.G. MacLean

4.38

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer, 1660. Cromwell is dead and Charles Stuart has been restored to the throne. Men who supporte… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. This Could Change Everything

By: Jill Mansell

3.91

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

If only Essie hadn't written that letter - the one that went viral...On the one hand, if Essie hadn… read more

Similar categories in Jill Mansell's This Could Change Everything book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • fiction
  • british literature
"Life isn't fair. You know it isn't," said Lucas. "I do know that, but it's still not fair that it isn't fair."

-Jill Mansell, This Could Change Everything

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20. Dark Tides (The Fairmile, #2)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the R… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's Dark Tides (The Fairmile, #2) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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21. Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3)

By: John Lawton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as goo… read more

Similar categories in John Lawton's Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3) book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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22. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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23. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's The Forester's Daughter book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • fiction
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24. The Last Day

By: Andrew Hunter Murray

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future--with… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Hunter Murray's The Last Day book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

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

25. 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 Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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26. Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens

By: Chris Lintott

4.20

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

An astonishing tour of the key astronomical events of the past century, and of all the accidents an… read more

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27. Two Storm Wood

By: Philip Gray

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller set on the battlefields of the Somme after the end of World War I, a woman investi… read more

Similar categories in Philip Gray's Two Storm Wood book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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28. A Fine Madness

By: Alan Judd

3.37

Format: None pages, Audiobook

*SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH, MARCH 2021* ‘Absolutely spellbinding. I gobbled… read more

Similar categories in Alan Judd's A Fine Madness book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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29. Short of Glory

By: judd-alan

3.71

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third s… read more

Similar categories in judd-alan's Short of Glory book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • fiction
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30. Sunfall

By: Jim Al-Khalili

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling de… read more

Similar categories in Jim Al-Khalili's Sunfall book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • thriller
  • fiction
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31. In the Thick of It

By: Alan Duncan

3.61

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

As Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Alan Duncan was once described as Boris Johnson’s ‘poop… read more

Similar categories in Alan Duncan's In the Thick of It book and Alan Judd's A Fine Madness

  • british literature

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Jane Gardam

4.10

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John Lawton

3.92

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4.07

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S.G. MacLean

4.08

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Barbara Nadel

3.65

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Douglas Skelton

4.09

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Andrew Taylor

4.19

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