22 Best mystery books like A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1) by Lauren Carr

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A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1)

By: Lauren Carr

3.92

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION!Best-Selling Mystery Author Lauren Carr's debut novel, A Small Case of Mur…

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1. Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder, #2)

By: Linda Castillo

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Plank family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Truth About Melody Browne

By: Lisa Jewell

3.85

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph,… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above."

-Lisa Jewell, The Truth About Melody Browne

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3. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.76

Format: None pages,

Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II wa… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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5. Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1)

By: Linda Castillo

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Hardcover

When a serial killer strikes bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio, the killer's signature ---Roman numerals … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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6. Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery

By: Charles Martin

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. "Never settle for less than the truth," she to… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Love and Other Consolation Prizes

By: Jamie Ford

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Audio CD

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweetcomes a powerful novel, inspi… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)

By: Betty MacDonald

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

When Betty MacDonald married a marine and moved to a small chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in… read more

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9. The Monogram Murders

By: Agatha Christie , Sophie Hannah

3.13

Format: 192 pages, ebook

'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...' Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

10. The Black Book

By: James Patterson , David Ellis

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harne… read more

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11. The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway, #6)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Elly Griffiths draws us all the way back to prehistoric times . . . Highly atmospheric." -- New Yo… read more

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12. The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway, #7)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson … read more

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13. A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway investigates a heart-stopping an old university friend and fel… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up mode…"

-Elly Griffiths, A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)

Cover of Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1) by Colleen Cambridge

14. Murder at Mallowan Hall (Phyllida Bright Mystery #1)

By: Colleen Cambridge

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The first in an exciting new historical mystery series set in the home of Agatha Christie! Colle… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard re… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists book and Lauren Carr's A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1)

  • audiobook
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16. In Her Defense (Serve and Protect #1)

By: Margaret Watson

4.26

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Mac McDougal has an urgent case to solve, and he’s not going to let victim’s advocate A.J. Ferguson… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Watson's In Her Defense (Serve and Protect #1) book and Lauren Carr's A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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17. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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19. Until Leaves Fall in Paris

By: Sarah Sundin

4.21

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

When the Nazis march toward Paris, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-langua… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's Until Leaves Fall in Paris book and Lauren Carr's A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Gallowa… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it."

-Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

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21. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Autopsy (Kay Scarpetta, #25)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Scarpetta is back! In this twenty-fifth in the electrifying, landmark #1 bestselling thriller serie… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.14

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award  Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series   “G… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

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25. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

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26. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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27. The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.97

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparit… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one."

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired Ge…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed an…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

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28. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas

4.15

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I miss my dog,"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

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29. The Lies I Told

By: Mary Burton

4.15

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a nove… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Hideaway

By: Nora Roberts

4.07

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. A Small Case of Murder (Joshua Thornton Mystery, #1)

By: Lauren Carr

3.92

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION!Best-Selling Mystery Author Lauren Carr's debut novel, A Small Case of Mur… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

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3.85

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3.76

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3.86

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4.09

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