24 Best crime books like Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17) by W.J. Burley

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Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17)

By: W.J. Burley

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

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If you liked the crime plot in Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17) by W.J. Burley , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. The Ghost

By: Robert Harris

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland; Enigma; Archangel; Pompeii … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty."

-Robert Harris, The Ghost

"The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind."

-Robert Harris, The Ghost

"What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life."

-Robert Harris, The Ghost

"A ghost who has only a lay knowledge of the subject will be able to keep asking the same questions as the lay reader, and will therefore open up the potential readership of the book to a much wider a…"

-Robert Harris, The Ghost

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2. The Monster in the Box (Inspector Wexford, #22)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Monster in the Box takes Chief Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction
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3. Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks, #8)

By: Peter Robinson

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When last seen alive, sixteen-year-old Deborah Harrison was on her way home from school. Her friend… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chill… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction
"As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently."

-Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

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5. A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks, #2)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It's Inspector Banks second big case after arriving in the north from London; could it be any more … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction
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6. Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.87

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It see… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction
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9. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense fore… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Ma… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.07

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The wealthy Agatha Dawson is dead--a trifle sooner than expected--but there are no apparent signs o… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a good story in rotten English, which is as far as most people seem to get nowad…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

"Miss Climpson," said Lord Peter, "is a manifestation of the wasteful way in which this country is run. Look at electricity, Look at water-power. Look at the tides. Look at the sun. Millions of power …"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey, #3)

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12. A New Lease of Death (Inspector Wexford, #2)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It's impossible to forget the violent bludgeoning to death of an elderly lady in her home. Even mor… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. Gently Does It

By: Alan Hunter

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1) by Peter Robinson

14. Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to the first of an exciting police procedural series. A Peeping Tom is frightening the w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction
"I think it's true that at least one of the reasons for the rise in sex crimes is the increase in stimulation — and that includes fashion, pornography, advertising, films, TV, the lot.' 'And who deter…"

-Peter Robinson, Gallows View (Inspector Banks, #1)

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15. Innocent Blood

By: None , P.D. James

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter o… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."

-None, Innocent Blood

"The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. "

-None, Innocent Blood

"Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity."

-None, Innocent Blood

"People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?"

-None, Innocent Blood

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16. The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a ki… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

17. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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18. An Unhallowed Grave (Wesley Peterson, #3)

By: Kate Ellis

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a middle-aged woman is found hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy Churchyard, th… read more

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19. The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in si… read more

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20. A Sleeping Life (Inspector Wexford, #10)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life, maste… read more

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21. No Man's Nightingale (Inspector Wexford #24)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, th… read more

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22. End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The award-winning author of Babes in the Woods and The Rottweiler brings us another gripping Inspec… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's End in Tears (Inspector Wexford, #20) book and W.J. Burley's Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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23. The Lighthouse Murders (Dorset Crime #8)

By: Rachel McLean

4.44

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

DCI Lesley Clarke is back in Dorset, and her world has turned upside down.One of the people she's c… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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24. The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret

By: Georges Simenon

4.10

Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated lite… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. The Shell House Detectives (Shell House Detectives #1)

By: Emylia Hall

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. Tell No Tales (Hidden Norfolk #4)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales… When the body of an unidentified ma… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

27. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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28. The Isle Of Wight Murders

By: Pauline Rowson

4.31

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf cours… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3) by Emylia Hall

29. The Rockpool Murder (Shell House Detectives, #3)

By: Emylia Hall

4.43

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

A stunning Cornish house, a shocking death—can The Shell House Detectives catch a killer hiding in … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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30. Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17)

By: W.J. Burley

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

good to vg 1st Corgi 1992 edition paperback book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • police
  • fiction

26 must-read fiction books like Wycliffe & the Dead Flautist (Wycliffe, #17) by W.J. Burley

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Robert Harris

3.79

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Ruth Rendell

3.51

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Peter Robinson

4.01

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Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

Ruth Rendell

3.62

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Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

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Deborah Crombie

4.25

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Ian Rankin

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