14 must-read crime books like The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor

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The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

By: Sean O'Connor

4.13

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth.   The Rattenbury cas…

If you liked the crime plot in The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) by John Connolly

1. Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

By: John Connolly

3.96

Format: 467 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times be… read more

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  • crime
"The evolutionary curve obviously sloped pretty gently where Six came from."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light..."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

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2. Night Film

By: Marisha Pessl

3.78

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

On a damp October night, 24-year-old Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lowe… read more

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  • crime
"Moe was a triple threat."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

"Freak the ferocious out."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

"Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect."

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

" Everyone smiles for a photograph. "

-Marisha Pessl, Night Film

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3. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)

By: C.J. Sansom

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more

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  • crime
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4. Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

3.87

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich … read more

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  • british literature
"I was quiet, but I was not blind."

-Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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5. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

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  • crime

6. The Strings of Murder (Frey & McGray, #1)

By: Óscar de Muriel

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

A spellbinding concoction of crime, history and horror - perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes and Jo… read more

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7. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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8. Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

By: Piu Marie Eatwell

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing … read more

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9. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more

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10. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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11. Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)

By: C.J. Sansom

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Ma… read more

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12. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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13. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

By: John Buchan

3.60

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more

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  • crime
"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"

-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)

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14. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • crime
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15. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) by Richard  Coles

16. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • crime
  • british literature
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17. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

Similar categories in Sam Knight's The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold book and Sean O'Connor's The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
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18. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

Similar categories in Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II book and Sean O'Connor's The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Sean O'Connor's The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg

20. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Murder Most Festive (Christmas Mystery, #1) by Ada Moncrieff

21. Murder Most Festive (Christmas Mystery, #1)

By: Ada Moncrieff

3.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas at Westbury Manor and amateur detective Hugh Gaveston must unravel a fiendish myster… read more

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  • crime
  • british literature
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22. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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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

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24. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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25. The Library: A Fragile History

By: Andrew Pettegree

3.84

Format: 518 pages, Hardcover

Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, des… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In 1748, the Earl of Chesterfield passed on some useful advice to his son: 'Buy good books and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors a…"

-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History

"Mudie's insistence on the three-volume format was undoubtedly responsible for the verbosity of many nineteenth-century novels, as authors went to extraordinary efforts to pad their texts to the requi…"

-Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History

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26. Murder: The Biography

By: Kate Morgan

4.00

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of A Passion for Poison: Serial Killer. Poisoner. Schoolboy by Carol Ann Lee

27. A Passion for Poison: Serial Killer. Poisoner. Schoolboy

By: Carol Ann Lee

4.15

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

'The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.' Graham Young, confessing his c… read more

Similar categories in Carol Ann Lee's A Passion for Poison: Serial Killer. Poisoner. Schoolboy book and Sean O'Connor's The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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28. Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

By: Kathleen Sheppard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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29. The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury

By: Sean O'Connor

4.13

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Adultery, alcoholism, drugs and murder on the suburban streets of Bournemouth.   The Rattenbury cas… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin

30. Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

By: Tina Gaudoin

4.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biogra… read more

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Cover of The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale

31. The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place

By: Kate Summerscale

4.11

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermidFrom Brita… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime

11 must-read history books like The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor

Transform Your Habits

The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

Sam Knight

3.30

Transform Your Habits

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

Sonia Purnell

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

John Glatt

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

Michael Cragg

4.28

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22 best-selling biography books like Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer by Tina Gaudoin

Transform Your Habits

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

Susannah Constantine

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors

Tom Bower

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire

Francesca Cartier Brickell

4.24

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