19 best-selling crime books like Holiday with Violence by Edith Pargeter

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Holiday with Violence

By: Edith Pargeter

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A quartet of traveling students stumbles into a deadly conspiracy When the door opens, Signor Ga…

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1. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more

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"Perhaps thought really is prayer."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

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2. Fallen Into the Pit (Felse Investigations, #1)

By: Ellis Peters

3.79

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

When an obnoxious former Nazi land-worker is murdered in the small English village of Comerford, Ch… read more

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3. The Knocker on Death's Door (The Felse Investigations #10)

By: Ellis Peters

4.02

Format: 202 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The knocker hung on a very special door - oak, heavy, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a lat… read more

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4. Death to the Landlords (The Felse Investigations, #11)

By: Ellis Peters

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of h… read more

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5. The Grass Widow's Tale (The Felse Investigations #7)

By: Ellis Peters

4.03

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

‘Listen to who’s talking. I’m not the one who goes hobnobbing with gunmen and such.’ Such is Bunty … read more

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6. Rainbow's End (Felse, #13)

By: Ellis Peters

3.96

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The sleepy village of Middlehope is suddenly jerked into life by nouveau riche antiques magnate Art… read more

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7. Death and the Joyful Woman (Felse, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the woman he loves is accused of murder, Dominic Felse sets out to find the true culprit Is a … read more

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8. The Piper on the Mountain (Felse, #5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Herbert Terrell falls off a mountain during a vacation in Czechoslovakia, accidental death is … read more

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  • crime
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9. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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10. The Funeral of Figaro

By: Ellis Peters

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Figaro is killed in an aeroplane crash it seems that nothing can save the production of Mozart… read more

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  • crime
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11. Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart (Felse, #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

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12. Mourning Raga (Felse, #9)

By: Ellis Peters

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a you… read more

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13. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • crime
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14. The House of Green Turf (Felse, #8)

By: Ellis Peters

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

When world famous singer Maggie Tressider crashes her car on the way to a concert, she wakes up in … read more

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15. 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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16. Death Mask

By: Ellis Peters

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The moment Evelyn Manville enlists in the British Army, his thoughts turn to Dorothy Grieve. He's l… read more

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17. 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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18. Flight of a Witch (Felse, #3)

By: Ellis Peters

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Annet Beck's beauty is of the second order and it worries her parents so much that they guard her a… read more

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19. Never Pick up Hitch-hikers!

By: Ellis Peters

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Alf Jarrett spots the hitch-hiker, he thinks his prayers have been answered. William Banks is … read more

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20. The Horn of Roland

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

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21. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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22. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

23. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Felse, #4)

By: Ellis Peters

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I." So read the epitaph com… read more

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24. Smallbone Deceased

By: Michael Gilbert

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderHorniman, Birley and Craine is a highly re… read more

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"It’s quite a good idea. Only for heaven’s sake don’t be like that mug in the detective story who confides all his best ideas to a friendly sort of character who turns out to be the murderer in Chapte…"

-Michael Gilbert, Smallbone Deceased

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25. 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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"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)

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26. Vexed on a Visit (A Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery #4)

By: Fiona Grace

4.06

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

VEXED ON A VISIT (A LACEY DOYLE COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 4) is book four in a charming new cozy mystery se… read more

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27. Perished by a Painting (A Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery #6)

By: Fiona Grace

4.14

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

PERISHED BY A PAINTING (A LACEY DOYLE COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 6) is book six in a charming new cozy myste… read more

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Cover of Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall (Teddy Quillfeather Mysteries Book 1) by P.J. Fitzsimmons

28. Hardy Haul at Hardy Hall (Teddy Quillfeather Mysteries Book 1)

By: P.J. Fitzsimmons

4.48

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

The theft of an immensely valuable, immensely ugly necklace is only the beginning of the intrigues … read more

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29. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

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30. The Will and the Deed

By: Ellis Peters

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking revelation in a diva’s will leads to murder in this chilling whodunit from the Edgar Awa… read more

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31. Holiday with Violence

By: Edith Pargeter

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A quartet of traveling students stumbles into a deadly conspiracy When the door opens, Signor Ga… read more

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21 Top fiction books like Holiday with Violence by Edith Pargeter

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One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

Ellis Peters

4.08

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Fallen Into the Pit (Felse Investigations, #1)

Ellis Peters

3.79

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The Knocker on Death's Door (The Felse Investigations #10)

Ellis Peters

4.02

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Death to the Landlords (The Felse Investigations, #11)

Ellis Peters

3.79

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An Expert in Murder (Josephine Tey, #1)

Nicola Upson

3.52

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He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

John Dickson Carr

3.91

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Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

Margery Allingham

3.96

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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