11 must-read mystery books like The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

Cover of The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

The Jealous One

By: Celia Fremlin

4.08

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Rosamund and Geoffrey's new neighbor, Lindy, is smart, good-looking, friendly, and delightful in ev…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Exiles Return by Edmund de Waal, Elisabeth de Waal

1. The Exiles Return

By: Edmund de Waal , Elisabeth de Waal

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Exiles Return is set in Occupied Vienna in 1954-5. It describes five people who grew up there b… read more

Similar categories in Edmund de Waal's The Exiles Return book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • classics
  • fiction
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2. The Birds and Other Stories

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.39

Format: 440 pages, ebook

A classic of alienation and horror, The Birdswas immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. … read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's The Birds and Other Stories book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
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3. The Suicide Club

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The "Story of the Youn… read more

Similar categories in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4) by Agatha Christie

4. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's By the Pricking of My Thumbs (Tommy and Tuppence, #4) book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • classics
  • fiction

6. Vera

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

First published in 1921, Verais a darkly comic story about Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss. Both… read more

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7. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Pym's Quartet in Autumn book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • classics
  • fiction

8. Doreen

By: Barbara Noble

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

Describes the mind of a child torn between her mother, whom she leaves behind in London, and the co… read more

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9. The Christmas Guest

By: Peter Swanson

3.63

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's The Christmas Guest book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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10. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • fiction
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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Occupy Space by Grady Hendrix

12. Occupy Space

By: Grady Hendrix

3.82

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's Occupy Space book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • fiction
"And as for the people around here, well, I’m very sorry that my rocket might crash through their roofs and put a premature halt to their careers as professional television watches, but given the stat…"

-Grady Hendrix, Occupy Space

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13. Bitter Orange

By: Claire Fuller

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara fi… read more

Similar categories in Claire Fuller's Bitter Orange book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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14. The Quiet People

By: Paul Cleave

3.99

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, j… read more

Similar categories in Paul Cleave's The Quiet People book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. A Touch of Mistletoe

By: Barbara Comyns

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Blanche and Vicky, who as children read Ethel M. Dell and Elinor Glyn up a tre… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Comyns's A Touch of Mistletoe book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) by Lisa Jewell

16. Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1)

By: Lisa Jewell

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

17. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) by Mark Billingham

18. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

19. The Jealous One

By: Celia Fremlin

4.08

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Rosamund and Geoffrey's new neighbor, Lindy, is smart, good-looking, friendly, and delightful in ev… read more

Similar categories in Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Celia Fremlin's The Jealous One

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

19 best-selling fiction books like The Jealous One by Celia Fremlin

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The Exiles Return

Edmund de Waal , Elisabeth de Waal

3.46

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The Birds and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier

3.39

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The Suicide Club

Robert Louis Stevenson

2.70

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21 best-selling fiction books like Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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The Cracked Mirror

Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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