14 must-read crime books like The Confession: A Free Jo Nesbo Short Story from The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbø

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The Confession: A Free Jo Nesbo Short Story from The Jealousy Man

By: Jo Nesbø

3.57

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

*READ AN EXCLUSIVE FREE SHORT STORY FROM THE SOON TO BE RELEASED COLLECTION, THE JEALOUSY MAN, BY N…

If you liked the crime plot in The Confession: A Free Jo Nesbo Short Story from The Jealousy Man by Jo Nesbø , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of A Mersey Killing (Mersey Murder Mysteries #1) by Brian L. Porter

1. A Mersey Killing (Mersey Murder Mysteries #1)

By: Brian L. Porter

4.20

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

A skeleton and a missing woman. A doomed romance. A mystery spanning two generations. Liverpool,… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Flappers and Philosophers

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.96

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

By the Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer regarded as one of the greatest Amer… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

"This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was…"

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

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3. Chasing the Dead (David Raker, #1)

By: Tim Weaver

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

It starts out as a sad but hopeless case of mistaken identity. A year after the death of her son Al… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

4. Children of the Corn

By: Stephen King

4.19

Format: 192 pages, ebook

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5. Boys Don't Cry

By: Malorie Blackman

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "… read more

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6. One False Move (Quick Reads 2017)

By: Dreda Say Mitchell

4.62

Format: 290 pages,

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7. Dead Man Talking

By: Roddy Doyle

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight. A b… read more

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8. Murder on the Oxford Canal (DI Hillary Greene #1)

By: Faith Martin

4.29

Format: 120 pages,

Looking for a brilliant murder mystery with a feisty female detective? MEET DI HILLARY GREENE, A PO… read more

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9. The Lying Kind (Detective Rachel Prince, #1)

By: Alison James

4.19

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A MISSING CHILD. A DEAD WOMAN. WHO IS NEXT? Six-year-old Lola Jade Harper is taken from her bedroo… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Birthday (Detective Natalie Ward, #1) by Carol Wyer

10. The Birthday (Detective Natalie Ward, #1)

By: Carol Wyer

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

One hot summer's afternoon, five-year-old Ava Sawyer went to a party. She never came home ... Wh… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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12. The Doomsday Date

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

3.35

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An exclusive new World Book Day story from the bestselling author of ACE OF SPADES, Faridah Àbíké-Í… read more

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  • short stories
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13. Those People Next Door

By: Kia Abdullah

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A Quick Reads story from award winning author Kia Abdullah ‘Abdullah’s legal thrillers make John… read more

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  • thriller
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14. The Skylight

By: Louise Candlish

3.75

Format: None pages, Audiobook

They can’t see her, but she can see them… Simone has a secret. She likes to stand at her bathroom w… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood

By: Kit de Waal

4.13

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and … read more

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16. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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17. The Cutting Season

By: M.W. Craven

4.11

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

Poe's just hanging around on a Saturday afternoon... Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plan… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Cheat Killers (Harry Black #1) by Gordon Warden

18. The Cheat Killers (Harry Black #1)

By: Gordon Warden

4.33

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheating Husbands Beware! Married men are being murdered in an unusual fashion. Clues are deliberat… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game? by Matt Cain

19. Game On: Can you love the player, if you hate the game?

By: Matt Cain

3.80

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle and Becoming Ted, abrand new enemies-to-love… read more

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  • short stories
Cover of The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1) by Karen Swan

20. The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

By: Karen Swan

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sh… read more

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  • fiction
"forcing her mind away from the past, even though the shadows slunk over her at every turn."

-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

"How many times had she crept into them as a little girl, playing hide and seek with Mhairi and Flora and their many brothers? Why couldn't one of those boys have grown into a man who made the very ed…"

-Karen Swan, The Last Summer (Wild Isle, #1)

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21. Sleep

By: C.L. Taylor

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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22. The Donor

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

She gave you everything. But what does she want in return?When Lizzie's daughter Meg is given a lif… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) by Lisa Jewell

23. 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

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

24. First Wife's Shadow

By: Adele Parks

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Emma, a wealthy, independent, sensible CEO, has long put her chaotic childhood at the hands of alco… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024 by Kit de Waal

25. Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024

By: Kit de Waal

3.33

Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition

Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother… read more

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26. Our Holiday

By: Louise Candlish

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our HouseTHERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Dead in the Water (Anglesey #5) by Simon McCleave

27. Dead in the Water (Anglesey #5)

By: Simon McCleave

4.56

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling phenomenon Simon McCleave is back with another Anglesey-set gripping, crime thriller fu… read more

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  • fiction
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28. The Confession: A Free Jo Nesbo Short Story from The Jealousy Man

By: Jo Nesbø

3.57

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

*READ AN EXCLUSIVE FREE SHORT STORY FROM THE SOON TO BE RELEASED COLLECTION, THE JEALOUSY MAN, BY N… read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
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29. The Secrets of Flowers

By: Sally Page

4.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

From the author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Keeper of Stories and The Book of Beginnings come… read more

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Cover of The Tasting Menu: A Short Story by Stuart MacBride

30. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story

By: Stuart MacBride

3.58

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more

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  • thriller
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8) by Steve Cavanagh

31. Witness 8 (Eddy Flynn, #8)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.40

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This riveting psychological thriller from master of twists Steve Cavanagh, author of the “unguessab… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

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