15 Best mystery books like Detective Gretel by P.J. Brackston

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Detective Gretel

By: P.J. Brackston

3.88

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In which a golden piglet is lost, given, received and discovered, and Gretel hits upon her most luc…

If you liked the mystery plot in Detective Gretel by P.J. Brackston , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1) by Jasper Fforde

1. The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

By: Jasper Fforde

3.89

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected p… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Mücken haben die blaue Ziege gestochen."

-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

"The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt."

-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."

-Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

Cover of Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

2. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

Cover of The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1) by Michael J. Sullivan

3. The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)

By: Michael J. Sullivan

3.32

Format: None pages,

THEY KILLED THE KING. THEY PINNED IT ON TWO MEN. THEY CHOSE POORLY. The Crown Conspiracy is book on… read more

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  • audiobook

4. Hidden Bodies: A Novel

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Hidden Bodies marks the return of a voice that Stephen King described as original and hypnotic, and… read more

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5. Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)

By: Ridley Pearson , Greg Call , Dave Barry

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Orphan Peter and his mates are dispatched to an island ruled by the evil King Zarboff. They set sai… read more

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6. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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7. Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations, #2)

By: Michael J. Sullivan

4.05

Format: 208 pages,

THE SECRET IS IN THE TOWER. THE PROBLEM IS THE BEAST. THE ANSWER IS TWO THIEVES. When a destitute y… read more

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8. The Jester (The Riyria Chronicles #2.5)

By: Tim Gerard Reynolds , Michael J. Sullivan

4.67

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

WHO WILL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH? Stop me if you've heard this one. A thief, a candlemaker, an ex-merce… read more

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9. Strange Practice (Dr. Greta Helsing, #1)

By: Vivian Shaw

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Greta Helsing, fast-talking doctor to the undead. Keeping the supernatural community not-alive… read more

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10. Shaman's Crossing (Soldier Son, #1)

By: Robin Hobb

4.47

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a newly anointed noblema… read more

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Cover of Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4) by Drew  Hayes

11. Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4)

By: Drew Hayes

4.68

Format: 1981 pages, ebook

The final year at Lander has finally arrived for the Melbrook students and their peers, and with it… read more

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  • audiobook
"Death isn’t a luxury heroes are permitted."

-Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4)

"Sacrifices lose meaning without consequences."

-Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4)

"I'm working on the future, instead of being caught up in where I am today. - Roy Daniels"

-Drew Hayes, Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4)

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12. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1) by Garth Nix

13. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

By: Garth Nix

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A girl’s quest to find her father leads her to an extended family of magical fighting booksellers w… read more

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  • audiobook
"Shakespeare knew too much."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Come sleep, oh sleep, the certain knot of peace."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"I read. And you know 'no offense' means 'I am about to be or have just been fucking offensive."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

"Books help us anchor our souls, or re-anchor them; particularly for us, the left-handed, given the things we have to do."

-Garth Nix, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (Left-Handed Booksellers of London, #1)

Cover of Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) by Ben Aaronovitch

14. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

Cover of The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1) by C.J. Archer

15. The Librarian of Crooked Lane (Glass Library, #1)

By: C.J. Archer

3.84

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A librarian with a mysterious past, a war hero with a secret, and the heist of a magic painting. TH… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) by Martha Wells

16. Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.10

Format: 19 pages, ebook

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’… read more

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"The Corporation Rim has always been a slave state, though it calls its institutionalized slavery “contract labor."

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

"It’s about being treated as a thing, isn’t it. Whether that thing is a hostage of conditional value, or a very expensively designed and equipped enslaved machine/organic intelligence. You’re a thing,…"

-Martha Wells, Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)

Cover of Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5) by Ben Aaronovitch

17. Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.99

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator do… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"My decision to apply to be a special agent crept up on me some time between the case of the spontaneously exploding tractor and the cows that ate Paris, Arkansas."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London, #9.5)

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18. Big Bad

By: Chandler Baker

3.77

Format: 59 pages, Kindle Edition

For a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) by Elly Griffiths

19. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.00

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

Cover of Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5) by Martha Wells

20. Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)

By: Martha Wells

4.34

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven t… read more

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21. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Slayers (Buffyverse) by Amber   Benson

22. Slayers (Buffyverse)

By: Amber Benson

3.88

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1) by Alexander McCall Smith

23. The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. … read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You can’t do much about a personality disorder. Cats are psychopaths at heart."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"Dogs can read signals -- look at sheepdogs; they understand hand movements for left and right. Dogs are no fools, you know." He paused. "Well, some are. Some dogs are truly stupid, Ulf."

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"All suspects should be given the chance to telephone their lawyers or their mothers, and it would not be surprising if they chose to call their mothers. After all, your mother is fall more likely to …"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

"I like you when you're algebraic," said Ulf--and immediately regretted it. It was a flirtatious remark--describing somebody as algebraic was undoubtedly to cross a line. You would not normally descri…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)

Cover of Shackleton: A Biography by Ranulph Fiennes

24. Shackleton: A Biography

By: Ranulph Fiennes

4.32

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition through the words of the worl… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons (Miss Percy Guide, #1) by Quenby Olson

25. Miss Percy's Pocket Guide to the Care and Feeding of British Dragons (Miss Percy Guide, #1)

By: Quenby Olson

4.12

Format: None pages, ebook

Miss Mildred Percy inherits a dragon. Ah, but we’ve already got ahead of ourselves… Miss Mil… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Talented Mr. Varg (Detective Varg, #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

26. The Talented Mr. Varg (Detective Varg, #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.81

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of OverLondon (Over London Book 1) by George  Penney

27. OverLondon (Over London Book 1)

By: George Penney

4.13

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

“A delightful romp, chock-full of wonderfully bonkers ideas.” C.K. (Caimh) McDonnell, author of The… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2) by Vivian Shaw

28. Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

By: Vivian Shaw

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Contemporary fantasy in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, whose family has… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You can’t possibly adopt stray French monsters; wherever would you put it?"

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"I suppose that’s a valid point. The four of us can hang around a little longer before we leave."

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"Winston was hovering in the archway, looking impatient, if a tattered bit of taffeta could look impatient."

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

"It really did seem as if something thoroughly out-of-the-ordinary had been built into the structure from the very beginning; a significant proportion of the ironwork girders that supported it had bee…"

-Vivian Shaw, Dreadful Company (Dr. Greta Helsing, #2)

Cover of What Happened in London (DI Adams #0.5) by Kim M. Watt

29. What Happened in London (DI Adams #0.5)

By: Kim M. Watt

4.52

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Baton. Light. Chocolate. Duck. This is not DS Adams’ usual kit. This is not DS Adams’ usual case… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Detective Gretel by P.J. Brackston

30. Detective Gretel

By: P.J. Brackston

3.88

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In which a golden piglet is lost, given, received and discovered, and Gretel hits upon her most luc… read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2) by Ben Aaronovitch

31. The Masquerades of Spring (Rivers of London #9.2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young - fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad - … read more

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  • mystery
  • audiobook

22 best-selling audiobook books like Detective Gretel by P.J. Brackston

Transform Your Habits

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

Jasper Fforde

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

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The Crown Conspiracy (The Riyria Revelations, #1)

Michael J. Sullivan

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Super Powereds: Year 4 (Super Powereds, #4)

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4.18

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Harlan Coben

4.34

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Sulari Gentill

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