15 Top mystery books like The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning

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The Rainbird Pattern

By: Victor Canning

3.86

Format: 237 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is a split-level story with two people kidnapping prominent officials, while at the same time,…

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1. Falling Angel

By: James Crumley , William Hjortsberg , Ridley Scott

3.91

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York privat… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"I like your eyes when you get mad," I said. "They glow like embers."

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

"I was examining the perfumed, coloured candles guaranteed to bring good fortune with continued use when a lovely mocha-skinned girl came in from the back room and stood behind the counter. She wore a…"

-James Crumley, Falling Angel

Cover of Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12) by Margery Allingham

2. Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

By: Margery Allingham

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Albert Campion returns from three years’ work for the War Office in Europe to find that Lugg, his m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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3. From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

By: Ian Fleming

3.91

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Ian Fleming’s fifth James Bond novel. James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintell… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

"Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead."

-Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)

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4. Jaws

By: Peter Benchley

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more

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  • thriller
Cover of Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) by Patricia Cornwell

5. Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of st… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Under the Dome: Part 1

By: Stephen King

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and su… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Deceptive Clarity (The Chris Norgren Mysteries, #1) by Aaron Elkins

8. A Deceptive Clarity (The Chris Norgren Mysteries, #1)

By: Aaron Elkins

3.72

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

In Berlin to help mount an exhibit of priceless paintings, once thought lost, museum curator and Re… read more

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  • mystery
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9. La historia del loco

By: John Katzenbach

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Han pasado veinte anos desde que el Western State Hospital cerro sus puertas y sus ultimos paciente… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more

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  • mystery
"Hey,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"One of these days,"

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."

-Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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11. The Guns of Navarone

By: Alistair MacLean

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been dr… read more

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  • thriller
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12. The Pelican Brief

By: John Grisham

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

13. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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14. Right on the Money (John Putnam Thatcher, #22)

By: Emma Lathen

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

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15. Immortality, Inc.

By: Robert Sheckley

3.36

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future, then pushed to new cinem… read more

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16. Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

#1 bestselling author of Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell, returns to the chilling world of gutsy medi… read more

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17. Majipoor Chronicles (Lord Valentine, #2)

By: Robert Silverberg

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Come to Majipoor, the magnificently exotic planet of Lord Valentine's Castle. Come to Hissune, favo… read more

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18. 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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19. Jamaica Inn

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.89

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coas… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
"For the sake of your bright eyes, Jem Merlyn."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"I like the look of you and the feel of you, and that's enough for any man. It ought to be enough for a woman too."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"Roads? Who spoke of roads? We go by the moor and the hills, and tread granite and heather as the Druids did before us."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

-Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn

20. Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

By: Roger Zelazny

3.75

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Amber, the one real world, wherein all others, including our own Earth, are but Shadows. Amber burn… read more

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21. Goldfinger (James Bond, #7)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his… read more

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22. Doctor No (James Bond, #6)

By: Ian Fleming

3.85

Format: None pages,

James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service… read more

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23. Ivanhoe

By: Walter Scott

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ivanhoe(1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his fi… read more

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24. Hocus Pocus

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of… read more

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25. The Dead Zone

By: Stephen King

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] -  Johnny, the small boy who skated at br… read more

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26. Five Decembers

By: James Kestrel

4.43

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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27. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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28. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train book and Victor Canning's The Rainbird Pattern

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

Cover of Last Seen Alive (Inspector Thanet, #5) by Dorothy Simpson

29. Last Seen Alive (Inspector Thanet, #5)

By: Dorothy Simpson

3.95

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Silver A troubled woman returns to her peaceful English village after twenty yea… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Simpson's Last Seen Alive (Inspector Thanet, #5) book and Victor Canning's The Rainbird Pattern

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning

30. The Rainbird Pattern

By: Victor Canning

3.86

Format: 237 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is a split-level story with two people kidnapping prominent officials, while at the same time,… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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