13 Top mystery books like The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1) by Caroline Graham

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The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1) by Caroline Graham , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3) by Martha Grimes

1. The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)

By: Martha Grimes

4.03

Format: 310 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A severed finger found at the scene of a baffling murder in the village of Littlebourne leads local… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1) by Martha Grimes

2. The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

By: Martha Grimes

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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"And so it continued all day, wynde after wynde, from a room beyond came the whistle of a teakettle. "Now, you really must join me. I've some marvelous Darjeeling, and some delicious petits fours a fr…"

-Martha Grimes, The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

Cover of A Day for Dying (Inspector Thanet, #13) by Dorothy Simpson

3. A Day for Dying (Inspector Thanet, #13)

By: Dorothy Simpson

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A title in a series featuring Inspector Thanet. When Max Jeopard, a charismatic writer is found dea… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9) by Colin Dexter

4. The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE The case seems so … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Knocks Twice (Death in Paradise, #3) by Robert Thorogood

5. Death Knocks Twice (Death in Paradise, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richar… read more

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  • detective
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

6. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

8. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

9. More Work for the Undertaker (Albert Campion Mystery, #13)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion investigates two deaths in the eccentric Palinode hou… read more

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10. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

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11. False Scent (Roderick Alleyn, #21)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In a poisonous cloud of spray, the curtain falls on a drama queen. Little did beloved British actre… read more

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12. Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five Days Out of Time ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiaccruise on the "weirdly misted… read more

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13. A Knife for Harry Dodd (Chief Inspector Littlejohn, #21)

By: George Bellairs

4.50

Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry Dodd is stabbed in the back on his way home from the pub. But instead of calling for the poli… read more

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14. Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1)

By: M.C. Beaton

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Scottish highland village cop Hamish Macbeth must find which target was provoked enough to strangle… read more

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Cover of Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) by Ngaio Marsh

15. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

Cover of Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) by Behcet Kaya

16. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

17. 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 thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

18. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Cover of Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) by Behcet Kaya

19. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

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"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

Cover of Mr. Glamour by Richard Godwin

20. Mr. Glamour

By: Richard Godwin

3.93

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Something dark is preying on the glitz of the glamour set. Chief Inspector Jackson Flare and his pa… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of 2 Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman / The Skull Beneath the Skin by P.D. James

21. 2 Cordelia Gray Mysteries: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman / The Skull Beneath the Skin

By: P.D. James

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Private investigator Cordelia Gray inherits the Pryde Detective Agency in London and solves mysteri… read more

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13 must-read fiction books like The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1) by Caroline Graham

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The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, #3)

Martha Grimes

4.03

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The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)

Martha Grimes

3.99

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A Day for Dying (Inspector Thanet, #13)

Dorothy Simpson

4.06

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The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)

Colin Dexter

3.98

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The Stranger You Know (Maeve Kerrigan, #4)

Jane Casey

4.22

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The Complaints

Ian Rankin

3.50

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Archer Mayor

4.39

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Michael Parker

4.26

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