23 Top mystery books like The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1) by Donna Huston Murray

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The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

By: Donna Huston Murray

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

When her husband becomes headmaster of struggling Bryn Derwyn Academy, Ginger Barnes learns that mu…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1) by Donna Huston Murray , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Cold Betrayal (Ali Reynolds, #10) by J.A. Jance

1. Cold Betrayal (Ali Reynolds, #10)

By: J.A. Jance

4.08

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Revenge isn’t the only dish served cold... Ali Reynolds’s longtime friend and Taser-carrying nun… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Through the Grinder (Coffeehouse Mystery, #2) by Cleo Coyle

2. Through the Grinder (Coffeehouse Mystery, #2)

By: Cleo Coyle

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieuten… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1) by Ellery Adams

3. The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)

By: Ellery Adams

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Ellery Adams comes the first in an intriguing new series set… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"Is that from a book?"

-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)

"… Becoming a reader is a change for the better. Trust me. No one has ever lost by becoming addicted to stories – to the lessons learned by those who possess enough courage to put pen to paper."

-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)

"The books in her shop weren’t merely things. They were gifts wrapped in imagination, inspiration, excite ment, pain, and heartache. Gifts given by thousands of writers. Gifts just waiting to be opene…"

-Ellery Adams, The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)

Cover of Murder in the Mystery Suite (Book Retreat Mysteries, #1) by Ellery Adams

4. Murder in the Mystery Suite (Book Retreat Mysteries, #1)

By: Ellery Adams

3.80

Format: 277 pages, Mass Market Paperback

WHO WOULD RESORT TO MURDER? Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia is the st… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"There were books everywhere. Hundreds of books. Thousands of books. There were books of every size, shape, and color. They lined the walls from floor to ceiling, standing straight and rigid as soldie…"

-Ellery Adams, Murder in the Mystery Suite (Book Retreat Mysteries, #1)

Cover of Fudge and Jury (A Bakeshop Mystery, #5) by Ellie Alexander

5. Fudge and Jury (A Bakeshop Mystery, #5)

By: Ellie Alexander

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Torte--a friendly, small-town family bakery where the pastries are delicious...and, now,… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction

6. A Crime of Passion Fruit (Bakeshop Mystery #6)

By: Ellie Alexander

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Torte--everybody's favorite small-town family bakeshop--is headed for the high seas, where murder i… read more

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7. 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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8. Edwin of the Iron Shoes

By: Marcia Muller

3.89

Format: 575 pages, Paperback

It's Sharon McCone's first case as staff investigator for All Souls Legal Cooperative. She knows no… read more

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9. On Thin Icing (A Bakeshop Mystery, #3)

By: Ellie Alexander

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Welcome to Torte-a small-town family bakeshop where the treats are killer good. It's the dead of w… read more

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10. Death on Tap (A Sloan Krause Mystery #1)

By: Ellie Alexander

4.11

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

When Sloan Krause walks in on her husband, Mac, screwing the barmaid, she gives him the boot. Sloan… read more

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11. Where Serpents Sleep (Sebastian St. Cyr, #4)

By: C.S. Harris

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Gard… read more

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12. Caught Bread Handed (A Bakeshop Mystery, #4)

By: Ellie Alexander

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to Torte--a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the oven is heating up as high as t… read more

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13. Dead to the Last Drop (Coffeehouse Mystery, #15)

By: Cleo Coyle

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Once Upon a Grindcomes a new, all-American mystery... … read more

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Cover of Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4) by Douglas Preston

14. Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)

By: Douglas Preston

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bests… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4) book and Donna Huston Murray's The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31) by Donna Leon

15. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

By: Donna Leon

4.09

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

Cover of The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24) by James  Patterson

16. The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)

By: James Patterson

4.13

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Trouble always finds the Women's Murder Club... Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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17. Loyalty

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zi… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) by Elly Griffiths

18. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

19. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

Cover of Another One Bites the Crust (A Bakeshop Mystery, #7) by Ellie Alexander

20. Another One Bites the Crust (A Bakeshop Mystery, #7)

By: Ellie Alexander

3.98

Format: 313 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Torte―the beloved small-town bakeshop run by Jules Capshaw―is set to hit the stage. But who would h… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Alexander's Another One Bites the Crust (A Bakeshop Mystery, #7) book and Donna Huston Murray's The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder in the First Edition (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #3) by Lauren  Elliott

21. Murder in the First Edition (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, #3)

By: Lauren Elliott

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Addie Greyborne is preparing for the holidays at her bookstore in seaside New England--but a winter… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1) by James  Patterson

22. Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

By: James Patterson

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and August Poe run the most in-demand private investigation firm in… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1) book and Donna Huston Murray's The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"In this quiet room, surrounded by tales of mystery and deception, she felt most like herself."

-James Patterson, Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

Cover of The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23) by Daniel Silva

23. The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)

By: Daniel Silva

4.38

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thi… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Silva's The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23) book and Donna Huston Murray's The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #3) by Vivien Chien

24. Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #3)

By: Vivien Chien

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious—unless it happens to be deadly. … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"My eyes rolled so far into my head, I thought I might flip over the back of the couch."

-Vivien Chien, Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #3)

"I tried to read his face for some type of emotion, but he had his detective hat on and that meant he was damn near emotionless."

-Vivien Chien, Murder Lo Mein (A Noodle Shop Mystery, #3)

Cover of The Unkindness of Ravens (Greer Hogan Mystery #1) by M.E. Hilliard

25. The Unkindness of Ravens (Greer Hogan Mystery #1)

By: M.E. Hilliard

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Librarian Greer Hogan matches wits with a deviously clever killer in M.E. Hilliard's chilling serie… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
"The manor ravens were on the move. One by one, they glided across the lawn and took up posts in the trees that fringed the property. It was rare to see so many at once. And what was that called? “Unk…"

-M.E. Hilliard, The Unkindness of Ravens (Greer Hogan Mystery #1)

Cover of Till Death Do Us Tart (A Bakeshop Mystery, #8) by Ellie Alexander

26. Till Death Do Us Tart (A Bakeshop Mystery, #8)

By: Ellie Alexander

4.07

Format: 284 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Torte―the small-town bakeshop no one can resist―is hosting a midsummer night’s wedding . . . where … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Shadow in the Glass (Greer Hogan Mystery #2) by M.E. Hilliard

27. Shadow in the Glass (Greer Hogan Mystery #2)

By: M.E. Hilliard

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Murder rocks a wedding celebration at an idyllic lakeside home—and librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Ho… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Live and Let Pie (A Bakeshop Mystery, #9) by Ellie Alexander

28. Live and Let Pie (A Bakeshop Mystery, #9)

By: Ellie Alexander

3.98

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Life is sweet once you step into Torte, everybody's favorite small-town bakeshop. But what happens … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Yule Be Dead (Victoria Square, #5) by Lorraine Bartlett

29. Yule Be Dead (Victoria Square, #5)

By: Lorraine Bartlett

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A Christmas crime shocks the merchants of a quaint shopping district in this latest installment of … read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) by Daniel Silva

30. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1) by Donna Huston Murray

31. The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1)

By: Donna Huston Murray

3.44

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

When her husband becomes headmaster of struggling Bryn Derwyn Academy, Ginger Barnes learns that mu… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction

23 must-read fiction books like The Main Line Is Murder (A Ginger Barnes Cozy Mystery, #1) by Donna Huston Murray

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Cold Betrayal (Ali Reynolds, #10)

J.A. Jance

4.08

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Cleo Coyle

3.56

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The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #1)

Ellery Adams

3.77

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Deborah Crombie

4.25

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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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Abraham Verghese

4.45

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