21 Best crime books like Fault Lines by Doug Johnstone

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Fault Lines

By: Doug Johnstone

3.56

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new vo…

If you liked the crime plot in Fault Lines by Doug Johnstone , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Too Good To Be True (Shetland Island, #6.2) by Ann Cleeves

1. Too Good To Be True (Shetland Island, #6.2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.84

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Too Good To Be True (Shetland Island, #6.2) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Green Woods Laugh by H.E. Bates

2. When the Green Woods Laugh

By: H.E. Bates

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'When the Green Woods Laugh' was the third in a series of five immensely popular comic novels featu… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Bates's When the Green Woods Laugh book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
Cover of Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3) by Mick Herron

3. Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.05

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

When Tim Whitby checks into a hotel, he's not intending to check out again — but then he meets Katr… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Women choose men hoping they'll change. Men choose women hoping they won't."

-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

"Don't. Don't do anything. Just go. Now." It was always possible that if you very quickly told a man four times to do something, he'd get the message."

-Mick Herron, Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

4. Long Time Coming

By: Robert Goddard

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goddard's Long Time Coming book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

5. The Grave Tattoo

By: Val McDermid

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Val McDermid comes a modern thriller about an ancient murder set on the hig… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's The Grave Tattoo book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

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6. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Bookseller of Inverness book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

Similar categories in Bernie Taupin's Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • audiobook
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8. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

Similar categories in John O'Farrell's Family Politics book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
Cover of The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10) by Jane Casey

11. The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10)

By: Jane Casey

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with prist… read more

Similar categories in Jane Casey's The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19) by J.D. Kirk

12. Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.59

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the pulse-pounding new thriller from multi-million selling Scottish crime fiction author… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Kirk's Where the Pieces Lie (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 19) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) by Kate Mosse

13. The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.05

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Next in the #1 Sunday Times bestselling series, New York Times bestselling author Kate Mosse return… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mosse's The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1) by Denzil Meyrick

14. Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1)

By: Denzil Meyrick

3.64

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A village of secrets It's December 1952, and a dead stranger has been found lodged up the chimney … read more

Similar categories in Denzil Meyrick's Murder at Holly House (Frank Grasby Mystery, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dead Man Walking (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #18) by J.D. Kirk

15. A Dead Man Walking (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #18)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.35

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A remote Highland castle. A dark and stormy night. A murder most haunting. It’s Halloween, and when… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Kirk's A Dead Man Walking (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers #18) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Chamber

By: Will Dean

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller t… read more

Similar categories in Will Dean's The Chamber book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Beaver Theory (The Rabbit Factor series Book 3)

By: Antti Tuomainen

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Can everyone' s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world … read more

Similar categories in Antti Tuomainen's The Beaver Theory (The Rabbit Factor series Book 3) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Calico

By: Lee Goldberg

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigat… read more

Similar categories in Lee Goldberg's Calico book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Safe Hands (DCI Anna Tate, #1) by J.P. Carter

19. In Safe Hands (DCI Anna Tate, #1)

By: J.P. Carter

4.26

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to save the ones you love? The first book in a stunning new crime series featu… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Carter's In Safe Hands (DCI Anna Tate, #1) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. Death Writes (Inishowen Mysteries, #6)

By: Andrea Carter

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A local author dies on stage at a literary festival. Ben O' Keeffe has to sort through his complica… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Carter's Death Writes (Inishowen Mysteries, #6) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bitter Edge (DI Kelly Porter, #4) by Rachel Lynch

21. Bitter Edge (DI Kelly Porter, #4)

By: Rachel Lynch

4.39

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Kelly Porter is back, but so is an old foe and this time he won’t back down... When a teenage… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynch's Bitter Edge (DI Kelly Porter, #4) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Where the Innocent Die (DI Ridpath #4)

By: M.J. Lee

4.44

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious death, and a foe he never could have imagined... A woman dies under suspicious circ… read more

Similar categories in M.J. Lee's Where the Innocent Die (DI Ridpath #4) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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23. The Suspect

By: Rob Rinder

3.96

Format: 400 pages, ebook

**THE GRIPPING SECOND NOVEL FROM ROB RINDER AND FOLLOW-UP TO NO. 1 BESTSELLER THE TRIAL**When Hanna… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Suspect book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Man in Black: Stories

By: Elly Griffiths

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Man in Black: Stories book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. The Cuillin Dead (The Misty Isle, #4)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.43

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is full of choices. Death... is chosen for you...When the body of a missing tourist is discove… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Dalgliesh's The Cuillin Dead (The Misty Isle, #4) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fault Lines by Doug Johnstone

26. Fault Lines

By: Doug Johnstone

3.56

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new vo… read more

Similar categories in Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The School Friend by Alison  James

27. The School Friend

By: Alison James

3.97

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

I’m Lucy, and I have a secret. I have a beautiful home, that I’m desperate to escape. But that’s … read more

Similar categories in Alison James's The School Friend book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tomb for an Eagle (Orkneyinga Murders #1) by Lexie Conyngham

28. Tomb for an Eagle (Orkneyinga Murders #1)

By: Lexie Conyngham

4.13

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him. Thorfinn Sigurda… read more

Similar categories in Lexie Conyngham's Tomb for an Eagle (Orkneyinga Murders #1) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • mystery
  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Stained with Blood (DCI Tom Raven, #7) by M.S. Morris

29. Stained with Blood (DCI Tom Raven, #7)

By: M.S. Morris

4.56

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

A battle. A killing. An echo of history.Scarborough Castle, high on the headland, is the picturesqu… read more

Similar categories in M.S. Morris's Stained with Blood (DCI Tom Raven, #7) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • audiobook
Cover of Burn it All Down (DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 7) by T.G. Reid

30. Burn it All Down (DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 7)

By: T.G. Reid

4.47

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

If you play with fire...When fire crews are called to a blaze at the home of a Kilwinnoch GP they m… read more

Similar categories in T.G. Reid's Burn it All Down (DCI Bone Scottish Crime Thrillers Book 7) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • mystery
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31. The Black Loch (Lewis Trilogy, #4)

By: Peter May

4.37

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY'S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILO… read more

Similar categories in Peter May's The Black Loch (Lewis Trilogy, #4) book and Doug Johnstone's Fault Lines

  • suspense
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Ann Cleeves

3.84

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When the Green Woods Laugh

H.E. Bates

4.13

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Why We Die (The Oxford Investigations, #3)

Mick Herron

4.05

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S.G. MacLean

4.08

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M.C. Beaton

3.83

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E. Nesbit

4.02

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Rosamunde Pilcher

3.85

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