13 must-read crime books like Faculty of Murder by June Wright

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Faculty of Murder

By: June Wright

3.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Faculty of Murder is set at Brigid Moore Hall, a girls' hostel in the University of Melbourne, wher…

If you liked the crime plot in Faculty of Murder by June Wright , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Shadow District: A Thriller

By: Arnaldur Indriðason

4.18

Format: 407 pages,

A deeply compassionate story of old crimes and their consequences, The Shadow District is the first… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fans of Jacqueline Winspear, Laurie R. King, and Anne Perry, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it…"

-Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)

3. The Sands of Windee (Bony, #2)

By: Arthur W. Upfield

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

The Sands of Windee (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery Series #2) - No one but Inspector Napoleo… read more

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4. Murder has a Motive (Mordecai Tremaine Mystery #2)

By: Francis Duncan

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for C… read more

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5. So Pretty a Problem

By: Francis Duncan

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for C… read more

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6. Tamarack County (Cork O'Connor, #13)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Violence and murder blow into Minnesota's sleepy Tamarack County as ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor return… read more

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7. The Summer House Party

By: Caro Fraser

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group of people meet at a country house party. Within three… read more

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8. The Bone is Pointed (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, #6)

By: Arthur W. Upfield

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse a… read more

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9. The Pig Did It

By: Joseph Caldwell

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A poster pig, a pig of evil and redemption, and shall we go so far as to say a Pig of Peace? Why no… read more

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10. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23) by Alexander McCall Smith

12. A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi enco… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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14. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.11

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more

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16. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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17. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. The Bookshop of Second Chances

By: Jackie Fraser

3.58

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Thea Mottram is having a bad month. Her husband of nearly twenty years has just left her for one of… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Magpie Lane

By: Lucy Atkins

3.97

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, p… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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21. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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22. The Woman in the Library

By: Sulari Gentill

3.51

Format: 292 pages, ebook

In every person's story, there is something to hide... The ornate reading room at the Boston Pub… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"I am a bricklayer without drawings, laying words in sentences, sentences into paragraphs, allowing my walls to twist and turn on whim...no framework...just bricks interlocked...no idea what I'm build…"

-Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library

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23. The Sweet Remnants of Summer (Isabel Dalhousie, #14)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a new novel from a beloved and bestselling author, our favorite moral philosopher is caught up i… read more

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

24. 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
  • crime
  • 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)

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25. A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

By: Ashley Weaver

3.99

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"This, I thought, was perhaps the ultimate symbol of the decadently rich, huge amounts of space devoted to nothing in particular."

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

"I didn't have time to marvel at this exceptionally efficient tousling before his mouth found mine. The kissing was done as he did everything else—thoroughly and extremely competently."

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

"I looked up at Major Ramsey. I could almost see the various scenarios flashing across his eyes as he considered his options. Then, he leaned toward me so close, his lips were almost touching my cheek…"

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

Cover of The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16) by Alexander McCall Smith

26. The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.08

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, A… read more

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  • fiction
"He loved Elspeth so much, and he hoped that she knew it. Yet it occurred to him that she might not be sure of that because he had not told her – or at least he had not told her recently. Wives and hu…"

-Alexander McCall Smith, The Enigma of Garlic (44 Scotland Street, #16)

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

27. 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
  • crime
  • 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)

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28. 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
  • fiction
Cover of Three Can Keep a Secret (Greer Hogan Mystery #3) by M.E. Hilliard

29. Three Can Keep a Secret (Greer Hogan Mystery #3)

By: M.E. Hilliard

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The library is no safe haven in this taut, tense mystery perfect for fans of Louise Penny and Elly… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

30. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. Faculty of Murder

By: June Wright

3.74

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Faculty of Murder is set at Brigid Moore Hall, a girls' hostel in the University of Melbourne, wher… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

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4.18

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3.74

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Naomi Alderman

3.81

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Vaseem Khan

4.05

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Vaseem Khan

3.70

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Vaseem Khan

4.08

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Anthony Horowitz

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