17 must-read crime books like The Body in the Library by Michael Bakewell

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The Body in the Library

By: Michael Bakewell

3.87

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth, Mi…

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Cover of Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5) by Ben Aaronovitch

1. Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.20

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

In the fifth of his bestselling series Ben Aaronovitch takes Peter Grant out of whatever comfort zo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But . . ."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

"There's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact that you're making it up as you go along."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

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2. The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.10

Format: 144 pages, ebook

There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't ask why anybody would want to risk the electric two-step on the tracks because, as police, all three of us knew that there wasn't anything so stupid that somebody wouldn't try it sooner or l…"

-Ben Aaronovitch, The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)

Cover of The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2) by M.C. Beaton

3. The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.73

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

Feisty Agatha Raisin, former London PR exec, retired to quiet Cotswold village. Handsome vet Paul B… read more

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  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I don't like children, said Lord Pendlebury petulantly. 'Too many of them. Go away."

-M.C. Beaton, The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

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4. Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The song. That’s what apprentice wizard and London Metropolitan Police Constable Peter Grant fi… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

" Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards , I thought. For they are soggy and hard to light. "

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

"It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

Cover of Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4) by Ian Fleming

5. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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6. Sparkling Cyanide

By: Agatha Christie , Joy Wilkinson , Peter Wight , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Audio CD

"'There's Rosemary, that's for remembrance." Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanideis all about reme… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Towards Zero by Agatha Christie, Hugh Bonneville, Joy Wilkinson, None, None

7. Towards Zero

By: Agatha Christie , Hugh Bonneville , Joy Wilkinson , None , None

4.20

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull's Point. Against her be… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. How Does Your Garden Grow? and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

2.00

Format: 238 pages,

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Crooked House

By: Agatha Christie , Phil Davis , Rory Kinnear , Joy Wilkinson , Anna Maxwell Martin

4.22

Format: None pages, Audio CD

With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Le… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

10. The £199 Adventure

By: Agatha Christie , Mike Stott

4.50

Format: 182 pages, Audiobook

A middle-aged man in search of adventure, Bobby Roberts answers an advert in The Times and is dispa… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

11. The Witness for the Prosecution: A Short Story

By: Agatha Christie

4.33

Format: 25 pages,

Previously published in the print anthologies The Witness for The Prosecution and Other Storiesand … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Shadow Over Innsmouth

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures rese… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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13. The Hound of Death

By: Agatha Christie

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Twelve unexplained phenomena with no apparent earthly explanation, including a dog-shaped gunpowder… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • crime
  • fiction

14. Odds Against (Sid Halley, #1)

By: Dick Francis

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Former hotshot jockey Sid Halley landed a position with a detective agency, only to catch a bullet … read more

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15. Agatha's First Case

By: M.C. Beaton

3.67

Format: 350 pages,

At age twenty six, Agatha Raisin has already come a long way. She has clawed her way up since leavi… read more

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16. And Then There Were None

By: Agatha Christie , John Rowe , Geoffrey Whitehead , None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Audiobook

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U. N. Owen. All are strangers, bu… read more

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17. The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his acci… read more

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18. The Hanging Tree (Peter Grant, #6)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Hardcover

The Hanging Tree was the Tyburn gallows which stood where Marble Arch stands today. Oxford Street w… read more

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19. 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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20. Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

By: Ian Fleming

3.80

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

‘For several minutes he stood speechless, his eyes dazzled by the terrible beauty of the greatest w… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

"And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger."

-Ian Fleming, Moonraker (James Bond, #3)

21. 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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22. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more

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23. Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.16

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

A mutilated body in Crawley. Another killer on the loose. The prime suspect is one Robert Weil; an … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)

"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)

"This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it"

-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)

"I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes (Rivers of London, #4)

24. Endless Night

By: Agatha Christie , Joy Wilkinson , None , None

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Audio CD

"Some are born to sweet delight/Some are born to endless night." --William Blake Agatha Christie wr… read more

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25. The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.00

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Trier is famous for wine, Romans and for being Germany’s oldest city. So when a man is found dead w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Das Leben ist zu kurz, um schlechten Wein zu trinken. - Quoted from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"

-Ben Aaronovitch, The October Man (Rivers of London, #7.5)

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26. Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . . Martin Chorley, ak… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"A sense of powerlessness can seriously exacerbate stress,"

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"The kitchen was the kind of brushed steel monstrosity that looks more like it's designed to weaponise viruses than cook dinner."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

"Here's a comforting thought for you, Peter,' he said. 'However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London, #7)

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27. What Abigail Did That Summer (Rivers of London, #5.3)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.24

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ghost hunter, fox whisperer, troublemaker. It is the summer of 2013 and Abigail Kamara has been … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin, #3) by M.C. Beaton

28. The Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin, #3)

By: M.C. Beaton

3.80

Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition

Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely an… read more

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  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Ordeal by Innocence: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation

By: Joy Wilkinson

3.64

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A brand-new BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Agatha Christie s novel, known to be a favorite among her own… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Body in the Library

By: Michael Bakewell

3.87

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth, Mi… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like The Body in the Library by Michael Bakewell

Transform Your Habits

Foxglove Summer (Rivers of London, #5)

Ben Aaronovitch

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Furthest Station (Rivers of London, #5.5)

Ben Aaronovitch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin, #2)

M.C. Beaton

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Moon Over Soho (Rivers of London, #2)

Ben Aaronovitch

4.08

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Transform Your Habits

Fated (Alex Verus, #1)

Benedict Jacka

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Chosen (Alex Verus, #4)

Benedict Jacka

4.16

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Hidden (Alex Verus, #5)

Benedict Jacka

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Bound (Alex Verus, #8)

Benedict Jacka

4.11

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