10 Top detective books like A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) by Catriona McPherson

Cover of A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) by Catriona McPherson

A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

By: Catriona McPherson

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on V…

If you liked the detective plot in A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) by Catriona McPherson , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) by Alan Bradley

1. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

By: Alan Bradley

3.99

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family.… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Feminine intuition is no more than an acceptable excuse for female brains."

-Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

"Gorging on sweets together creates as strong a bond between two people as being in love."

-Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

"To those of us who truly love one another, the occasional flaming fib serves only to strengthen the ties."

-Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

"The possibilities seemed endless, which made it all the more exciting, since possibilities are so much more thrilling than certainties -- or so I've always thought."

-Alan Bradley, The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

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2. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple, #11) by Carola Dunn

3. Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple, #11)

By: Carola Dunn

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

Daisy Dalrymple, now wed to DCI Alec Fletcher, spends 1923 Christmas at Cornwall with distant relat… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple, #11) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple, #2) by Carola Dunn

4. The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple, #2)

By: Carola Dunn

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

England 1923. Plucky Daisy Dalrymple takes another Town and Country magazine assignment, to write u… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple, #2) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) by Ngaio Marsh

5. A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.80

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor … read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's A Man Lay Dead (Roderick Alleyn, #1) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) by Josephine Tey

6. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)

By: Josephine Tey

3.95

Format: None pages,

Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant is intrigued by a portrait of Richard III. Could such a sensitiv… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Damsel in Distress (Daisy Dalrymple, #5) by Carola Dunn

7. Damsel in Distress (Daisy Dalrymple, #5)

By: Carola Dunn

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Daisy Dalrymple, magazine writer and heiress, helps her pal Philip Petrie, whose sweetheart Gloria … read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Damsel in Distress (Daisy Dalrymple, #5) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple, #1) by Carola Dunn

8. Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple, #1)

By: Carola Dunn

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

6 parts 6 hours 38 minutes This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners bac… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple, #1) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

9. Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple, #6)

By: Carola Dunn

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Daisy Dalrymple visits relatives with fiance DCI Alec Fletcher, and covers the 1923 Henley Royal Re… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Dead in the Water (Daisy Dalrymple, #6) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

10. Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple, #7)

By: Carola Dunn

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Daisy Dalrymple, accompanied by fiance Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-i… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple, #7) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

11. Mrs Pargeter's Principle (Mrs Pargeter, #7)

By: Simon Brett

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

For Mrs Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's un… read more

Similar categories in Simon Brett's Mrs Pargeter's Principle (Mrs Pargeter, #7) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

12. To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple, #9)

By: Carola Dunn

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

With the peal of wedding bells still ringing in their ears, Daisy Dalrymple and her new husband, De… read more

Similar categories in Carola Dunn's To Davy Jones Below (Daisy Dalrymple, #9) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

Cover of An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7) by Deanna Raybourn

13. An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.09

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell g… read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Within a month the ring was gone, pawned to pay a debt, and I realized what I had done. I had shackled myself to a man who could not be trusted, upon whom I could never truly depend. Too late, I unde…"

-Deanna Raybourn, An Impossible Impostor (Veronica Speedwell, #7)

Cover of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) by Sophie Hannah

14. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1) by L.J. Ross

15. Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1)

By: L.J. Ross

4.01

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan retreats to Holy Island seeking sanctuary when he is forced to take … read more

Similar categories in L.J. Ross's Holy Island (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #1) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder by Candlelight by Faith Martin

16. Murder by Candlelight

By: Faith Martin

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish… read more

Similar categories in Faith Martin's Murder by Candlelight book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard  Coles

17. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • detective
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

18. 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

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"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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19. 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 Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

20. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3) by Sophie Hannah

21. The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.69

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot, the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"When justice is deliberately distorted and denied harm is done."

-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)

"I've had no practice at talking to famous detectives in my own kitchen."

-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)

"How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer."

-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)

"I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met."

-Sophie Hannah, The Mystery of Three Quarters (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #3)

Cover of Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Muñoz

22. Suddenly a Murder

By: Lauren Muñoz

3.65

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. On… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Muñoz's Suddenly a Murder book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

Cover of A Secret Garden Affair by Erica James

23. A Secret Garden Affair

By: Erica James

4.19

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

July 1981. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles’ wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants … read more

Similar categories in Erica James's A Secret Garden Affair book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Death and the Decorator (A Fethering Mystery Book 21) by Simon Brett

24. Death and the Decorator (A Fethering Mystery Book 21)

By: Simon Brett

3.87

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

Neighbours Carole and Jude uncover more than they bargained for when Jude decides to redecorate her… read more

Similar categories in Simon Brett's Death and the Decorator (A Fethering Mystery Book 21) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Home Stretch by Graham Norton

25. Home Stretch

By: Graham Norton

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner” (Sunday Times), the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Graham Norton's Home Stretch book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) by Jacqueline Winspear

26. The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.32

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” (Parade), investigates the myst… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
"The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth—unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

"People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The American Agent (Maisie Dobbs, #15)

Cover of The Clutter Corpse (Decluttering Mysteries #1) by Simon Brett

27. The Clutter Corpse (Decluttering Mysteries #1)

By: Simon Brett

3.45

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Watching Ellen investigate... on her own is thoroughly fascinating. Brett fans, along with readers … read more

Similar categories in Simon Brett's The Clutter Corpse (Decluttering Mysteries #1) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Mrs Pargeter's Public Relations (Mrs Pargeter #8) by Simon Brett

28. Mrs Pargeter's Public Relations (Mrs Pargeter #8)

By: Simon Brett

4.10

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow with a talent for solving mysteries. Accompanying he… read more

Similar categories in Simon Brett's Mrs Pargeter's Public Relations (Mrs Pargeter #8) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • detective
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder at the Castle (Exham on Sea Mysteries #6) by Frances Evesham

29. Murder at the Castle (Exham on Sea Mysteries #6)

By: Frances Evesham

4.14

Format: 140 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s hot on the trail of the castle killer when disaster strikes close to home.The ancient calm of… read more

Similar categories in Frances Evesham's Murder at the Castle (Exham on Sea Mysteries #6) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • detective
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) by Catriona McPherson

30. A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

By: Catriona McPherson

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on V… read more

Similar categories in Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) book and Catriona McPherson's A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • historical
  • cozy mystery
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime

26 Best fiction books like A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver, #13) by Catriona McPherson

Transform Your Habits

The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (Flavia de Luce, #9)

Alan Bradley

3.99

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The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

Agatha Christie

3.98

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Mistletoe and Murder (Daisy Dalrymple, #11)

Carola Dunn

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple, #2)

Carola Dunn

3.77

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21 best-selling fiction books like A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard Coles

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Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

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

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

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Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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