17 must-read crime books like The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6) by Michael Russell

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The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

By: Michael Russell

4.36

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn Lo…

If you liked the crime plot in The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6) by Michael Russell , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Brunetti, #17)

By: Donna Leon

2.83

Format: 24 pages,

Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative port… read more

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2. Conspiracy (Giordano Bruno, #5)

By: S.J. Parris

4.24

Format: 185 pages,

PARIS, 1585 A KING WITHOUT AN HEIR Heretic-turned-spy Giordano Bruno arrives in Paris from London t… read more

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3. Merlin at War (DCI Frank Merlin, #3)

By: Mark Ellis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Summer 1941. Four violent deaths, French double agents, an escalating fraud case - DCI Frank Merlin… read more

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4. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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5. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14) by Bernard Cornwell

6. Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth cen… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe's Command (Sharpe, #14) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. The Insider (Solomon Vine, #2)

By: Matthew Richardson

4.20

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's mos… read more

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9. The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.51

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. The Monk (DS Cross Mysteries, #5)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.51

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

To find a murderer, you need a motive . . . THE DETECTIVE DS George Cross has always wondered w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. The Politician (DS Cross Mysteries, #4)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

A ransacked room. A dead politician. A burglary gone wrong – or a staged murder? THE DETECTIVE … read more

Similar categories in Tim Sullivan's The Politician (DS Cross Mysteries, #4) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Questions for a Dead Man (DSI William Lorimer, #20) by Alex Gray

15. Questions for a Dead Man (DSI William Lorimer, #20)

By: Alex Gray

4.31

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A MURDER, WHEN ALL YOU HAVE ARE QUESTIONS? ___________ When a prominent MSP go… read more

Similar categories in Alex Gray's Questions for a Dead Man (DSI William Lorimer, #20) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's Munich Wolf book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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17. Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)

By: S.J. Parris

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

Prague, 1588 A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundari… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Parris's Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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18. The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except for his past. An outsider himself, DS Geor… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.20

Format: 451 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, December 1939 As Germany goes to war, the Nazis tighten their terrifying grip. Paranoia … read more

Similar categories in Simon Scarrow's Blackout (Berlin Wartime Thriller #1) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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20. The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7)

By: Rory Clements

4.11

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo,… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's The English Führer (Tom Wilde #7) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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21. The Shortlist (DCI Lomond #2)

By: Andrew Raymond

4.23

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

This is one shortlist no writer wants to be on... When legendary crime novelist William MacRae i… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

22. The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

3.96

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Com… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Imagine always having to live with a hyphen dividing you!"

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"[B]ooks meant something different when we returned to them later, leavened by life."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

"We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don’t know whether to laugh or cry."

-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Committed (The Sympathizer, #2)

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23. Every Spy a Traitor (The Double Agent series Book 1)

By: Alex Gerlis

4.11

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

'Gerlis is at the top of his game' Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station 'Utterly gripping and sta… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Patient (DS Cross Mysteries, #3) by Tim  Sullivan

24. The Patient (DS Cross Mysteries, #3)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.56

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious suicide of a young woman. DS Georg… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Lost Boys (DS Cross Chronicles, #1) by Tim  Sullivan

25. The Lost Boys (DS Cross Chronicles, #1)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.37

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

An exclusive short story from the DS Cross Thriller series. DS George Cross's father, Raymond, alw… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1) by Mark Pryor

26. Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1)

By: Mark Pryor

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in a mystery series set in Paris during World Wa… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1) by Douglas     Jackson

27. Blood Roses (The Warsaw Quartet #1)

By: Douglas Jackson

4.35

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

As the Nazis roll into Warsaw, a serial killer is unleashed… September 1939. A city ruled by fear. … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Death, Lies and Otto: The eleventh Otto Fischer novel by Jim McDermott

28. Death, Lies and Otto: The eleventh Otto Fischer novel

By: Jim McDermott

4.44

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Berlin, March 1943. Poor Ahle is dead - they called it suicide, and closed the file before the phot… read more

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Cover of The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6) by Michael   Russell

29. The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

By: Michael Russell

4.36

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn Lo… read more

Similar categories in Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6) book and Michael Russell's The City Under Siege (Stefan Gillespie, #6)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
Cover of The Dead City (Stefan Gillespie Book 9) by Michael Russell

30. The Dead City (Stefan Gillespie Book 9)

By: Michael Russell

4.57

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

In this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germa… read more

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