12 best-selling crime books like No Medals for the Major by Margaret Yorke

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No Medals for the Major

By: Margaret Yorke

3.81

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Margaret Yorke was awarded the 1999 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. Major Johnson's army career was …

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Cover of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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2. Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

By: Lee Child

4.07

Format: 567 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his off… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think."

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to sa…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever the…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

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3. Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.87

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It see… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

4. The Casual Vacancy

By: J.K. Rowling

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pa… read more

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  • mystery
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5. A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Red-hot jazz meets cold-blooded murder. When Lord Pastern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Bre… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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6. From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.68

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Dazzling psychological suspense. Razor-sharp dialogue. Plots that catch and hold like a noose. Thes… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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7. Vanity Dies Hard

By: Ruth Rendell

3.44

Format: 220 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Wealthy Alice Whittaker -- now Alice Fielding -- is known for her generosity, and when her friend N… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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8. Devil's Work

By: Margaret Yorke

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Demon in My View

By: Ruth Rendell

3.82

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

She waits for him in the dark, her mind and body perfect, passive, until one day, when he goes to t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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10. The Crocodile Bird

By: Ruth Rendell

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British e… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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11. Bring on the Empty Horses

By: David Niven

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of t… read more

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12. Cause for Concern

By: Margaret Yorke , Yorke Margaret

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell

13. Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish foreve… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

14. Dancers in Mourning (Albert Campion Mystery #9)

By: Margery Allingham

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Sutane, London's favorite song-and-dance man, headlines at the Argosy Theater, where someone … read more

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15. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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16. The Tree of Hands

By: Ruth Rendell

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. Benet, stricken by the most grievous loss … read more

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17. Going Wrong

By: Ruth Rendell

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

In Rendell's evocative portrayal of West London, the slums of Notting Hill Gate and the mews houses… read more

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18. A Judgement in Stone

By: Ruth Rendell

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

What on earth could have provoked a modern day St. Valentine's Day massacre? On Valentine's Day, fo… read more

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19. The Small Hours of the Morning

By: Margaret Yorke

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lorna couldn't stop spying on Cecil Titmuss. His life was her idea of perfection - a loving family … read more

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20. The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in si… read more

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21. Kissing the Gunner's Daughter (Inspector Wexford, #15)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Investigating the murder of a socialite family, Inspector Wexford is forced to face his own deepest… read more

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22. A Place of Execution

By: Val McDermid

4.38

Format: 83 pages,

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23. Harm Done (Inspector Wexford, #18)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard fa… read more

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24. The Rooster Bar

By: John Grisham

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

#1New York Timesbestselling author John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm… read more

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25. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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26. Wham! George & Me

By: Andrew Ridgeley

4.04

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrate 40 years of WHAM! with the Sunday Times bestseller from one half of the world's most famo… read more

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27. Girl A

By: Abigail Dean

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in he… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Girl A,’ she said. ‘The girl who escaped. If anybody was going to make it, it was going to be you."

-Abigail Dean, Girl A

"I had loved JP in all of the ways that it’s unwise to love another person. Dido on the pyre. Antony in Alexandria. Bitch in heat."

-Abigail Dean, Girl A

"I wore tight, dark clothes, and a smile that I’d practised. Despite the showers and the CK One, I stank of somebody who might need saving, and men liked that best of all."

-Abigail Dean, Girl A

"I’ll never ask you to pity him,’ she said. ‘Only to understand him.’ We sat as we often did, in deadlock, each of us waiting for the other person to speak. ‘I ask you,’ she said, ‘because I think tha…"

-Abigail Dean, Girl A

Cover of No Medals for the Major by Margaret Yorke

28. No Medals for the Major

By: Margaret Yorke

3.81

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Margaret Yorke was awarded the 1999 CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger. Major Johnson's army career was … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

13 Best mystery books like No Medals for the Major by Margaret Yorke

Transform Your Habits

Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

Lee Child

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Murder Being Once Done (Inspector Wexford, #7)

Ruth Rendell

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Casual Vacancy

J.K. Rowling

3.96

Transform Your Habits

A Wreath for Rivera (Roderick Alleyn, #15)

Ngaio Marsh

3.00

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Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

Margery Allingham

3.96

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Pearls Before Swine (Albert Campion Mystery, #12)

Margery Allingham

3.99

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Striding Folly (Lord Peter Wimsey #15)

Dorothy L. Sayers , Elizabeth George , Janet Hitchman

3.99

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Miss Pym Disposes

Josephine Tey

4.36

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