11 must-read crime books like The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) by Colin Watson

Cover of The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) by Colin Watson

The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8)

By: Colin Watson

3.95

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Flaxborough has its share of fat-cat businessmen—‘wheels’ (in US gangster parlance)...Like the bras…

If you liked the crime plot in The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) by Colin Watson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

1. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages,

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more

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Cover of Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15) by John Dickson Carr

2. Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15)

By: John Dickson Carr

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée the mysterious newcomer to the village, Les… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

3. Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Noir, #4)

By: Malcolm Pryce

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

It's Christmas in Aberystwyth and a man wearing a red-and-white robe is found brutally murdered in … read more

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4. The Stretton Darknesse Mystery

By: Moray Dalton

4.27

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A capital tale… excellent’ The Times‘Absorbing’ The Daily Express First republication of this ultr… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Bedroom Window Murder: A 1940s 'Country House' Mystery (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 1) by Peter Zander-Howell

5. The Bedroom Window Murder: A 1940s 'Country House' Mystery (Chief Inspector Bryce Murder Mysteries Book 1)

By: Peter Zander-Howell

4.28

Format: None pages, None

It is 1949. Sir Francis Sherwood - WW1 hero, landowner, magistrate - is shot dead while standing at… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8) by Carol Carnac

6. Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

By: Carol Carnac

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An atmospheric holiday novel from one of the most consistently popular authors in the series, Carol… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

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8. Mrs Pargeter’s Plot (Mrs Pargeter #5)

By: Simon Brett

3.95

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow with a talent for solving mysteries. When life in Lo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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11. A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.50

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Co… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Butts are for rainwater, my little Baumkuchen"

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Perhaps we should all just accept the peculiarities of the world and the people in it."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"One doesn't have to toil to be enraged at the system that requires it of others. Unfairness and injustice affect us all."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

"Wherever I've been, people have thought I've been up to something nefarious," she said. "A single woman in possession of a profitable business must be in want of locking up."

-T.E. Kinsey, A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #10)

Cover of The Belvedere Murders (Heathcliff Lennox #11) by Karen Baugh Menuhin

12. The Belvedere Murders (Heathcliff Lennox #11)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Murder, Mystery and a dog, and cat, of distinction A dazzling ball in a rooftop ballroom in one … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. V2: A Novel of World War II

By: Robert Harris

3.91

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Fatherland and Munich comes a WWII thriller about a German rocket e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6) by Ellis Peters

14. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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15. Murder at Little Minton (Miss Busby #1)

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Busby Murder at Little Minton. Book One in the Miss Busby Series. A picturesque Cotswolds v… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories by Martin Edwards

16. The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories

By: Martin Edwards

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is pla… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Nice Class of Corpse (Mrs Pargeter, #1) by Simon Brett

17. A Nice Class of Corpse (Mrs Pargeter, #1)

By: Simon Brett

4.00

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Mrs Melita Pargeter, a vivacious widow whose mystery-solving talents come in handy when a murd… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Cornish Crime: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime) by Anthony Weymouth

18. Cornish Crime: An Inspector Treadgold Mystery (Merlin Classic Crime)

By: Anthony Weymouth

3.76

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

A motley group of guests arrive at Philleigh House in Cornwell for the weekend at the invitation of… read more

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Cover of Inspector Alan Grant Six Novels: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be Wise / The Daughter of Time / The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey

19. Inspector Alan Grant Six Novels: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be Wise / The Daughter of Time / The Singing Sands

By: Josephine Tey

4.22

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This volume contains six mystery novels by amazing British writer Elizabeth Mackintosh, who wrote u… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) by Colin Watson

20. The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8)

By: Colin Watson

3.95

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Flaxborough has its share of fat-cat businessmen—‘wheels’ (in US gangster parlance)...Like the bras… read more

Similar categories in Colin Watson's The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) book and Colin Watson's The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Mr. Fortune, Please by H.C. Bailey

21. Mr. Fortune, Please

By: H.C. Bailey

3.70

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

As successors to Sherlock Holmes there are no more than a handful of detectives in the great tradit… read more

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  • mystery

13 Best fiction books like The Naked Nuns (Flaxborough, #8) by Colin Watson

Transform Your Habits

Till Death Do Us Part (Dr. Gideon Fell, #15)

John Dickson Carr

3.83

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Crossed Skis (Julian Rivers #8)

Carol Carnac

3.88

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Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

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Mrs Pargeter’s Plot (Mrs Pargeter #5)

Simon Brett

3.95

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Death of Jezebel (Inspector Cockrill #4)

Christianna Brand

3.55

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The Plague Court Murders (Sir Henry Merrivale, #1)

Carter Dickson

3.84

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Green for Danger

Christianna Brand

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Suddenly at His Residence (Inspector Cockrill, #3)

Christianna Brand

3.56

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