23 Best mystery books like The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1) by Douglas Skelton

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The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

By: Douglas Skelton

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste – after all, finding lost souls is …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1) by Douglas Skelton , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Dark Blood (Logan McRae, #6)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.12

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't happy to be part of the team helping convicted rapist Richard … read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's Dark Blood (Logan McRae, #6) book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
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2. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.76

Format: None pages,

Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II wa… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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3. Under Your Skin

By: Sabine Durrant

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this page-turning debut from talented crime writer Sabine Durrant, a woman makes a chilling disc… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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4. Blind Eye (Logan McRae, #5)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery
  • crime
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5. Close to the Bone (Logan McRae, #8)

By: Stuart MacBride

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

6. Laidlaw (Jack Laidlaw, #1)

By: William McIlvanney

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut i… read more

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7. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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8. Bloody January

By: None

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

When a teenage boy shoots a young woman dead in the middle of a busy Glasgow street and then commit… read more

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9. Shatter The Bones (Logan McRae, #7)

By: Stuart MacBride

5.00

Format: 29 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Cold Granite and Dark Blood, the new Logan McRae thriller takes a look at the te… read more

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10. One For the Ages (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #16)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.61

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

When a blood-soaked old man is spotted wandering through a sleepy fishing village in the far north … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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11. Eastgate (Robert Hoon Thrillers #4)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.63

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

Former Detective Superintendent, Bob Hoon, has had one hell of a year. After being repeatedly be… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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12. The Dead of Winter

By: Stuart MacBride

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be an easy job.All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dyi… read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's The Dead of Winter book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
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13. The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look li… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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14. The Holiday

By: T.M. Logan

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday - a group of f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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15. No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)

By: Lee Child

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a su… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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16. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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17. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
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18. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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19. Mrs England

By: Stacey Halls

3.91

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's Mrs England book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"

-Stacey Halls, Mrs England

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20. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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21. A Long Time Dead (The Misty Isle, #1)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

You can’t stay dead forever… A group of high school students gather on the Isle of Skye’s remote C… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Dalgliesh's A Long Time Dead (The Misty Isle, #1) book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
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22. Westward (Robert Hoon Thrillers, #3)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.54

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

All good men must come to an end.... Disgraced ex-cop Robert Hoon has crossed the wrong people for… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Kirk's Westward (Robert Hoon Thrillers, #3) book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Here Lie the Dead (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #15) by J.D. Kirk

23. Here Lie the Dead (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #15)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.57

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

Six months ago, a girl vanished. Now, it’s happening again. When the body of a teenager is disco… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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24. 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
Cover of The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20) by John Connolly

25. The Furies (Charlie Parker, #20)

By: John Connolly

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Chaos and murder arrive in Charlie Parker’s hometown of Portland, Maine, with two connected crimes … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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26. Nothing But The Truth

By: The Secret Barrister

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Just how do you become a barrister? Why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joinin… read more

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  • crime
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27. A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

By: Doug Johnstone

3.94

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Three generations of women from the Skelfs family take over the family funeral home and PI business… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"It's hard to stay alive, but sometimes it's the only choice we have."

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"There was no escaping this, she was part of it, linked to everyone here, everyone on the planet, drowning in sorrow, sinking in sadness, looking for a reason to keep going."

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"There were an infinite number of pathways your life could take. How do any of us really know what to do with our lives? And how, after seventy years, do we know whether it was all a waste of time?"

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

"It's about finding out who you are', he said eventually. He pointed out of the window. 'Without any distractions. Without anyone else getting in the way. Finding out what kind of person you want to b…"

-Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (The Skelfs, #1)

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28. The Nameless Ones (Charlie Parker, #19)

By: John Connolly

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Nameless Ones (Charlie Parker, #19) book and Douglas Skelton's The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Death of Remembrance (DCI Daley #10) by Denzil Meyrick

29. The Death of Remembrance (DCI Daley #10)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.36

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

The ghosts of the past will not be silenced. Glasgow, 1983, and a beat constable walks away from… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Buchan (DI Buchan #1) by Douglas Lindsay

30. Buchan (DI Buchan #1)

By: Douglas Lindsay

3.87

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A MYSTERY WRITTEN IN BLOOD The head of a literary publishing house is murdered, and Detective In… read more

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Cover of The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1) by Douglas Skelton

31. The Dead Don't Boogie (Dominic Queste, #1)

By: Douglas Skelton

4.07

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing teenage girl should be an easy job for Dominic Queste – after all, finding lost souls is … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

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Sabine Durrant

4.11

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Dead to Me (Hidden Norfolk #13)

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