20 Best crime books like The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4) by Sarah Ward

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The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

By: Sarah Ward

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The past won't stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshi…

If you liked the crime plot in The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4) by Sarah Ward , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Perfect

By: Rachel Joyce

3.57

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was in order to balance clock time with the movement of… read more

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  • fiction
  • british literature
"Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet."

-Rachel Joyce, Perfect

"No one knows how to be normal, Jim. We’re all just trying our best. Sometimes we don’t have to think about it and other times it’s like running after a bus that’s already halfway down the street."

-Rachel Joyce, Perfect

"Time was something altogether more fragmented than it had been before. It was like throwing a handful of feathers into the air and watching them drift. Moments no longer flowed from one to the other."

-Rachel Joyce, Perfect

"Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she’d …"

-Rachel Joyce, Perfect

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2. Exile (Garnethill, #2)

By: Denise Mina

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Trying to escape her own troubled past and the memories of her lover's murder, Maureen O'Donnell fi… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Exile (Garnethill, #2) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Garnethill (Garnethill #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Maureen O'Donnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of he… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Garnethill (Garnethill #1) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjordur: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible o… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

5. The Silence of the Sea (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #6)

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

4.08

Format: 581 pages, Paperback

An abandoned yacht, a young family missing - chilling crime from the queen of Nordic Noir. The most… read more

Similar categories in Yrsa Sigurdardottir's The Silence of the Sea (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #6) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

6. The Burning (Maeve Kerrigan, #1)

By: Jane Casey

4.12

Format: 440 pages,

A determined young police constable goes it alone against an enigmatic killer and her bosses in a s… read more

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7. The Reckoning (Maeve Kerrigan, #2)

By: Jane Casey

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Described by The Irish Times as "a well-crafted mystery," The Reckoning sees Detective Constable Ma… read more

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8. 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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9. The Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.65

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Brighton, 1950. When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Step… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto, #1) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

10. A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsey, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - unti… read more

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11. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

Similar categories in John Boyne's Earth book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • fiction
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13. 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 Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • fiction
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15. They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story

By: Peter James

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world' - Lee ChildPete… read more

Similar categories in Peter James's They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. The Less Dead

By: Denise Mina

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Margot is having a thirtysomething crisis: She's burning out at work, a public-health practice; she… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's The Less Dead book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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17. The Killing Place (D.I. Wesley Peterson, #27)

By: Kate Ellis

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES November. With the tourist seaso… read more

Similar categories in Kate Ellis's The Killing Place (D.I. Wesley Peterson, #27) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. The Dark (Lacey Flint, #5)

By: Sharon J. Bolton

4.20

Format: None pages, ebook

ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE... NOW, HE'LL TAKE HERS. When a baby is snatched from its pram and ca… read more

Similar categories in Sharon J. Bolton's The Dark (Lacey Flint, #5) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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19. Fragile

By: Sarah Hilary

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Everything she touches breaks . . . Nell Ballard is a runaway. A former foster child with a dark… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hilary's Fragile book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. The Hawkshead Hostage: The must-read English cozy crime series (Lake District Mysteries Book 5)

By: Rebecca Tope

3.65

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer has come to the Lake District town of Windermere, where Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown runs her own… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Tope's The Hawkshead Hostage: The must-read English cozy crime series (Lake District Mysteries Book 5) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • british literature
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21. The Gathering Storm (Detective Shona Oliver #4)

By: Lynne McEwan

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Shona Oliver’s past and present collide when James McGowan, her ex-classmate – now a famous acto… read more

Similar categories in Lynne McEwan's The Gathering Storm (Detective Shona Oliver #4) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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22. The Accident

By: Katie McMahon

3.63

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

All it takes is a spilt second for everything to change forever. Imogen has always wanted to be … read more

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23. Those People

By: Louise Candlish

3.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense … read more

Similar categories in Louise Candlish's Those People book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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24. Do Not Disturb

By: Claire Douglas

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of The Sisters, Local Girl Missing and Last Seen Alive, comes a taut … read more

Similar categories in Claire Douglas's Do Not Disturb book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry

3.89

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

The answers to a puzzle lie hidden within an old book. Open The Birdcage Library and let the treasu… read more

Similar categories in Freya Berry's The Birdcage Library book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. Tell Me Your Secret

By: Dorothy Koomson

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Pieta has a secret. Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder wh… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

Similar categories in Alan Davies's Just Ignore Him book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • british literature
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

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28. End of Story

By: Louise Swanson

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Too much imagination can be a dangerous thing It's the year 2035 and fiction has been banned b… read more

Similar categories in Louise Swanson's End of Story book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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29. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Silent Night (Paige Northwood, #2) by Nell Pattison

30. Silent Night (Paige Northwood, #2)

By: Nell Pattison

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The next sensational mystery from the author of The Silent House. What happened while they were … read more

Similar categories in Nell Pattison's Silent Night (Paige Northwood, #2) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4) by Sarah  Ward

31. The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

By: Sarah Ward

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The past won't stay buried forever. November, 1957: Six teenage girls walk in the churning Derbyshi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4) book and Sarah Ward's The Shrouded Path (DC Connie Childs, #4)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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Rachel Joyce

3.57

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Exile (Garnethill, #2)

Denise Mina

3.65

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Garnethill (Garnethill #1)

Denise Mina

3.65

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Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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David Nicholls

4.08

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