14 best-selling mystery books like Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9) by Ralph McInerny

Cover of Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9) by Ralph McInerny

Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

By: Ralph McInerny

3.49

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Howard Downs' acquittal for the murder of his wife and subsequent arrest for the murder of his lawy…

If you liked the mystery plot in Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9) by Ralph McInerny , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Blindman's Bluff (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #18) by Faye Kellerman

1. Blindman's Bluff (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #18)

By: Faye Kellerman

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. Someo… read more

Similar categories in Faye Kellerman's Blindman's Bluff (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #18) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Just Plain Pickled to Death (Pennsylvania Dutch, #4) by Tamar Myers

3. Just Plain Pickled to Death (Pennsylvania Dutch, #4)

By: Tamar Myers

2.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

A well-preserved corpse A twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't Mag… read more

Similar categories in Tamar Myers's Just Plain Pickled to Death (Pennsylvania Dutch, #4) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Missing (Seasons of Grace, #2) by Beverly Lewis

4. The Missing (Seasons of Grace, #2)

By: Beverly Lewis

2.43

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • fiction

5. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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6. Milk and Honey (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #3)

By: Faye Kellerman

3.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves… read more

Similar categories in Faye Kellerman's Milk and Honey (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus, #3) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

7. The Dead Shall be Raised and Murder of a Quack

By: George Bellairs

3.87

Format: 288 pages,

Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard u… read more

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8. Triple Witch (Home Repair is Homicide, #2)

By: Sarah Graves

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity--and her son, Sam--the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seaco… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Graves's Triple Witch (Home Repair is Homicide, #2) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

9. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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10. Stormy Weather

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Stormy Weather book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

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11. The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James , Patricia Crick

3.79

Format: 797 pages, Paperback

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more

Similar categories in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

"She has only one fault; too many ideas."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."

-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

12. Liar's Key (Sharpe & Donovan, #6)

By: Carla Neggers

5.00

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma … read more

Similar categories in Carla Neggers's Liar's Key (Sharpe & Donovan, #6) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

Cover of The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) by Ann Cleeves

13. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.05

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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14. The Seamstress of New Orleans

By: Diane C. McPhail

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of the first all-female Mardi Gras krewe at the turn-of-the-century, the a… read more

Similar categories in Diane C. McPhail's The Seamstress of New Orleans book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Now, do you want a poppy?"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Isn’t that momentous? Women! A krewe of women. Turning the tide on men! We are making history here. Yes, this moment! Making history."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"She picked up the wide sleeve and studied the beading: imitation pearls and small rhinestones interspersed with a few of glistening colors: watery blue and aqua, palest rose and coral."

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

"Beauty had emerged from her mother’s fingertips, her nimble use of needle and bright-colored thread. Beauty had lain in what sort of stitch could marry two scraps on a quilt and what other stitch mir…"

-Diane C. McPhail, The Seamstress of New Orleans

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15. Belgravia

By: Julian Fellowes

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and… read more

Similar categories in Julian Fellowes's Belgravia book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • fiction
"I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart."

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an invest…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible unti…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

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16. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Adlington's The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

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17. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Haven book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

Cover of The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) by Anne Hillerman

18. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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19. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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20. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

Similar categories in Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • fiction
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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21. The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

3.87

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • fiction
Cover of Killer on the Court (Murder She Wrote, #55) by Jessica Fletcher

22. Killer on the Court (Murder She Wrote, #55)

By: Jessica Fletcher

3.95

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

Jessica is delighted when her nephew Grady invites her to spend a few days with his family in an oc… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Fletcher's Killer on the Court (Murder She Wrote, #55) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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23. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

Similar categories in John Le Carré's Agent Running in the Field book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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24. The Last Garden in England

By: Julia Kelly

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes… read more

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  • fiction
"Each new garden is like an unread book, its pages brimming with possibility."

-Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

Cover of Fallen (Kate Burkholder, #13) by Linda  Castillo

25. Fallen (Kate Burkholder, #13)

By: Linda Castillo

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen , a rebellious Amish woma… read more

Similar categories in Linda Castillo's Fallen (Kate Burkholder, #13) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Twisted Tea Christmas (A Tea Shop Mystery, #23) by Laura Childs

26. Twisted Tea Christmas (A Tea Shop Mystery, #23)

By: Laura Childs

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An attack on the host of a fancy tea party sends Theodosia Browning looking for answers in the late… read more

Similar categories in Laura Childs's Twisted Tea Christmas (A Tea Shop Mystery, #23) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. A History of Burning

By: Janika Oza

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more

Similar categories in Janika Oza's A History of Burning book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • fiction
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

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28. The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1)

By: Allison Montclair

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

First comes love, then comes murder.In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very diffe… read more

Similar categories in Allison Montclair's The Right Sort of Man (Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery #1) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Matter of Hive and Death (An Oregon Honeycomb Mystery) by Nancy CoCo

29. A Matter of Hive and Death (An Oregon Honeycomb Mystery)

By: Nancy CoCo

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When a bee wrangler is bludgeoned, Let It Bee honey shop owner Wren Johnson makes it her beeswax to… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9) by Ralph McInerny

30. Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

By: Ralph McInerny

3.49

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Howard Downs' acquittal for the murder of his wife and subsequent arrest for the murder of his lawy… read more

Similar categories in Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9) book and Ralph McInerny's Getting a Way with Murder (Father Dowling, #9)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) by Mick Herron

31. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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3.76

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Just Plain Pickled to Death (Pennsylvania Dutch, #4)

Tamar Myers

2.50

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Kristin Harmel

4.20

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Kristin Hannah

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Kate Morton

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