5 Best short stories books like Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021 by Lee Child

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Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021

By: Lee Child

3.73

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee the twenty finest short stories of 2021. There is no finer f…

If you liked the short stories plot in Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021 by Lee Child , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2) by Ellis Peters

1. One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 214 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Perhaps thought really is prayer."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"So, wonder! I also wonder about you," said Cadfael mildly. "Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?"

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

"The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form we expect and demand."

-Ellis Peters, One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

Cover of Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12) by James Grippando

2. Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12)

By: James Grippando

4.04

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disapp… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

3. Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"... обнадеждена безнадеждност..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Всяко нещо струва толкова, за колкото може да се купи."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"... да се прокрадва крадешком и да се мотае мотешком..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

"Госпожица Уилоуби не обичаше провинцията. Намираше я за провинциална."

-P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

Cover of Sheer Folly (Daisy Dalrymple, #18) by Carola Dunn

4. Sheer Folly (Daisy Dalrymple, #18)

By: Carola Dunn

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy aka Lady Gerald, vi… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Angle of Investigation (Harry Bosch #16.2) by Michael    Connelly

5. Angle of Investigation (Harry Bosch #16.2)

By: Michael Connelly

2.50

Format: 32 pages,

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch tackles three tough cases that span a legendary career in this never-bef… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction

6. Betrayal of Trust (J.P. Beaumont, #20)

By: J.A. Jance

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From "New York Times"-bestselling author Jance comes the 20th mystery featuring J.P. Beaumont, in w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

7. Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories (Harry Bosch, #16.1)

By: Michael Connelly

3.95

Format: None pages,

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch as we've never seen him before, in three never-before-collected stories.… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction

8. Nancy Pickard Presents Malice Domestic (Malice Domestic, #3)

By: Wendy Hornsby , Sharyn McCrumb , Martin H. Greenberg , Nancy Pickard , Joan Hess , Dorothy Cannell , D.R. Meredith , Jane Chelius , Deborah Adams , Marlys Millhiser , Bill Albert , L.B. Greenwood , Marilyn Wallace , None , None , None

2.00

Format: None pages,

Following the success of Malice Domestic 1--recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and … read more

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9. Steps to Christ

By: Ellen Gould White

4.18

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Thousands have become acquainted with Jesus through this little book, Steps to Christ. And it has h… read more

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10. Centennial

By: James A. Michener

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener's magnificent saga of the Westis… read more

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11. An Evil Mind (Robert Hunter, #6)

By: Chris Carter

4.36

Format: None pages, ebook

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the Sheriff's Department to arrest a man for a possible dou… read more

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12. Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle (Vivian Apple, #2)

By: Katie Coyle

4.31

Format: 66 pages, Hardcover

"GET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we're willing to break our han… read more

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13. Dance for the Dead (Jane Whitefield, #2)

By: Thomas Perry

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers were… read more

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14. The Dream Home

By: T.M. Logan

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . . THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FR… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) by Mark Billingham

15. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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16. Murder by Candlelight

By: Faith Martin

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The Cotswolds, 1924. At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Flop Dead Gorgeous (Andy Carpenter, #27) by David Rosenfelt

17. Flop Dead Gorgeous (Andy Carpenter, #27)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lights, camera, action in bestselling author David Rosenfelt’s Flop Dead Gorgeous , as Andy Carpent… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5) by Ann Cleeves

18. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.40

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Broken Light

By: Joanne Harris

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3) by Ellis Peters

20. Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Silver Dagger Award Winner: In this medieval mystery, Brother Cadfael faces suspicion when one of h… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Don't reach for the halo too soon. You have plenty of time to enjoy yourself, even a little maliciously sometimes, before you settle down to being a saint."

-Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)

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21. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Trace of Poison (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #2) by Colleen Cambridge

22. A Trace of Poison (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #2)

By: Colleen Cambridge

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Phyllida Bright, housekeeper for Agatha Christie, must uncover a killer among a throng of crime wri… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Murder at the Mushroom Festival (Kelly Jackson Mystery #4) by Janet Finsilver

23. Murder at the Mushroom Festival (Kelly Jackson Mystery #4)

By: Janet Finsilver

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

There’s a corpse among the chanterelles!   Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson is … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency by Fanny Blake

24. Stories To Make You Smile: The Reading Agency

By: Fanny Blake

3.17

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

A seriously entertaining collection of feelgood stories guaranteed to put the smile back on your fa… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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25. Ayoade On Top

By: Richard Ayoade

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

At last, the definitive book about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View From the T… read more

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"We can't live in dreams any more that we can live in the clouds or under socialism."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"Because to be moved by something made by someone who has done something bad would mean that a bad person possesses the capacity to connect to us; that they haven't, somehow, forfeited their humanity."

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"When I buy Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, the acquisitive part of me is buying it for the deluded part of me that thinks I’ll read it one day, while the archivist part of me keeps it on a shelf with …"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

"This shadowy, depersonalised, frankly militaristic ‘they’ (why should I call the pilot ‘captain’ – I didn’t join his army) is what makes commercial air travel so Orwellian. Say you want to take a nap…"

-Richard Ayoade, Ayoade On Top

Cover of Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2) by P.J. Tracy

26. Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2)

By: P.J. Tracy

3.83

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazz… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1) by Lisa Jewell

27. Breaking the Dark (Marvel Crime, #1)

By: Lisa Jewell

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In her most imaginative novel yet, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell (None of This … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Bad Apples (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #4) by Will Dean

28. Bad Apples (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #4)

By: Will Dean

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It only takes one... A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A fest… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021 by Lee Child

29. Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021

By: Lee Child

3.73

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Selected by #1 bestselling author Lee the twenty finest short stories of 2021. There is no finer f… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021 book and Lee Child's Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth Ward

30. The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone

By: Gareth Ward

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

“When we opened Sherlock Tomes people warned us that we’d made a terrible mistake. People warned us… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. Frankie

By: Graham Norton

4.53

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories… read more

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  • fiction

24 Best fiction books like Best Crime Stories of the Year: 2021 by Lee Child

Transform Your Habits

One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

Ellis Peters

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12)

James Grippando

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)

P.G. Wodehouse

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Sheer Folly (Daisy Dalrymple, #18)

Carola Dunn

3.87

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13 best-selling fiction books like Murder by Candlelight by Faith Martin

Transform Your Habits

Death of a Temptress (DS Dave Slater, #1)

P.F. Ford

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Murder by Candlelight

Faith Martin

3.98

Transform Your Habits

An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)

T.E. Kinsey

4.53

Transform Your Habits

The Library Murders (Flora Steele, #8)

Merryn Allingham

4.37

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