25 best-selling mystery books like Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1) by Nick Wilkshire

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Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

By: Nick Wilkshire

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life ― if he sur…

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1. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

By: Paul Theroux

3.89

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more

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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

2. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

Cover of Owlflight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #1) by Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon

3. Owlflight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #1)

By: Mercedes Lackey , Larry Dixon

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

Apprenticed to a venerable wizard when his hunter and trapper parents disappear into the forest nev… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

4. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

5. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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6. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

7. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Nick Wilkshire's Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10) by Martin Cruz Smith

8. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Mrs. Plansky's Revenge by Spencer Quinn

9. Mrs. Plansky's Revenge

By: Spencer Quinn

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Quinn's Mrs. Plansky's Revenge book and Nick Wilkshire's Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rage the Night by Donna Morrissey

10. Rage the Night

By: Donna Morrissey

3.97

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting acco… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"…it is in solitude where one finds one’s courage."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?"

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

"No sense of having anything if you’ve no one to give it to."

-Donna Morrissey, Rage the Night

Cover of To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10) by Iona Whishaw

11. To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.27

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

With events spanning both world wars, the tenth installment in the Lane Winslow mystery series is a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

12. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) book and Nick Wilkshire's Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11) by Anna Lee Huber

13. A Fatal Illusion (Lady Darby Mystery, #11)

By: Anna Lee Huber

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

New parents Lady Kiera Darby and Sebastian Gage look forward to introducing Sebastian’s father to h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8) by Deanna Raybourn

14. A Sinister Revenge (Veronica Speedwell, #8)

By: Deanna Raybourn

4.20

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

15. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

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  • murder mystery
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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16. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15) by C.S. Harris

17. Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

By: C.S. Harris

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sebastian St. Cyr investigates the mysterious life and death of a nobleman accused of murder in thi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"I believe we are all connected, every living thing one to the other, so that I owe to each what I would owe to myself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Bringing this man’s murderer to justice was more important to Sebastian than he could begin to explain, even to himself."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

"Murder is unseemly. Making certain a killer doesn’t get away with what he has done is an obligation we the living owe to the dead—no matter how unsavory we consider them to be."

-C.S. Harris, Who Speaks for the Damned (Sebastian St. Cyr, #15)

Cover of The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) by Sujata Massey

18. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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19. Inside Threat

By: Matthew Quirk

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this electrifying thriller from the author of Red Warning and The Night Agent, an attack on the … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Series, 7) by Jean-Luc Bannalec

20. The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery (Brittany Mystery Series, 7)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The King Arthur Case is the seventh installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series. … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1) by A.J. Landau

21. Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1)

By: A.J. Landau

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) by Bruce Borgos

22. The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Lethal Lesson (Lane Winslow #8) by Iona Whishaw

23. A Lethal Lesson (Lane Winslow #8)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.17

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the 2022 BC and Yukon Book Prizes' Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice AwardAn Indigo T… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of A History of Burning by Janika Oza

24. 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

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

-Janika Oza, A History of Burning

Cover of The Bingo Hall Detectives (The Bingo Hall Detectives, #1) by Jonathan Whitelaw

25. The Bingo Hall Detectives (The Bingo Hall Detectives, #1)

By: Jonathan Whitelaw

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win… An irresistible slice of murder and mystery –… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories by Norma Dunning

26. Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories

By: Norma Dunning

4.03

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Winner of Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Drawing on both lived experience … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of The Road to Heaven (A Patrick Bird Mystery, #1) by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

27. The Road to Heaven (A Patrick Bird Mystery, #1)

By: Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A gripping noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Blind Date (Hunter and Tate #1) by Brenda Chapman

28. Blind Date (Hunter and Tate #1)

By: Brenda Chapman

3.98

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody’s safe when a killer has you in their sights. True crime podcaster Ella Tate is shaken to… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs by William  Maz

29. The Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs

By: William Maz

4.21

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Literary Titan Award Winner Summer 2023 Pencraft Best Book Award WinnerCIA agent Bill Hefflin is ba… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1) by Nick Wilkshire

30. Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

By: Nick Wilkshire

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For Charlie Hillier, a posting to Cuba could be the perfect place to start his new life ― if he sur… read more

Similar categories in Nick Wilkshire's Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1) book and Nick Wilkshire's Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1)

  • murder mystery
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
Cover of Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo

31. Naniki

By: Oonya Kempadoo

3.78

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Amana and Skelele, evolved sea beings with Taino and African ancestry, and their naniki animal avat… read more

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29 must-read fiction books like Escape to Havana (A Foreign Affairs Mystery #1) by Nick Wilkshire

Transform Your Habits

Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

Elmore Leonard

4.00

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Owlflight (Owl Mage Trilogy, #1)

Mercedes Lackey , Larry Dixon

3.59

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Deanna Raybourn

4.19

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Murder at the Merton Library (Wrexford & Sloane, #7)

Andrea Penrose

4.11

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Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Wrexford & Sloane, #5)

Andrea Penrose

4.13

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A Gentleman in Challenging Circumstances (The Lord Julian Mysteries #3)

Grace Burrowes

4.43

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