7 Top crime books like Day of the Dead (University Mystery Series Book 1) by Brenda Donelan

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Day of the Dead (University Mystery Series Book 1)

By: Brenda Donelan

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

When a college professor is found dead on campus, rumors and innuendo begin to swirl at Midwestern …

If you liked the crime plot in Day of the Dead (University Mystery Series Book 1) by Brenda Donelan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Woman in White

By: Wilkie Collins , Matthew Sweet

4.01

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here. 'In one moment, every drop of blood… read more

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"I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"... our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura"

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

"My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody."

-Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

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2. Halfway Dead (Halfway Witchy, #1)

By: Terry Maggert

3.69

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Come for the waffles. Stay for the magic. Working at the town diner isn't her only job, for Carl… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.02

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

London, 1931. On the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"I've come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understan…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"It's because it's the beginning, and also the end. That was what she loved about the place where the water met the land. A promise of something fresh, a suggestion that even if what is happening now …"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"With a true masterpiece, there are no words required. Discourse is rendered redundant. That's why the work of a master transcends all notions of education, of class. It rises above the onlooker's und…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

"She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I …"

-Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)

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4. Counting by 7s

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, … read more

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  • fiction
"books=comfort"

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

"What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens."

-Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s

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5. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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  • fiction
"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

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6. Kisscut (Grant County, #2)

By: Karin Slaughter

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Hearts… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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7. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

By: Jason Fagone

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Hidden Figuresand In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the gr… read more

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8. Back Of Beyond (A Highway Quartet Novel #1)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 240 pages,

Edgar(r) Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a thriller about a t… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

9. As Good as Gone

By: Larry Watson

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

The American West is bestselling author Larry Watson's forte, and in this, his tenth novel, he has … read more

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10. Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.16

Format: 320 pages,

In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger … read more

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11. Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. When three of the he… read more

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12. Winterkill (Joe Pickett, #3)

By: C.J. Box

3.62

Format: 171 pages,

Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn w… read more

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13. Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

By: C.J. Box

4.00

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts, an… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"Joe had always considered individual words as finite units of currency, and he believed in savings."

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

"I don't know why it is that alcohol and tobacco are now bad, but jolts of caffeine are suddenly good. It is beyond me, and it makes me feel old."

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

"...sometimes we see things in animals that aren't really there. It's called transference, if that makes any sense. ...I think there are a lot of people who say they do things for animals when they're…"

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

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14. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Tip of the Iceberg: My 3,000-Mile Journey Around Wild Alaska, the Last Great American Frontier

By: Mark Adams

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating and funny journ… read more

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16. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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  • fiction
"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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17. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

By: Sonia Purnell

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War … read more

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18. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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19. The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

By: Fannie Flagg

4.03

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Poland, 1909 Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Code Name Sapphire

By: Pam Jenoff

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of b… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

By: Courtney Walsh

4.19

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness. Isadora Bentley follows the… read more

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  • fiction
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22. The Helsinki Affair

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinati… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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24. Symphony of Secrets

By: Brendan Slocumb

4.27

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A gripping page-turner about a professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous Ameri… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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26. The Unsinkable Greta James

By: Jennifer E. Smith

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Greta James's meteoric rise to ind… read more

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  • fiction
"The truth is, being a parent is mostly just reacting. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you don't. You give what you can. And at the end of the day, most of it is just being there."

-Jennifer E. Smith, The Unsinkable Greta James

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27. The Girl Beyond the Gate

By: Becca Day

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Kensington Grove, the safest place to call home.... Jodie Madison can't think of a be… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Day of the Dead (University Mystery Series Book 1) by Brenda Donelan

28. Day of the Dead (University Mystery Series Book 1)

By: Brenda Donelan

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

When a college professor is found dead on campus, rumors and innuendo begin to swirl at Midwestern … read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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29. Left Unspoken

By: Amanda Sowers

3.98

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

Hannah James was just fourteen years old when she witnessed her mother’s murder, eleven years later… read more

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30. The Dead Girl's Stilettos (A Bexley Squires Mystery #1)

By: Quinn Avery

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Nominated by Best Thrillers as one of 2020's best thrillers! After a Jane Doe is murdered in jou… read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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  • fiction

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Halfway Dead (Halfway Witchy, #1)

Terry Maggert

3.69

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Jacqueline Winspear

4.02

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Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan

4.14

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Julie Otsuka

3.70

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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3.99

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