17 must-read crime books like Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer by Cecily Gayford

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Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer

By: Cecily Gayford

3.63

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ic…

If you liked the crime plot in Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer by Cecily Gayford , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Summer

By: Edith Wharton

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first p… read more

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2. Tour de Force

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on… read more

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  • crime
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3. Death and the Penguin

By: Andrey Kurkov , George Bird

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefe… read more

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  • crime

4. Appointment with Yesterday

By: Celia Fremlin

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

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5. The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1)

By: Josephine Tey

3.77

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

Inspector Alan Grant searches for the identity of a man killed in the line at a theater and for the… read more

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  • crime

6. The Lady Vanishes

By: Ethel Lina White

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

THE WORLD-FAMOUS SUSPENSE NOVEL FROM WHICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK CREATED HIS MOVIE MASTERPIECE, REDISCOV… read more

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7. Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

"Gaudy Nightstands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class b… read more

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8. Mirage (Mina & Vincent, #3)

By: Camilla Läckberg

3.99

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Jetzt das eBook zum Einführungspreis sichern! Das fulminante Finale der soghaft-düsteren skandin… read more

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  • crime
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9. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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  • short stories
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10. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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  • crime
  • murder mystery
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11. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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12. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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13. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

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  • crime
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14. The Bay (Summer Suspense Mysteries, #3)

By: L.J. Ross

4.39

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

SECRETS NEVER STAY BURIED FOR LONG... In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergean… read more

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  • crime
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15. The Murder Game

By: Tom Hindle

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, guests ass… read more

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  • crime
  • murder mystery
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16. The Lantern of Lost Memories

By: Sanaka Hiiragi

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a ma… read more

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  • short stories
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17. The Night in Question

By: Susan Fletcher

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more

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"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

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18. Death at the Chateau (A Follet Valley Mystery #3)

By: Ian Moore

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The third book in the The Times -bestselling murder mystery series, by leading TV/radio comedian Ia… read more

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  • crime
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19. Murder on the Menu

By: Alex Coombs

3.43

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

'An irresistibly delicious mix of cooking and murder' Trisha Ashley 'Takes two of the world's gr… read more

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  • crime
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20. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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  • crime
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21. Murder at Madame Tussauds (Museum Mysteries, #6)

By: Jim Eldridge

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries by Martin Edwards

22. Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat … read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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23. Too Many Cooks: Prudence Bulstrode 3

By: Rosemary Shrager

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Prudence Bulstrode has fond memories of St Marianne's School for Girls, the beautiful Cornish schoo… read more

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24. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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25. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool by Simon Thomas

26. Stories for Summer: And Days by the Pool

By: Simon Thomas

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to… read more

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  • short stories
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27. Murder Under the Sun: Classic Mysteries for Summer

By: Cecily Gayford

3.63

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

From beneath the beach umbrella, all might seem idyllic - children playing, sunbathers relaxing, ic… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
  • murder mystery
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28. Small Bomb at Dimperley

By: Lissa Evans

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It's 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperl… read more

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29. Murder in a Heatwave: Classic Crime Mysteries for the Holidays (Vintage Murders)

By: Various

3.28

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

As the days get longer, escape your troubles and take a trip to the desperately hot towns where nig… read more

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  • crime
  • short stories
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30. The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural

By: Agatha Christie

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

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31. Gibbet Hill

By: Bram Stoker

3.70

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

As if by the irony of fate, there, beside me, was a grim memorial of man’s wickedness and lust for … read more

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  • short stories

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Margaret Atwood

3.23

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Martin Edwards

3.91

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Sanaka Hiiragi

4.05

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3.86

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3.79

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