10 must-read crime books like The Leaning Man by Anne Harré

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The Leaning Man

By: Anne Harré

3.84

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the ci…

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1. The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)

By: Lemony Snicket , Brett Helquist

3.54

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Dear Reader, You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in … read more

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2. Edwin + Matilda: An Unlikely Love Story

By: Laurence Fearnley

3.87

Format: 252 pages, ebook

I wonder why Edwin's mother left him - why his mother left and mine stayed? I mean, which is the mo… read more

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3. His Bloody Project: Documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

4.50

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

In 1869, a brutal triple murder in the remote Wester Ross village of Culduie leads to the arrest of… read more

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4. 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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5. When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

By: Michael Robotham

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evie Cormack was found as a child at the scene of a brutal murder, and refuses to tell anything of … read more

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"Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"... but I have grown accustomed to living alone, having one-sides conversations and arguments with myself that I still manage to lose."

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"The real power belongs to the people who control information,’ he says, still staring at the ground. ‘Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

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6. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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7. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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8. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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9. A Bird in Winter

By: Louise Doughty

3.68

Format: None pages, ebook

Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more

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10. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

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11. Quiet in Her Bones

By: Nalini Singh

3.62

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping thriller set in New Zealand, New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh takes … read more

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12. 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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13. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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14. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

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"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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15. Red Dirt Road (Detective Dana Russo, #3)

By: S.R. White

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

One outback town. Two puzzling murders. Fifty suspects. In Unamurra, a drought-scarred, one-pu… read more

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  • crime
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16. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

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17. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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18. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

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19. Where Light Meets Water

By: Susan Paterson

3.87

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

London, 1847. Sailor Tom Rutherford has two passions: the sea and his painting. Sent to sea as a yo… read more

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20. The Leaning Man

By: Anne Harré

3.84

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Wellington. The land dips and rolls, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the ci… read more

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21. Kind

By: Stephanie Johnson

3.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

High on the Southern Alps of New Zealand lies a fallen man, like ‘a black exclamation mark on a whi… read more

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20 Best fiction books like Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Kate Morton

4.07

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