5 Best crime books like The Mile End Murder by Sinclair McKay

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The Mile End Murder

By: Sinclair McKay

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, kill…

If you liked the crime plot in The Mile End Murder by Sinclair McKay , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

1. Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

By: Antony Beevor

4.32

Format: 494 pages, Paperback

The Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also chan… read more

Similar categories in Antony Beevor's Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Early Riser

By: Jasper Fforde

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies danger… read more

Similar categories in Jasper Fforde's Early Riser book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery
  • audiobook

3. Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries

By: Martin Edwards

5.00

Format: 500 pages,

Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stor… read more

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4. Murder as a Fine Art (Thomas De Quincey, #1)

By: David Morrell

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller. Thomas De Q… read more

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5. Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #3)

By: Alison Weir

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Acclaimed author and historian Alison Weir continues her epic Six Tudor Queens series with this thi… read more

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6. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • british literature
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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7. Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

By: Lisa Schneidau

3.81

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of plant folklore and wisdom, from the magi… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Schneidau's Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • audiobook
"In the old days, there were bogles, the horrid things, creeping in the darkness, ready to take people. And even in the daytime, when there weren't bogles, people were always fretting about them, or s…"

-Lisa Schneidau, Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

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8. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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11. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

Similar categories in Alan Partridge's Alan Partridge: Big Beacon book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • audiobook
  • british literature
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12. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery
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13. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

Similar categories in Serhii Plokhy's Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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14. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kay's T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) by Elly Griffiths

15. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.14

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award  Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series   “G… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

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16. Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

By: Christina Henry

3.72

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Everyone in Sleepy Hollow knows about the Horseman, but no one really believes in him. Not even Ben… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery
Cover of The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas

17. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas

4.15

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I miss my dog,"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

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18. Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

By: Gyles Brandreth

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer… read more

Similar categories in Gyles Brandreth's Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd

19. The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War

By: Nick Lloyd

4.38

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First World War, from the acclaimed military his… read more

Similar categories in Nick Lloyd's The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Mile End Murder by Sinclair McKay

20. The Mile End Murder

By: Sinclair McKay

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, kill… read more

Similar categories in Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder book and Sinclair McKay's The Mile End Murder

  • mystery thriller
  • history
  • true crime
  • british literature
  • 19th century
  • nonfiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

7 best-selling history books like The Mile End Murder by Sinclair McKay

Transform Your Habits

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943

Antony Beevor

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

John E. Douglas

4.15

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16 best-selling history books like Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943 by Antony Beevor

Transform Your Habits

Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.24

Transform Your Habits

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.30

Transform Your Habits

1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Tom Holland

4.22

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