11 Best mystery thriller books like The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman

Cover of The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman

The Ghost Clause

By: Howard Norman

3.51

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative . . . haunting”* novel, th…

"The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. So, Anyway...

By: John Cleese

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare wen… read more

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2. A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

By: Alan Bradley

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Alan Bradley returns with another beguiling novel starring the insidiously cle… read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • fiction

3. This House is Haunted

By: John Boyne

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark… read more

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4. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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5. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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7. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The General and Julia

By: Jon Clinch

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more

Similar categories in Jon Clinch's The General and Julia book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)

By: Tom Mead

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. In 1930s London, cele… read more

Similar categories in Tom Mead's Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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10. The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope, #10)

By: Susan Elia MacNeal

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Los Angeles, 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States mil… read more

Similar categories in Susan Elia MacNeal's The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope, #10) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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11. Gather

By: Kenneth M. Cadow

4.43

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A resourceful teenager in rural Vermont struggles to hold on to the family home while his mom recov… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth M. Cadow's Gather book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Glass House

By: Beatrice Colin

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Beatrice Colin's The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-centur… read more

Similar categories in Beatrice Colin's The Glass House book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

13. 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

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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14. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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15. The Man in Black: Stories

By: Elly Griffiths

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Man in Black: Stories book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
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16. The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night

By: Lauren Farnsworth

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Five lonely strangers join a bar trivia team in an effort to find friends, but end up on a path tha… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Farnsworth's The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Death at the Sanatorium

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic best… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Death at the Sanatorium book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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18. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

Similar categories in Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Ghost Clause

By: Howard Norman

3.51

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award Finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative . . . haunting”* novel, th… read more

Similar categories in Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • adult
"The heart is seldom rational - the mind, sometimes."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"Muriel sometimes put her emotions on highest exhibit by exaggerating a suppression of them."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"Life should always take precedence; when a wedding meets a funeral on the road, the funeral should step aside."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

"Muriel and Zachary's Maine coon cat was named 'Epilogue' for the fact that he concludes the lives of so many mice."

-Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause

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20. 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

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19) by Louise Penny

21. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19) book and Howard Norman's The Ghost Clause

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • novels
  • fiction

19 Best fiction books like The Ghost Clause by Howard Norman

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A Red Herring Without Mustard (Flavia de Luce, #3)

Alan Bradley

4.47

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The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

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The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

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The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

John Banville

3.70

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20 must-read fiction books like Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1) by Tom Mead

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He Who Whispers (Dr. Gideon Fell, #16)

John Dickson Carr

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

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

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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