26 must-read mystery books like A Killing at Ball's Bluff (Harrison Raines, #2) by Michael Kilian

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A Killing at Ball's Bluff (Harrison Raines, #2)

By: Michael Kilian

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sequel to Murder at Manassas, Harrison Raines must risk his life and cross Union and Confede…

If you liked the mystery plot in A Killing at Ball's Bluff (Harrison Raines, #2) by Michael Kilian , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.86

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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2. The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)

By: Ellis Peters

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Brother Cadfael’s pastoral life is upended by the disappearance of a young boy and the arrival of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Whatever the rights or wrongs of their affection, in the teeth of danger and despair love is entitled to speak its mind, and all others should be blind and deaf."

-Ellis Peters, The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)

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3. The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Medieval monk Brother Cadfael races to save a young man he believes is falsely accused of robbery—i… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The English Spy (Gabriel Allon, #15)

By: Daniel Silva

4.22

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

First there was The English Assassin. Then there was The English Girl. Now comes The Englis… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Indeed, Putin would like nothing more than to see the complete collapse of NATO so he can reconstitute Russia’s lost empire without the meddlesome West standing in his way. Under his leadership, Russ…"

-Daniel Silva, The English Spy (Gabriel Allon, #15)

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5. The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

By: Ellis Peters

4.08

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There's an art in every labour."

-Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

"Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case."

-Ellis Peters, The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)

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6. The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

By: Ellis Peters

4.16

Format: 250 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the Summer of 1143, two visitors arrive at the gates of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What are wits for unless a man uses them?"

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

"They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think."

-Ellis Peters, The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)

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7. Relic (Pendergast, #1)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)

By: Ellis Peters

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

The year is 1143; once again Brother Cadfael is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Cruel Intent (Ali Reynolds, #4)

By: J.A. Jance

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

On a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

10. Left for Dead (Ali Reynolds, #7)

By: J.A. Jance

3.57

Format: None pages, ebook

When violence from the drug wars with the Mexican cartels crosses the border into Arizona, and an o… read more

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11. The Man From Berlin (Gregor Reinhardt, #1)

By: Luke McCallin

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Yugoslavia, a German officer has been shot and killed. Along with him a young, beautiful filmmaker … read more

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12. The Fetterman Massacre

By: Dee Brown

4.27

Format: 412 pages,

Dee Brown's authoritative history of Fort Phil Kearney and the notorious Fetterman Massacre This da… read more

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13. Eye of the Needle

By: Ken Follett

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more

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  • mystery
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

14. The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)

By: Ellis Peters

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

The fourth anniversary of the transfer of Saint Winifred's bones to the Abbey at Shrewsbury is a ti… read more

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

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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17. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Girl in the Eagle's Talons (Millennium, #7)

By: Karin Smirnoff

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series. … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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19. The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)

By: David Baldacci

4.37

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murde… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

20. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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21. A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.27

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on… read more

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  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
"Yet the alternative he had suggested smacked of privilege, and wasn't privilege always bolstered by a discrimination of sorts?"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

"...places leave their mark in the same way that a human being can touch us. We have to make our peace with place, with the locations where we have spent time. We consider how we've been affected by b…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, A Sunlit Weapon (Maisie Dobbs, #17)

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22. The Mystery of Mistletoe Hall (Lord Edgington Investigates, #4)

By: Benedict Brown

4.09

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1925. When Lord Edgington receives an invitation to spend the Christmas holiday with an ol… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.95

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."

-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

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24. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

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25. Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

By: Ellis Peters

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

November, 1145. While Cadfael has bent Abbey rules, he has never broken his monastic vows--until no… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears."

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

"It may be that God is reminding me that I am approaching my November. Well, why regret it? November has beauty, has seen the harvest into the barns, even laid by next year's seed. No need to fret abo…"

-Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)

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26. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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27. Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)

By: Ellis Peters

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

In the twelfth century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Child, [death] is with us always,"

-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)

"There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings a…"

-Ellis Peters, Saint Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)

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28. Walk the Wire (Amos Decker, #6)

By: David Baldacci

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Amos Decker -- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- returns to solve a gruesome murder in a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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29. Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

By: Kristina McMorris

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the predictable eleg… read more

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  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love."

-Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

"In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down."

-Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

"The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace."

-Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves

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30. An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1141, two monks have arrived in Shrewsbury from Winchester, where their abbey was destroyed. Now… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Well, God’s vision is clearer than mine, he may both see a way out of this tangle and open my eyes to it when the time is ripe. There’s a path through every forest, and a safe passage somewhere throu…"

-Ellis Peters, An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)

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31. A Killing at Ball's Bluff (Harrison Raines, #2)

By: Michael Kilian

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the sequel to Murder at Manassas, Harrison Raines must risk his life and cross Union and Confede… read more

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  • civil war
  • american civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery

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