20 must-read crime books like Take My Breath Away by Martin Edwards

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Take My Breath Away

By: Martin Edwards

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Lawyer-turned-writer Nic Gabriel is stunned when womanising Dylan Rees, his host at a champagne rec…

If you liked the crime plot in Take My Breath Away by Martin Edwards , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Flesh Tailor (Wesley Peterson, #14)

By: Kate Ellis

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in Kate Ellis's The Flesh Tailor (Wesley Peterson, #14) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • crime

2. Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales Of A Botswana Safari Guide

By: Peter Allison

3.66

Format: 336 pages,

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3. A Fierce Radiance

By: Lauren Belfer

3.50

Format: 142 pages,

From the New York Timesbestselling author of City of Lightcomes a tale of passion and intrigue set … read more

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  • mystery

4. A Cursed Inheritance (Wesley Peterson, #9)

By: Kate Ellis

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in Devon in 1985 shocked the country … read more

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5. The Merchant's House (Wesley Peterson, #1)

By: Kate Ellis

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's first day finds him investigating the death of a young woman w… read more

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6. The Marriage Hearse (Wesley Peterson, #10)

By: Kate Ellis

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes som… read more

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7. Miss Me When I'm Gone

By: Emily Arsenault

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE is the story of the sudden death of Gretchen, the author of Tammyland, a "hon… read more

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8. 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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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime

9. Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romanti… read more

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10. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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11. The Blood Pit (Wesley Peterson, #12)

By: Kate Ellis

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Never has DI Wesley Peterson witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. The victim, Charles Marrick, has… read more

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12. A Reliable Wife

By: Robert Goolrick

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, sayin… read more

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13. Blood and Money (McBride & Tanner #1)

By: Rachel McLean

4.23

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Jade Tanner has been plunged into managing the Complex Crimes Unit, Police Scotland's newest inv… read more

Similar categories in Rachel McLean's Blood and Money (McBride & Tanner #1) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • crime
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14. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

Similar categories in Peter Robinson's Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

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

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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16. Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4)

By: Douglas Preston

4.31

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return in the latest installment of the bests… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's Dead Mountain (Nora Kelly, #4) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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17. The Impulse Purchase

By: Veronica Henry

4.26

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

DON'T MISS THE STUNNING AND ROMANTIC NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR VERONICA HENRY … read more

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18. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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19. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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20. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Slough House (Slough House, #7) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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21. 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 Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) by Elly Griffiths

22. Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.00

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propul… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
"Harbinder paces her office. She still can’t stop herself thinking, Look at me with an office big enough to pace in ."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"How many times can you reminisce about school? She doesn’t think Talgarth High has ever tried to gather its former students. To be fair, it would be hard with so many of them electronically tagged."

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Aren’t you a Christian though?’ She remembers a comment about St Peter’s Italian church. ‘Not really,’ says Kim. ‘I just pick the bits I like from every religion. Is there a word for that?’ ‘Heretic,…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

"Gary’s made a bit of a name for himself. He’s always in the papers going on about climate change being a hoax. That’s why I was surprised ….’ ‘Surprised by what,’ prompts Harbinder because the singer…"

-Elly Griffiths, Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)

Cover of The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) by Elly Griffiths

23. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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24. The Couple in the Photo

By: Helen Cooper

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Downstairs Neighbor and The Other Guest comes a propulsive suspense novel th… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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25. The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

A homeless man. Violently strangled. No leads. Except for his past. An outsider himself, DS Geor… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) by Elly Griffiths

26. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of Twelve Secrets (Ben Harper, #1) by Robert  Gold

27. Twelve Secrets (Ben Harper, #1)

By: Robert Gold

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Ben Harper, true crime journalist, is about to unravel his most shocking story yet . . . his own. … read more

Similar categories in Robert Gold's Twelve Secrets (Ben Harper, #1) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of Deadly Wishes (Detective Zoe Finch, #1) by Rachel McLean

28. Deadly Wishes (Detective Zoe Finch, #1)

By: Rachel McLean

4.20

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Zoe Finch, West Midlands Police's newest Detective Inspector. She's outspoken, ambitious, and … read more

Similar categories in Rachel McLean's Deadly Wishes (Detective Zoe Finch, #1) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
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29. They All Fall Down

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

2.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sa… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's They All Fall Down book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7) by Marion Todd

30. A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7)

By: Marion Todd

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Can DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets? Harry Richards, local Solicitor. Found in his … read more

Similar categories in Marion Todd's A Blind Eye (D.I. Clare Mackay, #7) book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Take My Breath Away by Martin Edwards

31. Take My Breath Away

By: Martin Edwards

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Lawyer-turned-writer Nic Gabriel is stunned when womanising Dylan Rees, his host at a champagne rec… read more

Similar categories in Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away book and Martin Edwards's Take My Breath Away

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime

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3.50

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Josephine Tey

3.77

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John Le Carré

3.94

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David McCloskey

4.21

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Anthony Horowitz

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