10 Top mystery books like Blood by Maggie Gee

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Blood

By: Maggie Gee

3.67

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Who attacked Dad? When a corrupt, brutal dentist, Albert Ludd, is found battered and bloody after f…

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Cover of Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse by Otsuichi, Nathan Collins

1. Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

By: Otsuichi , Nathan Collins

3.89

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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2. Marriage Material

By: Sathnam Sanghera

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Hardcover

If you've approached Bains Stores recently, you'd be forgiven for hesitating on doing so. A promine… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi

3. Sostiene Pereira

By: Antonio Tabucchi

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Long View

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's st… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Malice

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

7. The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

By: Sathnam Sanghera

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A BBC DRAMA The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampto… read more

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8. Embers

By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more

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9. Dom Casmurro

By: Machado de Assis

4.58

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic story of love and jealousy, Dom Casmurro is the story of Bento and his childhood love, Ca… read more

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10. Master of the Game

By: Sidney Sheldon

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new gene… read more

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11. Benighted

By: None

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel are driving through the mountains of W… read more

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12. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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  • fiction
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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13. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

By: Keigo Higashino

4.43

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"People who live with their head in the clouds deserve to hit the ground every once in a while."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"Believe me. No matter how bad things are today, they’ll be far better tomorrow. — Namiya General Store"

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"Be a fighter. Give it everything you’ve got. Even a losing battle is worth fighting. Go out and make your mark."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

"It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience."

-Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

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14. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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15. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Lonely Castle in the Mirror

By: Mizuki Tsujimura

4.27

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face thei… read more

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  • fiction
"In another world, we were already friends."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"

-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror

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17. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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  • fiction
"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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18. 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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  • mystery
  • fiction
"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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19. Ghost Town

By: Kevin Chen

4.15

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with sev… read more

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  • fiction
"Gã cảm thấy lời chửi của tiếng Đức rất êm tai, cạo cổ họng, chà răng lưỡi, thô ráp như giấy nhám, mài giũa những câu chuyện xưa bẩn thỉu lồi lõm."

-Kevin Chen, Ghost Town

Cover of The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) by Elly Griffiths

20. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. Slade House

By: David Mitchell

3.81

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door. Down the road from a working-class British p… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Coffee’s the elixir of life."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"It takes more than holding hands and singing ‘Ebony and Ivory’."

-David Mitchell, Slade House

"Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don't you find?"

-David Mitchell, Slade House

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22. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

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  • fiction
"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Cover of My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay

23. My Name Is Why

By: Lemn Sissay

4.29

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more

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24. From a Low and Quiet Sea

By: Donal Ryan

3.78

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John… read more

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  • fiction
"he waited for the water to carry him down, and fill him and slough his flesh and salt his guilty bones. But the water wouldn't take him."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"Trees live, like you and me, long lives, and they know things. They know the rule, the only one that's real and must be kept. What's the rule? You know. I've told you lots of times before. Be kind."

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

"I took to numbers, their definiteness, their unyielding natures: even when you chop a number down to a half or a tenth or a millionth or a billionth part of its former self it still exists, it’s stil…"

-Donal Ryan, From a Low and Quiet Sea

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

25. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
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26. Love

By: Hanne Ørstavik

3.63

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

A mother and son move to a village in northern Norway, each ensconced in their own world. Their dis… read more

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  • fiction
"He looks at her as he listens, smiling when she's finished. She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the …"

-Hanne Ørstavik, Love

"The sound of the car. When he's waiting he can never quite recall it. I've forgotten, he tells himself. But then it comes back to him, often in pauses between the waiting, after he's stopped thinking…"

-Hanne Ørstavik, Love

Cover of Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy

27. Water Shall Refuse Them

By: Lucie McKnight Hardy

3.45

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist. Arsonist. Suffragette. by Fern Riddell

28. Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion: Activist. Arsonist. Suffragette.

By: Fern Riddell

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Death in Ten Minutes Fern Riddell uncovers the story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion, told t… read more

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29. Blood

By: Maggie Gee

3.67

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Who attacked Dad? When a corrupt, brutal dentist, Albert Ludd, is found battered and bloody after f… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of A Case of Matricide (Georges Gorski #3) by Graeme Macrae Burnet

30. A Case of Matricide (Georges Gorski #3)

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the Booker-nominated author of Case Study and His Bloody Project comes the next adventure of I… read more

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  • mystery

23 Best fiction books like Blood by Maggie Gee

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Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

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3.89

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3.98

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