15 best-selling crime books like Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd

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Death of a Typographer

By: Nick Gadd

3.73

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes.…

If you liked the crime plot in Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Best of Adam Sharp

By: Graeme Simsion

3.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect, an unforgettable new nove… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera"

-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

"The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability."

-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

"Lost love belongs in a three-minute song, pullling back feelings from a time when they came unbidden, recalling the infatuation, the walking on sunshine that cannot last and the pain of its loss, whe…"

-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

"A few times in my life, I have been manipulated by the sexual power of a woman. "Could you help with my assignment?" I'll do it for you. "I don't know why they've given me middle seat." Take mine. "I…"

-Graeme Simsion, The Best of Adam Sharp

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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

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  • mystery
  • fiction

3. The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)

By: Daniel O'Malley

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she… read more

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4. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • crime
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5. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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6. Cold Enough for Snow

By: Jessica Au

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the a… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"She had kept, I knew, all the tickets, brochures and guides we had been given to take home, as if she would take them out later to read as one reads a novel."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached the state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere."

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, an…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

"Then she reached for her bag and took out a small book. She explained she had found it at a store near her home, and that it described the nature of your character based on the date of your birth. (.…"

-Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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7. This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

By: Tabitha Carvan

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Why We Can't Sleep meets Furiously Happy in this hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midl… read more

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8. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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9. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • crime
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11. The Every (The Circle, #2)

By: Dave Eggers

3.70

Format: 580 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How is freedom exercised?"

-Dave Eggers, The Every (The Circle, #2)

"The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly wi…"

-Dave Eggers, The Every (The Circle, #2)

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12. Broken Bay (Detective Sergeant Mark Ariti, #3)

By: Margaret Hickey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Old loyalties and decades-long feuds rise to the surface in this stunning crime novel, set in a spe… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • crime
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13. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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14. Rental Person Who Does Nothing

By: Shoji Morimoto

3.34

Format: 160 pages, ebook

Need a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lone… read more

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"– that people have a value even if they do nothing."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

"I felt comfortable in a community that existed just for the moment, with simple, temporary relationships uncomplicated by past or future."

-Shoji Morimoto, Rental Person Who Does Nothing

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15. Outside

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer"( The Sunday Times… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Constant Rabbit

By: Jasper Fforde

4.07

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of… read more

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  • fiction
"She was named Jocaminca fforkes, with two small 'f's - as if having two 'f's wasn't pretentious enough"

-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

"Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's…"

-Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

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17. The Kingdoms

By: Natasha Pulley

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more

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  • fiction
"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

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18. Black River (Rose Riley, #1)

By: Matthew Spencer

3.92

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

A long, burning summer in Sydney. A young woman found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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19. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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20. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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21. The Coconut Children

By: Vivian Pham

3.78

Format: None pages, ebook

Fall in love twice, just to make sure.Sonny and Vince have always known each other. It took two yea… read more

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  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
"She thought of him now and made him last forever."

-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

"She had recognised him before he could remember himself."

-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

"When the sun goes down, the insomniac dreams of having a nightmare, just to get some sleep in this too loud world."

-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

"Her mother believed that love, in its most noble and worthy form, was sacrifice. To love her was to love purgatory."

-Vivian Pham, The Coconut Children

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22. Gathering Dark

By: Candice Fox

3.90

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A convicted killer. A gifted thief. A vicious ganglord. A disillusioned cop. Together they’re a mis… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
"Modern current affairs journalism is a diabolical slurry of political corruption and the flimsy whims of narcissistic millennials. [Dr. Oliver Digbert]"

-Candice Fox, Gathering Dark

"It might sound scary to be out there, floating around, without all the things that tie people down--consequences, guilt, fear, panic. But if no one teaches you those things, if no one instills in you…"

-Candice Fox, Gathering Dark

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23. The Fragments

By: Toni Jordan

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

INGA Karlson died in a fire in New York in the 1930s, leaving behind three things: a phenomenally s… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • australia
"To spend her days reading and growing things. Could there be any better life?"

-Toni Jordan, The Fragments

"This isn't just a story. This is...a way to understand the world, passed down from person to person, and changing each one on the way. It's the smell, the touch. Books are art that talks to us."

-Toni Jordan, The Fragments

"Books are time travel and space travel and mood-altering drugs. They are mind-melds and telepathy and past-life regression. How people can stand here and not sense the magic in them - it's inconceiva…"

-Toni Jordan, The Fragments

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24. The Hush

By: Sara Foster

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational, female-led thriller, and a terrifying conspiracy that goes right to the heart … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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25. The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek

By: Kate Holden

4.15

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

On a country road in Croppa Creek, farmer Ian Turnbull faced environmental officer Glen Turner. Wha… read more

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  • crime
  • australia
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26. Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

By: Michael Robotham

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9781668030998 can be found here The mystery of Evie C… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We exist before we are born and after we die."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... everything I want is on the other side of fear."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... as though men were the solution to every problem."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"Introspection leads to self-analysis, which leads to self-hatred."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

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27. The Attack

By: Catherine Jinks

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What the past comes to get you... Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a for… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia
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28. Babylonia

By: Costanza Casati

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient h… read more

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  • fiction
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29. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. Death of a Typographer

By: Nick Gadd

3.73

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Martin Kern has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes.… read more

Similar categories in Nick Gadd's Death of a Typographer book and Nick Gadd's Death of a Typographer

  • fiction
  • australia
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • crime
Cover of The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4) by Chris Hammer

31. The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4)

By: Chris Hammer

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.Nell Buchanan … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • australia

27 Best fiction books like Death of a Typographer by Nick Gadd

Transform Your Habits

The Best of Adam Sharp

Graeme Simsion

3.09

Transform Your Habits

Early Riser

Jasper Fforde

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

Chris Hammer

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

Chris Hammer

4.07

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21 best-selling fiction books like Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

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