16 Top mystery books like The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print) by Joan Aiken

Cover of The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print) by Joan Aiken

The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

By: Joan Aiken

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Culpepper doesn’t take no for an answer. An aspiring pianist, she dreams of being taught by th…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print) by Joan Aiken , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2) by Naomi Novik

1. Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

By: Naomi Novik

3.90

Format: 398 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo–an unhatched dragon’s egg–Capt. Will … read more

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  • fiction
"...It seems to me,"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody."

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

"Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you," he added, fiercely, to Lord …"

-Naomi Novik, Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

Cover of The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1) by Ann Cleeves

2. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1) book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3) by Ann Cleeves

3. Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Death in Kashmir by M.M. Kaye

4. Death in Kashmir

By: M.M. Kaye

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing vacation to Gulmarg, a resort nestled in the mountains abov… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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5. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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6. A Countess Below Stairs

By: Eva Ibbotson

3.91

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

After the Russian revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young Russian Countess, has no ch… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
"A countess, eh?"

-Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

"What the devil are you doing here?"

-Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

"A faint terror lest she begin to curtsy took hold of Rupert."

-Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

"When you’re sad, Little Star, go out of doors. It’s always better underneath the open sky."

-Eva Ibbotson, A Countess Below Stairs

Cover of The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) by Agatha Christie

7. The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1)

By: Agatha Christie

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

A bit of adventure and quick cash is all that good-natured drifter Anthony Cade is looking for when… read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle, #1) book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. Smile

By: Roddy Doyle

4.48

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Smilehas all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the hu… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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9. The Thin Woman (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #1)

By: Dorothy Cannell

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Reluctant to show up at her family reunion carrying so many extra pounds, unmarried, overweight Ell… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Reluctant Heiress by Eva Ibbotson

10. The Reluctant Heiress

By: Eva Ibbotson

3.17

Format: None pages,

Spring, 1922 Tessa is a beautiful, tiny, dark-eyed princess - who's given up her duties to follow h… read more

Similar categories in Eva Ibbotson's The Reluctant Heiress book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • romance
  • fiction

11. Sparkling Cyanide (Colonel Race, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Six people reunite to remember beautiful Rosemary Barton, who died nearly a year before. The loving… read more

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12. Death in Cyprus

By: M.M. Kaye

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

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13. The Venetian Affair

By: Helen MacInnes

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A game of espionage ... Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was beha… read more

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14. N or M? (Tommy and Tuppence, #3)

By: Agatha Christie

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This novel, set during World War II, sees Tommy and Tuppence Beresford appointed as spies by the in… read more

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15. Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle, #4)

By: Agatha Christie

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

An elderly lady is on her way to Scotland Yard to report several murders in her village. "It is ver… read more

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16. Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)

By: Agatha Christie

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now th… read more

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17. A Song for Summer

By: Eva Ibbotson

3.71

Format: 244 pages,

Ellen never expected the Hallendorf school to be quite so unusual. Her life back in England with he… read more

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18. The Breaker

By: Minette Walters

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

A woman's body washes up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England and her traumatized thre… read more

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19. Death of an Author

By: E.C.R. Lorac

3.99

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

'I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would… read more

Similar categories in E.C.R. Lorac's Death of an Author book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #1) by Kate Mosse

20. The Burning Chambers (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #1)

By: Kate Mosse

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Kindle Edition

Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s book… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery
  • fiction
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21. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

Cover of Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles by Martin Edwards

22. Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles

By: Martin Edwards

3.91

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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23. Just the Way You Are

By: Beth Moran

4.26

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel about friendship, romance and learning to love yourself - just the way you are. When Olivi… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of A False Charity (Abbott Agency #1) by Veronica Heley

24. A False Charity (Abbott Agency #1)

By: Veronica Heley

4.05

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously quirky cozy mystery full of twists and turns. Meet sixty-something widow Bea Abbot… read more

Similar categories in Veronica Heley's A False Charity (Abbott Agency #1) book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Bordeaux Book Club by Gillian  Harvey

25. The Bordeaux Book Club

By: Gillian Harvey

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to Fr… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of The Lost Notebook (Toussaints Detective Agency, #1) by Louise Douglas

26. The Lost Notebook (Toussaints Detective Agency, #1)

By: Louise Douglas

4.00

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths – something sinister is stirring in the perfect sea… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Cornish Village Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #2) by Fiona Leitch

27. The Cornish Village Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #2)

By: Fiona Leitch

4.11

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body turned up at her last catering gig it certainly put people off the hor d'oeuvres. So wi… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Leitch's The Cornish Village Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #2) book and Joan Aiken's The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Summer of Lies (Toussaints Detective Agency, #2) by Louise Douglas

28. The Summer of Lies (Toussaints Detective Agency, #2)

By: Louise Douglas

4.07

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

The summer is the hottest yet in the Brittany coastal town of Morranez, but when a new case lands o… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Impact of Evidence by E. C. R. Lorac

29. Impact of Evidence

By: E. C. R. Lorac

4.32

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then… read more

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30. Ut av det blå

By: Kristin Valla

3.83

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

En far og to sønner blir tatt av et leirskred og skylt på havet i en liten bygd i Nordland. Sønnene… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print) by Joan Aiken

31. The Embroidered Sunset (Scarlet Dagger Large Print)

By: Joan Aiken

3.52

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Culpepper doesn’t take no for an answer. An aspiring pianist, she dreams of being taught by th… read more

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  • romance
  • gothic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

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