20 Top fiction books like A Hallowed Place by Caro Fraser

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A Hallowed Place

By: Caro Fraser

4.07

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Behind the calm exterior of the elite barristers' chambers at 5 Caper Court rumour and uncertainty …

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1. The Distant Hours

By: Kate Morton

3.89

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst … read more

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"She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well."

-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

"History in the storyteller's hand was a potent force indeed,...."

-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

"it was enough just to free the words so that the voices in her head were stilled."

-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

"They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions..."

-Kate Morton, The Distant Hours

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2. The Photograph

By: Penelope Lively

3.38

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively's latest novel opens with a snapshot: Kath, before he… read more

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"My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined."

-Penelope Lively, The Photograph

"A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is…"

-Penelope Lively, The Photograph

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3. Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)

By: C.J. Sansom

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But … read more

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4. La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)

By: Philip Pullman

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near … read more

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5. The Glass Pearls

By: Emeric Pressburger

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more

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6. Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake, #6)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors a… read more

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7. The Morning Gift

By: Eva Ibbotson

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Twenty-year-old Ruth Berger is desperate. The daughter of a Jewish-Austrian professor, she was supp… read more

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8. The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)

By: Peter May

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially be… read more

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9. The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy, #3)

By: Peter May

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating … read more

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10. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more

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11. Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extra… read more

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12. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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13. Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake, #5)

By: C.J. Sansom

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong. Meanwhile Ma… read more

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14. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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15. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Cover of Bamburgh (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #19) by L.J. Ross

17. Bamburgh (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #19)

By: L.J. Ross

4.46

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI … read more

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18. The Magician

By: Colm Tóibín

4.02

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more

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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Magician

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19. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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20. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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21. The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.12

Format: 1391 pages, Hardcover

This installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran … read more

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"Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats."

-Robert Galbraith, The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)

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22. 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

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23. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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24. 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

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25. 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

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"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)

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26. The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor—until Nelso… read more

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"It's a locked room mystery,' says Tony. 'Like in the books.' 'Nothing,' says Nelson, 'is like it is in the books."

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewh…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested …"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city ga…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

Cover of Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5) by Robert Galbraith

27. Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.37

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a wom… read more

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"Clues from chaos, sense from madness."

-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

" I love you don't forget me whatever hpapens to me. I love you. "

-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

"We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are."

-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

"Betty Fuller looked as though she'd been subject to heavier gravity than the rest of humankind."

-Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

Cover of Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7) by C.J. Sansom

28. Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)

By: C.J. Sansom

4.39

Format: 865 pages, Paperback

Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos…The king, Edw… read more

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"Never in England were there so many gentlemen and so little gentleness."

-C.J. Sansom, Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)

"I took the book and glanced at the page Guy was reading. I quoted, ‘The rich man’s substance is the wellspring of the poor man’s living.' Ah yes, that theory, that as the rich grow richer their wealt…"

-C.J. Sansom, Tombland (Matthew Shardlake, #7)

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29. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

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30. A Hallowed Place

By: Caro Fraser

4.07

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Behind the calm exterior of the elite barristers' chambers at 5 Caper Court rumour and uncertainty … read more

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20 Best fiction books like 1979 by Val McDermid

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Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

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The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.05

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1979

Val McDermid

3.78

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Stuart MacBride

3.81

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