18 Top crime books like The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras (A Pot Thief Murder Mystery #1) by J. Michael Orenduff

The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras (A Pot Thief Murder Mystery #1)

By: J. Michael Orenduff

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When a shady character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot from Albuquerque's Valle…

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Cover of Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2) by Agatha Christie

1. Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt'… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"And you do dance so nicely, Tommy dear." "Gently with the butter, Tuppence."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"Tommy, why did they put Maldon Surrey on the telegram?" "Because Maldon is in Surrey, idiot."

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

"As the visitor left the office, Tuppence grabbed the violin and putting it in the cupboard turned the key in the lock. "If you must be Sherlock Holmes," she observed, "I'll get you a nice little syri…"

-Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

Cover of Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2) by Caroline Graham

2. Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

By: Caroline Graham

3.88

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no excepti… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Double Sin and Other Stories by Agatha Christie

3. Double Sin and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Cat Laughing Last (Joe Grey, #7) by Shirley Rousseau Murphy

4. Cat Laughing Last (Joe Grey, #7)

By: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Fans of Lillian Jackson Braun and Rita Mae Brown and cat lovers everywhere will delight in this new… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman #1) by J.B. Lynn

5. Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman (Confessions of a Slightly Neurotic Hitwoman #1)

By: J.B. Lynn

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maggie Lee is not your average hitwoman. For one thing, she's never killed anyone. For another, aft… read more

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  • mystery
  • humor
  • fiction
Cover of The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1) by Caroline Graham

6. The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)

By: Caroline Graham

3.97

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5) by Robert B. Parker

7. The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

8. The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras (A Pot Thief Murder Mystery #1)

By: J. Michael Orenduff

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When a shady character offers him $25,000 to steal a thousand-year-old pot from Albuquerque's Valle… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Ice Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge, #1) by Emma Jameson

9. Ice Blue (Lord and Lady Hetheridge, #1)

By: Emma Jameson

4.42

Format: 718 pages,

The New York TimesBestselling Series Anthony Hetheridge, ninth Baron of Wellegrave, Chief Superinte… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Kidnapping (Inspector Rutledge #12.5) by Charles Todd

10. The Kidnapping (Inspector Rutledge #12.5)

By: Charles Todd

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

In an original short story by New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, Scotland Yard inspect… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

11. Paper: Paging Through History

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millen… read more

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12. The House of Green Turf (Felse, #8)

By: Ellis Peters

4.50

Format: 142 pages,

When world famous singer Maggie Tressider crashes her car on the way to a concert, she wakes up in … read more

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13. Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #3)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder f… read more

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14. Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11)

By: Donna Leon

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague… read more

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Cover of The Man in the Queue (Inspector Alan Grant, #1) by Josephine Tey

15. 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
  • fiction

16. Suffer the Little Children (Commissario Brunetti, #16)

By: Donna Leon

3.57

Format: 271 pages,

Donna Leon's charming, evocative, and addictive Commissario Guido Brunetti series continues with Su… read more

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17. Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775

By: Derek W. Beck

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence, but several years earlier… read more

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18. McNally's Luck (Archy McNally, #2)

By: Lawrence Sanders

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

Playboy/lover/sleuth Archy McNally is back --- and the secrets of the filthy rich in Florida's Palm… read more

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19. Doctored Evidence (Commissario Brunetti, #13)

By: Donna Leon

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Donna Leon's riveting new novel, Doctored Evidence, follows Commissario Guido Brunetti down the win… read more

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20. The Girl of His Dreams (Commissario Brunetti, #17)

By: Donna Leon

2.83

Format: 24 pages,

Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries have won legions of fans for their evocative port… read more

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21. Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #1)

By: Harry Kemelman

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Rabbi David Small, the new leader of Barnard's Crossing's Jewish community, can't even enjoy his Sa… read more

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Cover of Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27) by Anne Hillerman

22. Lost Birds (A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #27)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“Anne Hillerman is a star.”—J. A. Jance, New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bes… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Long Ago by Michael McGarrity

23. The Long Ago

By: Michael McGarrity

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1960s, Ray Lansdale returns from Vietnam to his Montana home to search for his missing… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Swamp Spirits (Miss Fortune Mystery, #23) by Jana Deleon

24. Swamp Spirits (Miss Fortune Mystery, #23)

By: Jana Deleon

4.71

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Ghost of a chance? Fortune is thrilled when Ben Harrison, her former CIA partner, and his fiancé… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) by Anne Hillerman

25. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Takes One to Know One (Corie Geller, #1) by Susan Isaacs

26. Takes One to Know One (Corie Geller, #1)

By: Susan Isaacs

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Just a few years ago, Corie Geller was busting terrorists as an agent for the FBI. But at thirty-fi… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"An excess of fiction could make reality seem supremely dull with its crappy dialogue and lack of coincidences."

-Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One (Corie Geller, #1)

"I'd never learned to work efficiently as long as I had an internet connection. If a paragraph or even a phrase in a manuscript I was considering rang the deja vu gong, I suspected plagiarism, so I'd …"

-Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One (Corie Geller, #1)

Cover of Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1) by James  Patterson

27. Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

By: James Patterson

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and August Poe run the most in-demand private investigation firm in… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"In this quiet room, surrounded by tales of mystery and deception, she felt most like herself."

-James Patterson, Holmes, Marple & Poe (Holmes, Margaret & Poe #1)

Cover of Whiskers and Lies (A Magical Cats Mystery, #14) by Sofie Kelly

28. Whiskers and Lies (A Magical Cats Mystery, #14)

By: Sofie Kelly

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Librarian Kathleen Paulson is always willing to help a friend, but to save one from a wrongful arre… read more

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  • mystery
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

29. Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

3.85

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Generation of Vipers (Nell Ward, #4) by Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

30. A Generation of Vipers (Nell Ward, #4)

By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A killer is hiding in plain sight, like a snake in the long grass... When Dr Nell Ward stumbles … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Trace Elements (Commissario Guido Brunetti, #29) by Donna Leon

31. Trace Elements (Commissario Guido Brunetti, #29)

By: Donna Leon

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefra… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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21 Top fiction books like The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras (A Pot Thief Murder Mystery #1) by J. Michael Orenduff

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Partners in Crime (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, #2)

Agatha Christie

3.78

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Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

Caroline Graham

3.88

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Double Sin and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Cat Laughing Last (Joe Grey, #7)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

3.75

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A Whisker of Trouble (Second Chance Cat Mystery #3)

Sofie Ryan

4.17

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Telling Tails (Second Chance Cat Mystery #4)

Sofie Ryan

4.12

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Pouncing on Murder (A Bookmobile Cat Mystery, #4)

Laurie Cass

3.86

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The Whole Cat and Caboodle (Second Chance Cat Mystery, #1)

Sofie Ryan

4.19

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