20 best-selling crime books like The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths

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The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G…

If you liked the crime plot in The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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

1. 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 Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Man… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspe… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It was precisely midnight when he stepped through the door. Taylor had said he wanted everyone in the Incident Room an hour before first light the next day, but Perez wasn't ready for sleep. As he sw…"

-Ann Cleeves, Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

Cover of A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1) by Deborah Crombie

4. A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)

By: Deborah Crombie

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Du… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Crombie's A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

5. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's White Nights (Shetland Island, #2) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders bri… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.05

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

North Devon is enjoying a rare hot summer with tourists flocking to its coastline. Detective Matthe… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.33

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Who is killing off members of the Falconer family and why? Such is the challenge confronting highly… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Falconers,"

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,"

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity."

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt."

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

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10. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) by Robert Thorogood

11. Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks – AKA the Marlow Murder Clu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"... Feynman's technique was simple. And he claimed that it was always successful. But it' not currently working for me. Not yet. What was it? Well, when he was building the first atomic bomb, he obse…"

-Robert Thorogood, Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

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12. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) by Robert Galbraith

13. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Galbraith's The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

14. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

15. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1) by Ann Cleeves

16. The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.95

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outsi… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His thoughts were wheeling and dipping like the gulls over the estuary, groping for an explanation, feeling at last he was making sense of what lie behind Walden's death..."

-Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Two Rivers, #1)

Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

17. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

18. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

19. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

20. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

Cover of The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) by Robert Thorogood

21. The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years … read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1) book and Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) by Elly Griffiths

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The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)

Ann Cleeves

3.86

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Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.09

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Raven Black (Shetland Island, #1)

Ann Cleeves

3.96

Transform Your Habits

A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)

Deborah Crombie

0.00

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20 Best fiction books like A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

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A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

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Michael Connelly

4.49

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