18 best-selling mystery books like Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9) by Ruth Rendell

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Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela H…

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1. The Birthday Present

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.44

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. Poseidon's Gold (Marcus Didius Falco, #5)

By: Lindsey Davis

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A.D. 72: To many, Rome is the center of the Empire. To Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial spy and casual… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Anna's Book

By: Barbara Vine

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Anna is a young Danish woman living in London at the turn of the century. Homesick and lonely for h… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE The case seems so … read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9) book and Ruth Rendell's Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Brief (Charles Holborne #1) by Simon Michael

5. The Brief (Charles Holborne #1)

By: Simon Michael

4.08

Format: 348 pages,

Wrongfully accused of his wife's murder, Barrister Charles Holborne must convince the police of his… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. King Solomon's Carpet

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.00

Format: None pages,

King Solomon's magic carpet is the London Underground, running past the disused old school building… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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7. Late Checkout (DCI Kenny Murrain Book 1)

By: Alex Walters

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) by None, P.D. James

8. The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

By: None , P.D. James

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate a murder at a private nursing ho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable fl…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"With the death of what Sydney Smith described as rational religon and the proponents of what remains sending out such confusing and uncertain messages, all civilised people have to be ethicists. We m…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefi…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

"The city which lay below was a charnel house built on multi-layered bones centuries older than those which lay beneath the cities of Hamburg or Dresden. Was this knowledge part of the mystery it held…"

-None, The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)

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9. A Fatal Inversion

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner ...… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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10. Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The bed was neatly made, and the woman on top neatly strangled. According to all accounts, Angela H… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9) book and Ruth Rendell's Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. No Night is Too Long

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

12. A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Faith Severn's aunt was hanged for murder, the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspens… read more

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

14. High Island Blues (George & Molly Palmer-Jones, #8)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.20

Format: 251 pages,

In a bird watcher's paradise, murder comes home to roost. Among the birders from around the world g… read more

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Cover of Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6) by None, P.D. James

15. Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

By: None , P.D. James

3.94

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his b… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I used to think that we can have almost anything we want from life, that it's just a question of organization. But now I'm beginning to think that we have to make a choice more often than we'd like. …"

-None, Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

16. Dead & Buried (Calladine & Bayliss, #5)

By: Helen H. Durrant

3.99

Format: None pages,

A GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS 40 years ago something terrible happened in Annie… read more

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17. An Honest Man: second book in the Charles Holborne series

By: Simon Michael

4.40

Format: 205 pages,

'An Honest Man drops you into the murky depths of gangland London when the Krays and Richardsons we… read more

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Cover of Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28) by Peter Robinson

18. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) by Val McDermid

19. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Guard Her With Your Life by Joy Ellis

20. Guard Her With Your Life

By: Joy Ellis

3.97

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

A GRIPPING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM MULTI-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS. Detective Sam H… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Hunter

By: Ross Greenwood

3.90

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a story about a city. As with all others, it’s a place of violence. There are murderers, an… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

18 best-selling fiction books like Shake Hands Forever (Inspector Wexford, #9) by Ruth Rendell

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The Birthday Present

Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.44

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Poseidon's Gold (Marcus Didius Falco, #5)

Lindsey Davis

4.12

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Anna's Book

Barbara Vine

4.05

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The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)

Colin Dexter

3.98

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8 Best fiction books like A Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

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Talking to Strange Men

Ruth Rendell

2.00

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Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

Ruth Rendell

4.16

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From Doon With Death (Inspector Wexford, #1)

Ruth Rendell

3.68

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A Dark-Adapted Eye

Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

1.00

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