20 must-read crime books like Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) by Ann Cleeves

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Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archa…

If you liked the crime plot in Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) by Ann Cleeves , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3) by Elly Griffiths

1. The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.76

Format: None pages,

Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II wa… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archa… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway investigates a heart-stopping an old university friend and fel… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You need a break, a complete rest, recharge your batteries.' Recharge your batteries. What the hell does that mean? Nelson prides himself on not needing batteries. He's an old-fashioned, wind-up mode…"

-Elly Griffiths, A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)

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6. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

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7. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The fire on the mountain."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

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8. 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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

9. 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 Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • 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)

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10. 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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) by Elly Griffiths

11. 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

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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12. 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 Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • 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)

Cover of The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) by Elly Griffiths

13. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) by Elly Griffiths

14. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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15. The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

ASIN moved from less recent edition It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Gallowa… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it."

-Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)

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16. The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.14

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award  Praise for Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series   “G… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Libraries are the cathedrals of the modern age. All that knowledge, available for anyone to use. It’s quite a subversive thought."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"Does the world really need another long essay on environmental archaeology and freshwater mollusks? Well, it's going to get one, whether it likes it or not."

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"His mind isn't reacting properly, plodding along the byways and cul-de-sacs because it can't face the traffic on the main highway. But when it comes to it, his life has once more become a straight ro…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

"It's a long shot but we can't leave any stone unturned. Cloughie, you get onto the number plate.' It's an odd phrase, thinks Nelson, as he runs the CCTV footage one more time. He thinks of the tunnel…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9)

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18. The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.05

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway—“a captivating amateur sleuth” (Louise Penny)—and… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Look which way the bones lie. The position tells you everything. In Christian burials, bodies are usually buried facing east, supposedly towards heaven. Sometimes priests and religious leaders are bu…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)

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19. The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.20

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life—until a convicted killer tells her that four … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8) by Elly Griffiths

20. The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.97

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparit… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8) book and Ann Cleeves's Red Bones (Shetland Island, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He might be living on mice, but Chesterton does not look like an animal who is governed by his appetites. He's an ascetic, if Cathbad ever saw one."

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson is glad to see a handler and her dog coming towards him. The recognises the woman as Jan Adams, famous in Norfolk for having won several medals for bravery. Her dog, a beautiful long-haired Ge…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"Nelson's first thought is that Father Hennessey looks as bad as he does. The priest is still an intimidating presence, with his rugby player's shoulders and boxer's nose, but his eyes are shadowed an…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

"As Ruth only knows one priest (one male priest that is) she's not that surprised to find Father Hennessey waiting for her at one of the long tables, a cappucino in front of him. 'Hallo Ruth, sorry to…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)

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21. Ann Cleeves Reading Order and Checklist: The guide to the Vera Stanhope series, Shetland novels, Two Rivers series, Inspector Ramsay books, Palmer Jones series, and standalone novels

By: Crime Curator

3.95

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

UPDATED FOR 2023This book offers you a handy reading guide to the great crime novels of Ann Cleeves… read more

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