22 Top crime books like Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) by Ruth Rendell

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Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Ma…

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1. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

By: None , P.D. James

3.90

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more

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"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."

-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

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2. The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)

By: Colin Dexter

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Inspector Morse, recovering from an ulcer in Oxford's Radcliffe Hospital, comes across an old book … read more

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"He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people."

-Colin Dexter, The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)

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3. A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)

By: None

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia … read more

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4. Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

By: None , P.D. James

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hailed as “mystery at its best” by The New York Times, Shroud for a Nightingale is the fourth book … read more

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"You feel sexy" Dalgliesh gave the question serious attention. "No. I'm too old to feel sexy when I'm cold and tired. At my age you need the creature comforts if you're to perform with any pleasure to…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

"He didn't want her; he wanted me. Well, you know how it is." Dalgliesh did know. This, after all, was the commonest, the most banal of personal tragedies. You loved someone. They didn't love you. Wor…"

-None, Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

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5. A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks, #2)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It's Inspector Banks second big case after arriving in the north from London; could it be any more … read more

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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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7. 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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"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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8. 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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9. Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11)

By: Reginald Hill

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspect… read more

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10. Recalled to Life (Dalziel & Pascoe, #13)

By: Reginald Hill

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

It was a crime of passion in onc of England's great houses, an open-and-shut case. But thirty years… read more

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11. Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Ma… read more

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12. The House of Stairs

By: Barbara Vine

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The House of Stairs - an unputdownable crime classic from bestselling author Barbara Vine Lizzie ha… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations B… read more

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16. The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter." -… read more

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17. The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Much too early on New Year's Day, a grumpy Inspector Morse is summoned to investigate a murder at t… read more

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Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

18. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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19. A Mind to Murder (Adam Dalgliesh #2)

By: None

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

The second book to feature Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh, A Mind To Murder is a "superb… read more

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20. Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)

By: Colin Dexter

3.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." -… read more

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21. The Murder Room (Adam Dalgliesh #12)

By: None

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Commander Adam Dalgliesh returns to find himself enmeshed in a terrifying story of passion and myst… read more

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22. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more

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23. The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. J… read more

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24. The Murder Stone

By: Charles Todd

3.37

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather di… read more

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25. Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3)

By: None

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday… read more

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26. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)

By: None

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more

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27. 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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"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)

28. An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe, #2)

By: Reginald Hill

3.88

Format: 192 pages,

Lecturers having it away with students, midnight romps among the sand dunes, these fit in pretty we… read more

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29. Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)

By: None , P.D. James

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in… read more

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"Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge."

-None, Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)

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30. The Killing Place (D.I. Wesley Peterson, #27)

By: Kate Ellis

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMES November. With the tourist seaso… read more

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31. The Part-Time Job

By: P.D. James

3.84

Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition

Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of P.D. James, the undisputed “Queen of Crime,” w… read more

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16 best-selling thriller books like Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) by Ruth Rendell

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

None , P.D. James

3.90

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The Wench is Dead (Inspector Morse #8)

Colin Dexter

3.92

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A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)

None

3.75

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Shroud for a Nightingale (Adam Dalgliesh, #4)

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4.03

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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

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1.00

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