20 Best crime books like The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9) by Ian Rankin

Cover of The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9) by Ian Rankin

The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

By: Ian Rankin

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

If you liked the crime plot in The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9) by Ian Rankin , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks, #20) by Peter Robinson

1. Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks, #20)

By: Peter Robinson

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

DCI Alan Banks reluctantly investigates DI Bill Quinn with Inspector Joanna Passero. Quinn, convale… read more

Similar categories in Peter Robinson's Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks, #20) book and Ian Rankin's The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of When the Music's Over (Inspector Banks, #23) by Peter Robinson

2. When the Music's Over (Inspector Banks, #23)

By: Peter Robinson

4.07

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a young girl is found in a remote countryside lane, evidence suggests she was drug… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. Rush of Blood

By: Mark Billingham

3.81

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder... Three couples meet around the pool on t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish."

-Mark Billingham, Rush of Blood

Cover of The Bones Beneath (Tom Thorne, #12) by Mark Billingham

4. The Bones Beneath (Tom Thorne, #12)

By: Mark Billingham

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Tho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1) by Val McDermid

5. The Distant Echo (Inspector Karen Pirie, #1)

By: Val McDermid

3.68

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet inThe Distant E… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Zenith: Phase One

By: Grant Morrison , None

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Berlin, 1945: The allies unleashed the second world war hero Maximan upon the German supersoldier M… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Blood Hunt

By: Ian Rankin , Jack Harvey

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

As a former soldier, Gordon Reeve knows something about killing. So despite the fact that the death… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Bleeding Hearts

By: Ian Rankin , Jack Harvey

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Witch Hunt

By: Ian Rankin , Jack Harvey

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Witch - infamous, clever, invisible, assassin. Interpol have tried and failed to find her. Now the … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: None pages,

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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11. The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

By: Ian Rankin

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12. A Painted Doom (Wesley Peterson, #6)

By: Kate Ellis

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which exci… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace, #8) by Peter James

13. Not Dead Yet (Roy Grace, #8)

By: Peter James

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

Roy Grace tracks a stalker obsessed with a Hollywood starlet in Not Dead Yet, the latest from #1 in… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7) by Peter Robinson

14. Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7)

By: Peter Robinson

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two masked men walk mild mannered accountant, Keith Rothwell, out of his farmhouse and clinically b… read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

15. Kick Back (Kate Brannigan, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

'Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, … read more

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16. The Papers of Tony Veitch (Jack Laidlaw, #2)

By: William McIlvanney

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

The dying words of an alcoholic tramp set Jack Laidlaw onto the trail of a certain Tony Veitch, a y… read more

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17. Background to Danger

By: Eric Ambler

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Kenton's career as a journalist depended on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European … read more

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18. Laidlaw (Jack Laidlaw, #1)

By: William McIlvanney

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut i… read more

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19. The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2)

By: Val McDermid

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runawa… read more

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20. Dead Water (Shetland Island, #5)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery f… read more

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21. Children of the Revolution (Inspector Banks, #21)

By: Peter Robinson

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with PS5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line… read more

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22. A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)

By: Val McDermid

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

1984, Fife. Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant & her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes h… read more

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23. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and Ian Rankin's The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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24. 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 Ian Rankin's The Hanging Garden (Inspector Rebus, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • 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)

Cover of Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) by Val McDermid

25. 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
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

26. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19) by Peter James

27. Stop Them Dead (Roy Grace #19)

By: Peter James

4.35

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A ruthless crime. A race against time. When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Dead Tell Lies by J.F. Kirwan

28. The Dead Tell Lies

By: J.F. Kirwan

4.36

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to catch a serial killer, you need to think like one. Greg Adams, a criminal psychol… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney

29. The Dark Remains

By: William McIlvanney

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."

-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains

Cover of The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) by Alexander McCall Smith

30. The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series, Isabel finds herself navigating … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland) by Tod Goldberg

31. Gangsters Don't Die: A Novel (Gangsterland)

By: Tod Goldberg

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The “gloriously original” ( The New York Times ) and critically acclaimed crime series starring a C… read more

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  • fiction

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3.81

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