20 Best fiction books like Devil's Work by Margaret Yorke

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Devil's Work

By: Margaret Yorke

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

If you liked the fiction plot in Devil's Work by Margaret Yorke , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Miss Pym Disposes

By: Josephine Tey

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

To Lucy Pym, author of a best-seller on Psychology, the atmosphere at the college where she is lect… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Whose Body?  (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1) by Dorothy L. Sayers

2. Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.84

Format: 212 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"But if you were investigating a crime,"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Well, it’s no good jumping at conclusions."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"Oh damn!' said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

"I trust you told her I had succumbed to lethargic encephalitis suddenly, no flowers by request."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey, #1)

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3. Devil's Work

By: Margaret Yorke

3.87

Format: 160 pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

4. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

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5. A Place Called Freedom

By: Ken Follett

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, tw… read more

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6. The Tree of Hands

By: Ruth Rendell

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. Benet, stricken by the most grievous loss … read more

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7. Three Wishes

By: Liane Moriarty

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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8. Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind … read more

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9. The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in si… read more

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10. Brat Farrar

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Listening Length: 7 hours and 55 minutes Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the ident… read more

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11. To Love and Be Wise (Inspector Alan Grant, #4)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a strikingly handsome young photographer mysteriously disappears, it's up to Inspector Alan Gr… read more

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12. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

13. I Let You Go

By: Clare Mackintosh

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a split second, Jenna Gray's world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to w… read more

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14. Cujo

By: Stephen King

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Durante toda su vida Cujo fue un buen perro, un San Bernardo grandote, pacífico, juguetón y amante … read more

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  • fiction
"The monster nevers dies."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"There is no bad time for good news."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"No hago más que percibirle... sentirle... en todos los rincones."

-Stephen King, Cujo

"Aspiraba el olor de la locura en un viento que aún no había llegado."

-Stephen King, Cujo

15. The Best Man to Die (Inspector Wexford, #4)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the mur… read more

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16. Harm Done (Inspector Wexford, #18)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard fa… read more

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17. Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box, #2)

By: Richard Chizmar

3.78

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Something evil has swept into the small western Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the lates… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. The Widow

By: Valerie Keogh

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Grieving or guilty? When Allison’s wealthy and charming husband Peter is found dead, she appears… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box, #3)

By: Stephen King

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The final book in the New York Times bestselling Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy from Stephen King and … read more

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

21. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3) by Robert Bryndza

22. Darkness Falls (Kate Marshall, #3)

By: Robert Bryndza

4.28

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Kate Marshall’s investigation into a journalist’s disappearance sends her down an unexpectedly twis… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

23. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11) by Elly Griffiths

24. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. The Marriage Pact

By: Michelle Richmond

3.60

Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition

Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock ba… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"The longer something remains a priority, he said, the more it becomes second nature, hardwired in our minds and actions."

-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact

"I hate chitchat, small talk, getting to know people in that fake way that guarantees you'll know less about them at the end of the conversation than you did at the beginning."

-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact

"I expected marriage to be a door that we went through. Like a new house, you step into it, expecting it to be an unchanging space to inhabit. But, of course, I was wrong. Marriage is a living, changi…"

-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact

"I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a li…"

-Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact

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26. The Couple at No. 9

By: Claire Douglas

4.07

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

It was the house of their dreams. Until the bodies were found . . . BODIES FOUND UNDER PATIO … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Shadow Sands (Kate Marshall, #2) by Robert Bryndza

27. Shadow Sands (Kate Marshall, #2)

By: Robert Bryndza

4.22

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

The moors are a perfect hiding place for a serial killer. And a chilling return to the past for nas… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway #9) by Elly Griffiths

28. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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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29. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway, #12) by Elly Griffiths

30. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Now You See Them (The Brighton Mysteries, #5) by Elly Griffiths

31. Now You See Them (The Brighton Mysteries, #5)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The fifth gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway serie… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

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