25 Best fiction books like The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20) by Jane Haddam

Cover of The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20) by Jane Haddam

The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

By: Jane Haddam

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Windsor Academy ranks as one of the best New England prep schools money can buy. From its Gothic ar…

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Cover of The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1) by Ann Cleeves

1. The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.86

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Vera Stanhope's first appearance was in The Crow Trap, published in 1999 and now available in a new… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Crow Trap (Vera Stanhope, #1) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Body in the Sleigh (Faith Fairchild, #18) by Katherine Hall Page

2. The Body in the Sleigh (Faith Fairchild, #18)

By: Katherine Hall Page

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It's Christmastime, and the Fairchild family is spending the holidays on idyllic Sanpere Island in … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Hall Page's The Body in the Sleigh (Faith Fairchild, #18) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3) by Ann Cleeves

3. Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) by Ann Cleeves

4. Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Man… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

5. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Cover of Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6) by Ann Cleeves

6. Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Harbour Street is the sixth book in Ann Cleeves' crime novel series VERA - which is a major TV dete… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
"He was never very good at talking about feelings. He'd been on his own for so long that it was as if he'd had to learn a new language"

-Ann Cleeves, Harbour Street (Vera Stanhope, #6)

Cover of Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6) by Ann Cleeves

7. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

8. White Nights (Shetland Island, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.76

Format: 6 pages,

The electrifying follow up to the award-winningRaven Black Raven Blackreceived crime fiction's high… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's White Nights (Shetland Island, #2) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4) by Ann Cleeves

9. Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, she wonders bri… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Silent Voices (Vera Stanhope, #4) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20) by Jane Haddam

10. The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

By: Jane Haddam

4.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Windsor Academy ranks as one of the best New England prep schools money can buy. From its Gothic ar… read more

Similar categories in Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter

11. Flowering Judas

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Katherine Anne Porter often spoke of her story "Flowering Judas" as the tale she liked best of all … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • fiction
Cover of Three Bedrooms, One Corpse  (Aurora Teagarden, #3) by Charlaine Harris

12. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden, #3)

By: Charlaine Harris

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora "Roe" Teagar… read more

Similar categories in Charlaine Harris's Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden, #3) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

13. The Moth Catcher (Vera Stanhope #7)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This case was different from anything Vera had ever worked before. Two bodies, connected but not ly… read more

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14. The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope, #5)

By: Ann Cleeves

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied… read more

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15. The Good Goodbye

By: Carla Buckley

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Deepest Secretreturns with another spellbinding domestic thriller about an estran… read more

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16. LaRose

By: Louise Erdrich

3.15

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winn… read more

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17. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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18. A Lesson In Dying (Inspector Ramsey, #1)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.88

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

Heppleburn, once a Northumberland pit village, has always been close-knit, friendly and safe - unti… read more

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19. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) by Sophie Hannah

20. Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

By: Sophie Hannah

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Golden Gate by Amy  Chua

21. The Golden Gate

By: Amy Chua

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chua's The Golden Gate book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3) by Sujata Massey

22. The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)

By: Sujata Massey

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murder… read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Woman on the Island (Vera Stanhope #9.5) by Ann Cleeves

23. The Woman on the Island (Vera Stanhope #9.5)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.68

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with a delicious short story featuring DCI Vera Stanh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Woman on the Island (Vera Stanhope #9.5) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

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

24. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Wild Fire (Shetland Island, #8) by Ann Cleeves

25. Wild Fire (Shetland Island, #8)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.20

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

When the Flemings--designer Helena and architect Daniel--move into a remote community in the north … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Wild Fire (Shetland Island, #8) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5) by Ann Cleeves

26. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.40

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime

27. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Woman With the Cure by Lynn Cullen

28. The Woman With the Cure

By: Lynn Cullen

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

She gave up everything— and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the w… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Cullen's The Woman With the Cure book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • fiction
"You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's metho…"

-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

"Even scientific articles contributed to defining a woman's place. It wasn't just by happenstance that when Dorothy was photographed with David Bodian for Time magazine at the conference where they an…"

-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

"Not a direct quote, but referenced in the author's note at the end - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was instrumental in developing a new method of treating polio. Barbara Johnson, a laboratory technician wh…"

-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure

Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

29. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

Cover of Mr. Texas by Lawrence Wright

30. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's Mr. Texas book and Jane Haddam's The Headmaster's Wife (Gregor Demarkian, #20)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of No Strangers Here (County Kerry Mystery, #1) by Carlene O'Connor

31. No Strangers Here (County Kerry Mystery, #1)

By: Carlene O'Connor

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On a rocky beach in the southwest of Ireland, the body of Johnny O’Reilly, sixty-nine years old and… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime

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