14 Top crime books like Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17) by Ian Rankin

Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

By: Ian Rankin

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As h…

If you liked the crime plot in Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17) by Ian Rankin , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland

3.87

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. Th… read more

Similar categories in John Toland's The Dillinger Days book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • crime
Cover of Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1) by Colin Dexter

2. Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia'… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. 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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4. 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

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's Bleeding Hearts book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. 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

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's Witch Hunt book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) by None, P.D. James

6. 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

Similar categories in None's The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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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7. 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 Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

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

8. Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

By: Ian Rankin

3.50

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As h… read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

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

9. 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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10. 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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11. Skinner's Rules (Bob Skinner, #1)

By: Quintin Jardine

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The book that launched a legend: the first novel in the acclaimed Bob Skinner series. As head of Ed… read more

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12. The Secret Hangman (Peter Diamond, #9)

By: Peter Lovesey

5.00

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Widowed Inspector Peter Diamond is being pursued by a secret admirer as he pursues a serial killer.… read more

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13. Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

By: Lee Matthew Goldberg

4.28

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

A PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER THAT ASKS HOW FAR WE'RE WILLING TO SHED OUR MORALS IN ORDER TO HELP THE O… read more

Similar categories in Lee Matthew Goldberg's Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • thriller
  • fiction
"Any wish fulfilled...for the right price."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"Honey, I'm Marilyn Fucking Monroe. And don't you forget it."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"On an unseasonably warm winter's morning, I took my first life."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today."

-Lee Matthew Goldberg, Immoral Origins (The Desire Card, #1)

Cover of Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) by Behcet Kaya

14. 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 Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • 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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15. 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 Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • 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)

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16. Get Rich or Get Lucky

By: Max Nowaz

4.25

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Get Rich or Get Lucky is a gripping fantasy thriller that follows Adam who finds himself in control… read more

Similar categories in Max Nowaz's Get Rich or Get Lucky book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • fiction
"I’m fucking asking you!"

-Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

"You don’t think he’s our man?"

-Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

"Charlie said your friend’s disappeared,"

-Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

"Rachael, I don’t think this is a very good idea."

-Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

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

17. 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

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

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

18. 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 Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

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

19. 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

Similar categories in J.F. Kirwan's The Dead Tell Lies book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

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

20. 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

Similar categories in William McIlvanney's The Dark Remains book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • 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

21. 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

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Conditions of Unconditional Love (Isabel Dalhousie, #15) book and Ian Rankin's Exit Music (Inspector Rebus, #17)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction

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Colin Dexter

3.98

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4.03

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Ian Rankin , Jack Harvey

3.71

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4.00

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Elly Griffiths

3.76

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3.92

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Elly Griffiths

4.01

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3.97

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