22 Top mystery books like The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell

Cover of The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell

The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for  Physically and psychologically bruised b…

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Cover of Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11) by Kathy Reichs

1. Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.90

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather gris… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Moving Target (Ali Reynolds, #9) by J.A. Jance, Karen Ziémba

2. Moving Target (Ali Reynolds, #9)

By: J.A. Jance , Karen Ziémba

4.08

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

In this high-stakes thriller from New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance, Ali Reynolds spans … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15) by Kathy Reichs

3. Bones Are Forever (Temperance Brennan, #15)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

A riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan--a story of infanticide, murder, a… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14) by Kathy Reichs

4. Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #14)

By: Kathy Reichs

1.50

Format: None pages,

A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6) by Kathy Reichs

5. Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

It's a summer of sizzling heat in Charlotte where Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist f… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10) by Kathy Reichs

6. Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.71

Format: 595 pages,

For Temperance Brennan the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than jus… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8) by Kathy Reichs

7. Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.71

Format: 595 pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3) by Kathy Reichs

8. Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4) by Kathy Reichs

9. Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.71

Format: 595 pages, Paperback

Investigating a plane crash in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, forensic anthropologist Tempe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17) by Kathy Reichs

10. Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan, #17)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

In the acclaimed author's thrilling new novel, Brennan is at the top of her game in a battle of wit… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11) by Patricia Cornwell

11. The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for  Physically and psychologically bruised b… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Cross (Alex Cross, #12) by James  Patterson

12. Cross (Alex Cross, #12)

By: James Patterson

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunne… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2) by Jonathan Kellerman

13. Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

When the parents of deathly ill five-year-old Woody Swope vanish with their child, psychologist Dr.… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Kellerman's Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2) book and Patricia Cornwell's The Last Precinct (Kay Scarpetta, #11)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)"

-Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

"I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an ino…"

-Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test (Alex Delaware, #2)

14. Bones in Her Pocket (Temperance Brennan, #15.5)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.82

Format: None pages, ebook

Dr Temperance Brennan is in unfamiliar territory as she races to learn the truth from the bones - b… read more

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15. Hand of Evil (Ali Reynolds, #3)

By: J.A. Jance

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With his hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's drag… read more

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16. Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.44

Format: 216 pages,

On the second-to-last day of archaeological field school Dr Temperance Brennan's students are worki… read more

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Cover of When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1) by Jonathan Kellerman

17. When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The first Alex Delaware novel. It's a good one! We meet Dr. Morton Handler who practiced a stran… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder."

-Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)

"Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place."

-Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)

"Pessimism is not good for the soul." "I sold my soul years ago." "To whom?" "The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off."

-Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)

"There were nights when I left the sessions physically and emotionally drained after hearing the anguish pour out like blood from a gaping wound. Don’t let anyone ever tell you different – psychothera…"

-Jonathan Kellerman, When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, #1)

18. Bones of the Lost (Temperance Brennan, #16)

By: Kathy Reichs

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her sixteenth riveting novel featuri… read more

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19. 206 Bones (Temperance Brennan, #12)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.98

Format: None pages,

Cold and alone, bound hands to feet, Tempe Brennan regains consciousness locked in a dark cell--or … read more

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20. Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.00

Format: None pages,

The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forens… read more

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21. Swamp Bones: A Novella (Temperance Brennan, #16.5)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan returns in a chilling eBook original novella from #1 New… read more

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22. Spider Bones (Temperance Brennan, #13)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Kathy Reichs--#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones--re… read more

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Cover of Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) by Kathy Reichs

23. Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.87

Format: 532 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

Cover of The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) by Susan  Rowland

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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • 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 Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) by Michael    Connelly

25. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series) by Carolyn M. Bowen

26. Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

By: Carolyn M. Bowen

4.36

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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"He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

Cover of 23 1/2 Lies (Women’s Murder Club, #23.5) by James  Patterson

27. 23 1/2 Lies (Women’s Murder Club, #23.5)

By: James Patterson

3.70

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Enjoy three heart-racing thrillers from the New York Times bestselling master of suspense. 23 1/… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22) by Kathy Reichs

28. The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thrill… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24) by James  Patterson

29. The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)

By: James Patterson

4.13

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

Trouble always finds the Women's Murder Club... Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum, #30) by Janet Evanovich

30. Dirty Thirty (Stephanie Plum, #30)

By: Janet Evanovich

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freela… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power by Jason Ryan

31. Swamp Kings: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina and a Century of Backwoods Power

By: Jason Ryan

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic i… read more

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  • mystery

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3.90

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4.08

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3.69

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4.18

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