11 must-read mystery thriller books like The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10) by Colin Dexter

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The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter." -…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10) by Colin Dexter , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9) by None, P.D. James

1. Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

By: None , P.D. James

3.90

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

The literary world is shaken when a murder takes place at the Peverell Press, an old-established pu… read more

Similar categories in None's Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."

-None, Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

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2. The Whitstable Pearl Mystery (Whitstable Pearl Mystery #1)

By: Julie Wassmer

3.76

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

An intriguing debut mystery novel combining seafood, murder and a multitasking heroine in a gorgeou… read more

Similar categories in Julie Wassmer's The Whitstable Pearl Mystery (Whitstable Pearl Mystery #1) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Rivers of London Vol. 2: Night Witch by Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan

3. Rivers of London Vol. 2: Night Witch

By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan

3.82

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Press-ganged into helping a Russian oligarch hunt his missing daughter, PC Peter Grant and his boss… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London Vol. 2: Night Witch book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

By: Caroline Graham

3.88

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Actors do love their dramas, and the members of the Causton Amateur Dramatic Society are no excepti… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Graham's Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli

5. Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7)

By: Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

3.98

Format: 574 pages, Paperback

The earthy and urbane Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano casts his spell on more and more fans… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Camilleri's Rounding the Mark (Inspector Montalbano, #7) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Touch Of Frost (Inspector Frost, #2) by R.D. Wingfield

6. A Touch Of Frost (Inspector Frost, #2)

By: R.D. Wingfield

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Detective Inspector Jack Frost, offically on duty, is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a col… read more

Similar categories in R.D. Wingfield's A Touch Of Frost (Inspector Frost, #2) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell

7. Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author and grand dame of British crime fiction (The Gazette) comes the chill… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently."

-Ruth Rendell, Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21)

Cover of The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14) by None, P.D. James

8. 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 Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • 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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9. A Man's Head (Maigret #5)

By: Georges Simenon

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A rich American widow and her maid have been stabbed to death in a brutal attack. All the evidence … read more

Similar categories in Georges Simenon's A Man's Head (Maigret #5) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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10. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense fore… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) by Ruth Rendell

11. Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Ma… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Wolf to the Slaughter (Inspector Wexford, #3) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4) by Caroline Graham

12. Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4)

By: Caroline Graham

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Caroline Graham's Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10) by Colin Dexter

13. The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

"Cunning...Your imagination will be frenetically flapping its wings until the very last chapter." -… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Murder on Sea by Julie Wassmer

14. Murder on Sea

By: Julie Wassmer

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

It's not the season of good will to all men... The festive month is kicking off in style and Pearl … read more

Similar categories in Julie Wassmer's Murder on Sea book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

15. The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Scotland Yard Inspector Adam Dalgliesh races to solve a twisted murder in bestselling author P.D. J… read more

Similar categories in None's The Black Tower (Adam Dalgliesh #5) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

Cover of Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6) by None, P.D. James

16. Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

By: None , P.D. James

3.94

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his b… read more

Similar categories in None's Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
"I used to think that we can have almost anything we want from life, that it's just a question of organization. But now I'm beginning to think that we have to make a choice more often than we'd like. …"

-None, Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh, #6)

17. An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe, #2)

By: Reginald Hill

3.88

Format: 192 pages,

Lecturers having it away with students, midnight romps among the sand dunes, these fit in pretty we… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's An Advancement of Learning (Dalziel & Pascoe, #2) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

Cover of O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted by A.G. Russo

18. O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

By: A.G. Russo

4.34

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

*Author "I have never used AI in my writing." A.G. RussoThe homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New … read more

Similar categories in A.G. Russo's O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
"A uniformed cop around 6’4"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them."

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

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19. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

Similar categories in Carol Carnac's Impact of Evidence book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) by Behcet Kaya

20. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

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21. Big Ben Strikes Eleven

By: David Magarshack

3.34

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

The discovery of Sir Robert Boniface's body on the floor of his limousine was made quite accidental… read more

Similar categories in David Magarshack's Big Ben Strikes Eleven book and Colin Dexter's The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

17 must-read fiction books like The Way Through The Woods (Inspector Morse, #10) by Colin Dexter

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

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3.90

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Julie Wassmer

3.76

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Rivers of London Vol. 2: Night Witch

Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan

3.82

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Death Of A Hollow Man (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #2)

Caroline Graham

3.88

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J.B. Lion

4.32

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Andri E. Elia

4.36

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Susan Rowland

4.33

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K. Ritz

4.33

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