16 must-read mystery thriller books like The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7) by Colin Dexter

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The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Much too early on New Year's Day, a grumpy Inspector Morse is summoned to investigate a murder at t…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7) by Colin Dexter , here is a list of 16 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

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  • 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. First Frost (Detective Jack Frost Prequel, #1)

By: James Henry

4.05

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

It's Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly active and the country… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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4. Fatal Frost (Detective Jack Frost Prequel, #2)

By: James Henry

4.20

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

May, 1982. Britain celebrates the sinking of the Belgrano, Jimmy Savile has the run of the airwaves… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. A Ghost In The Machine (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #7)

By: Caroline Graham

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

When a bloody, pulverized body is found lying beneath the rustic timbers of an authentic torture de… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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7. 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

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. A Killing Frost (Inspector Frost, #6)

By: R.D. Wingfield

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On a rainy night in Denton, Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre disco… read more

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

9. 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

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  • 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)

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10. Winter Frost (Inspector Frost, #5)

By: R.D. Wingfield

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

Denton is having more than its fair share of crime. A serial killer is murdering local prostitutes;… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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11. A Place Of Safety (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #6)

By: Caroline Graham

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Charlie Leathers was not the most popular man in the charming English village of Ferne Basset, but … read more

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

12. 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

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  • 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)

13. Report For Murder (Lindsay Gordon, #1)

By: Val McDermid

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminis… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to f… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
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15. 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

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  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4)

By: Caroline Graham

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

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  • detective
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  • crime
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17. The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Much too early on New Year's Day, a grumpy Inspector Morse is summoned to investigate a murder at t… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime

18. A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double mur… read more

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19. Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)

By: None

4.22

Format: 206 pages,

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in h… read more

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20. 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

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21. Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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22. Night Frost (Inspector Frost, #3)

By: R.D. Wingfield

3.00

Format: None pages,

While the local police succumb to a flu epidemic and the unsolved crimes pile up, a tired and demor… read more

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23. The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Chief Inspector Wexford, injured in a car bombing, must rely on Detective Mike Burden to catch a ki… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime

24. The Princess of Burundi

By: Ebba Segerberg , Kjell Eriksson

3.00

Format: None pages,

This spellbinding new thriller opens when a young father fails to show up for supper on a snowy nig… read more

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25. Death In Disguise (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #3)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

The Lodge of the Golden Windhorse has provided the citizens of Compton Dando with splendid fodder f… read more

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26. The Lighthouse (Adam Dalgliesh #13)

By: None

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A secure and secluded retreat for the rich and powerful becomes the setting for an unsettling serie… read more

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27. 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

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  • 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)

28. 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

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29. No Man's Nightingale (Inspector Wexford #24)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, th… read more

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30. 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

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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31. The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.78

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

During a painting retreat, a killer takes a creative approach to the ancient art of murder... Th… read more

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  • detective
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  • mystery
  • crime
"One of these days you’ll go too far, and somebody will murder you.' 'I shouldn’t be in the least surprised,' said Lord Peter, pleasantly."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

"What's that, mister?" "That's the green for the gentleman's coat. No--don't pinch it, or you'll get it all over you. Yes, you can put the cap on. Yes, that's to keep it from drying up. Yes, put it ba…"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, The Five Red Herrings (Lord Peter Wimsey, #7)

21 must-read fiction books like The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7) by Colin Dexter

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

None , P.D. James

3.90

Transform Your Habits

First Frost (Detective Jack Frost Prequel, #1)

James Henry

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Fatal Frost (Detective Jack Frost Prequel, #2)

James Henry

4.20

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16 Best fiction books like Not in the Flesh (Inspector Wexford, #21) by Ruth Rendell

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

None , P.D. James

3.90

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The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2)

Giles Blunt

3.74

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For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)

Elizabeth George

4.02

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Anna's Book

Barbara Vine

4.05

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