12 Top thriller books like The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13) by Colin Dexter

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The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13) by Colin Dexter , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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. Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)

By: Martha Grimes

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richar… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5) book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. 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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Frost At Christmas (Inspector Frost, #1)

By: R.D. Wingfield

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Ten days to Christmas and Tracey Uphill, aged eight, hasn't come home from Sunday school. Her mothe… read more

Similar categories in R.D. Wingfield's Frost At Christmas (Inspector Frost, #1) book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. 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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. 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
  • thriller
  • 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Caroline Graham's A Place Of Safety (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #6) book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • 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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9. 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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. The Altered Case (Hennessey & Yellich, #22)

By: Peter Turnbull

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A skeleton-filled grave leads DCI Hennessey's team back to the aftermath of the English Civil War i… read more

Similar categories in Peter Turnbull's The Altered Case (Hennessey & Yellich, #22) book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery
  • british literature
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11. Written In Blood (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #4)

By: Caroline Graham

4.10

Format: 40 pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

The final Inspector Morse mystery finds the cunning detective and the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13) book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

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

13. 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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14. 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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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

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16. 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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17. The Inspector and Silence (Inspector Van Veeteren #5)

By: Håkan Nesser

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Dass er spannende Geschichten erzahlen kann, deren Auflosung auch Kenner des Genres unerwartet trif… read more

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18. Search the Dark (Inspector Ian Rutledge, #3)

By: Charles Todd

5.00

Format: 229 pages,

The introspective hero of Wings of Fireand A Test of Wills(Edgar Award nominee) returns in Search t… read more

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19. A Necessary End (Inspector Banks, #3)

By: Peter Robinson

4.36

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

Violence erupts at an anti-nuclear demonstration in Eastvale, leaving one policeman stabbed to deat… read more

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20. 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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21. 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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

22. 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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23. The Best Man to Die (Inspector Wexford, #4)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the mur… read more

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24. Murder At The Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case And Cover Up!

By: Bob Marmion

4.37

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was fo… read more

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

25. 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 Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • 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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26. Killing Johnny Miracle

By: J.K. Franko

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Johnny Miracle is in love... but not with his wife. He's going to divorce Mary, and he has leverage… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Franko's Killing Johnny Miracle book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Pretty isn’t permanent."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"It’s a divorce, not cancer."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"Blood only flows in one direction."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

"The snake you don’t kill today may kill you tomorrow."

-J.K. Franko, Killing Johnny Miracle

Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

27. 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 Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

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

28. 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

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"Swamp."

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

"Why was bail denied?"

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

"How was he murdered?"

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

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

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

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29. Chaos of Crime

By: Dell Shannon

3.91

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Luis Mendoza and the L.A.P.D. pursue a psychotic sex killer, a gas station heister with an unusual … read more

Similar categories in Dell Shannon's Chaos of Crime book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • mystery
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30. The Crash

By: Robert Peston

4.05

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

As the world falls apart, a deadly conspiracy comes together . . . London, 2007. It's summer in … read more

Similar categories in Robert Peston's The Crash book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon

31. Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Seldon

4.22

Format: 662 pages, Hardcover

***Chosen as a non-fiction highlight of 2023 in The Times and the Observer *** After his dramatic … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Seldon's Johnson at 10: The Inside Story book and Colin Dexter's The Remorseful Day (Inspector Morse, #13)

  • british literature

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3.96

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3.88

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