22 best-selling mystery books like Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell

Cover of Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell

Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish foreve…

If you liked the mystery plot in Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell , here is a list of 22 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
  • 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)

Cover of The Birthday Present by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

2. The Birthday Present

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.44

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. Anna's Book

By: Barbara Vine

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Anna is a young Danish woman living in London at the turn of the century. Homesick and lonely for h… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12) by Colin Dexter

4. Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

The peaceful quadrangle of Lonsdale College seems remote from the shocks of the outside world - suc… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5) by Colin Dexter

5. The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

By: Colin Dexter

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Dead of Jericho is Colin Dexter's fifth outing featuring the popular detective, Inspector Morse… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He sighed and knew that life was full of ‘if only’ for everyone"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

"Walters looked quizzically at Morse, who sat reading one of the glossy 'porno' magazines he had brought from upstairs. "You still sex-mad, I see, Morse," said the surgeon. "I don't seem to be able to…"

-Colin Dexter, The Dead of Jericho (Inspector Morse, #5)

Cover of Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall

6. Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1)

By: Anthony Trollope , Stephen Wall

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (Palliser, #1) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • fiction
  • british literature
Cover of The Blood Doctor by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

7. The Blood Doctor

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Martin Nanther, Hereditary Peer in the House of Lords, is choosing the subject of his next bio… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Close to Home (Inspector Banks, #13) by Peter Robinson

8. Close to Home (Inspector Banks, #13)

By: Peter Robinson

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The past returns to haunt Chief Inspector Alan Banks in this harrowing novel of suspense from New Y… read more

Similar categories in Peter Robinson's Close to Home (Inspector Banks, #13) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Late Checkout (DCI Kenny Murrain Book 1) by Alex Walters

9. Late Checkout (DCI Kenny Murrain Book 1)

By: Alex Walters

4.04

Format: 288 pages,

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of No Night is Too Long by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

10. No Night is Too Long

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tim thought he'd gotten away with it. For months after the murder off the Alaskan coast he'd heard … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

11. A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Faith Severn's aunt was hanged for murder, the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

12. The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Writing as Barbara Vine, Britain's preeminent mystery novelist Ruth Rendell crafts literary suspens… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3) by Colin Dexter

13. The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3)

By: Colin Dexter

4.12

Format: 543 pages, Paperback

Nicholas Quinn is deaf, so he considers himself lucky to be appointed to the Foreign Examinations B… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Secret of Annexe 3 (Inspector Morse, #7) by Colin Dexter

14. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2) by Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard

15. A Shilling for Candles (Inspector Alan Grant, #2)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

When a woman's body washes up on an isolated stretch of beach on the southern coast of England, Sco… read more

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  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell

16. Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And they were about to vanish foreve… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7) by Peter Robinson

17. Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7)

By: Peter Robinson

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Two masked men walk mild mannered accountant, Keith Rothwell, out of his farmhouse and clinically b… read more

Similar categories in Peter Robinson's Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks, #7) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4) by Anthony Trollope

18. Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.99

Format: None pages,

After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Trollope's Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • fiction
  • british literature

19. That Girl From Nowhere

By: Dorothy Koomson

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

'Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?' he asks. 'Nowhere,' I reply. 'I'm from nowhe… read more

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20. The Prime Minister (Palliser #5)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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21. 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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22. Grasshopper

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

"They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these wor… read more

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23. Asking For The Moon (Dalziel & Pascoe, #16)

By: Reginald Hill

3.49

Format: 320 pages,

This gathering of unusual adventures includes the long-anticipated story of the case that brought D… read more

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24. Phineas Finn (Palliser, #2)

By: Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The second of Trollope's "Palliser" novels introduces its title character, Phineas Finn, a talented… read more

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Cover of Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2) by Colin Dexter

25. Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

By: Colin Dexter

3.84

Format: 326 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector … read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin."

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

"Morse stared morosely at the blotting paper. "It's just not my sort of case, Lewis. I know it's not a very nice thing to say, but I just get on better when we've got a body - a body that died from un…"

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

"As he lay abed on Sunday, 21 September, Morse was beset by the nagging feeling that there was so much to be done if only he could summon up the mental resolve to begin. It was like deferring a long-p…"

-Colin Dexter, Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, #2)

Cover of Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8) by None, P.D. James

26. Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)

By: None , P.D. James

3.96

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Success in moderation was no doubt better for the character than failure, but too much of it and he would lose his cutting edge."

-None, Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh, #8)

Cover of A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard  Coles

27. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Far from the Tree by Rob Parker

28. Far from the Tree

By: Rob Parker

3.78

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Brendan Foley has worked to balance the responsibilities of a demanding job and a troublesome famil… read more

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  • crime
Cover of No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11) by Denzil Meyrick

29. No Sweet Sorrow (DCI Daley #11)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.39

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

A potent new drug has hit the streets of Kinloch, and DCI Daley and Scott are struggling to catch t… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Jeremiah's Bell (DCI Daley #8) by Denzil Meyrick

30. Jeremiah's Bell (DCI Daley #8)

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.44

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

When rich American hotelier Alice Wenger arrives in Kinloch, some eyebrows are raised and memories … read more

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  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Cornish Campsite Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #7) by Fiona Leitch

31. The Cornish Campsite Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #7)

By: Fiona Leitch

4.25

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is back in 2024 with a brand new Cornish mystery to unravel…Readers love Fiona… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Leitch's The Cornish Campsite Murder (The Nosey Parker Mysteries, #7) book and Ruth Rendell's Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller

22 Best crime books like Road Rage (Inspector Wexford, #17) by Ruth Rendell

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Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh, #9)

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3.90

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3.44

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Anna's Book

Barbara Vine

4.05

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Death Is Now My Neighbor (Inspector Morse, #12)

Colin Dexter

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Sophie Hannah

3.75

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Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Mark Billingham

4.11

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Tom Hindle

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