15 Best mystery books like The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15) by Martha Grimes

Cover of The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15) by Martha Grimes

The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

By: Martha Grimes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15) by Martha Grimes , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Trial Run

By: Dick Francis

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Moscow to help the Russian royal family--but ends up caugh… read more

Similar categories in Dick Francis's Trial Run book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) by Margery Allingham

2. Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16)

By: Margery Allingham

3.96

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

In Hide My Eyes, private detective Albert Campion finds himself hunting down a serial killer in Lon… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Tether's End (Albert Campion Mystery, #16) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

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

3. 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 Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Double Sin and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, … read more

Similar categories in Agatha Christie's Double Sin and Other Stories book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) by Ngaio Marsh

5. Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13)

By: Ngaio Marsh

4.09

Format: 129 pages,

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patrioti… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Died in the Wool (Roderick Alleyn, #13) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. Six Feet Under

By: Dorothy Simpson

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

Curiousity killed the cat. Did it also kill Carrie? Inspector Thanet is called in to investigate th… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy Simpson's Six Feet Under book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) by Margery Allingham

7. The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

By: Margery Allingham

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A house party is under way at the remote mansion of Black Dudley, and among the guests are some ver… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her."

-Margery Allingham, The Crime at Black Dudley (Albert Campion Mystery, #1)

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 Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • 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)

Cover of Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) by Ngaio Marsh

9. Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

It was planned as an act of a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. … read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It's like one of those affairs in books," said Bailey disgustedly."Someone trying to think up a new way to do a murder. Silly, I call it." "What do you say, Roper?" said Alleyn. "To my way of thinkin…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Overture to Death (Roderick Alleyn, #8)

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10. The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

By: Martha Grimes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

After a luminous blonde leaves, reboards, then leaves the double-decker bus Richard Jury is on, he … read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

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

11. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

Similar categories in Margery Allingham's Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

12. Pilgrim's Rest (Miss Silver, #10)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.40

Format: None pages,

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13. 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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14. Flying Finish

By: Dick Francis

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Much to his snobbish family's horror, Henry Grey takes on the dirty and demanding job of transporti… read more

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15. Death of a Poison Pen (Hamish Macbeth, #19)

By: M.C. Beaton

4.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A POISON PEN: A Hamish Macbeth My… read more

Similar categories in M.C. Beaton's Death of a Poison Pen (Hamish Macbeth, #19) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

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16. Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The party's over when murder makes an entrance...With the notion of bringing together the most bitt… read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"With corpses stiffening on the premises, sir, all things be possible to a man with a desperate powerful idea egging him on."

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"They were fortified with all the resilience that youth presents to an emotional shock. In the midst of murder and attempted suicide, they had managed, not only to behave with address and good sense, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, …"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

"Beneath it hung a faded photograph in an Oxford frame. It presented a Victorian gentleman wearing an ineffable air of hauteur and a costume which suggested that he had begun to dress up as Mr. Sherlo…"

-Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)

17. The Gazebo (Miss Silver, #27)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.91

Format: 385 pages, paper

Although Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother rarely visited the gazebo on their property, she is f… read more

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Cover of The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

18. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Secret in the Storm (The Inn at Holiday Bay, #26) by Kathi Daley

19. Secret in the Storm (The Inn at Holiday Bay, #26)

By: Kathi Daley

4.52

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again.Aft… read more

Similar categories in Kathi Daley's Secret in the Storm (The Inn at Holiday Bay, #26) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Death of a Master Chef (Brittany Mystery Series, #9) by Jean-Luc Bannalec

20. Death of a Master Chef (Brittany Mystery Series, #9)

By: Jean-Luc Bannalec

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Jean-Luc Bannalec's internationally bestselling series starring Commissaire Georges Dupin returns w… read more

Similar categories in Jean-Luc Bannalec's Death of a Master Chef (Brittany Mystery Series, #9) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1) by M.J. Trow

21. Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1)

By: M.J. Trow

4.06

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Peter Maxwell is perfectly content with his routine; by day, inspire students and, if lucky, annoy … read more

Similar categories in M.J. Trow's Maxwell's House (Peter Maxwell Mystery #1) book and Martha Grimes's The Stargazey (Richard Jury, #15)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

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3.96

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Andrea Camilleri , Stephen Sartarelli

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Anne Hillerman

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Kristen Perrin

3.80

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