15 Best thriller books like The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14) by Ruth Rendell

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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…

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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 Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Child's Play (Dalziel & Pascoe, #9) by Reginald Hill

3. Child's Play (Dalziel & Pascoe, #9)

By: Reginald Hill

4.05

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

'Reginald Hill stands head and shoulders above any other writer of crime fiction' Observer Geraldin… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's Child's Play (Dalziel & Pascoe, #9) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever."

-Reginald Hill, Child's Play (Dalziel & Pascoe, #9)

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4. A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe, #1)

By: Reginald Hill

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Home from Rugby Club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Connon finds his wife even more uncommu… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe, #1) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I am a sensitive plant. Like asparagus, I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off."

-Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe, #1)

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5. 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
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9)

By: Colin Dexter

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

"Superbly clue-laden...A complex and satisfying puzzle." THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE The case seems so … read more

Similar categories in Colin Dexter's The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse, #9) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.82

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the … read more

Similar categories in Ngaio Marsh's Enter a Murderer (Roderick Alleyn, #2) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Latter End (Miss Silver, #11)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.12

Format: 207 pages,

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Similar categories in Patricia Wentworth's Latter End (Miss Silver, #11) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Arms And The Women (Dalziel & Pascoe, #18)

By: Reginald Hill

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Although Yorkshire's Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Inspector Peter Pascoe are strong supporting c… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's Arms And The Women (Dalziel & Pascoe, #18) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Death of a Dormouse

By: Reginald Hill , Patrick Ruell

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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12. A Fatal Inversion

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

4.08

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A Fatal Inversion - a classic thriller from the queen of crime Barbara Vine 'An absolute winner ...… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's A Fatal Inversion book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11)

By: Reginald Hill

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

One woman dead and one threatening to die set Yorkshire's police superintendent Dalziel and Inspect… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's Bones and Silence (Dalziel & Pascoe, #11) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel & Pascoe, #14) by Reginald Hill

14. Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel & Pascoe, #14)

By: Reginald Hill

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside s… read more

Similar categories in Reginald Hill's Pictures of Perfection (Dalziel & Pascoe, #14) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

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

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's The Chimney Sweeper's Boy book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. 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 Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

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

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

18. Service of All the Dead (Inspector Morse, #4)

By: Colin Dexter

3.57

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"[MORSE IS] THE MOST PRICKLY, CONCEITED, AND GENUINELY BRILLIANT DETECTIVE SINCE HERCULE POIROT." -… read more

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19. 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

Similar categories in None's A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

20. The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, #11)

By: Colin Dexter

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"AUDACIOUS AND AMUSING. . . MAY BE THE BEST BOOK YET IN THIS DESERVEDLY CELEBRATED SERIES." --The W… read more

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21. 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

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

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

22. Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase

By: W.J. Burley

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Chief Superintendent Wycliffe comes across evidence on his own doorstep - and it leads him into ver… read more

Similar categories in W.J. Burley's Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

23. GUIDE STAR

By: Joy Ellis

3.00

Format: None pages,

Do you love emotional and gripping fiction full of twistsabout people fighting back against what li… read more

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24. The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks, #4)

By: Peter Robinson

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

A faceless corpse is discovered in a tranquil, hidden valley below the village of Swainshead. And w… read more

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25. The Catherine Wheel (Miss Silver, #15)

By: Patricia Wentworth

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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

26. 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 Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

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27. The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old scho… read more

Similar categories in Josephine Tey's The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

"Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in."

-Josephine Tey, The Singing Sands (Inspector Alan Grant, #6)

28. The Horse You Came In On (Richard Jury, #12)

By: Martha Grimes

5.00

Format: 228 pages,

"Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." - The Boston Globe The murder is in America,… read more

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29. Death in a White Tie (Roderick Alleyn, #7)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's… read more

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30. A Death in Venice (Lady Eleanor Swift #17)

By: Verity Bright

4.30

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning views across the Grand Canal and a hotel suite fit for royalty… Lady Eleanor Swift is havi… read more

Similar categories in Verity Bright's A Death in Venice (Lady Eleanor Swift #17) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Old Success (Richard Jury, #25) by Martha Grimes

31. The Old Success (Richard Jury, #25)

By: Martha Grimes

3.66

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, di… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's The Old Success (Richard Jury, #25) book and Ruth Rendell's The Veiled One (Inspector Wexford, #14)

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

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3.44

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4.05

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