14 best-selling thriller books like Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) by Kate Atkinson

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Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.80

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:…

"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

If you liked the thriller plot in Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) by Kate Atkinson , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

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

2. Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4)

By: Tana French

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and quintessential Tana French thriller--a damaged hero, an unspeakable… read more

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3. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

By: Tana French

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more

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Cover of Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) by Kate Atkinson

4. Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

By: Kate Atkinson

3.80

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In #1 of series, Jackson Brodie PI follows three 30-years cold, unconnected Cambridge family cases:… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"How do you know he's dead?' 'Because he's not breathing"

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

"What a fantastic form of avoidance being a bride of Christ was."

-Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

5. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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6. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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8. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) by Anthony Horowitz

10. The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.09

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit followin… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

"Harriet distorted everything. It was a sort of ownership. She made the entire world her own..."

-Anthony Horowitz, The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

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11. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6) by Robert Galbraith

12. The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.12

Format: 1391 pages, Hardcover

This installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran … read more

Similar categories in Robert Galbraith's The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Life in squats with my mother hadn't really prepared me for what to expect from the aristocracy. On balance, I'd have to say people were a lot better behaved in the squats."

-Robert Galbraith, The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike, #6)

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13. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

Similar categories in Robert Galbraith's The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) by Elly Griffiths

15. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15) book and Kate Atkinson's Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

16. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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17. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

18. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Cover of The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) by Elly Griffiths

19. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

Cover of The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

20. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

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21. The Searcher

By: Tana French

3.80

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Retired detective Cal Hooper moves to a remote village in rural Ireland. His plans are to fix up th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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3.81

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Sophie Hannah

3.75

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Robert Thorogood

3.92

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