14 must-read mystery books like Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) by Kathy Reichs

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Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.87

Format: 532 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan…

"I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

If you liked the mystery plot in Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) by Kathy Reichs , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

By: Tess Gerritsen

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

IN BOSTON, THERE'S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE... A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised."

-Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

"Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice."

-Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

"No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight…"

-Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

"How far have we strayed from our essential natures. Just the sight of blood can make some men faint, and people scurry to hide such horrors from the public eye, hosing down sidewalks where blood has …"

-Tess Gerritsen, The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

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2. Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4)

By: Tess Gerritsen

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Tess Gerritsen's Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles"

-Tess Gerritsen, Body Double (Rizzoli & Isles, #4)

Cover of Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8) by Tess Gerritsen

3. Ice Cold (Rizzoli & Isles, #8)

By: Tess Gerritsen

4.18

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In Wyoming for a medical conference, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles joins a group of friends o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fractured (Will Trent, #2) by Karin Slaughter

4. Fractured (Will Trent, #2)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.16

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nigh… read more

Similar categories in Karin Slaughter's Fractured (Will Trent, #2) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Christmas, New York and a naked body is discovered in Central Park... Christmas has never been a pa… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Cornwell's From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) by Patricia Cornwell

6. Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a human monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of st… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5) by Patricia Cornwell

7. The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6) by Tess Gerritsen

8. The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6)

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.58

Format: 448 pages,

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Similar categories in Tess Gerritsen's The Mephisto Club (Rizzoli & Isles, #6) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Sinner (Rizzoli & Isles, #3)

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta, #16)

By: Patricia Cornwell

5.00

Format: 398 pages,

Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

11. All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, o… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Cornwell's All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12. Die Again (Rizzoli & Isles, #11)

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.17

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The latest enthralling case in Tess Gerritsen's New York Times bestselling Rizzoli & Isles series, … read more

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13. Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

#1 bestselling author of Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell, returns to the chilling world of gutsy medi… read more

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14. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

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  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

15. The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7)

By: Tess Gerritsen

0.00

Format: 400 pages,

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspen… read more

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16. The Silent Girl (Rizzoli & Isles, #9)

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.94

Format: 336 pages,

Every crime scene tells a story. Some keep you awake at night. Others haunt your dreams. The grisly… read more

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Cover of Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) by Kathy Reichs

17. Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

By: Kathy Reichs

3.87

Format: 532 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I needed him here like I needed a yeast infection."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"He looked like a man on his way to a prostate exam."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"Sit tight. Deviation from this maxim has usually caused me regret."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

"She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy."

-Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

18. Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.44

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murdere… read more

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19. Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)

By: Patricia Cornwell

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean's breadth away from home. The cas… read more

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Cover of Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) by Behcet Kaya

20. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

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21. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) book and Kathy Reichs's Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The fire on the mountain."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

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