8 best-selling thriller books like Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) by John Banville

Cover of Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) by John Banville

Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.…

"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

If you liked the thriller plot in Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) by John Banville , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Even the Dead (Quirke #7) by John Banville, Benjamin Black

1. Even the Dead (Quirke #7)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorab… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's Even the Dead (Quirke #7) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Moscow Sting (Anna Resnikov, #2) by Alex Dryden

2. Moscow Sting (Anna Resnikov, #2)

By: Alex Dryden

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The threat of Russia as a hostile superpower returns in this chilling spy thriller.When British spy… read more

Similar categories in Alex Dryden's Moscow Sting (Anna Resnikov, #2) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

3. The Black-Eyed Blonde

By: Benjamin Black

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Hardcover

Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the m… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Black's The Black-Eyed Blonde book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Lemur by John Banville, Benjamin Black

4. The Lemur

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.80

Format: 152 pages,

A new thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Lemur book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
Cover of Elegy for April (Quirke #3) by John Banville, Benjamin Black

5. Elegy for April (Quirke #3)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Quirke--the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist--is back, and he's determined to f… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's Elegy for April (Quirke #3) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of A Death in Summer (Quirke #4) by John Banville, Benjamin Black

6. A Death in Summer (Quirke #4)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011 One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent e… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's A Death in Summer (Quirke #4) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature

7. Vengeance (Quirke #5)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as one of our most brilliant crime … read more

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8. One Police Plaza

By: William J. Caunitz

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A nude corpse in a bathtub. Name: Sara Eisinger. Occupation: travel agent. For Detective Lt. Dan Ma… read more

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9. Holy Orders (Quirke #6)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

She looked at him and smiled sadly. 'You've lived too long among the dead, Quirke,' she said. He no… read more

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10. Christine Falls (Quirke #1)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of… read more

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11. The Silver Swan (Quirke #2)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.80

Format: None pages,

The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious… read more

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12. 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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13. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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14. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

15. 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

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

16. 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

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) by John Banville

17. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

18. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

19. 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

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • 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)

Cover of Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) by Behcet Kaya

20. Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.37

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder has devastated the sacred walls of Kingsley University. A student discovers the b… read more

Similar categories in Behcet Kaya's Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"Swamp."

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Why was bail denied?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"How was he murdered?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

"Kowkosvki? You handling this?"

-Behcet Kaya, Uncanny Alliance (Jack Ludefance PI Series)

Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

21. 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

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • 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)

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Even the Dead (Quirke #7)

John Banville , Benjamin Black

2.67

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Moscow Sting (Anna Resnikov, #2)

Alex Dryden

3.97

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The Black-Eyed Blonde

Benjamin Black

4.31

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The Lemur

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3.80

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

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The Mystery Writer

Sulari Gentill

3.42

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