21 best-selling fiction books like Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater

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Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R…

If you liked the fiction plot in Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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3. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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4. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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6. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death of a Bookseller by Alice   Slater

7. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

8. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

Cover of Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

9. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Strange Sally Diamond book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's No One Saw a Thing book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

Similar categories in Colin Walsh's Kala book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

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12. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

Similar categories in Asako Yuzuki's Butter book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

Cover of The House of Mirrors by Erin Kelly

13. The House of Mirrors

By: Erin Kelly

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

One of them has killed before. One of them will kill again. In the sweltering summer of 1997, s… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The House of Mirrors book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Murder After the Night Before by Katy Brent

14. The Murder After the Night Before

By: Katy Brent

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Brent's The Murder After the Night Before book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The List by Yomi Adegoke

15. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

Cover of The Second Chance Store by Lauren Bravo

16. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's The Second Chance Store book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Weirdo by Sara  Pascoe

17. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) by Juno  Dawson

18. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)

By: Juno Dawson

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2) book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall

19. One of the Good Guys

By: Araminta Hall

3.52

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more

Similar categories in Araminta Hall's One of the Good Guys book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

20. Speak of the Devil

By: Rose Wilding

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All of us knew him. One of us killed him... Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a … read more

Similar categories in Rose Wilding's Speak of the Devil book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Examiner by Janice Hallett

21. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Examiner book and Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

18 Top contemporary books like Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

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Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

3.77

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5 best-selling japan books like Butter by Asako Yuzuki

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)

Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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Butter

Asako Yuzuki

3.60

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Mongrel

Hanako Footman

4.38

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