16 Top mystery thriller books like Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes

3.85

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru…

"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. 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 Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

2. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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4. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

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5. The Familiar

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.84

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishavers… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Bardugo's The Familiar book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"There was nothing more dangerous than a woman witha pen in her hand."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"She was allowed to want more for herself. And even if she wasn't, she would find a way to get it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

"And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it."

-Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

6. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

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7. The Last Murder at the End of the World

By: Stuart Turton

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Wat… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Turton's The Last Murder at the End of the World book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder by C.L.   Miller

9. The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

By: C.L. Miller

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious d… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Miller's The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

By: Nita Prose

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover t… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all make mistakes. It’s what we do after that matters."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"Mr. Grimthorpe and I have always maintained that books can rehabilitate anyone."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"You can fight monsters you can see, or you can run away from them. But the invisible ones are inescapable."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"It's a matter of polish," I say. "With most things, especially masterpieces, it's about removing the tarnish to reveal the shine."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

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11. Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes

3.85

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Ru… read more

Similar categories in Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The only law I'd ever knowingly broken was white wine with steak..."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"Apparently the kitchen is to be commended for their successful use of fire."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"I'm afraid I was buried in thought. Yes, and I'm sure it was a shallow grave."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

"And many students can't go a week without a savory cheese tart they call a 'pizza'...."

-Rupert Holmes, Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

Cover of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

12. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin   Stevenson

13. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.79

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than onc… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But I promised to be reliable, not competent"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart …"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

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14. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

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15. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

16. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Golden Spoon

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's The Golden Spoon book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we must do what we can to keep our mistakes a secret, don't we?"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"It's an optimistic scene of pastel colors and light woods. One that lends itself well to the show's folksy niceness."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"Recipes are like architecture; a combination of tested methods with personal elements is what makes a bake memorable."

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

"They are all unique and lovingly constructed. There's one for a chocolate ganache tart striped with hazelnut and praline, a honey cake with orange marmalade filling, coconut cream-filled doughnuts wi…"

-Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

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19. Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A sharp-witted, high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards and… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rozakis's Dreadful book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Gug." Ah, monosyllables, his old friend. They would always be there, even when all other concepts of fundamental liguistics deserted him."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

"It occured to him that a spell to make one's enemies into idiots via the power of breasts might be immensely helpful. Then again, it might not be a spell. It might have only been the breasts."

-Caitlin Rozakis, Dreadful

Cover of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

20. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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21. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Rupert Holmes's Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

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

21 Top fiction books like Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Starter Villain

John Scalzi

4.16

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21 best-selling fiction books like Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin Stevenson

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Fury

Alex Michaelides

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

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