13 Top crime books like This Is What Happened by Mick Herron

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This Is What Happened

By: Mick Herron

3.42

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a…

If you liked the crime plot in This Is What Happened by Mick Herron , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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2. Painting The Darkness

By: Robert Goddard

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his co… read more

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3. A Foreign Country (Thomas Kell, #1)

By: Charles Cumming

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, New York Timesbestselling author of The Trinity Six,comes a com… read more

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Cover of Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) by David McCloskey

4. Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

By: David McCloskey

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad.… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) by Mark Billingham

5. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

4.33

Format: 567 pages, Kindle Edition

VIENNA, 1946: A brilliant German scientist snatched from the ruins of Nazi Europe. MOSCOW, 1964:… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's The Scarlet Papers book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

7. The Insider (Solomon Vine, #2)

By: Matthew Richardson

4.20

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling novel of espionage and murder set in the dark heart of Westminster, from the UK's mos… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's The Insider (Solomon Vine, #2) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • thriller
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8. The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6)

By: Tim Sullivan

4.51

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes f… read more

Similar categories in Tim Sullivan's The Teacher (DS Cross Mysteries, #6) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

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

9. 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 Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • 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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10. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

Similar categories in Charles Beaumont's A Spy Alone book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. This Is What Happened

By: Mick Herron

3.42

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's This Is What Happened book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • unfinished
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3) by Charles Cumming

12. Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3)

By: Charles Cumming

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Veteran agent Lachlan Kite―“a spy for the 21st century” ( Daily Mail )―reckons with the fallout fro… read more

Similar categories in Charles Cumming's Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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13. Munich Wolf

By: Rory Clements

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

The gripping new 2024 thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The English Führer. In t… read more

Similar categories in Rory Clements's Munich Wolf book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. The Broken Afternoon (DI Ryan Wilkins, #2)

By: Simon Mason

4.33

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, aff… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's The Broken Afternoon (DI Ryan Wilkins, #2) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7)

By: S.J. Parris

4.28

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

Prague, 1588 A COURT IN TURMOIL The Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, wants to expand the boundari… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Parris's Alchemy (Giordano Bruno, #7) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy

By: Paul Vidich

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA … read more

Similar categories in Paul Vidich's Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of My Name Is Nobody (Solomon Vine, #1) by Matthew Richardson

17. My Name Is Nobody (Solomon Vine, #1)

By: Matthew Richardson

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

A breathless, gripping must-read for fans of Terry Hayes' I Am Pilgrim and James Swallow's Nomad'I … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Richardson's My Name Is Nobody (Solomon Vine, #1) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • espionage
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lost and Never Found  (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) by Simon Mason

19. Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Mason

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Ma… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

20. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) by Mark Billingham

21. The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2)

By: Mark Billingham

4.41

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from m… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Wrong Hands (Detective Miller #2) book and Mick Herron's This Is What Happened

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

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David McCloskey

4.21

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Mark Billingham

4.11

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The Scarlet Papers

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4.33

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4.51

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Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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