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28 past books matching Detective Fiction
Best for readers who like FBI thrillers, calculated killers, financial conspiracies, and dark investigations with high body counts.
Blood Ledger
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Blood Ledger follows FBI Special Agent Jane Cannon as she investigates a string of staged murders targeting Seattle’s wealthiest families, uncovering stolen financial secrets and a conspiracy tied to August Kaminski. Best for readers who like FBI thrillers, calculated killers, financial conspiracies, and dark investigations with high body counts.
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Some killers want money. Some want power.
This one wants both… and leaves families butchered in his wake.
When Seattle's wealthiest families start turning up murdered inside their own homes, FBI Special Agent Jane Cannon is called in to hunt a killer with a taste for spectacle. The victims are staged. Their fortunes are stripped away. Their children are slaughtered. And somehow, the household pets keep disappearing.
What begins as a string of savage home invasions quickly unravels into something far more sinister. A secret network of power brokers. Stolen financial secrets. And a conspiracy guarded by blood.
The deeper Jane digs, the clearer the truth becomes: these murders aren't random. They're targeted. Calculated. And tied to a man she knows is far more dangerous than anyone realizes.
August Kaminski.
To stop the killing, Jane will have to outmaneuver a mastermind who thrives in the shadows and a butcher who enjoys every second of the work. But in a world where money buys silence and loyalty is always for sale, getting to the truth may cost her everything.
Some secrets are buried in ledgers. Others are written in blood.
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Good for readers who want dark police procedurals with serial killer cases, team dynamics, and a detective trying to prove himself.
The Quiet Kill
Mystery · Detective Fiction · Police Procedural
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From multi-million bestselling author Robert Bryndza, The Quiet Kill follows Detective Jamie Day as his first plainclothes shift in 1987 London turns into a major murder investigation after a dismembered body is found and more victims follow. Good for readers who want dark police procedurals with serial killer cases, team dynamics, and a detective trying to prove himself.
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The start of a thrilling new crime series from Robert Bryndza, the multi-million bestselling author of the Detective Erika Foster and P.I. Kate Marshall series.
Winter, 1987. Detective Jamie Day arrives in London determined to prove himself. After years policing a quiet seaside town, his promotion to the Metropolitan Police feels like the opportunity he has been waiting for.
But the capital is a very different world.
On his first day in plain clothes, Jamie makes a grim discovery: the dismembered body of a young man, left in a dark corner of the city. What should have been a routine first shift quickly becomes the beginning of a major murder investigation.
Then another victim is found.
As winter deepens, young men are being killed late at night across London, their bodies discovered in eerily similar circumstances. The detectives soon realise they may be hunting a serial killer.
Working alongside a tough and experienced team, Jamie must prove he belongs while navigating the pressures of a high-profile investigation. But as the case grows darker, the killer’s pattern begins to emerge. And if they don’t stop him soon, another body will be waiting in the shadows.
The Quiet Kill, is the latest page-turner from multi-million bestselling author Robert Bryndza, so gripping it will keep you reading long past bedtime.
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Good for readers who want atmospheric Scottish crime fiction with cold cases, hidden guilt, and mounting danger.
In the Silence
Mystery · Detective Fiction · Noir
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Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize, In the Silence follows criminology lecturer Anna Scavolini as her return to Glasgow turns deadly when she finds an old flame stabbed in Kelvingrove Park. As Anna investigates, long-buried secrets point back to a decade-old crime, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 6,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want atmospheric Scottish crime fiction with cold cases, hidden guilt, and mounting danger.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE AND LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE, 2019.
Some secrets refuse to stay silent.
Anna Scavolini hasn’t set foot in Glasgow for ten years – and she’s not short of reasons. Her first night back in town takes a decidedly macabre turn when she stumbles upon an old flame, Andrew Foley, bleeding to death on the snow-clad slopes of Kelvingrove Park.
Who killed Andrew in such a savage way – and why? If the police have any leads, they’re keeping them to themselves. Convinced that Andrew was deliberately targeted rather than a random victim, Anna begins her own investigation, unearthing a trail of long-buried secrets leading back to a crime committed over a decade ago.
A crime so unspeakable its perpetrators are prepared to take their silence to the grave.
Perfect for fans of Denise Mina, Rachel Abbott and Val McDermid, In the Silence is the first in a gripping and atmospheric series of Scottish crime novels featuring criminology lecturer Anna Scavolini.
Praise for M.R. Mackenzie
‘One of the most consistently accomplished writers on the current scene.’ – Financial Times
‘Brings a fresh new voice to the field of Tartan Noir.’ – James Oswald
‘Writes with precision and passion.’ – Caro Ramsay
‘An immersive slow burn of a tale, peppered with disquieting fire-crackers of revelation.’ – Morgan Cry
‘Mackenzie has come up with something that defies easy definition and is truly original.’ – NB Magazine
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Good for readers who want gritty Scottish police procedurals with dark motives and rising tension.
Dirt Road Dead
Mystery · Thriller · Detective Fiction
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A #1 Amazon chart-topping series with over one million copies sold, Dirt Road Dead follows DCI Duncan Bone after teenage joyriders are found at Hangman’s Gorge, one dead and one barely alive. When another young victim is killed in similar circumstances, Bone uncovers a pattern tied to secrets buried in Kilwinnoch’s past. Good for readers who want gritty Scottish police procedurals with dark motives and rising tension.
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TWO TEENAGERS. A STOLEN CAR. A DIRT ROAD IN THE DARK.
One headlight behind them. Then the ramming started.
Neither boy was supposed to survive. But one did.
When two teenage joyriders are found at the bottom of Hangman's Gorge — one dead, one barely alive — DCI Duncan Bone and his team are called to what looks like an accident on a remote Campsie Fells road.
But when a third young motorcyclist turns up dead in similar circumstances, Bone realises they're not investigating accidents. They're hunting a killer with a pattern — and a motive buried deep in the town's past.
As panic grips Kilwinnoch and the body count rises, dark secrets surface. Secrets that powerful people would kill to keep buried.
The last case nearly broke him. This one might finish what's left.
Over one million copies sold. #1 Amazon chart-topping series. Read free in Kindle Unlimited.
"Stylish, dark, and relentlessly brilliant." JM Dalgliesh
For fans of Val McDermid, Stuart MacBride, J.D. Kirk, LJ Ross, and Ian Rankin.
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Good for readers who like YA thrillers with heists, family secrets, murder, and characters who know how to lie.
Such Charming Liars
Teen + Young Adult · Mystery · Thriller · Detective Fiction · Suspense
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A New York Times bestseller, a mother-daughter grifter duo sets out on their final job, but things take a deadly turn when they cross paths with a serial scammer and his son. Such Charming Liars has a 4.2-star rating from more than 1,300 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like YA thrillers with heists, family secrets, murder, and characters who know how to lie.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • When mother-daughter grifters set out on their final job, the heist turns deadly—and dangerously personal—in this twisty thriller from the #1 bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying!
For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.
Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.
Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can’t trust anyone—except each other.
Or can they? Because if there’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it’s how to lie. They learned from the best.
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A remote island death begins as an accident but refuses to stay buried as unease spreads through the tight-knit community.
The Scattering Murders
Mystery · Detective Fiction · Police Procedural
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A remote island death begins as an accident but refuses to stay buried as unease spreads through the tight-knit community. In The Scattering Murders, Inspector Torquil McKinnon investigates a farmer’s suspicious end alongside a missing woman tied to the island’s secrets. This police procedural delivers atmospheric tension, layered motives, and a mystery shaped by isolation and mistrust.
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Follow Detective Inspector McKinnon in another thrilling case! Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, L J Ross and Faith Martin.
When missing turns to murder…
West Uist, Scotland
Local farmer Hector MacFarlane has been found dead, trampled by his own cattle.
A well-liked man in the community, at first there is no suspicion surrounding his death.
But when an urn containing some of his ashes is found broken and defiled, doubt starts to creep in.
And when a man arrives on the island looking for a missing woman, Detective Inspector Torquil McKinnon soon finds himself with more than one mystery to solve.
With thick mist shrouding the remote island in gloom and rumours circulating about the death of the farmer, Torquil finds it increasingly difficult to get answers.
Is there a connection between the dead man and the missing woman? Could anyone else be in danger?
And is the local community once more under threat…?
THE SCATTERING MURDERS is the eighth crime thriller in the detective series featuring Inspector Torquil McKinnon: an action-packed police procedural full of suspense.
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A storm-lashed sleeper train becomes the starting point for a mystery that follows its passengers all the way to Cornwall’s windswept coast.
Murder on the Cornish Train
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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A storm-lashed sleeper train becomes the starting point for a mystery that follows its passengers all the way to Cornwall’s windswept coast. In Murder on the Cornish Train, Jeff suspects a vanished traveler and a body on the beach are connected. This British cosy mystery pairs classic train intrigue with seaside atmosphere, hidden motives, and amateur sleuthing.
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One missing passenger. One dead body. Is it murder on the Cornish train?
It is a dark and stormy night when Jeff boards the Cornish sleeper train at Paddington station.
As they make their way down the dark British coast, waves crash over the carriages and the wheels rattle in the gale.
Arriving in Cornwall the next morning, Jeff discovers one passenger has vanished into thin air.
The next day, another is found dead on a windswept beach.
Jeff can't accept these are coincidences.
Could he hold the clue to catch the killer who boarded the Cornish train?
A totally gripping and page-turning British cosy mystery set on the misty coastline of Cornwall. Fans of Janice Hallett, Murder on the Orient Express and Tom Hindle will be hooked from the very first page.
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs.
Trespasser
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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Trespasser drops Maine game warden Mike Bowditch into a disappearance that looks wrong from the start and only gets darker the deeper he digs. What begins as a missing woman case turns into a brutal tangle of old secrets, possible wrongful conviction, and the kind of investigation that makes powerful people very nervous. This mystery brings sharp suspense, small-town tension, and a hero who refuses to leave bad answers alone.
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In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before.
While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road—but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned to the accident appears strangely unconcerned.
The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, a jury convicted lobsterman Erland Jefferts of the rape and murder of a wealthy college student and sentenced him to life in prison. For all but his most fanatical defenders, justice was served. But when the missing woman is found brutalized in a manner that suggests Jefferts may have been framed, Bowditch receives an ominous warning from state prosecutors to stop asking questions.
For Bowditch, whose own life was recently shattered by a horrific act of violence, doing nothing is not an option. His clandestine investigation reopens old wounds between Maine locals and rich summer residents and puts both his own life and that of the woman he loves in jeopardy. As he closes in on his quarry, he suddenly discovers how dangerous his opponents are, and how far they will go to prevent him from bringing a killer to justice.
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It fits suspense readers who want serial killer intrigue, fast-moving investigations, and a sharp heroine caught in a deeply personal case.
Go Back
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Detective Fiction
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An FBI analyst investigating ritualized murders tied to the Ten Commandments begins to fear the killer’s message may be turning toward her. In Go Back, Kate Valentine follows a trail of cryptic deaths and fractured family secrets as she hunts a mastermind hiding behind duty, punishment, and control. It fits suspense readers who want serial killer intrigue, fast-moving investigations, and a sharp heroine caught in a deeply personal case.
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When FBI analyst Kate Valentine hunts an elusive mastermind who leaves a cryptic trail based on the Ten Commandments, she soon realizes he may just be targeting her.
When estranged relatives begin dying with cryptic messages of familial duty, Kate Valentine navigates the tangled webs of broken families to catch a disciple of an enigmatic mastermind who orchestrates murder by the Ten Commandments.
GO BACK is the fifth book in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 7,000 five star ratings and reviews. The series begins with GO HOME (Book #1).
The Kate Valentine mystery series immerses readers in a riveting suspense filled with unexpected turns. It showcases a brilliant female lead who outwits her adversaries and is sure to win over readers with her charm. Fans of Melinda Leigh, Lisa Regan, and Lee Child are sure to fall in love.
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The Mitford Murders fits historical mystery readers who want 1920s atmosphere, class tension, clever amateur sleuthing, and a Golden Age-style puzzle wrapped around scandal and secrets.
The Mitford Murders
Mystery · Cozy Mystery · Detective Fiction · Historical Mystery
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A young maid hoping to escape poverty finds herself drawn into the glittering and dangerous world of the Mitfords when a real-life murder shatters the calm of country-house life. The Mitford Murders fits historical mystery readers who want 1920s atmosphere, class tension, clever amateur sleuthing, and a Golden Age-style puzzle wrapped around scandal and secrets.
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"A real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. I loved it." —Julian Fellowes, creator and writer of Downton Abbey and Belgravia
The first in a series of thrilling Golden Age-style mysteries, set among the Mitford sisters, and based on a real unsolved murder, by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books.
It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But then a nurse—Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake—is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret...
Based on an unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey companion books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of classic murder mysteries.
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A lazy summer gathering at an English country house turns deadly when the host’s long-absent brother arrives and is promptly found shot.
The Red House Mystery
Mystery · Detective Fiction
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A lazy summer gathering at an English country house turns deadly when the host’s long-absent brother arrives and is promptly found shot. With the host missing and the clues growing stranger by the minute, amateur sleuth Tony Gillingham steps in to untangle the case. The Red House Mystery is a classic Golden Age whodunit with wit, charm, and an old-school puzzle at its center.
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A refreshing blend of wit and intrigue, A. A. Milne's only mystery novel is a masterpiece
Mark Ablett is not really a snob—not the worst kind of snob, at least. He simply prefers artists to everyone else, and the discussion of his own creative abilities to any other talk whatsoever. His vanities are easily forgiven especially since he is generous with his money—inherited not from his clergyman father but from a neighborhood spinster who took a liking to him—and he is always willing to play the host at the Red House, his delightful country estate.
One lazy summer morning, as his guests enjoy breakfast before a round of golf, Mark opens a surprising letter. His brother Robert, the black sheep of the family, gone some fifteen years now, is back from Australia and plans to call at the Red House that very afternoon. It is the first that Mark's friends and servants have heard of a brother, but that shock is nothing compared to what happens next: After being shown into an empty office to wait for the master of the house, Robert is shot dead. Mark is nowhere to be found, not unlike the pistol that fired the fatal bullet. It is up to Tony Gillingham, man of leisure, and his young friend Bill Beverley to assume the roles of Sherlock and Watson and solve a crime so clever that Alexander Woollcott pronounced it "one of the three best mystery stories of all time."
Beloved children's author A. A. Milne was a great fan of detective stories. His first and last attempt at the genre is an absolute delight—one of the most original and charming novels of the Golden Age of crime fiction.
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This will appeal to readers who want psychological thrillers built around buried secrets, unsettling memory, murder investigations, and twist-driven suspense.
A Secondhand Life
Thriller · Mystery · Detective Fiction · Psychological Thriller
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“You are not prepared for the twists...Pamela Crane has in store for you” by POPSUGAR. Mia Germaine receives a heart transplant after a childhood car crash, but experiences organ memory nightmares of her donor's murder, forcing her to hunt for the killer, with a 4.1-star rating from more than 900 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want psychological thrillers built around buried secrets, unsettling memory, murder investigations, and twist-driven suspense.
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A fast-paced psychological thriller with a shocking twist, perfect for fans of Freida McFadden.
During a freak car crash when she was twelve years old, Mia Germaine died alongside her father. A heart transplant from a young murder victim brought her back to life, but not without a price.
Twenty years later, chilling nightmares about that unresolved homicide begin to haunt Mia's dreams. Against her will, she forms a complicated connection to the victim—the girl murdered the night of Mia's accident—due to a scientific phenomenon called "organ memory."
The only way to stop the nightmares is to avenge a dead girl by catching the infamous serial killer dubbed the "Triangle Terror." Only one person is willing to help her, the one person Mia would die for ... and if she's not careful, she just might.
But there's something Mia doesn't know about the girl who was murdered. And even more she doesn't know about her fateful car accident. As she tries to piece together the clues in her nightmares, a killer is just getting started.
From USA TODAY bestselling author Pamela Crane comes a twisty thriller about the monsters that hide in plain sight.
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
"A tense psychological thriller that will shock you." - reader review
"Beware: Don't read this book before bed unless you plan on losing sleep!" - reader review
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