5 books like ALL THAT REMAINS

What to read after ALL THAT REMAINS — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

a. k. a. Mandi Wine Vin Smith · 2004 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that she couldn't quite put her finger on, Mandi's life seemed to be constantly mirrored by her automotive troubles and her constant unsuccessful quest to return to her maiden name.… Shares: Murder Mystery, Police Procedural

The tick of the clock Herbert Asbury · 1928 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The is a police procedural mystery. It is the rare work of pure fiction written by Herbert Asbury, a early 20th century newsman. The work evokes late 1920s Manhattan, and other environs like Chinatown. If you like old fashioned mystery stories this may hit the spot. I would class it with Latimore's work. Same sort of grittiness. Be advised that like much work of this time, the book dabbles in… Shares: Murder Mystery, Police Procedural

The Family Plot Megan Collins · 2021 · ★ 3.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From the author of The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, a family obsessed with true crime gathers to bury their patriarch—only to find another body already in his grave. At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse is haunted by her upbringing. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she is unable to move beyond the disappearance of… Shares: Murder Mystery, Serial Killers

Breaking and entering H. R. F. Keating · 2000 · 266p · ≈ 8h · Moderate All Bombay is buzzing with news of the murder of Anil Ajmani. It is certainly a baffling case, for the millionaire was found stabbed to death in his heavily guarded and tightly secured mansion. Every inspector in the Crime Branch hopes to be the one to nail the killer and that includes Inspector Ganesh Ghote. Unfortunately, he is not assigned to the case. Instead, he has been given the less… Shares: Murder Mystery, Police Procedural

A Taste for Death P. D. James · 1986 · ★ 4.0 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives, Dalgliesh… Shares: Murder Mystery, Police Procedural

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