18 books like Cast iron

What to read after Cast iron — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Murmurs of insanity Gerrie Ferris Finger · 2014 · 307p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the wake of a teen drug runner's disappearance after a murder in Atlanta, Moriah Dru and Richard Lake question his ex-wife's half-brother about two missing students who were staging a controversial conceptual art performance. Shares Criminal investigation, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

Dark Country Darren E Laws · 2015 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

Killing by colours Wonny Lea · 2014 Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

Extraordinary people Peter May · 2006 · ★ 3.7 · 418p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Paris. An old mystery. As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. A new science. Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve the seven most notorious French murders using modern technology - and a total disregard for the justice system. A fresh trail. Deep in the catacombs… Shares Scots, Criminal investigation, France, Police Procedural

Goodnight Nobody Paul Von Helsing · 2000 Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

Shanghai redemption Qiu Xiaolong · 2015 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The system has no place for a cop who puts justice above the interests of the Party. It's a miracle that I survived as long as I did." For years, Chen Cao managed to balance the interests of the Communist Party and the promises made by his job. He was both a Chief Inspector of Special Investigations of the Shanghai Police Department and the deputy party secretary of the bureau. He was considered… Shares Criminal investigation, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

Into Oblivion Arnaldur Indriðason · 2016 · ★ 3.8 · 345p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Into Oblivion, the follow-up to the gritty prequel Reykjavik Nights, gives devoted fans another glimpse of Erlendur in his early days as a young, budding detective. A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US military base. A… Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

The Capitalist Peter Steiner · 2016 · ★ 3.4 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares France, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel Elizabeth George · 2018 · ★ 4.2 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Shares Criminal investigation, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

Murder in Montague Place Martyn Beardsley · 2012 Great Scotland Yard 1844. When the beautiful Eleanora Scambles claims that her husband has been wrongly arrested for the murder of Edward Mizzentoft, Inspector Bucket of the recently formed Detective Department is intrigued, but there are two problems. The case is already being handled by Bucket's colleague, who is in no doubt about his man's guilt; and someone else observed the conversation… Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

The interloper

The interloper Gwendoline Butler · 1959 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Some lists of her John Coffin series identify this as Coffin's first appearance as a main character; very rare and hard to find, very expensive used, wish someone would reprint or make as an e-book Shares Police Procedural

Dame Fortune Meredith Bond · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Police Procedural with this book.

The Paris Daughter

The Paris Daughter Kristin Harmel · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Instant New York Times bestseller!“A gorgeous, gut-wrenching” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) historical novel about two mothers facing unthinkable choices as the Nazis invade France—from the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel. Paris, 1939: Young mothers Elise and Juliette become fast friends the day they meet in the beautiful Bois de Boulogne. Though there is a… Shares France

The vanishing box

The vanishing box Elly Griffiths · 2018 · 357p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"-- Shares Criminal investigation, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

Bury Your Dead (Armand Gamache #6) Louise Penny · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the… Shares Criminal investigation, Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

Beau Death P Lovesey · 2018 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective with this book.

Murder on the Mediterranean Alexander Campion · 2014 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Even on a well-deserved Mediterranean cruise, murder follows Commissair Capucine Le Tellier. Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

Coldsleep lullaby Andrew Brown · 2014 · ★ 3.5 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Andrew Brown, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, has stunned readers in his native South Africa with this intelligent and compelling police procedural set in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Now, Brown is ready to take on America with this top notch mystery series, published here for the first time. In Coldsleep Lullaby the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective… Shares Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective

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