18 books like Famous Last Words

What to read after Famous Last Words — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Nowhere to Hide Keri Beevis · 2024 ''Nowhere to Hide'' (1977 film), a television film starring Lee Van Cleef and Tony Musante Shares: English literature, Thriller

Murder in Portofino T A Williams · 2024 Shares: English literature, Thriller

One in Three Tess Stimson · 2020 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate ‘O!M!G! This just blew me away.... Gripping, compelling... I could not put this down... Be prepared to be amazed... 5 very excited stars.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shares: English literature, Thriller

Cover the Bones Rachel Amphlett · 2023 Shares: English literature, Thriller

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo William Le Queux · 1921 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Yes! I'm not mistaken at all! It's the same woman!" whispered the tall, good-looking young enman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at one of the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, the first on the right on entering the room - that one known to habitual gamblers as "The Suicide's Table." Shares: English literature, Thriller

The Blue Ice Hammond Innes · 1948 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert finds himself caught in a maze of ambition and treachery. Shares: Thriller

The progress of Julius Daphne du Maurier · 1933 · ★ 5.0 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Challenging A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape France for Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and… Shares: Thriller

Deadly Mistake Rob Sinclair · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The BRAND NEW intense thriller from MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Rob Sinclair! A must-read for fans of Lee Child and David Baldacci 💥⚠️ The Simon Peake Thrillers can be read in any order "Gritty, brutal, explosive!" Alex Shaw ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We need your help… 👀 A knock on the door in the middle of the night catches ex-Special Forces Simon Peake off guard. He only recognizes one of the three men standing on the… Shares: Thriller

Death on the Norfolk Express Ross Greenwood The heart-stopping new instalment in the bestselling Norfolk Murders series! A BRAND NEW, must-read, page-turning thriller from BESTSELLER Ross Greenwood! Unmissable for fans of Mark Billingham, Ian Rankin and Peter James 💥 'The Norfolk series is Ross Greenwood’s crowning achievement - characters to root for, an intricate web of suspense, all set against a stunning backdrop. I can’t wait for… Shares: Thriller

The Sound of Regret Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson Shares: Thriller

The Color of Death Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson · 2025 · ★ 4.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective. Shares: Thriller

The Blue Flame George Pelecanos · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Private investigator Derek Strange returns in a riveting drama about revenge, greed, and redemption—from bestselling author and Emmy-nominated writer for HBO’s The Wire and Treme, George Pelecanos. He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive. The neon “Strange Investigations” sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is… Shares: Thriller

Her Last Kiss Lisa Regan · 258p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares: Thriller

Last Girl Ghosted Lisa Unger · 2021 · ★ 3.6 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game, from the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions on the 7:45 She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him—hard. It… Shares: Thriller

A Deadly Shade of Gold John D. MacDonald & Lee Child “John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King With an Introduction by Lee Child When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins… Shares: Thriller

The Curator M W Craven · 406p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shortlisted for the VN Thriller of the Year 2022 Longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger 2021 'Dark, sharp and compelling' PETER JAMES 'Fantastic' MARTINA COLE 'Britain's answer to Harry Bosch' MATT HILTON 'A powerful thriller from an explosive new talent' DAVID MARK LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER Nothing says Christmas like severed fingers It's December and a serial killer… Shares: Thriller

Dead Irish John Lescroart · ★ 4.0 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate BDD Audio releases these four bestselling Price-less titles by top-notch authors, repackaged and re-priced at $9.99. Shares: Thriller

The Lies We Bury Stacy Green · 2018 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate LMN, an initialism for the Lifetime Movie Network, also known as Lifetime Movies, is an American pay television network launched on June 29, 1998 and owned by the Lifetime Entertainment Services subsidiary of A+E Global Media, a joint venture between the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications. LMN is one of the three flagship networks of LES, alongside… Shares: Thriller

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