18 books like Jasper Jones

What to read after Jasper Jones — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

A Bitter Cut

A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares Historical Fiction, Mystery

A Final Reckoning G. A. Henty · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A young English lad, after rather a stormy boyhood, emigrates to Australia and gets employment as an officer in the mounted police. A few years of active work on the frontier, where he has many a brush with both natives and bush-rangers, gain him promotion to a captaincy, and he eventually settles down to the peaceful life of a squatter. Shares Australia, Historical Fiction

Soul of the fire Eliot Pattison · 2014 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was… Shares Suicide, Interpersonal relations, Crime, Friendship

She's Leaving Home William Shaw · 2014 · ★ 2.8 · 421p · ≈ 14h · Moderate London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an… Shares Racism, Crime, Murder, Mystery

The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 3.6 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When… Shares Crime, Mystery

Perfect Sara Shepard · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats,… Shares Secrecy, Crime, Friendship, Mystery

Burning for revenge (Tomorrow #5) John Marsden · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Having been separated from the New Zealand rescue troops they were guiding, five Australian teenagers continue their resistance against the unknown enemy invading their homeland. Shares Australia, Friendship, Children's fiction

Tomorrow, When the War Began John Marsden · 1995 · ★ 4.0 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Australia, Friendship, Children's fiction with this book.

The tears of dark water Corban Addison · 2015 · 469p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, D.C. power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded fac̦ade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream of theirs--a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes… Shares Dysfunctional families, Interpersonal relations, Family life

The Word Is Murder

The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It’s been two years since Injustice aired and Detective Daniel Hawthorne needs cash. Having gotten himself fired from his job at the Metropolitan police, Hawthorne decides to approach Anthony Horowitz. He’s investigating a bizarre and complex murder and he wants Anthony to write a book about it, a bestselling book of course, with a 50/50 split. The only catch is they need to solve the… Shares Secrecy, Crime, Murder, Mystery

Web of deceit Katherine Howell · 2013 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Shortlisted for the 2013 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction Often compared to Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwell, prize-winning author Katherine Howell thrills readers in this gripping novel featuring a determined homicide detective and a team of emergency medics. When frantic man refuses to leave the car that witnesses say he deliberately crashed, paramedics Jane and Alex think it's a… Shares Australia, Crime, Murder

The Mystery of the Strange Messages Enid Blyton · 1969 · ★ 4.2 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Mr. Goon, the policeman, can't understand it. Messages keep coming to him, popping up all over the place. But who is sending them? He thinks it is Fatty, playing tricks on him but this is the first the Five Find-Outers have heard about the messages. It all becomes a remarkable mystery, and one which the Five just have to solve. Shares Mystery, Children's fiction

A Stranger in Mayfair

A Stranger in Mayfair Charles Finch · 2010 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In Charles Finch's A Stranger in Mayfair, the next enthralling installment in the Charles Lenox Mysteries, detective Lenox tries to resist the lure of a case and focus on his new career in Parliament. Returning from a continental honeymoon with his new wife, Lady Jane, Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His… Shares Crime, Murder, Mystery

Crown City

Crown City Naomi Hirahara Shares Mystery with this book.

The Ladies Grand Tour of Treachery and Treason

The Ladies Grand Tour of Treachery and Treason Alison Goodman Shares Mystery with this book.

A Sinister Revenge

A Sinister Revenge Deanna Raybourn · 2023 · ★ 4.2 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Veronica must find and stop a devious killer when a group of old friends is targeted for death in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord… Shares Mystery

Murder at Somerset House

Murder at Somerset House Andrea Penrose · 2025 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Mystery with this book.

Murder at Wakehurst

Murder at Wakehurst Alyssa Maxwell · 2021 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… For fans of Rhys Bowen comes the new mystery from acclaimed author Alyssa Maxwell, as she takes readers to the turn of the century mansions of famed Newport, Rhode Island . . . where not all is always golden and murder turns a successful… Shares Mystery

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