18 books like Longshot

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

Rat race Dick Francis · 1970 · ★ 4.2 · 211p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Concerned because the book is one by Dick Francis, who was a very engaging author and this ebook version is almost impossible to understand. If any one can correct the scanning errors, please do so. Shares Horse racing, England, Mystery

Silks Dick Francis · 2008 · ★ 3.9 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate “Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.”When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed… Shares Horse racing, England, Murder, Mystery

Peril in Paris

Peril in Paris Rhys Bowen · 2022 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her husband, Darcy, are awaiting the arrival of their baby when they receive an unexpected invitation to visit Paris. However, their trip quickly turns into a tangled web of international intrigue as they become embroiled in a mystery involving murder, espionage, and high-stakes politics. Shares England, Mystery

A Reporter's Life Walter Cronkite · 1996 · 637p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Walter Cronkite gives an account of his personal life as that of a reporter and T.V. newscaster. Shares Journalists, New York Times reviewed

The Four Pools Mystery Jean Webster · 1908 Terry Patten, star-reporter for the The Post-Dispatch, is called to investigate a case of missing bonds allegedly stolen by a ghost from a safe at Four-Pools Plantation in Virginia when Colonel Gaylord, the patriarch of the plantation, is found murdered. Shares Journalists, Murder, Mystery

Bonecrack Dick Francis · 1971 · ★ 4.2 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A grisly accident has left Neil Griffon in charge of his father's stables. A grisly assault and abduction have left him at the mercy of masked thugs. And a grisly crime czar wants one of his horses. Any horse at all. As long as it's Archangel. As long as his son can ride in the Derby. And win. Or else. Shares Horse racing, England, Mystery

The Paradise Mystery Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the centre of a great green sward, fringed… Shares England, Mystery

Shattered Dick Francis · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape. Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the ingenuity of his work. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a furnace at never less than 1,800F, he is suddenly faced… Shares Horse racing, England, Mystery

Murder on a Midnight Clear

Murder on a Midnight Clear Sara Rosett · 2020 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A snowbound country mansion, a missing butler, and a Christmas case . . . Olive and Jasper have never been closer—except in one area. Jasper is still reticent about his frequent disappearances from polite society. With the holidays approaching and no paying client on the books, Olive decides to shadow Jasper when he’s unexpectedly called away. Her search brings her to Holly Hill Lodge where an… Shares Mystery

The Blue Girl

The Blue Girl Alex Grecian 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

A Grave Robbery

A Grave Robbery Deanna Raybourn Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty… Shares Mystery

Oxford Blue

Oxford Blue Cynthia E. Hurst Rose Miles was young, wealthy, recently widowed and bored out of her mind. Theodore Stone was trying to find a way to avoid joining the family business. When their paths crossed in dramatic fashion, it seemed logical for them to join forces -- and the Milestone Investigative Agency was the result.'Oxford Blue' is the first novel in the Milestone Agency Victorian Mysteries series Shares Mystery

The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin

The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin Alison Goodman In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as “old maids” to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just… Shares Mystery

SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead

SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead John Maddox Roberts · 2008 Shares Mystery with this book.

Just the Nicest Couple

Just the Nicest Couple Mary Kubica · 2023 · 495p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see Jake before he went missing. After Lily confesses everything to her… Shares Mystery

A Case of Mice and Murder

A Case of Mice and Murder Sally Smith · 2024 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate WINNER OF THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLER Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, and Christian Science Monitor "I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." -Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The Appeal When barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in… Shares Mystery

Miss Morton Takes the Waters

Miss Morton Takes the Waters Catherine Lloyd Shares Mystery with this book.

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