18 books like Nemesis

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Hell fire Karin Fossum · 2016 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a… Shares Norway, Police, Crime, Murder

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

The King of Diamonds Simon Tolkien · 2011 · ★ 4.2 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle. Shares Police, Crime, Murder

The caller Karin Fossum · 2012 Shares Norway, Police, Crime 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, Crime, Murder

The Redbreast

The Redbreast Jo Nesbø · 2007 · ★ 4.5 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Don’t Miss the Netflix series Detective Hole, based on Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole series, premiering March 26, 2026!“An elegant and complex thriller….Harrowingly beautiful.” —New York Times Book Review“The Redbreast certainly ranks with the best of current American crime fiction.” —Washington PostJo Nesbø, the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman, has solidified his spot as one of the most… Shares Police, Murder

The fifth element Jørgen Brekke · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Police Inspector Odd Singsaker has been captured, imprisoned on an island off the Northern coast of Norway. He wakes to find himself holding a shotgun. Next to him is a corpse. But what events led him to this point? And how did he get here? A few weeks earlier, Felicia, his wife, disappeared. Though he didn't know it, she was trying to find her way back to Odd to reconcile, but then she vanished… Shares Norway, Crime, Murder, Mystery

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

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 Police, Crime, Murder, Mystery

Cleek, the man of the forty faces Thomas W. Hanshew · 1910 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Meet Hamilton Cleek – man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek’s exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad indeed, but beware – things are not always what they seem. Suspend your disbelief and enjoy a rattling good yarn! Cleek is the central figure in dozens of short stories that… Shares Police, Crime, Mystery

Find The Lady Roger Silverwood · 2008 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Police, Crime, Murder with this book.

The Body in the Garden

The Body in the Garden Katharine Schellman · 2020 · ★ 4.3 Experience the scandals, gossip—and murder!—of Regency London in this historical mystery series debut for fans of Tasha Alexander and Rhys Bowen.A young widow’s return to London high-society doesn’t go as planned when a body turns up at Lady Walter’s ball . . . Regency London, 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to… Shares Mystery

Murder at Rosecliff

Murder at Rosecliff Alyssa Maxwell Shares Mystery with this book.

Deadly Remains

Deadly Remains Kate Ellis · 2025 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work.While Wesley investigates Barry's famous… Shares Mystery

Murder at Somerset House

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

The Briar Club

The Briar Club Kate Quinn · 2024 · ★ 4.3 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of… Shares Mystery

A Perilous Perspective

A Perilous Perspective Anna Lee Huber An all-new historical mystery in this USA Today bestselling series featuring beloved inquiry agents Lady Kiera Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage.Argyll, Scotland. July 1832. After a trying few months in Edinburgh, Kiera and her husband and investigative partner, Sebastian Gage, are eager to escape to the Highlands with their three-month-old child. Kiera is overjoyed for her cousin Rye… Shares Mystery

A Scandal in Mayfair

A Scandal in Mayfair Katharine Schellman Sometimes danger lurks in plain sight, and in the cutthroat London Season socialite Lily Adler must race against time to catch a killer. Fans of Bridgerton will delight in this Regency-era mystery featuring an intrepid sleuth, plenty of intrigue, and a touch of romance.London, 1817. The London Season is beginning once more, and Lily Adler’s return to her home on Half Moon Street feels different… Shares Mystery

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