18 books like Who Buries the Dead

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Where Shadows Dance C. S. Harris · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Sebastian St. Cyr finds himself in the realm of international intrigue when he investigates the murder of a foreign office diplomat--a murder his reluctant bride-to-be, Hero Jarvis, knows something about. Set in Regency London: July, 1812. Shares: Sebastian Saint Cyr, Enquêtes, Meurtre, Great Britain

Post-mortem Jon Wells · 2009 · ★ 3.3 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A jogger is running near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario when he stumbles across a near- mummified skeleton in a field. The skeletal remains are studied at the Hamilton morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist, and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady". The victim is female, non-Caucasian. But who is she? Enter Hamilton… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Death by his grace Kwei Quartey · 2017 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Katherine Yeboah's marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when it becomes apparent that Katherine is infertile, Solomon's extended family accuses her of being a witch, hounding her until the relationship is so soured Solomon feels compelled to order Katherine out of the house they shared. Alone on her last night there, Katherine is brutally murdered by an… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Mystery & Detective, Investigation

Bareback Kit Whitfield · 2006 · ★ 3.5 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "For those born feet-first, life is normal. Civil rights are enshrined in law, the world is a comfortable place, and every full moon night, you lock yourself in a secure room to fur up in peace. But for those born head-first, the damage done is more than just physical. For a non, locked in his or her human skin, is first and foremost a conscript, drafted at eighteen into DORLA, the Department for… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Written in Bone Simon Beckett · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Written in Bone is a novel written by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2007. It is the second novel to feature Dr. David Hunter. Set in the Outer Hebrides, this crime novel features forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter. In this volume, he is called in to examine a badly burned body found in a deserted house on a small island while contending with both… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Time of departure Douglas Schofield · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Florida state prosecutor Claire Talbot is as tough as they come, and not everyone loves her for it. Newly promoted Felony Division Chief, Claire has about as many jealous detractors as she does supporters. Some colleagues are openly skeptical about her youth, her abilities, and even her gender. When a highway project construction crew unearths two skeletons in a common grave, Claire reopens an… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Mystery & Detective, Investigation

Sound of Broken Glass Deborah Crombie · 2013 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the past... On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary 13-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community. Drawn together by loneliness, the unlikely pair forms a deep connection that ends in a shattering act of… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

When Maidens Mourn C. S. Harris · 2012 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Regency England, August 1812: Sebastian St Cyr's plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon are shattered when the murdered body of Hero's good friend Gabrielle Tennyson is discovered drifting in a battered boat at the site of a long-vanished castle known as Camlet Moat. A beautiful young antiquary, Miss Tennyson recently provoked an uproar with her controversial identification of the… Shares: Sebastian Saint Cyr, Investigation, Murder, History

Phantom evil Heather Graham · 2011 · ★ 4.4 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Heading a group of paranormal investigators for the government, Jackson Crow uses his link to the realm of spirits to help solve the mysterious death of a senator's wife with the help of intuitive police officer Angela Hawkins. Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

The Burning Room Michael Connelly · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but all other evidence is virtually nonexistent. Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a… Shares: Enquêtes, Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Deadly Wedding Kate Parker · 2016 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate New Cover. Corrections to Americanisms. Same great story. It's a challenge finding a killer when everyone in the family wanted the old man dead. Spring, 1938. Olivia Denis is ridiculed by her aristocratic, wealthy cousins. A weekend spent in their ancient mansion for an extravagant wedding feels like torture. On the morning of the wedding, the bride's grandfather is found brutally murdered. Then… Shares: Meurtre, Murder, History

What Remains of Heaven C. S. Harris · 2009 · ★ 4.5 Fifth in the "fast-moving"(Publishers Weekly, starred review) British-set historical mystery series starring "a charismatic hero."(Kirkus Reviews starred review)Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, is asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury to help in the investigation of two corpses found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly… Shares: Sebastian Saint Cyr, Investigation, Murder, History

Bad Blood Levine, Richard M. · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Details the shocking murders--in Terra Linda, California--of Jim and Naomi Olive by their sixteen-year-old daughter, Marlene, and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend, small-time drug dealer Chuck Riley Shares: Meurtre, Murder

From the Charred Remains Susanna Calkins · 2014 · ★ 3.2 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "It's 1666 and the Great Fire has just decimated an already plague-ridden London. Lady's maid Lucy Campion, along with pretty much everyone else left standing, is doing her part to help the city clean up and recover. But their efforts come to a standstill when a couple of local boys stumble across a dead body that should have been burned up in the fire but miraculously remained intact--the body… Shares: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Investigation, Murder

The Sittaford Mystery Agatha Christie · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Challenging M-U-R-D-E-R. It began as an innocent parlor game intended to while away the hours on a bitter winter night. But the message that appeared before the amateur occultists at the snowbound Sittaford House was spelled out as loud and clear as a scream. Of course, the notion that they had foretold doom was pure bunk. Wasn't it? And the discovery of a corpse was pure coincidence. Wasn't it? If they're… Shares: Meurtre, Investigation, Murder

Murder in America Stephen T. Holmes · 1994 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "A major revision of the best-selling Murder in America, this Second Edition examines both common and unusual acts of homicide in light of society's changing norms, values, attitudes, and customs. The authors, Ronald and Stephen Holmes, have worked with numerous police departments on more than 300 murder and rape cases. They have authored a variety of books and written many articles addressing… Shares: Meurtre, Murder

Whiskey Beach Nora Roberts · 2013 · ★ 4.1 · 498p · ≈ 16h · Moderate For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is… Shares: Enquêtes, Investigation, Murder

She's Leaving Home William Shaw · 2014 · ★ 2.9 · 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: Historical, Mystery & Detective, Investigation, Murder

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