10 books for fans of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
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Maxim de Winter's new bride discovers that his dead first wife, Rebecca, still rules their grand estate through memory, servants, and secrets that threaten to destroy everything.
★ 4.25 Goodreads (730.8K ratings) - 2
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
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Lehane explores how childhood trauma echoes through decades when three Boston friends are reunited by the murder of one's daughter.
★ 4.18 Goodreads (166.9K ratings) - 3
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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The brutal 1959 murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas becomes a haunting meditation on violence, justice, and the American dream gone wrong.
★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K ratings) - 4
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
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A New York journalist gets swept into Savannah's bizarre social scene when a prominent antique dealer shoots his alleged lover. Berendt turns true crime into Southern Gothic literature, where every eccentric character seems too strange to be real.
★ 3.92 Goodreads (297.3K ratings) - 5
O homem que morreu duas vezes
Thursday Murder Club • Book 2
by Richard Osman, Jaime Biaggio
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Elizabeth and her fellow retirement home detectives encounter stolen diamonds, Cold War espionage, and a corpse that seems to have died twice. Osman's second mystery deepens his characters while delivering another perfectly plotted puzzle filled with wit and unexpected twists.
★ 4.35 Goodreads (360.6K ratings) - 6
Brimstone
Pendergast • Book 5
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
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Art critic Jeremy Grove dies in a locked room, his body impossibly hot, claw marks burned into the wall—the first of several identical, seemingly demonic murders.
★ 4.15 Goodreads (43.6K ratings) - 7
White Jazz
L.A. Quartet • Book 4
by James Ellroy
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LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein runs shakedowns and enforces corruption until federal investigators target him as bait for bigger fish. Ellroy's final L.A. Quartet novel is his most brutal and stylistically extreme.
★ 3.92 Goodreads (10.1K ratings) - 8
Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail
Security Hounds Investigations • Book 1
by Dana Mentink
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Search-and-rescue dogs drive these romantic mysteries, tracking missing persons through wilderness settings. Mentink combines realistic canine training details with faith-based romantic suspense across three connected cases.
★ 5.00 Goodreads (2 ratings) - 9
Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction
by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor
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Twenty-five years of The Strand Magazine's finest short fiction distills masters like Jo Nesbø's Nordic noir and Ray Bradbury's imagination into bite-sized revelations. Each story represents a different flavor of literary excellence.
★ 4.67 Goodreads (3 ratings) - 10
Calculated In Death / Thankless In Death
In Death #36-37 • Book 37
by J.D. Robb, Susan Ericksen
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Two novels pair Eve Dallas hunting the killer of a respected accountant with her pursuit of a murderer who targets anyone foolish enough to help others.
★ 4.59 Goodreads (188 ratings)