10 books for fans of The complete Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
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Handpicked by the BBC Sherlock creators, these nineteen tales trace Holmes from his debut in A Study in Scarlet to late classics like The Dying Detective, offering the essential canon that shaped television's most famous consulting detective.
★ 4.33 Goodreads (457 ratings) - 2
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine
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Holmes ventures beyond Victorian London into horror, science fiction, and fantasy realms crafted by modern masters like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. Each story tests the detective's methods against supernatural and futuristic mysteries.
★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K ratings) - 3
Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia (The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Book 4)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 1
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Holmes faces his most memorable adversary in Irene Adler, the only person to ever best the consulting detective. Conan Doyle crafts a perfect introduction to a character who haunts Holmes throughout the canon.
★ 3.83 Goodreads (12.7K ratings) - 4
The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Book 6
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edward Raleigh
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A visit to London's underworld opium dens becomes a baffling case when Holmes investigates murder while Watson searches for a friend's missing husband.
★ 3.81 Goodreads (7.3K ratings) - 5
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) - 6
The Inheritance
Atticus Priest • Book 5
by Mark Dawson
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A missing landowner leads private investigator Atticus Priest into the decaying world of the Ainsley family estate, where inheritance disputes mask far darker secrets.
★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.2K ratings) - 7
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Millennium Series • Book 4
by Daily Books
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Lisbeth Salander returns eleven years after Stieg Larsson's death as David Lagercrantz takes over the Millennium series. The unforgettable hacker and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face new mysteries in familiar Swedish noir territory.
★ 4.33 Goodreads (3 ratings) - 8
The Hidden Child
Fjällbacka • Book 5
by Camilla Läckberg, Tiina Nunnally, Anna Ragnhildur Ingólfsdóttir
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Läckberg explores how past secrets poison the present when writer Erica Falck finds Nazi memorabilia in her late mother's possessions, uncovering a wartime history that powerful people want buried forever.
★ 4.01 Goodreads (32.7K ratings) - 9
The Drowning
Fjällbacka • Book 6
by Camilla Läckberg, Luka Miličević
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Christian's literary success attracts anonymous threats that force crime writer Erica to investigate his hidden history. Success turns sinister when past secrets refuse to stay buried.
★ 3.96 Goodreads (27.0K ratings) - 10
The Lost Boy
Fjällbacka • Book 7
by Camilla Läckberg, Tiina Nunnally
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The murder of Fjällbacka's well-liked financial director unravels decades-old secrets involving his returning high school sweetheart and her mysterious five-year-old son.
★ 3.84 Goodreads (24.1K ratings)