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Robert Glenister narrates the second Cormoran Strike novel with the sardonic dry humor the detective character requires — his voice keeps the literary world's pretensions audible as a background irony even during the investigation's darker turns, across 17 methodical hours. The recommendations are mostly long-running crime series with similar consistency, for readers who want the same quality of procedural that trusts its detective and its audience in equal measure.

10 books for fans of The Silkworm

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    Portrait in Death cover

    Portrait in Death

    In Death • Book 16

    by J.D. Robb

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    When a news station receives professional photos of a murder victim taken after her death, Eve Dallas realizes she's hunting a killer who believes photography captures the soul.

    4.39 Goodreads (42.3K ratings)
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    Celebrity in Death

    In Death • Book 34

    by J.D. Robb

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    Robb explores the strange intersection of reality and fiction as Dallas investigates a murder at a party celebrating a movie based on her own cases—where the victim was playing her.

    4.33 Goodreads (30.2K ratings)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright

    by Nora Roberts, Sandra Burr, James Daniels, Bernadette Quigley

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    Declan Fitzgerald impulsively buys a crumbling New Orleans mansion, beginning renovations that awaken both supernatural mysteries and unexpected romance in the bayou.

    4.51 Goodreads (1.3K ratings)
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    Payback in Death

    In Death • Book 57

    by J.D. Robb

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    A retired Internal Affairs captain's staged suicide exposes decades of police corruption as Dallas investigates enemies within her own department's history.

    4.46 Goodreads (26.0K ratings)
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    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 2

    by Aoibh Wood

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    Seemingly cured of her vampire curse, Detective Cait Reagan faces new supernatural threats while caring for her brain-damaged mother.

    4.43 Goodreads (394 ratings)
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    Kindred in Death

    In Death • Book 29

    by J.D. Robb

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    Eve Dallas confronts every parent's nightmare when a NYPSD captain and his wife return from vacation to find their sixteen-year-old daughter brutally murdered in her bedroom.

    4.37 Goodreads (27.9K ratings)
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    The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)

    Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

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    Harry Bosch's origin trilogy follows the haunted LAPD detective from a Vietnam tunnel rat murder that hits too close to home through his most challenging cases.

    4.37 Goodreads (3.9K ratings)
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    Concealed in Death

    In Death • Book 38

    by J.D. Robb

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    Demolition of an abandoned building reveals the skeletons of twelve teenagers, sending Dallas into the past to solve murders that someone is still killing to keep buried. Robb's 38th installment proves that some secrets refuse to stay hidden.

    4.33 Goodreads (27.5K ratings)