Recommendations based on Red Bonesby Ann Cleeves

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  1. White Nights

    by Ann Cleeves
    A murder mystery set in the isolated and eerie Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered.

    The electrifying follow up to the award-winning, Raven Black,Raven Black, received crime fiction's highest monetary honor, the Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award. Now Detective Jimmy Perez is back in an ... (Barnes & Noble)

  2. Blue Lightning

    by Ann Cleeves
    A detective unravels a web of secrets in a small town, seeking justice for a murdered girl.

    Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancee, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the ... (Goodreads)

  3. Raven Black

    by Ann Cleeves
    A murder mystery set on the Shetland Islands, unraveling secrets embedded in the local community.

    Winner of Britain’s coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award, Ann Cleeves introduces a dazzling new suspense series to mystery readers.,Raven Black, begins on New Year’s Eve with a lonely outcast named ... (Goodreads)

  4. Remarkable Creatures

    by Tracy Chevalier
    The story of two 19th century women who make a groundbreaking discovery in the fossil-rich cliffs of Lyme Regis.

    In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except ... (Goodreads)

  5. Coffin Road

    by Peter May
    A man wakes up on a beach with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must uncover the truth about his past and a murder on a remote Scottish island.

    The master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides. A man is washed up on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris, barely alive and borderline hypothermic. He has no idea who he is ... (Goodreads)

  6. Bones of the Lost

    by Kathy Reichs
    Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates the murder of a young girl and uncovers a human trafficking ring.

    When Charlotte police discover the body of a teenage girl along a desolate stretch of two-lane highway, Temperance Brennan fears the worst. The girl’s body shows signs of foul play. Inside her purse, ... (Goodreads)

  7. Set in Darkness

    by Ian Rankin
    A murder investigation in Edinburgh uncovers corruption and political intrigue. Detective Rebus navigates the murky waters of power and deception.

    The Scottish Parliament is about to reopen in Edinburgh (in 1999) after 300 years. Detective Inspector John Rebus is in charge of liaison, as the new parliament is in his patch. While on a tour of ... (Wikipedia)

  8. Crow Lake

    by Mary Lawson
    An exploration of family, loss, and identity, in a small farming community.

    The death of their parents, when Kate is 7 years old, Bo a toddler, and her brothers in their late teens, threatens the family with dispersal and seems to spell the end of their parents' dream that ... (Wikipedia)

  9. In a House of Lies

    by Ian Rankin
    Detective John Rebus investigates a cold case involving a missing person and uncovers a web of lies and corruption.

    Some boys discover a car in a deep gully in some woodland. Inside is a handcuffed corpse; the ex-lover of the dead man was the son of a serving detective inspector in what was the old Lothian & ... (Wikipedia)

  10. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

    by Alan Bradley
    A young girl's detective journey to solve a murder mystery in a picturesque English village.

    As the novel opens, Flavia Sabina de Luce schemes revenge against her two older sisters, Ophelia (17) and Daphne (13), who have locked her inside a closet in Buckshaw, the family's country manor home ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Rather Be the Devil

    by Ian Rankin
    Detective John Rebus tackles a decades-old cold case and a web of corruption.

    The novel opens with Rebus and his girlfriend, Deborah Quant (who is the latest pathologist in Edinburgh) dining in a restaurant. Rebus is reminded of the death in 1978 of Maria Turquand in the ... (Wikipedia)

  12. A Room Full of Bones

    by Elly Griffiths
    Ruth Galloway investigates a mysterious death in a museum, leading her to uncover secrets buried in the past.

    Combine a splash of Alan Bradley with a pinch of Kathy Reichs and you have a gripping new Ruth Galloway Mystery – a good-hearted mystery series with a dark edge. Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full ... (Goodreads)

  13. The Virgin Blue

    by Tracy Chevalier
    A Frenchwoman's search for her past intertwines with the emotions of a present-day American researcher.

    Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her ... (Goodreads)

  14. The House at Sea's End

    by Elly Griffiths
    A former police detective investigates a mysterious death in a quiet beach community.

    Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies ... (Goodreads)

  15. Sourdough

    by Robin Sloan
    A software engineer discovers the joy of baking sourdough bread and the mysterious origins of the starter.

    Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two ... (Goodreads)

  16. The Blackhouse

    by Peter May
    A murder mystery set in a remote Scottish island, delving into a dark past.

    A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to ... (Goodreads)

  17. The Last Runaway

    by Tracy Chevalier
    A young Quaker woman's struggle to find her place in a new country and a changing world.

    New York Times, bestselling author of, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in, The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground ... (Goodreads)

  18. Sovereign

    by C.J. Sansom
    A lawyer's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death in Tudor England.

    Set in the autumn of 1541, the novel describes fictional events surrounding Henry VIII's 'Progress' to the North (a state visit accompanied by the royal court and its attendants, the purpose of which ... (Wikipedia)

  19. Dark Fire

    by C.J. Sansom
    A lawyer investigates a mystery surrounding the death of a famous scientist, unearthing secrets of the past.

    It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as " the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," is pressed to help a friend's ... (Goodreads)

  20. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

    by Alan Bradley
    Flavia de Luce, a precocious 11-year-old chemist and amateur detective, solves another murder mystery in her small English village.

    From Dagger Award-winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously ... (Goodreads)

  21. The Woman in Black

    by Susan Hill
    A Victorian lawyer is tasked with investigating a mysterious and frightening ghost.

    The novel is narrated by Arthur Kipps, the young lawyer who formerly worked for Mr. Bentley. One Christmas Eve he is at home with his wife Esme and four stepchildren, who are sharing ghost stories. ... (Wikipedia)

  22. Four Past Midnight

    by Stephen King
    Four horror stories exploring the mysteries of fate, time and the supernatural.

    At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instang of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and ... (Goodreads)

  23. A Legacy of Spies

    by John le Carré
    A former spy must confront the consequences of his past actions.

    Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of ... (Goodreads)

  24. Bad Luck and Trouble

    by Lee Child
    Jack Reacher and his team join forces to solve a dangerous mystery that threatens their lives.

    A man with two broken legs is thrown out of a corporate helicopter from 3,000 feet above the California desert. Seventeen days after that, Reacher is roaming alone with no objectives, no phone, no ... (Wikipedia)

  25. A Trick of the Light

    by Louise Penny
    A murder mystery set in a small Quebec village, as a young detective uncovers secrets of the past.

    "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden ... (Goodreads)

  26. Across the Nightingale Floor

    by Lian Hearn
    A young warrior's quest to save his family and restore their honor.

    Across the Nightingale Floor is set in a fictional world based on Japan during the Sengoku period , and follows the story of a sixteen-year-old boy named Tomasu and fifteen-year-old girl named Kaede. ... (Wikipedia)

  27. Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide

    by J.K. Rowling
    An irreverent and humorous look at the wizarding world of Hogwarts.

    'The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in the middle of London would stretch even the Muggles' notorious determination not to notice magic ... (Barnes & Noble)

  28. Smiley's People

    by John le Carré
    Retired spy Smiley is thrust back into the world of espionage to uncover a deadly conspiracy.

    John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge and have earned him – and his hero, British ... (Goodreads)

  29. Glass Houses

    by Louise Penny
    A suspenseful murder mystery set in a remote Quebec village.

    An instant, New York Times Bestseller, and August 2017 LibraryReads pick!, “Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with ... (Barnes & Noble)

  30. How the Light Gets In

    by Louise Penny
    Detective Armand Gamache investigates a murder in a small Canadian town, uncovering secrets and lies.

    Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive ... (Goodreads)