Recommendations based on A Necessary Endby Peter Robinson

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  1. Gallows View

    by Peter Robinson
    A detective investigates a series of crimes in a small English town, uncovering dark secrets and personal demons along the way.

    A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases ... (Wikipedia)

  2. Unnatural Causes

    by P.D. James
    A detective investigates a series of mysterious deaths, uncovering a sinister plot.

    AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk ... (Goodreads)

  3. Death of an Expert Witness

    by P.D. James
    A detective investigates a suspicious death in a hospital laboratory, uncovering a sinister conspiracy.

    Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to change. Once ... (Goodreads)

  4. A Banquet of Consequences

    by Elizabeth George
    A gripping whodunit set in England, as a detective unravels a complex web of secrets.

    Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted ... (Goodreads)

  5. Exit Music

    by Ian Rankin
    An Edinburgh Detective's investigation of a murder, uncovering a complex web of conspiracy.

    Just a week before Rebus ’s retirement , Rebus and Clarke are investigating the death of a famous Russian exile poet who was mugged and beaten to death on King's Stables Road. Then a sound recordist ... (Wikipedia)

  6. Even Dogs in the Wild

    by Ian Rankin
    Detective Rebus investigates a powerful politician's mysterious death and finds a tangled web of secrets and lies.

    A former Scottish senior prosecutor has been found dead. Siobhan Clarke and a retired John Rebus are called on to investigate the prosecutor's death. , Meanwhile Malcolm Fox is drafted into a ... (Wikipedia)

  7. The Hanging Garden

    by Ian Rankin
    Detective John Rebus investigates a series of grisly murders in Scotland.

    Detective Inspector John Rebus is investigating a suspected war criminal. Rebus helps a traumatised Bosnian prostitute and tries to intercede in a territory war between gangster Tommy Telford and ... (Wikipedia)

  8. Headhunters

    by Jo Nesbø
    A corporate recruiter's desperate mission to save his family from a powerful criminal.

    Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one ... (Goodreads)

  9. Firewall

    by Henning Mankell
    A detective is tasked with tracking down a mysterious hacker who is sending threatening emails.

    Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local ... (Goodreads)

  10. Here Be Dragons

    by Sharon Kay Penman
    Epic story of love, war and betrayal set against the backdrop of 13th century England.

    Here Be Dragons is the first of Penman's trilogy about the medieval princes of Gwynedd and the monarchs of England. , England's King John uses his out-of-wedlock daughter Joanna as a negotiating tool ... (Wikipedia)

  11. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

    by Hannah Green
    A young woman's story of struggle to overcome her mental illness and reclaim her life.

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is the story of a sixteen-year-old who retreats from reality into the bondage of a lushly imagined but threatening kingdom, and her slow and painful journey back to ... (Goodreads)

  12. Ordinary Grace

    by William Kent Krueger
    A Midwestern family's journey of grief and healing, grappling with tragedy and the power of grace.

    “That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, ... (Goodreads)

  13. Girls' Night Out

    by Liz Fenton
    A girls' night out in Tulum turns into a nightmare when one of them goes missing. Secrets and lies are revealed as they search for their friend.

    From the bestselling authors of, The Good Widow, comes a chilling novel of psychological suspense that will make you think twice about what your best friend may be hiding…, For estranged friends ... (Barnes & Noble)

  14. The Enemy

    by Lee Child
    A retired military cop is tasked with finding a missing American soldier in Iraq.

    In the last hours of 1989, Major Gen. Kenneth Kramer dies of a heart attack in a seedy North Carolina motel, apparently while in the company of a prostitute. MP Maj. Jack Reacher investigates and ... (Wikipedia)

  15. Die Trying

    by Lee Child
    An intense thriller involving a daring mission to rescue a kidnapped woman.

    While in Chicago, former military policeman Jack Reacher is helping a young woman with an injured leg with her dry cleaning when they're captured at gunpoint by three men and thrown into a car, then ... (Wikipedia)

  16. Career of Evil

    by Robert Galbraith
    Private detective investigates a series of mysterious and violent cases linked to a deranged criminal.

    After murdering a woman, an unidentified man stalks Robin Ellacott, whom he sees as part of his plan to exact revenge against private investigator Cormoran Strike. Robin, having worked for Strike for ... (Wikipedia)

  17. Under the Harrow

    by Flynn Berry
    Nora's sister is murdered in a small English town, and she becomes obsessed with finding the killer.

    When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar ... (Goodreads)

  18. TimeRiders

    by Alex Scarrow
    Three teenagers are recruited to become TimeRiders, tasked with preventing time travel from destroying history.

    Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared ... (Goodreads)

  19. One Shot

    by Lee Child
    A former military investigator must solve a murder case in a short period of time.

    In a small Indiana city, a lone gunman in a parking garage calmly fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter ... (Wikipedia)

  20. The Good Liar

    by Catherine McKenzie
    A psychological thriller about a woman who becomes entangled in a web of lies and deceit after befriending a charming and manipulative man.

    Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?, When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered. A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was ... (Barnes & Noble)

  21. The Devil's Work

    by Mark Edwards
    A woman starts a new job, but soon realizes that her boss is not what he seems. A psychological thriller that will keep you on edge.

    A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of, Follow You Home, and, The Magpies,., It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving ... (Goodreads)

  22. Shine

    by Lauren Myracle
    A high school student struggles to come to terms with a hate crime that occurred in her small town.

    In Black Creek, North Carolina , 16-year-old Cat Robinson's gay best friend, Patrick Truman, is left temporarily comatose from a brutal and discriminatory act of violence. Cat feels guilty for having ... (Wikipedia)

  23. Summer People

    by Elin Hilderbrand
    A family rents a house on Nantucket for the summer, but their idyllic vacation is disrupted by secrets and unexpected events.

    "Things get more twisted at every turn, with enough lies and betrayals to fuel a whole season of soap operas...readers will be hooked."— Publishers Weekly on Elin Hilderbrand's Summer People Every ... (Barnes & Noble)

  24. Between You and Me

    by Lisa Hall
    A psychological thriller about a woman who discovers her husband's infidelity and the dangerous consequences that follow.

    They say every marriage has its secrets. But no one sees what happens behind closed doors. And sometimes those doors should never be opened … Sal and Charlie are married. They love each other. But ... (Goodreads)

  25. No One Knows

    by J.T. Ellison
    Aubrey Hamilton's husband disappeared on their fifth wedding anniversary. Five years later, he's declared dead, but Aubrey isn't convinced.

    In this riveting and complex thriller from the author of, Lie to Me, a woman must figure out if she’s losing her mind, or if her husband has really returned from the dead... The day Aubrey Hamilton’s ... (Barnes & Noble)

  26. The House of Thunder

    by Leigh Nichols
    After a car accident, a woman wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Strange occurrences and a sinister conspiracy follow.

    Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door–men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same ... (Goodreads)

  27. The Poet

    by Michael Connelly
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's descent into darkness, as he unravels a web of deceit and murder.

    Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how–he decides to write the story. But ... (Goodreads)

  28. Winter Moon

    by Dean Koontz
    A former cop and a psychic team up to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing a small town during a snowy winter.

    The story begins with a thirty-two-year-old Los Angeles police officer named Jack McGarvey. Jack is caught in a shootout at a gas station. He kills the gunman but is badly injured and spends months ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Finding Claire Fletcher

    by Lisa Regan
    A missing person case turns personal for Detective D.D. Warren as she searches for Claire Fletcher and uncovers dark secrets.

    In the first book in bestselling author Lisa Regan’s new series, a one-night stand sets a detective on the trail of a terrifying unsolved crime. With his career on thin ice and fresh ink on his ... (Goodreads)

  30. The Light Between Oceans

    by M.L. Stedman
    A lighthouse keeper and his wife make a heartbreaking decision that has lifelong repercussions.

    Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found, here, Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse ... (Goodreads)