Recommendations based on A Room Full of Bonesby Elly Griffiths

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  1. 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)

  2. A Dying Fall

    by Elly Griffiths
    A murder investigation leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to explore the connections between a long-dead king and a modern-day killer.

    Ruth’s old friend Dan Golding dies in a house fire. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. Could this find be linked to his ... (Goodreads)

  3. The Ghost Fields

    by Elly Griffiths
    Ruth Galloway investigates a World War II plane crash and a missing person case, uncovering dark secrets in the Norfolk countryside.

    The chilling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family’s secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery. Norfolk is suffering ... (Goodreads)

  4. Still Life

    by Louise Penny
    A murder investigation leads to the discovery of secrets surrounding a small Canadian town.

    Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards., Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a ... (Barnes & Noble)

  5. 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)

  6. Death in a Strange Country

    by Donna Leon
    Commissario Brunetti investigates the murder of a young American soldier in Venice, uncovering corruption and secrets in the process.

    Early one morning Brunetti is confronted with the body of a young American serviceman fished out of a fetid Venetian canal. All clues point to a mugging, but robbery seems too convenient a motive. ... (Wikipedia)

  7. In the Bleak Midwinter

    by Julia Spencer-Fleming
    An ex-priest investigates a murder in a small, rural town, uncovering dark secrets.

    Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Millers Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot and ... (Goodreads)

  8. 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)

  9. 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)

  10. The Word Is Murder

    by Anthony Horowitz
    A woman is murdered hours after planning her own funeral. Private investigator Hawthorne and author Horowitz team up to solve the case.

    She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to ... (Goodreads)

  11. Blue Smoke

    by Nora Roberts
    A young girl survives a deadly fire and grows up to become a successful arson investigator, but her past comes back to haunt her.

    After watching a fire burn her family's Baltimore pizzeria to the ground, 11‑year-old Reena Hale (Witt) decides she wants to be an arson investigator when she grows up. And with the help of mentor ... (Wikipedia)

  12. Harry's Trees

    by Jon Cohen
    After losing his wife, Harry finds solace in a young girl and her mother, leading him on a journey of healing and self-discovery.

    USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A grieving widower, a determined girl, a courageous librarian and a mysterious book come together in an uplifting tale of love, loss, friendship and redemption. ... (Barnes & Noble)

  13. Red Bones

    by Ann Cleeves
    A murder mystery set in the Shetland Islands, where secrets and lies are uncovered in a tight-knit community.

    An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past . . . When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are ... (Goodreads)

  14. 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)

  15. Norwegian by Night

    by Derek B. Miller
    An elderly veteran's journey of redemption and transformation, set amidst the backdrop of Norway's war-torn history.

    He will not admit it to Rhea and Lars - never, of course not - but Sheldon can't help but wonder what it is he's doing here.. Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has ... (Goodreads)

  16. 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)

  17. The Kingmaker's Daughter

    by Philippa Gregory
    A historical novel of political intrigue, focusing on the lives of the daughters of England's King Edward IV.

    Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick —called "The Kingmaker"—puts young Edward IV on the throne of England. But before Neville can arrange for one of his daughters to marry the new king, Edward ... (Wikipedia)

  18. Speaking from Among the Bones

    by Alan Bradley
    A young detective investigates the mystery of a decades-old murder in a small English village.

    From award-winning author Alan Bradley comes the next cozy British mystery starring intrepid young sleuth Flavia de Luce, hailed by USA Today as “one of the most remarkable creations in recent ... (Goodreads)

  19. The Lady of the Rivers

    by Philippa Gregory
    A sweeping historical novel about a powerful female's journey of self-discovery.

    Fourteen-year-old Jacquetta, whose noble family claims descendance from the water goddess Melusine , learns the secrets of her inherited powers from her great-aunt Jehanne , the Demoiselle of ... (Wikipedia)

  20. Blue Moon

    by Lee Child
    Jack Reacher returns to his old military base to find out the truth behind a mysterious woman's murder.

    “This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” This isn’t one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular ... (Goodreads)

  21. Thunderhead

    by Douglas Preston
    A gripping adventure through a dystopian future as a young couple battle to save their world.

    Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery ... (Goodreads)

  22. The Last Days of Night

    by Graham Moore
    In 19th century New York City, a lawyer battles a powerful inventor in a fight over patents and the future of electricity.

    NEW YORK TIMES, BESTSELLER • ,“A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson, , ,“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an ... (Barnes & Noble)

  23. Pope Joan

    by Donna Woolfolk Cross
    A story of a female Pope's rise to power in a male-dominated world.

    Joan, the daughter of a priest and his Saxon wife, is born in 814 as the last of three children. When he discovers that Joan has learned to read, her father calls her “child of the devil” and blames ... (Wikipedia)

  24. Moloka'i

    by Alan Brennert
    A young Hawaiian girl is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to live in a settlement on Moloka'i, where she learns to survive and thrive.

    This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place—-and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit. ... (Barnes & Noble)

  25. The Ritual Bath

    by Faye Kellerman
    A female detective investigates a religious murder, uncovering a web of secrets.

    Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the ... (Barnes & Noble)

  26. Old Filth

    by Jane Gardam
    The life story of Sir Edward Feathers, a retired judge known as "Old Filth" (Failed In London Try Hong Kong), and his complex relationships.

    Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) ... (Goodreads)

  27. The Bone Collector

    by Jeffery Deaver
    A detective and a forensic specialist race against time to stop a serial killer.

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics – until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging ... (Goodreads)

  28. The Shell Seekers

    by Rosamunde Pilcher
    A family explores their past, present, and future while examining the importance of treasured objects.

    Shifting in time, the novel tells the story of Penelope Keeling, the daughter of unconventional parents (an artist father and his much-younger French wife), examining her past and her relationships ... (Wikipedia)

  29. The Beekeeper's Apprentice

    by Laurie R. King
    A young girl’s journey to becoming a detective apprentice, uncovering crime and solving mysteries.

    After losing her family in a tragic motor accident in California, fifteen-year-old Mary Russell goes to live with her aunt in Sussex, England. Wandering the Sussex Downs in April 1915, she literally ... (Wikipedia)

  30. Flight Behavior

    by Barbara Kingsolver
    A woman's struggle to reconcile her faith and environmentalism as she faces a mysterious ecological disaster.

    Dellarobia Turnbow is a 28-year-old discontented housewife living with her poor family on a farm in Appalachia . On a hike to begin an affair with a telephone repairman, Turnbow finds millions of ... (Wikipedia)