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Alexander McCall Smith Author Read Alikes April 11, 2015 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Alexander McCall Smith try these authors.
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The Lighthouse by P. D. JamesCommander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham, Kate Miskin struggles with her own personal turmoil, and Sergeant Francis Benton-Smith must cope with resentment over a female superior.
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The Blood of an Englishman : An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M. C. BeatonInvestigating the murder of a local baker during an amateur theatrical, curmudgeon Agatha Raisin and her team of private detectives uncover a web of feuds and temperamental behaviors that place the team in mortal danger.
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Leaving Everything Most Loved : A Novel by Jacqueline WinspearWhen the brother of an Indian woman whose body was found in a south London canal asks her to investigate his sister's death, Maisie Dobbs enters into a dangerously colorful and exotic world, which takes her in an unexpected new direction.
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Believing the Lie : An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth GeorgeGoing undercover to investigate the death of a drowning victim at the request of the man's wealthy and influential uncle, Inspector Thomas Lynley uncovers dark secrets in his client's family while one of Lynley's partners, Deborah St. James, becomes increasingly obsessed with a chief suspect's wife.
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Fleshmarket Alley : An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian RankinA latest Inspector John Rebus mystery finds the Edinburgh investigator pursuing a case in the city's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world. .
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R is For Ricochet by Sue GraftonA seemingly straightforward assignment to "babysit" Reba Lafferty, a wealthy and spoiled young woman just out of prison on probation from the California Institution for Women for embezzlement, turns unexpectedly dangerous for Kinsey Milhone.
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie : A Flavia de Luce Mystery by C. Alan BradleyEleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, begins her adventure when a dead bird is found on the doorstep of her family's mansion in the summer of 1950, thus propelling her into a mystery that involves an investigation into a man's murder where her father is the main suspect.
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate AtkinsonA family saga chronicles a century of life as four generations of Yorkshire women move through two World Wars, coronations, secrets, heartbreak, and happiness, all seen through the eyes of Ruby Lennox
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Strong Poison by Dorothy L. SayersAn astute detective comes to the aid of Harriet Vane, a mystery writer accused of murdering her fiance in the same manner as one of her fictional characters
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A Fatal Grace by Louise PennySent to a village south of Montreal to investigate the death of CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpopular woman apparently killed in an electrical accident, Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec finds that nearly everyone in town had a motive to kill her
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My Venice and Other Essays by Donna LeonThe author of the international best-selling Commissario Guido Brunetti series, which is set in Italy, presents more than 50 humorous, passionate and insightful essays about her life in Venice that also explore her family history, her former life in New Jersey and the idea of the Italian man.
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Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne HarrisThe best-selling author of Chocolat continues the story of Vianne, who returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.
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Children of the Revolution : an Inspector Banks Novel by Peter RobinsonWhen a disgraced college lecturer is found dead on an abandoned railway line with 5,000 pounds in his pocket, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks risks his career to find the truth about this man who attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter politics.
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Rumpole and the Primrose Path by John Clifford MortimerCurmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a near fatal heart attack, returns in a new collection of stories in which he takes on a nasty head nurse and befriends a young one at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient, in the title story in a new collection of mystery tales.
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Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette WintersonTaken in by the enigmatic blind keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, an orphaned Silver listens as the aged man recounts stories that center around a nineteenth-century clergyman who lived a paradoxical life while experiencing unfulfilled passions, displacement, and betrayal.
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Sense & Sensibility by Joanna TrollopeA modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters - Elinor, Marianne and Margaret - as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine TeyA hospitalized English policeman reconstructs historical evidence concerning Richard III's role in the murder of Edward IV's two sons
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Acceptable Loss by Anne Perry"When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. Informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer-a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts. Further investigation takes Monk and his wife, Hester, to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire's most respected men"
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All Shall Be Well by Deborah CrombieWhen a close friend and neighbor, Jasmine Dent, is found dead from a lethal dosage of morphine, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid rejects the initial consensus of suicide and implores a reluctant Sergeant Gemma Jones to help him uncover the truth.
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The Last Runaway by Tracy ChevalierForced to leave England and struggling with illness in the wake of a family tragedy, Quaker Honor Bright is forced to rely on strangers in the harsh landscape of 1850 Ohio and is compelled to join the Underground Railroad network to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice : or, On the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. KingFeaturing a new preface, a rerelease of a debut entry in the series that introduced Sherlock Holmes's protégée Mary Russell finds her partnering the master detective in Wales, where they search for the kidnapped daughter of an American senator.
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City of Darkness and Light by Rhys BowenAgreeing to flee New York City when her husband is targeted by a gang for his part in a high-profile arrest, Molly travels to Paris to stay with art-student friends whose disappearances are tied to the murder of a renowned Impressionist artist.
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina LewyckaPutting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry a gold-digging woman, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée, a situation that is compromised by a hurricane, family secrets, and their father's obsession with tractor history.
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The Eyre Affair : A Novel by Jasper FfordeIn a world where you can actually get lost (literally) in literature, Thursday Next, a notorious Special Operative in literary detection, races against time to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature, forcing her to dive into the pages of a novel to stop literary homicide, in a wildly imaginative, mesmerizing thriller.
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A good year
by Peter Mayle
Having lost his biggest client to an unscrupulous boss, Max Skinner journeys to Provence to inspect a vineyard he has inherited and finds additional challenges in the vineyard's inferior wine and a California woman's claim on the estate. By the author of Anything Considered. Reprint. 125,000 first printing.
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A Tiger for Malgudi : and, The Man-Eater of Malgudi by R. K. NarayanA tiger, Raja, who becomes a circus and film star before gaining a reputation as a maneater, embarks on a quest for spiritual enlightenment after his encounter with the Master, a teacher and holy man; and Nataraj, a printer, stands up to Vasu, a taxidermist who beings to covet a temple elephant for his collection
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Heart and Soul by Maeve BinchyGiven the difficult task of building an underfunded clinic in an Irish community caught between the past and present, Dr. Clara Casey finds her task complicated by two difficult adult daughters, the unwanted attentions of her ex-husband, her colorful and diverse staff, and the demanding, often difficult patients they serve.
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Takedown Twenty by Janet EvanovichWhile chasing after powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi, who is on the lam, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must help security specialist Ranger catch the killer of his top client's mother as a giraffe named Kevin runs wild in the streets of Trenton
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A Question of Honor by Charles ToddWhile tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.
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Private L.A. by James PattersonWhen Hollywood's biggest superstar couple disappears without a word from their ranch, private investigator Jack Morgan confronts dangerous secrets to expose an underworld of desperation and deception.
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The Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillSeventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a coroner in Laos, confronts shamans, dreams, conversations with the dead, and an international cover-up, in his attempts to solve a series of murders of Vietnamese soldiers and the wife of a party leader
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A Partisan's Daughter by Louis De BernièresBored, lonely, and trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage, forty-something Chris is a stranger to London's 1970s youth culture, when he propositions Roza, a Yugoslavian newcomer and the daughter of one of Tito's partisans, who spends the next few months telling Chris the story of her past. By the author of Corelli's Mandolin.
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We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy FowlerComing of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
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Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine BrooksForging a deep friendship with a Wampanoag chieftain's son on the Great Harbor settlement where her minister father is working to convert the tribe, Bethia follows his subsequent ivy league education and efforts to bridge cultures among the colonial elite. .
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The School at Thrush Green by ReadChronicles the paths of two much loved schoolteachers, Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty, on the brink of retirement, as they adjust to a new home, face new challenges, and carry on with village life.
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The Valley of Amazement by Amy TanViolet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her.
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