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Knife
Knife is a 2019 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo and the twelfth book in the Harry Hole series. The story finds the Oslo detective struggling with alcoholism and personal collapse before the murder of Rakel, his estranged wife, makes him closely connected to the investigation. Combining a po...
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The top alternative to Knife in 2026 is Five Little Pigs with a score of 9.18/10, followed by Red Harvest (9.12) and The Daughter of Time (9.06).
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, first published in 1942, gives Hercule Poirot a murder whose immediate evidence has...
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, appeared in 1929 after serialization in Black Mask. Its narrator is the unn...
The Daughter of Time
Confined to a hospital bed, Inspector Alan Grant turns to a historical question in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time,...
The Hollow Man
Two apparently impossible murders draw Dr. Gideon Fell into John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, published in 1935 and is...
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X, a Japanese crime novel published in 2005, is a full-length entry in the Det...
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Published in 1986 under Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine pseudonym, A Dark-Adapted Eye examines a family's past through the r...
In the Woods
Tana French's 2007 debut novel In the Woods introduces the Dublin Murder Squad through Detective Rob Ryan's investigatio...
A Murder is Announced
Published in 1950, Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced turns a newspaper notice into the starting point for a Miss M...
The Galton Case
A wealthy family's missing heir brings California private investigator Lew Archer into The Galton Case, Ross Macdonald's...
A Fatal Inversion
Ruth Rendell's A Fatal Inversion, published in 1987 under her Barbara Vine name, begins with the discovery of human rema...
Curtain
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings....
A Taste for Death
A Taste for Death is a 1986 detective novel by P. D. James featuring Scotland Yard commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. Th...
Murder Must Advertise
Murder Must Advertise is a 1933 detective novel by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring the aristocratic investigator Lord Peter...
The Black Echo
The Black Echo is Michael Connelly's 1992 debut novel and the first book featuring Los Angeles Police Department detecti...
Faithful Place
Faithful Place is a 2010 crime novel by Tana French and the third book associated with the Dublin Murder Squad. Its narr...
Sidetracked
Sidetracked is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. First publishe...
The Redbreast
The Redbreast is a crime novel by Jo Nesbo and the third book in the series featuring Oslo police detective Harry Hole....
Police
Police is the tenth novel in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole crime series, first published in Norwegian in 2013. The story follows...
The Devil's Star
The Devil's Star is the fifth novel in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series, first published in Norwegian in 2003. During an unu...
The Thirst
The Thirst is a 2017 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo and the eleventh book in the Harry Hole series. Hole is dr...
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