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Telling Tales
Telling Tales is a 2005 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the second book centered on Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope. The story returns to an East Yorkshire community affected by the murder of a teenage girl ten years earlier, after evidence emerges that the man convicted of the crime may have been...
apps Top Telling Tales Alternatives
The top alternative to Telling Tales in 2026 is Five Little Pigs with a score of 9.18/10, followed by The Daughter of Time (9.06) and A Dark-Adapted Eye (8.92).
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, first published in 1942, gives Hercule Poirot a murder whose immediate evidence has...
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,...
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...
A Fatal Inversion
Ruth Rendell's A Fatal Inversion, published in 1987 under her Barbara Vine name, begins with the discovery of human rema...
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...
The Last Coyote
The Last Coyote is a 1995 crime novel by Michael Connelly and the fourth book centered on Los Angeles detective Harry Bo...
Death of an Expert Witness
Death of an Expert Witness is a 1977 detective novel by P. D. James featuring Commander Adam Dalgliesh. The investigatio...
Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the first book centered on editor Susan Ry...
Magpie Murders: A Novel
Magpie Murders is a 2016 mystery novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and the first book centered on editor Susan Ry...
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
The Beekeeper's Apprentice is a 1994 detective novel by Laurie R. King and the first entry in the Mary Russell and Sherl...
The Dead of Jericho
The Dead of Jericho is a 1981 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis. Morse become...
The Way Through the Woods
The Way Through the Woods is a 1992 detective novel by Colin Dexter featuring Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis. While...
A Great Deliverance
A Great Deliverance is a 1988 crime novel by Elizabeth George and the first book featuring Scotland Yard detectives Thom...
Raven Black
Raven Black is a 2006 crime novel by British author Ann Cleeves and the first installment in her Shetland series. Set in...
The Crow Trap
The Crow Trap is a crime novel by Ann Cleeves, first published in 1999, and the opening book of the Vera Stanhope series...
Red Bones
Red Bones is a 2009 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the third installment in her Shetland series featuring detective Jimm...
Hidden Depths
Hidden Depths is a 2007 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the third book in the Vera Stanhope series. Set in Northumberland...
The Long Call
The Long Call is a 2019 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the first book in the Two Rivers series. It introduces Detective...
The Glass Room
The Glass Room is a 2012 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series. Vera becomes involve...
The Heron's Cry
The Heron's Cry is a 2021 crime novel by Ann Cleeves and the second entry in her Two Rivers series. Detective Matthew Ve...
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