Books like They Came to Baghdad
12 books with a reading profile close to They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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And Then There Were None
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, mystery
Ten strangers arrive at a secluded mansion on Soldier Island, invited by an absent host named U.N.
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The Amber Room
by Steve Berry
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
The Amber Room, a chamber of amber panels, gold leaf and mirrors given to Peter the Great by Prussia, was removed by the Nazis from a palace near Leningrad in 1941 and disappeared at the end of the war.
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The Confessor
by Daniel Silva
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
After a prominent Jewish scholar is murdered in Munich, art restorer and Mossad operative Gabriel Allon uncovers a conspiracy rooted in the Vatican’s silence during the Holocaust.
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THE SECRET OF SECRETS
by Dan Brown
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this thriller centered on the disappearance of a prominent noetic scientist.
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The Secret of Chimneys
Also practical and outward-looking · mystery, classic literature
Anthony Cade, an adventurer working in South Africa, accepts a commission to deliver a memoir and a set of letters to London.
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Dangerous Girls
by Abigail Haas
Also practical and escapist · thriller, mystery
Anna’s spring break trip to Aruba turns into a legal nightmare when her best friend, Elise, is found brutally murdered in their vacation rental.
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The Thin Man
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · mystery, classic literature
Set in Depression-era New York during the Christmas season, the story follows Nick Charles, a retired private investigator, and his wealthy wife Nora.
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The Apprentice
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a series of gruesome murders in Boston that mirror the surgical precision of the imprisoned serial killer Warren Hoyt, known as the Surgeon.
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The Mephisto Club
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles investigate a crime scene where a woman has been dismembered and drained of blood, with Latin messages written in gore.
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JUDGE STONE
by Viola Davis and James Patterson
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
Judge Mary Stone presides over a rural courtroom in Union Springs, Alabama, where she manages a legal case tangled in local history and conflicting ethical loyalties.
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The Holcroft Covenant
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, mystery
Noel Holcroft, an American architect, discovers he is the biological son of Heinrich Clausen, a high-ranking financial strategist for the Third Reich.
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