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24 titles for readers of Last Words by Michael Koryta, selected for shared themes: Private Investigators, Traditional, Crime, and Mystery & Detective.

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Each title here shares meaningful common ground with Last Words — in theme, mood, or literary style.

Many Rivers to Cross A DCI Banks Novel — Peter Robinson

Many Rivers to Cross A DCI Banks Novel

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Down Cemetery Road Zoë Boehm Thrillers 1 — Mick Herron

Down Cemetery Road Zoë Boehm Thrillers 1

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Executive Privilege A Novel — Phillip Margolin

Executive Privilege A Novel

Phillip Margolin

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Another Thing to Fall A Novel — Laura Lippman

Another Thing to Fall A Novel

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Collective A Novel — Alison Gaylin

The Collective A Novel

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Mystery of the Blue Train A Hercule Poirot Mystery — Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Agatha Christie

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Consequences of Fear A Maisie Dobbs Novel — Jacqueline Winspear

The Consequences of Fear A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Jacqueline Winspear

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill The New Hercule Poirot Mystery — Sophie Hannah

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill The New Hercule Poirot Mystery

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Partners in Crime A Tommy and Tuppence Collection: The Official Authorized Edition — Agatha Christie

Partners in Crime A Tommy and Tuppence Collection: The Official Authorized Edition

Agatha Christie

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Blood Grove — Walter Mosley

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Standing in the Shadows — Peter Robinson

Standing in the Shadows

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret — Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

Benjamin Stevenson

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

This Body of Death A Lynley Novel — Elizabeth George

This Body of Death A Lynley Novel

Elizabeth George

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

By a Spider’s Thread — Laura Lippman

By a Spider’s Thread

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Sexton Blake’s New Order — Mark Hodder

Sexton Blake’s New Order

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Big Bow Mystery With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton — Israel Zangwill

The Big Bow Mystery With a Chapter From English Humorists of To-day by J. A. Hammerton

Israel Zangwill

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Sherlock Holmes in America — Martin H. Greenberg

Sherlock Holmes in America

Martin H. Greenberg

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Death in a Lonely Place — Stig Abell

Death in a Lonely Place

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Prayers for Rain A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel — Dennis Lehane

Prayers for Rain A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Paris Apartment A Novel — Lucy Foley (Novelist)

The Paris Apartment A Novel

Lucy Foley (Novelist)

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

This Body of Death An Inspector Lynley Novel — Elizabeth George

This Body of Death An Inspector Lynley Novel

Elizabeth George

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The Word Is Murder — Anthony Horowitz

The Word Is Murder

Anthony Horowitz

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

Darkness, Take My Hand A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel — Dennis Lehane

Darkness, Take My Hand A Kenzie and Gennaro Novel

Themes: Private Investigators • Traditional • Crime

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Private Investigators, Traditional, Crime — the same threads that run through Last Words by Michael Koryta. Among the authors featured: Peter Robinson, Mick Herron, Phillip Margolin, Laura Lippman, and others.

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