The Better Mousetrap

10 best books like The Better Mousetrap (Tom Holt): Babylonne, The Da Da De Da Da Code, The Social Climber's Handbook, The Arrangement, The Purloined Paperweight, Naked Eye, Timekeepers, The Best Laid Plans, Costume Not Included, Behind the Sofa: Celebrity Memories of Doctor Who

AuthorCatherine Jinks
ISBN0763636509
Exotic and exciting, this unflinching coming-of-age tale featuring a headstrong heroine weaves a vivid tapestry of life in the Middle Ages.

Early thirteenth-century Languedoc is a place of valor, violence, and persecution. At age sixteen, Babylonne has survived six bloody sieges. She's...
The Da Da De Da Da Code
AuthorRobert Rankin
ISBN0575070110
The world's Master of Far-Fetched Fiction takes us into the heart of the Da Da De Da Da Code, wherein lies the music of the angels—and the music of the devil. Aliens, flying saucers from hell, the Multiverse, the Illuminati—every wacky, way-out conspiracy theory ever heard are all here, wrapped...
AuthorMolly Jong-Fast
ISBN0345501896
HIGH SOCIETY CAN BE A KILLER.
 
Upper East Side socialite Daisy Greenbaum is accustomed to the finer things—designer clothes, summers in the Hamptons, elite private school educations for her daughters, and a staggeringly expensive Park Avenue apartment. But Daisy finds her well-heeled...
AuthorSuzanne Forster
ISBN0778324265
Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face
she doesn't recognize and a husband she doesn't know.
Andrew Villard, a self-made millionaire, has a bright future but
a shadowy past. When he tells Alison the details of their life
together, she has no choice but to believe...
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0933756097
TL;DR: 5 stars, one of the two best non-series Wodehouse I've read to date.

This was the perfect choice for the day. It's been far too long since I read some Wodehouse and Company for Henry has all the best Wodehouse tropes. Aunts and Uncles, Country Houses, poor relations, people engaged to the...
AuthorFrancine Pascal
ISBN0689878249
The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear.

An agent’s work is never done.

Hot-shot recruit Gaia Moore has just managed to close one case—and find her way back into the FBI’s good graces—when the Lollipop Murderer strikes again. Every minute that passes...
AuthorCatherine Webb
ISBN1904233430
With the aid of the Pandora Spirits, the elder Gods have taken a giant step toward freeing the dread Lord Cronus. It seems that Earth's only hope rests with Sam Linnifer and the power of the Light bestowed upon him by Time. But unleashing the Light would have deadly consequences for Sam. For to do so, he must...
AuthorLynn Edelman Schnurnberger
From Lynn Schnurnberger, bestselling co-author of Mine Are Spectacular! and The Botox Diaries, comes a novel of big secrets, family ties, and a reminder that sometimes The Best Laid Plans can lead to delightful surprises.

Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side “M&Ms”—the wealthy...
AuthorMatthew Hughes
ISBN0857661396
So you solved Hell’s labour problems, foiled a fake kidnapping plot, and have successfully become a crimefighting superhero with the help of a demon. Oh, and you got the girl! What’s next? Try stopping your mother’s new lover from bringing about the end of the world (and the start of a new one) by...
AuthorSteve Berry
ISBN1780882858
Behind The Sofa is a collection of over 100 celebrity memories of Doctor Who, compiled in aid of Alzheimer's Research UK. Steve Berry decided to undertake this project in memory of his mother Janet, who suffered from Alzheimer's in her final years and passed away in 2009. The book has taken more than four...
AuthorK.M. Ruiz
ISBN0312673175
The first in an exciting new sci-fi series that’s being described as Blade Runner meets X-Men

Two hundred and fifty years after the world was nearly wiped out by nuclear war, what’s left of society fights over the scraps of the Earth as the rich and powerful plan to ascend in secret to another...
AuthorJohn Lawton
ISBN0802119565
Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Méret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany.The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans.Auschwitz, 1944....
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