Books like Risk

Risk by Dick Francis reads as suspenseful, tense. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

13 clues for Miss Marple

Agatha Christie · 1966

Shares the detective + vspare thread

69% genome match

Even money

Dick Francis · 2009

Shares the detective + vspare thread

89% genome match

Maigret Sets a Trap

Georges Simenon · 1955

Shares the detective + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Final Deduction

Rex Stout · 1955

Shares the detective + vspare thread

69% genome match

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1905

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

The After House

Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

A Mind to Murder

P. D. James · 1963

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

The daffodil murder

Edgar Wallace · 1921

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

Agatha Christie's Detectives (Dead Man's Folly / Murder at the Vicarage / N or M? / Sad Cypress / Towards Zero)

Agatha Christie · 1982

Shares the detective + vspare thread

69% genome match

Dick Francis Omnibus

Dick Francis · 1994

Shares the detective thread

87% genome match

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1927

Shares the detective thread

69% genome match

Hickory Dickory Death

Agatha Christie · 1952

Shares the detective + vspare thread

69% genome match