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Angela Marsons
431 ratings 4.40 ·
fiction · book · adult · crime · thriller · mystery · audiobook · suspense · murder · female-mc · police-procedural · law-enforcement · contemporary · serial-killers · noir · psychological · killer · drama · abuse · female-author
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Simon McCleave
129 ratings 4.33 ·
mystery · fiction · book · thriller · adult · crime · whodunit · law-enforcement · police-procedural · female-mc · murder · political-intrigue · noir · kidnapping · psychological · conspiracies · serial-killers · hard-boiled · organized-crime · justice
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J.M. Dalgliesh
238 ratings 4.27 ·
book · adult · crime · fiction · mystery · law-enforcement · police-procedural · murder · audiobook · suspense · hard-boiled · serial-killers · noir · kidnapping · pulp · contemporary · literary-fiction · family · thriller · killer
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Roger Stelljes
121 ratings 4.26 ·
book · adult · crime · fiction · murder · police-procedural · law-enforcement · mystery · thriller · serial-killers · audiobook · noir · action-adventure · kidnapping · organized-crime · justice · financial · vigilante · conspiracies · suspense
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Rachel Abbott
281 ratings 4.19 ·
book · adult · crime · fiction · mystery · audiobook · thriller · murder · psychological · suspense · police-procedural · law-enforcement · noir · drama · contemporary · killer · family · marriage · horror · literary-fiction
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Michael Connelly
1521 ratings 4.14 ·
adult · fiction · mystery · audiobook · suspense · crime · law-enforcement · thriller · police-procedural · murder · action-adventure · book · killer · contemporary · noir · legal · drama · whodunit · hard-boiled · 21st-century
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Joyce Cato
150 ratings 4.13 ·
mystery · cozy · book · adult · crime · fiction · murder · serial-killers · law-enforcement · noir · amateur-sleuth · contemporary · female-mc · audiobook · thriller · psychological · killer · whodunit · family · rural
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Patricia MacDonald
171 ratings 4.11 ·- LITTLE SISTER an unputdownable psychological thriller with a breathtaking twist (Totally Gripping Psychological Thrillers) by Patricia MacDonald
- Lost Innocents by Patricia MacDonald
- The Girl in the Woods by Patricia MacDonald
- Don't Believe a Word by Patricia MacDonald
- I See You: Assumed Identities and Psychological Suspense by Patricia MacDonald
fiction · crime · book · murder · psychological · adult · suspense · mystery · heist · noir · serial-killers · action-adventure · audiobook · thriller · family · contemporary · mental-illness · female-mc · abuse · literary-fiction
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Don Winslow
317 ratings 4.10 ·
mystery · crime · fiction · adult · suspense · thriller · book · noir · audiobook · law-enforcement · action-adventure · murder · hard-boiled · organized-crime · substance-abuse · police-procedural · historical · historical-fiction · humor · drama
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James Lee Burke
721 ratings 4.06 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · adult · book · suspense · audiobook · thriller · law-enforcement · noir · action-adventure · police-procedural · murder · hard-boiled · killer · literary-fiction · contemporary · historical-fiction · historical · western
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Viveca Sten
188 ratings 4.05 ·
audiobook · female-mc · fiction · mystery · adult · crime · book · law-enforcement · noir · police-procedural · murder · thriller · contemporary · suspense · europe · sweden · scandinavia · killer · drama · literary-fiction
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Richard Stark
214 ratings 4.05 ·
adult · crime · book · suspense · action-adventure · noir · heist · mystery · hard-boiled · fiction · thriller · audiobook · pulp · law-enforcement · outlaws · 20th-century · political-intrigue · north-america · usa · drama
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Michael Hjorth
112 ratings 4.04 ·
adult · crime · noir · thriller · fiction · mystery · audiobook · book · suspense · law-enforcement · contemporary · murder · literary-fiction · family · police-procedural · scandinavia · psychological · europe · sweden · urban
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John D. MacDonald
456 ratings 4.03 ·- Florida Happens: Tales of Mystery, Mayhem, and Suspense from the Sunshine State by John D. MacDonald
- The Mists from Beyond by John D. MacDonald
- A Treasury of American Horror Stories by John D. MacDonald
- Werewolves: A Collection of Original Stories by John D. MacDonald
- Tales of Dungeons and Dragons by John D. MacDonald
fiction · adult · mystery · suspense · book · crime · action-adventure · hard-boiled · noir · law-enforcement · investigator · audiobook · thriller · murder · classics · literary · historical · anthologies · pulp · sci-fi
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Lars Kepler
221 ratings 4.00 ·
book · thriller · suspense · law-enforcement · noir · audiobook · fiction · murder · mystery · psychological · adult · crime · contemporary · horror · serial-killers · police-procedural · action-adventure · killer · europe · sweden
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Dashiell Hammett
233 ratings 3.99 ·- Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Dashiell Hammett
- Dashiell Hammett: The Library of America Edition: Hammett by Dashiell Hammett
- A New Omnibus of Crime by Dashiell Hammett
- Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett
- Mystery for Halloween : and other stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's mystery magazine by Dashiell Hammett
adult · fiction · mystery · crime · pulp · noir · literary · classics · hard-boiled · historical · law-enforcement · 20th-century · anthologies · thriller · suspense · literary-fiction · murder · investigator · audiobook · book
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Adrian McKinty
261 ratings 3.95 ·
book · mystery · fiction · audiobook · crime · suspense · action-adventure · thriller · adult · law-enforcement · noir · murder · male-author · historical-fiction · police-procedural · hard-boiled · 21st-century · historical · humor · contemporary
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Jørn Lier Horst
136 ratings 3.93 ·
book · audiobook · noir · thriller · adult · crime · fiction · mystery · suspense · law-enforcement · police-procedural · murder · psychological · contemporary · animals · cozy · hard-boiled · ghosts · literary-fiction · supernatural
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Andrea Camilleri
596 ratings 3.93 ·
fiction · audiobook · law-enforcement · crime · mystery · book · adult · noir · police-procedural · humor · suspense · contemporary · murder · thriller · cozy · killer · action-adventure · literary-fiction · organized-crime · classics
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Ian Rankin
821 ratings 3.90 ·
mystery · fiction · adult · crime · thriller · law-enforcement · audiobook · murder · suspense · book · contemporary · police-procedural · killer · noir · hard-boiled · male-author · action-adventure · 20th-century · 21st-century · whodunit
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John Verdon
125 ratings 3.90 ·
book · suspense · law-enforcement · killer · serial-killers · fiction · mystery · psychological · thriller · adult · crime · contemporary · noir · police-procedural · audiobook · murder · 21st-century · action-adventure · investigator · hard-boiled
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Andrew Vachss
296 ratings 3.90 ·
adult · fiction · crime · mystery · noir · hard-boiled · book · suspense · thriller · law-enforcement · audiobook · dark · murder · horror · graphic-violence · anthologies · psychological · child-abuse · literary-fiction · abuse
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Fred Vargas
218 ratings 3.90 ·
book · fiction · murder · mystery · thriller · adult · crime · law-enforcement · noir · audiobook · contemporary · police-procedural · suspense · literary-fiction · 21st-century · supernatural · female-author · 20th-century · europe · ghosts
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Philip Kerr
402 ratings 3.90 ·
book · fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · adult · thriller · audiobook · political-intrigue · historical-fiction · historical · espionage · 20th-century · noir · law-enforcement · violent-conflict · ww2 · war · action-adventure · murder
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Ken Bruen
143 ratings 3.84 ·
adult · fiction · crime · mystery · law-enforcement · noir · suspense · book · hard-boiled · investigator · thriller · contemporary · audiobook · action-adventure · anthologies · drama · murder · 21st-century · horror · psychological
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir
228 ratings 3.79 ·
contemporary · book · suspense · mystery · fiction · thriller · noir · crime · audiobook · adult · murder · female-author · law-enforcement · horror · psychological · killer · female-mc · iceland · europe · scandinavia
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Åsa Larsson
112 ratings 3.77 ·
book · suspense · mystery · fiction · adult · crime · thriller · female-author · police-procedural · killer · noir · law-enforcement · audiobook · murder · psychological · contemporary · legal · europe · sweden · scandinavia
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Anne Holt
110 ratings 3.57 ·
book · suspense · murder · mystery · fiction · thriller · adult · noir · crime · law-enforcement · audiobook · female-mc · killer · police-procedural · contemporary · lgbtq · female-author · wlw · romantic-love · serial-killers
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