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Caimh McDonnell
117 ratings 4.32 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · book · contemporary · humor · audiobook · police-procedural · law-enforcement · dark-humor · literary-fiction · male-author · comedy · suspense · thriller · action-adventure · hard-boiled · noir · pulp
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Louise Penny
685 ratings 4.22 ·
crime · book · adult · murder · fiction · audiobook · suspense · contemporary · thriller · mystery · cozy · whodunit · police-procedural · killer · law-enforcement · 21st-century · female-author · literary-fiction · family · drama
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Robert Galbraith
225 ratings 4.13 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · audiobook · action-adventure · contemporary · book · suspense · investigator · murder · female-author · thriller · drama · law-enforcement · adult · killer · death · 21st-century · whodunit · realistic
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Nicole Trope
113 ratings 4.11 ·
book · fiction · psychological · adult · contemporary · suspense · female-mc · crime · mystery · literary-fiction · thriller · family · domestic-drama · breakup · audiobook · dark · friendship · drama · sad · killer
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Suzanne Redfearn
128 ratings 4.06 ·
fiction · contemporary · family · audiobook · suspense · female-mc · book · friendship · womens-fiction · literary-fiction · crime · mystery · action-adventure · drama · romance · adult · coming-of-age · young-adult · new-adult · death
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
310 ratings 4.00 ·
mystery · gothic · fantasy · historical · action-adventure · suspense · magical-realism · fiction · historical-fiction · drama · horror · audiobook · book · 20th-century · literary-fiction · dark · young-adult · urban-fantasy · crime · supernatural
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Kate Morton
246 ratings 3.99 ·
family · suspense · book · gothic · literary-fiction · fiction · womens-fiction · mystery · historical · audiobook · historical-fiction · 20th-century · adult · crime · drama · female-author · secrets · realistic · murder · romance
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John Hart
160 ratings 3.99 ·
adult · fiction · psychological · audiobook · killer · family · suspense · crime · drama · thriller · mystery · book · murder · contemporary · literary-fiction · law-enforcement · action-adventure · dark · abuse · southern-gothic
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Jane Harper
176 ratings 3.97 ·
suspense · book · adult · crime · murder · mystery · fiction · whodunit · family · contemporary · thriller · female-author · journey · drama · psychological · audiobook · killer · law-enforcement · death · action-adventure
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Natalie Barelli
173 ratings 3.96 ·
psychological · fiction · adult · thriller · crime · book · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · female-mc · literary-fiction · mystery · drama · murder · domestic-drama · revenge · cheating · action-adventure · family · plot-twist
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Lyndsay Faye
132 ratings 3.92 ·
fiction · historical-fiction · mystery · crime · adult · audiobook · suspense · historical · book · murder · female-author · victorian · action-adventure · lgbtq · literary-fiction · industrial-era · urban · law-enforcement · thriller · killer
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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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Alex Michaelides
106 ratings 3.89 ·
contemporary · book · suspense · psychological · fiction · thriller · adult · mental-illness · dark-academia · realistic · murder · mystery · spooky · literary-fiction · drama · dark · killer · horror · law-enforcement · crime
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Tana French
330 ratings 3.89 ·
book · mystery · thriller · literary-fiction · crime · contemporary · suspense · fiction · law-enforcement · audiobook · realistic · drama · death · 21st-century · murder · psychological · female-author · adult · dark · killer
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Heather Gudenkauf
264 ratings 3.88 ·
contemporary · suspense · fiction · psychological · audiobook · crime · book · mystery · drama · literary-fiction · thriller · family · murder · female-mc · adult · killer · small-town · realistic · young-adult · abuse
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Stuart Turton
131 ratings 3.88 ·
horror · adult · mystery · fiction · supernatural · magical-realism · suspense · book · paranormal · historical · audiobook · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · crime · murder · action-adventure · killer · dark · gothic · spooky
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Beatriz Williams
393 ratings 3.88 ·
historical · book · adult · fiction · historical-fiction · womens-fiction · mystery · 20th-century · audiobook · romance · literary-fiction · family · drama · female-mc · crime · action-adventure · ww2 · violent-conflict · war · suspense
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Peter Heller
166 ratings 3.84 ·
book · contemporary · fiction · literary-fiction · adult · drama · outdoors · audiobook · suspense · action-adventure · mystery · crime · 21st-century · realistic · thriller · season-summer · family · grief · animals · psychological
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Amy Engel
104 ratings 3.84 ·
book · fiction · audiobook · family · drama · suspense · thriller · crime · literary-fiction · mystery · new-adult · horror · coming-of-age · female-mc · murder · young-adult · action-adventure · contemporary · futuristic · romance
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Rosamund Lupton
103 ratings 3.83 ·
literary-fiction · adult · crime · drama · female-author · thriller · mystery · fiction · psychological · suspense · book · contemporary · female-mc · audiobook · season-winter · family · womens-fiction · murder · 21st-century · death
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Paul Cleave
118 ratings 3.82 ·
fiction · crime · thriller · book · suspense · audiobook · mystery · serial-killers · adult · murder · literary-fiction · killer · law-enforcement · horror · psychological · contemporary · police-procedural · oceania · new-zealand · young-adult
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John le Carré
695 ratings 3.82 ·
espionage · political-intrigue · fiction · adult · thriller · suspense · crime · book · action-adventure · audiobook · politics · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · contemporary · war · violent-conflict · 20th-century · classics · literary · cold-war
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Martin Suter
106 ratings 3.78 ·
adult · fiction · mystery · audiobook · book · contemporary · literary-fiction · crime · male-author · drama · thriller · humor · literary · classics · suspense · scandinavia · fantasy · medieval · journey · animals
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J.P. Delaney
134 ratings 3.76 ·
suspense · book · audiobook · adult · crime · thriller · fiction · mystery · psychological · contemporary · horror · drama · dark · secrets · literary-fiction · domestic-drama · female-mc · murder · europe · marriage
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Ruth Ware
306 ratings 3.74 ·
thriller · fiction · suspense · crime · adult · psychological · book · audiobook · murder · contemporary · killer · horror · literary-fiction · drama · mystery · female-author · female-mc · death · dark · 21st-century
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Attica Locke
101 ratings 3.73 ·
poc-author · book · suspense · mystery · fiction · thriller · female-author · literary-fiction · adult · crime · black-mc · law-enforcement · poc-mc · audiobook · racism · murder · killer · historical-fiction · historical · family
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Juli Zeh
130 ratings 3.73 ·
contemporary · book · adult · fiction · audiobook · crime · literary-fiction · mystery · female-author · suspense · drama · politics · sci-fi · 21st-century · dystopia · humor · psychological · philosophy · satire · terrorism
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Bret Easton Ellis
236 ratings 3.59 ·
classics · literary · book · literary-fiction · crime · mystery · contemporary · psychological · fiction · audiobook · dark · drama · transgressive-mc · horror · satire · lgbtq · substance-abuse · cults · postmodernism · adult
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