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Monica Kayne
26 ratings 4.08 ·
gothic · adult · crime · fiction · organized-crime · romance · dark · steamy · enemies-to-lovers · suspense · book · literary-fiction · kidnapping · poc-mc · alpha-mc · heist · forced-proximity · noir · multi-pov · action-adventure
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Donald Ray Pollock
64 ratings 4.06 ·
southern-gothic · rural · mystery · fiction · transgressive-mc · literary-fiction · gothic · adult · crime · drama · noir · dark · historical-fiction · horror · audiobook · family · realistic · book · suspense · humor
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Dorothy B. Hughes
49 ratings 4.00 ·
crime · mystery · fiction · thriller · literary-fiction · female-author · historical · noir · classics · literary · suspense · 20th-century · book · adult · pulp · hard-boiled · psychological · serial-killers · horror · historical-fiction
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Dolores Redondo
66 ratings 4.00 ·
audiobook · thriller · adult · crime · fiction · murder · mystery · suspense · book · 21st-century · law-enforcement · horror · noir · female-author · drama · literary-fiction · female-mc · contemporary · rural · family
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Annelie Wendeberg
99 ratings 3.99 ·
book · fiction · action-adventure · literary-fiction · adult · crime · mystery · historical · historical-fiction · noir · industrial-era · victorian · audiobook · suspense · murder · survival · apocalyptic · young-adult · sci-fi · post-apocalyptic
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Vera Caspary
28 ratings 3.93 ·
20th-century · suspense · classics · literary · noir · historical · fiction · murder · mystery · crime · literary-fiction · adult · book · law-enforcement · serial-killers · pulp · female-author · thriller · feminism · anthologies
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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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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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Lou Berney
68 ratings 3.88 ·
suspense · fiction · book · audiobook · thriller · literary-fiction · adult · crime · mystery · noir · psychological · contemporary · action-adventure · family · male-author · historical · dark · historical-fiction · drama · organized-crime
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Craig Davidson
39 ratings 3.87 ·
horror · dark · literary-fiction · fiction · mystery · contemporary · anthologies · audiobook · noir · adult · male-author · friendship · sad · season-autumn · historical-fiction · drama · ghosts · spooky · supernatural · coming-of-age
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Wiley Cash
64 ratings 3.81 ·
audiobook · fiction · mystery · adult · drama · literary-fiction · book · suspense · rural · family · historical-fiction · dark · noir · historical · southern-gothic · domestic-drama · crime · gothic · thriller · realistic
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Steph Cha
42 ratings 3.81 ·
crime · fiction · mystery · audiobook · law-enforcement · adult · female-author · female-mc · suspense · book · poc-author · 21st-century · noir · literary-fiction · thriller · contemporary · family · anthologies · poc-mc · hard-boiled
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David Joy
50 ratings 3.80 ·
book · contemporary · rural · southern-gothic · audiobook · dark · noir · crime · literary-fiction · gothic · fiction · murder · mystery · suspense · realistic · family · death · killer · drama · substance-abuse
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Nathanael West
80 ratings 3.75 ·
20th-century · book · satire · literary · classics · literary-fiction · adult · humor · fiction · contemporary · noir · university · audiobook · dystopia · historical-fiction · drama · comedy · mystery · angst · religion
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Niklas Natt och Dag
43 ratings 3.74 ·
historical · book · historical-fiction · adult · crime · literary-fiction · fiction · audiobook · suspense · law-enforcement · horror · drama · noir · thriller · mystery · urban · 21st-century · dark · journey · killer
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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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Graeme Macrae Burnet
78 ratings 3.73 ·
thriller · literary-fiction · adult · fiction · audiobook · mystery · 21st-century · psychological · historical-fiction · book · crime · drama · murder · historical · dark · noir · suspense · unreliable-narrator · europe · humor
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Katrine Engberg
54 ratings 3.72 ·
serial-killers · audiobook · book · law-enforcement · noir · literary-fiction · crime · fiction · mystery · humor · murder · suspense · police-procedural · death · contemporary · adult · female-author · thriller · psychological · whodunit
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M.R.C. Kasasian
48 ratings 3.69 ·
humor · mystery · fiction · female-mc · crime · industrial-era · victorian · book · noir · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · cozy · murder · investigator · literary-fiction · adult · thriller · killer
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Sara Gran
97 ratings 3.68 ·
thriller · fiction · mystery · suspense · book · adult · crime · female-mc · noir · contemporary · female-author · literary-fiction · investigator · audiobook · law-enforcement · murder · killer · dark · mental-illness · amateur-sleuth
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Lisa Brackmann
22 ratings 3.64 ·
adult · crime · female-mc · fiction · mystery · audiobook · suspense · contemporary · book · female-author · military · thriller · literary-fiction · murder · law-enforcement · noir · action-adventure · amateur-sleuth · journey · kidnapping
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Michael Harvey
42 ratings 3.60 ·
mystery · suspense · book · audiobook · adult · crime · fiction · contemporary · law-enforcement · noir · police-procedural · thriller · literary-fiction · murder · north-america · paranormal · family · usa · 21st-century · friendship
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Benjamin Black
130 ratings 3.55 ·
historical-fiction · law-enforcement · historical · audiobook · fiction · mystery · adult · crime · book · suspense · noir · literary-fiction · thriller · 21st-century · ireland · europe · british-isles · family · murder · police-procedural
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Cathi Unsworth
10 ratings 3.50 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · female-author · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · noir · suspense · book · thriller · pulp · witches-wizards · supernatural · europe · hard-boiled · psychological · travel · historical · political-intrigue
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Peter Adolphsen
13 ratings 3.46 ·
fiction · noir · 21st-century · book · philosophy · literary-fiction · adult · historical · contemporary · hard-sci-fi · sci-fi · 20th-century · dystopia · outdoors · historical-fiction · magical-realism
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Megan Abbott
252 ratings 3.41 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · book · thriller · female-author · audiobook · dark · noir · psychological · literary-fiction · adult · 21st-century · drama · contemporary · young-adult · historical-fiction · realistic · historical
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Nathan Larson
13 ratings 3.38 ·
apocalyptic · sci-fi · book · urban · fiction · hard-boiled · mystery · crime · law-enforcement · noir · dystopia · post-apocalyptic · religion · epidemy · murder · adult · literary-fiction · transhumanism · killer · disaster
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Fuminori Nakamura
69 ratings 3.23 ·
fiction · suspense · book · contemporary · literary-fiction · adult · crime · mystery · psychological · dark · noir · horror · poc-author · thriller · murder · audiobook · drama · male-author · cults · law-enforcement
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