10 best-selling noir books like Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt

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Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi…

If you liked the noir plot in Shifty's Boys by Chris Offutt , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Ragged Lake (Frank Yakabuski, #1) by Joanna D'angelo, Ron Corbett

1. Ragged Lake (Frank Yakabuski, #1)

By: Joanna D'angelo , Ron Corbett

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Gruesome murders, a northern secret, and a buried past While working one afternoon on the Northern … read more

Similar categories in Joanna D'angelo's Ragged Lake (Frank Yakabuski, #1) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

2. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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3. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Last Highway

By: R.J. Ellory

4.17

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

A sheriff investigates his own brother's murder, deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains... … read more

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6. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's My Darkest Prayer book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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11. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • american
  • military fiction
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like wh… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's The Last King of California book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • american
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. Texas Sicario (Arlo Baines #2)

By: Harry Hunsicker

4.11

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines knows all about pain: how to bear it, how to avenge it, and how to … read more

Similar categories in Harry Hunsicker's Texas Sicario (Arlo Baines #2) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

15. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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16. Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more

Similar categories in Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) by Bruce Borgos

17. The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

Cover of The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1) by Ron Corbett

19. The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1)

By: Ron Corbett

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new series from Edgar®-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator … read more

Similar categories in Ron Corbett's The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. It Dies with You

By: Scott Blackburn

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scott Blackburn’s searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upe… read more

Similar categories in Scott Blackburn's It Dies with You book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Cape Diamond (Frank Yakabuski, #2) by Ron Corbett

21. Cape Diamond (Frank Yakabuski, #2)

By: Ron Corbett

4.02

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-pack… read more

Similar categories in Ron Corbett's Cape Diamond (Frank Yakabuski, #2) book and Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction

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Joanna D'angelo , Ron Corbett

5.00

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Nothing but the Bones

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Stephen King

4.32

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