18 must-read mystery books like The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) by Chris Offutt

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The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) by Chris Offutt , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Devil's Country (Arlo Baines #1)

By: Harry Hunsicker

4.02

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Former Texas Ranger Arlo Baines didn’t come to the tiny West Texas town of Piedra Springs to cause … read more

Similar categories in Harry Hunsicker's The Devil's Country (Arlo Baines #1) book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Ice Harvest

By: Scott Phillips

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

As lawyer Charlie Arglist prepares to leave Wichita, Kansas, with a suitcase full of stolen money, … read more

Similar categories in Scott Phillips's The Ice Harvest book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

3. Desperation Road

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"An elegantly written, perfectly-paced novel about a man and woman indelibly marked by violence" (R… read more

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4. 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's An Honest Man book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • 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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14. This Side of Night

By: J. Todd Scott

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the aut… read more

Similar categories in J. Todd Scott's This Side of Night book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. 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 The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Ames's A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bouncer (Joe the Bouncer #1) by David Gordon

17. The Bouncer (Joe the Bouncer #1)

By: David Gordon

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

If you like a heavy dose of mayhem with your murder, this is crime fiction at its most fresh and mo… read more

Similar categories in David Gordon's The Bouncer (Joe the Bouncer #1) book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Cartas desde el manicomio

By: Dario Džamonja

4.14

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

«Lo siento señores, […] pero nadie ha escrito relatos de esta forma. Ni Carver, ni esa anciana y de… read more

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19. Dead City

By: Shane Stevens

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of "By Reason of Insanity", "The Anvil Chorus", and "Go Down Dead" offers "a r… read more

Similar categories in Shane Stevens's Dead City book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Against the Law (Joe the Bouncer #3) by David Gordon

20. Against the Law (Joe the Bouncer #3)

By: David Gordon

4.13

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

A Special Forces agent turned strip club bouncer with a side hustle as a fixer for the New York mob… read more

Similar categories in David Gordon's Against the Law (Joe the Bouncer #3) book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. The Texas Job

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

4.31

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

"Texas Ranger Tom Bell is tracking a fugitive killer when he rides into Pine Top, a hastily erected… read more

Similar categories in Reavis Z. Wortham's The Texas Job book and Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

  • crime

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