6 Best mystery thriller books like Queenpin by Megan Abbott

Cover of Queenpin by Megan Abbott

Queenpin

By: Megan Abbott

3.75

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of t…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Queenpin by Megan Abbott , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"She was a cute as a washtub."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Cover of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

2. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald

3. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

4. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson

5. The Killer Inside Me

By: Jim Thompson

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Double Indemnity by James M. Cain

6. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

Similar categories in James M. Cain's Double Indemnity book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

7. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of I, the Jury  (Mike Hammer,  #1) by Mickey Spillane

8. I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1)

By: Mickey Spillane

4.33

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Here's Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer in their roughest and readiest--a double-strength shot of se… read more

Similar categories in Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1) book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

9. My Dark Places

By: James Ellroy

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

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10. New Hope for the Dead

By: James Lee Burke , Charles Willeford

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a letha… read more

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11. The Way Some People Die

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more

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12. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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13. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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14. Winter's Bone

By: Daniel Woodrell

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail o… read more

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15. A Hell of a Woman

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife… read more

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16. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more

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17. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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18. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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Cover of The Sacred Well Murders by Susan  Rowland

19. The Sacred Well Murders

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young Ame… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's The Sacred Well Murders book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Take it away,"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"I EAT THE DARK"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"So, Mr. Jeffreys,"

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

"Wife of Lir eat horse."

-Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders

Cover of Queenpin by Megan Abbott

20. Queenpin

By: Megan Abbott

3.75

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of t… read more

Similar categories in Megan Abbott's Queenpin book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6) by Alan  Parks

21. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)

By: Alan Parks

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more

Similar categories in Alan Parks's To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6) book and Megan Abbott's Queenpin

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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Raymond Chandler

4.10

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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James Ellroy

4.26

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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