22 Top fiction books like The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) by John D. MacDonald

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The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGe…

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Cover of Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) by Richard Stark

1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

By: Richard Stark

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of God Save The Child (Spenser, #2) by Robert B. Parker

2. God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.96

Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's God Save The Child (Spenser, #2) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) by Robert B. Parker

3. The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.92

Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hir… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"A cold McDonald's hamburger is halfway between a jelly doughnut and a hockey puck, but the nine-dollar bourbon helped."

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

"It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy go…"

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Cover of Promised Land (Spenser, #4) by Robert B. Parker

4. Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery fr… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's Promised Land (Spenser, #4) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.83

Format: 28 pages,

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGe… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Backflash (Parker, #18) by Richard Stark

6. Backflash (Parker, #18)

By: Richard Stark

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Following on the heels of Comeback, a New York Times Notable Book, a new Parker adventure finds the… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Backflash (Parker, #18) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The shirtsleeved bald bartender was tall and fat, looking like a retired cop who'd gone to seed the day his papers had come through. At the bar, muttering together about sports and politics—other peo…"

-Richard Stark, Backflash (Parker, #18)

Cover of The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5) by Robert B. Parker

7. The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spenser has gone to London -- and not to see the Queen. He's gone to track down a bunch of bombers … read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's The Judas Goat (Spenser, #5) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Seventh (Parker, #7) by Richard Stark

8. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Seventh (Parker, #7) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

Cover of Hush Money (Spenser, #26) by Robert B. Parker

9. Hush Money (Spenser, #26)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

"Parker says he'll keep writing Spenser novels as long as the public wants to read them, which prob… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's Hush Money (Spenser, #26) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

10. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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11. The Barbarous Coast

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Barbarous Coast book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

12. 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 John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald

13. Find a Victim

By: Ross Macdonald

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Las Cruces wasn't a place most travelers would think to stop. But after Lew Archer plays the good s… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's Find a Victim book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Slayground (Parker, #14) by Richard Stark

14. Slayground (Parker, #14)

By: Richard Stark

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Slayground (Parker, #14) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Comeback (Parker, #17) by Richard Stark

15. Comeback (Parker, #17)

By: Richard Stark

4.09

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A robbery of a Christian Crusade executed in the heat of the night comes off without a hitch, but i… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Comeback (Parker, #17) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"A TV preacher, you know those guys? Evangelists." "I thought they were all in jail," Parker said."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

"She was naked, and remained the only woman in Archibald's experience to overflow her birthday suit."

-Richard Stark, Comeback (Parker, #17)

Cover of The Jugger (Parker, #6) by Richard Stark

16. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Jugger (Parker, #6) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

17. For Kicks

By: Dick Francis

3.47

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Daniel Roke, Australian who established a stud farm to raise orphaned siblings, accepts undercover … read more

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18. The Zebra-Striped Hearse

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-t… read more

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19. Black Money

By: Ross Macdonald

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with hi… read more

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20. Mortal Stakes (Spenser, #3)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.89

Format: None pages,

With each new novel, Robert Parker's talent seems to deepen. In Mortal Stakes, Spenser is back agai… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's Mortal Stakes (Spenser, #3) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

21. A Morning for Flamingos (Dave Robicheaux, #4)

By: James Lee Burke

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

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22. Breakout (Parker, #21)

By: Richard Stark

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

Parker's back in jail, but not just any old jail; it's the correctional center, where people withou… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Breakout (Parker, #21) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

23. 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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24. The Ivory Grin

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track d… read more

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25. 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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Cover of Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) by Michael    Connelly

26. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15) by John Sandford

27. Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

By: John Sandford

4.36

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers team up to crack an unsolvable case in this thrilling new novel … read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) by John Sandford

28. Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

By: John Sandford

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest p… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

29. The Secret (Jack Reacher #28)

By: Lee Child

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look li… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Powder Burn by Carl Hiaasen

30. Powder Burn

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.76

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

"An explosive read...authentic, compelling and frightening". -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionArchite… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Powder Burn book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Brionne by Louis L'Amour

31. Brionne

By: Louis L'Amour

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Major James Brionne brought Dave Allard to trial for murder. Just before the hanging, Dave swore hi… read more

Similar categories in Louis L'Amour's Brionne book and John D. MacDonald's The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)

  • fiction
"...if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil."

-Louis L'Amour, Brionne

21 Top mystery books like The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4) by John D. MacDonald

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Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

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God Save The Child (Spenser, #2)

Robert B. Parker

3.96

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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

Robert B. Parker

3.99

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21 Best fiction books like The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) by Lee Child

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

Transform Your Habits

The Exchange

John Grisham

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

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