An Honest Living
By: Dwyer Murphy
3.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fa…
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1. Help Wanted
By: Adelle Waldman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more
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- new york
- novels
- adult
- fiction
2. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
By: Tana French
4.12
Format: 467 pages, Hardcover
It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)
3. Winter Work
By: Dan Fesperman
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, abo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
4. The Local
By: Joey Hartstone
4.12
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
The Lincoln Lawyer in the land of Friday Night Lights, where a freewheeling patent attorney must ta… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
5. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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- new york
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
6. The Heart in Winter
By: Kevin Barry
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more
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- fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter
7. A Line in the Sand
By: Kevin Powers
3.88
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
8. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)
By: Walter Mosley
3.87
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more
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- new york
- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
9. 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
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
"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
10. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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- new york
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
11. An Honest Living
By: Dwyer Murphy
3.22
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fa… read more
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- new york
- mystery thriller
- adult
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
- books about books
12. Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)
By: Christoffer Carlsson
3.93
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the sa… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
13. Last Acts
By: Alexander Sammartino
3.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A rollicking, satirical debut novel about a gun-store-owning father and son forced to live together… read more
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- novels
- adult
- fiction
14. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)
By: Walter Mosley
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
15. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel
By: Denise Mina
3.61
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
16. The Last Songbird
By: Daniel Weizmann
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A gritty, fast-paced neo-noir that explores the consumptive nature of fame, celebrity, and motherho… read more
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- mystery thriller
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
17. The Wheel of Doll
By: Jonathan Ames
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- noir
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- crime
18. Take No Names
By: Daniel Nieh
3.51
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A riveting thriller about a fugitive in search of a quick payday in Mexico City who finds himself i… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- novels
- crime
19. Joe Hustle
By: Richard Lange
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more
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- crime
- fiction
20. Creation Lake
By: Rachel Kushner
3.67
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more
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- mystery
- mystery thriller
- thriller
- fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
