8 must-read mystery books like Wrecked (IQ, #3) by Joe Ide

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Wrecked (IQ, #3)

By: Joe Ide

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Isaiah Quintabe--IQ for short--has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high…

If you liked the mystery plot in Wrecked (IQ, #3) by Joe Ide , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)

By: Walter Mosley

3.96

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Zella Grisham never denied shooting her boyfriend. That’s not why she did eight years of hard time … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
"I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince."

-Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)

"The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe."

-Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)

"There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same."

-Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)

"I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a white man with a red ribbon tied around your dick."

-Walter Mosley, All I Did Was Shoot My Man (Leonid McGill, #4)

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2. Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13)

By: Walter Mosley

4.03

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hea… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • crime
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
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3. Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2)

By: Jane Smiley

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize winner: a journey through mid-century America, as lived by the extraordinar… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Slayground (Parker, #14) by Richard Stark

4. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

5. Country Of The Blind (Jack Parlabane, #2)

By: Christopher Brookmyre

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a ga… read more

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6. Little Green: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins #12)

By: Walter Mosley , Michael Boatman

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When Walter Mosley burst onto the literary scene in 1990 with his first Easy Rawlins mystery, Devil… read more

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7. Very Bad Men

By: Harry Dolan

3.84

Format: None pages,

Unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 1/2 hours Read by Erik Davies A new book in the series that wowed critics an… read more

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8. Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10)

By: Walter Mosley

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical tre… read more

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9. A Red Death (Easy Rawlins #2)

By: Walter Mosley

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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10. White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins #3)

By: Walter Mosley , Stanley Bennett Clay

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 19… read more

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11. And Sometimes I Wonder About You

By: Walter Mosley

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his East Coast foil to … read more

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12. A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins #5)

By: Walter Mosley

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existen… read more

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13. Havana Bay (Arkady Renko, #4)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from … read more

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14. Red Square (Arkady Renko, #3)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1991, Arkady Renko has returned from exile and is back on the homicide squad in a … read more

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15. 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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16. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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17. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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18. Wrecked (IQ, #3)

By: Joe Ide

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Isaiah Quintabe--IQ for short--has never been more successful, or felt more alone. A series of high… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Wrecked (IQ, #3) book and Joe Ide's Wrecked (IQ, #3)

  • adult fiction
  • detective
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

19. 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
  • crime
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
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20. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

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21. Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the usually quiet high desert of Nevada, Sheriff Porter Beck faces one of his greatest challenge… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Jamie Day

3.60

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William Kent Krueger

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Olivia Blacke

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