11 must-read crime books like Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6) by Walter Mosley

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Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

By: Walter Mosley

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most dow…

If you liked the crime plot in Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6) by Walter Mosley , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Cat Chaser

By: Elmore Leonard

3.74

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A gripping, lightning-paced tale of an ex-soldier-turned Florida motel owner whose dangerous affair… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Cat Chaser book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"all over the world...the past was being wiped out by condominiums."

-Elmore Leonard, Cat Chaser

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2. Europe in Autumn (The Fractured Europe Sequence, #1)

By: Dave Hutchinson

3.71

Format: 429 pages, Paperback

Europe in Autumn is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John … read more

Similar categories in Dave Hutchinson's Europe in Autumn (The Fractured Europe Sequence, #1) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"He did have some small advantage, though. He knew the truth about surveillance. Ever since the dawn of GWOT the nations of the West – apart from the United States, where civil libertarians tended to …"

-Dave Hutchinson, Europe in Autumn (The Fractured Europe Sequence, #1)

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3. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

By: Chester Himes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more

Similar categories in Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • african american

4. Righteous (IQ, #2)

By: Joe Ide

4.12

Format: 260 pages,

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death … read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Righteous (IQ, #2) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

5. The Chill

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In The Chilla distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has … read more

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6. IQ (IQ, #1)

By: Joe Ide

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods… read more

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7. 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

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • new york
  • crime
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
"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)

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8. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Hi Five (IQ, #4)

By: Joe Ide

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman. Five personalities. Private investigator IQ is back to piece together a Newport Beach mu… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Hi Five (IQ, #4) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
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12. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

Similar categories in Drew Hayden Taylor's Cold book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

By: Walter Mosley

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most dow… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • new york
  • detective
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of Fixit (IQ, #6) by Joe Ide

14. Fixit (IQ, #6)

By: Joe Ide

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment in Joe Ide's "superb" series ( Washington Post ), the relentless, hard-bi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Fixit (IQ, #6) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Nickel City Blues (Gideon Rimes #1) by Gary Earl Ross

16. Nickel City Blues (Gideon Rimes #1)

By: Gary Earl Ross

4.32

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Buffalo, New York, private investigator Gideon Rimes, a black Iraq-war vet and retired army CID det… read more

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Cover of Nickel City Naked Lady: A Mystery (Gideon Rimes Book 4) by Gary Earl Ross

17. Nickel City Naked Lady: A Mystery (Gideon Rimes Book 4)

By: Gary Earl Ross

4.57

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

You can move on . . . but the past may come back for you.Private investigator Gideon Rimes knows he… read more

Similar categories in Gary Earl Ross's Nickel City Naked Lady: A Mystery (Gideon Rimes Book 4) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

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18. 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

Similar categories in Bruce Borgos's Shades of Mercy (Porter Beck, #2) book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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20. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

  • audiobook
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21. When the Corn is Waist High

By: Jeremy Scott

3.66

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

In the early 1980’s, a tiny, rural Indiana farm town experiences a series of confounding and violen… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High book and Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

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

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Elmore Leonard

3.74

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Dave Hutchinson

3.71

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Chester Himes

4.06

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Colson Whitehead

3.88

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Jamie Day

3.60

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Linda Castillo

4.38

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William Kent Krueger

4.34

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Olivia Blacke

3.69

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