16 Best fiction books like A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) by Jonathan Ames

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A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b…

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1. The Getaway

By: Jim Thompson

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

2. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

By: Geoff Dyer

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

A wildly original novel of erotic fulfillment and spiritual yearning. Every two years the internati… read more

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3. The Hot Spot

By: Charles Williams

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more

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4. This Wicked World

By: Richard Lange

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

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5. 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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6. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

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8. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like wh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Stolen Coast

By: Dwyer Murphy

3.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Adrift in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, a man who ferries fugitives by day gets twisted up i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The experience was collective, but not the memory."

-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast

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12. 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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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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13. A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Ames's A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) book and Jonathan Ames's A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • audiobook
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15. Thirty Days of Darkness

By: Jenny Lund Madsen

3.49

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

A Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. It Dies with You

By: Scott Blackburn

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scott Blackburn’s searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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17. Northern Heist

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest (and still unsolved) bank-robberies … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Goering's Gold (A Ructions O'Hare Novel) by Richard O'Rawe

19. Goering's Gold (A Ructions O'Hare Novel)

By: Richard O'Rawe

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ructions O'Hare returns in a thriller — based on one of history's greatest unsolved heists — pittin… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

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2.67

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3.22

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Jamie Day

3.60

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Linda Castillo

4.38

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William Kent Krueger

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