18 must-read mystery books like Killing Quarry (Quarry #15) by Max Allan Collins

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Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.87

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Qu…

If you liked the mystery plot in Killing Quarry (Quarry #15) by Max Allan Collins , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Getting Off

By: Lawrence Block , Jill Emerson

3.35

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

So this girl walks into a bar... ...and when she walks out there’s a man with her. She goes to b… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Getting Off book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The Accident

By: Linwood Barclay

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing thriller by acclaimed author Linwood Barclay, a typical American community desc… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • thriller
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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4. 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 Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • suspense
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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)

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5. The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)

By: Ian Fleming

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

The Man with the Golden Gun is the 13th novel written by Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional Briti… read more

Similar categories in Ian Fleming's The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
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6. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. Riding the Rap

By: Elmore Leonard

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Mr Majestyk

By: Elmore Leonard

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works u… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Mr Majestyk book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • thriller

9. Grifter's Game (Hard Case Crime #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

A conman hiding out in Atlantic City lays his life on the line for a shot at a $250,000 payoff Mona… read more

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10. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

11. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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12. The Switch

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they shar… read more

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13. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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14. Gun Monkeys

By: Victor Gischler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more

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15. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

16. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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17. Bad Chili

By: Joe R. Lansdale , Bernard Blanc

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Soyez blanc, sympa, hetero, sans vrai boulot ni caisse de retraite et vivez au Texas, royaume du po… read more

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18. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

19. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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20. 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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21. LaBrava

By: Elmore Leonard

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard delivers his trademark blend of action, sex, viole… read more

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22. Pronto

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more

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23. Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4)

By: Peter Leonard

4.13

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

After an altercation with his superiors in Harlan County, Kentucky, Deputy US Marshal, Raylan Given… read more

Similar categories in Peter Leonard's Raylan Goes to Detroit (Raylan Givens, #4) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • thriller
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24. On His Majesty’s Secret Service

By: Charlie Higson

3.49

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

It's just two days before the Coronation of King Charles Ill and Bond must stop an attempt at disru… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Higson's On His Majesty’s Secret Service book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

27. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. Too Close to Home

By: Linwood Barclay

4.00

Format: 513 pages, Kindle Edition

Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than ever… read more

Similar categories in Linwood Barclay's Too Close to Home book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Planet of the Apes: Fall of Man

By: David F. Walker

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

One of the most beloved franchises in sci-fi history returns to Marvel Comics! It's been years s… read more

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30. Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.87

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Qu… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15) book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

31. Double Feature

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake was also an Academy Award Nominee—for th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Double Feature book and Max Allan Collins's Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
"Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk."

-Donald E. Westlake, Double Feature

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3.95

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4.08

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The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

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4.02

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Dennis Lehane

3.39

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4.05

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Larry McMurtry

3.85

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S. Craig Zahler

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