12 must-read crime books like Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1) by Howard Browne

Cover of Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1) by Howard Browne

Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1)

By: Howard Browne

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Book by EVANS, JOHN [BROWNE, HOWARD]

If you liked the crime plot in Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1) by Howard Browne , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Box

By: Peter Rabe

3.47

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Quinn thought he had all the angles figured. After all, taking over the Organization should be a pi… read more

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  • crime
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2. High-Rise

By: J.G. Ballard

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more

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  • fiction
"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."

-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

Cover of Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) by Elmore Leonard

3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

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4. Roughneck

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawke… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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5. A Swell-Looking Babe

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

It was supposed to be only a temporary job--something to pay the bills until Dusty could get his fe… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

6. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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7. The G-String Murders

By: Rachel Shteir , Gypsy Rose Lee

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murderswas penned in 1941 by the… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53) by Donald E. Westlake

8. The Cutie (Hard Case Crime #53)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.26

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Originally published in 1960 as The Mercenaries. SOME PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY Mavis St. P… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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9. The Far Cry

By: Fredric Brown

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) by Charles   Williams

10. A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain

11. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

12. Sleeping Beauty

By: Ross Macdonald

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load… read more

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13. The Cry of the Owl

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.04

Format: 40 pages,

Robert Forester didn't look like the kind of man to be a prowler. His ex-wife had told the police h… read more

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14. The Grifters

By: Jim Thompson

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworki… read more

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15. Wild Town

By: Jim Thompson

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the … read more

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16. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.99

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more

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17. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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  • fiction
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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18. Understudy for Death

By: Charles Willeford

3.20

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Charles Willeford's legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication in 1961.AN UNF… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1) by Howard Browne

19. Halo in Blood (Paul Pine #1)

By: Howard Browne

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Book by EVANS, JOHN [BROWNE, HOWARD] read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Mark A. Vieira

4.01

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

Filled with rare images and untold stories from filmmakers, exhibitors, and moviegoers, Forbidden H… read more

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"These are the facts of pre-Code Hollywood. The story behind it is monumental, because it deals with struggle for power. The stakes were high: the billion-dollar market for America's sixth-largest ind…"

-Mark A. Vieira, Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies (Turner Classic Movies)

Cover of Drawn to Evil (Prologue Crime) by Harry Whittington

21. Drawn to Evil (Prologue Crime)

By: Harry Whittington

3.63

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

The vision of Liza Flynn was burned into my mind. My heart pounded. Here it was. Just what I had al… read more

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3.61

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3.93

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Jim Thompson

3.61

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4.32

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