5 Best noir books like Panther Gap by James A. McLaughlin

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Panther Gap

By: James A. McLaughlin

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"Chock-full of adventure, runs the gamut on the human experience....One hell of a good yarn.” ―Davi…

"He says when you despair you're just admitting you fell for the happy horseshit in the first place."

-James A. McLaughlin, Panther Gap

If you liked the noir plot in Panther Gap by James A. McLaughlin , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1) by Don Winslow

1. A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) by C.J. Box

2. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • westerns
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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4. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • nature
  • audiobook
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6. The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8)

By: Nick Petrie

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the… read more

Similar categories in Nick Petrie's The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's An Honest Man book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Flags on the Bayou

By: James Lee Burke

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Flags on the Bayou book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

10. 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 James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Powers's A Line in the Sand book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14)

By: Paul Doiron

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double m… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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15. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Wolf Trap

By: Connor Sullivan

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Under the direction of the Special Activities Center in the Operations Directorate of the CIA, over… read more

Similar categories in Connor Sullivan's Wolf Trap book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Brown's Rednecks book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • westerns
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more

Similar categories in Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) by Bruce Borgos

22. The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1)

By: Bruce Borgos

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past (Porter Beck, #1) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • westerns
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Do No Harm (Lucas Page, #3) by Robert Pobi

23. Do No Harm (Lucas Page, #3)

By: Robert Pobi

4.29

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Robert Pobi's thriller Do No Harm , a series of suicides and accidental deaths in the medical co… read more

Similar categories in Robert Pobi's Do No Harm (Lucas Page, #3) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Panther Gap by James A. McLaughlin

25. Panther Gap

By: James A. McLaughlin

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"Chock-full of adventure, runs the gamut on the human experience....One hell of a good yarn.” ―Davi… read more

Similar categories in James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • westerns
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • nature
  • audiobook
"He says when you despair you're just admitting you fell for the happy horseshit in the first place."

-James A. McLaughlin, Panther Gap

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26. The Rescue

By: T. Jefferson Parker

3.96

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

The Rescue is a gripping thriller that explores the strength of the human-animal bond and how far w… read more

Similar categories in T. Jefferson Parker's The Rescue book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fixit (IQ, #6) by Joe Ide

27. 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 James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hard Rain (Annie McIntyre, #2) by Samantha Jayne Allen

28. Hard Rain (Annie McIntyre, #2)

By: Samantha Jayne Allen

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Jayne Allen's Hard Rain (Annie McIntyre, #2) book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Broiler by Eli Cranor

29. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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