20 Top thriller books like The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames

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The Wheel of Doll

By: Jonathan Ames

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this…

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1. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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2. 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 Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Murder Book

By: Thomas Perry

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Murder Book book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)

By: Walter Mosley

3.87

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2) book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Widespread Panic

By: James Ellroy

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood un… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Widespread Panic book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. 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

Similar categories in Dwyer Murphy's The Stolen Coast book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

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

-Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast

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10. 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

Similar categories in Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) by Walter Mosley

11. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Denise Mina's The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Sugar Street

By: Jonathan Dee

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Publishing for the first time with Grove Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated author of… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dee's Sugar Street book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Last Songbird

By: Daniel Weizmann

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gritty, fast-paced neo-noir that explores the consumptive nature of fame, celebrity, and motherho… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Weizmann's The Last Songbird book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

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

15. 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 Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames

16. The Wheel of Doll

By: Jonathan Ames

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The eponymous and hapless detective Happy Doll returns with a new philosophy and a new case in this… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Day Breaking (Bad Axe County, #4) by John Galligan

17. Bad Day Breaking (Bad Axe County, #4)

By: John Galligan

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Wild Wild Country and Longmire meet in the latest in the “gritty, brash, and totally gripping” ( Th… read more

Similar categories in John Galligan's Bad Day Breaking (Bad Axe County, #4) book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Northern Heist by Richard O'Rawe

18. 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

Similar categories in Richard O'Rawe's Northern Heist book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, #13) by Joe R. Lansdale

19. Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, #13)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

PI Duo Hap & Leonard investigate the untimely death of a woman whose family stood much to gain from… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, #13) book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

20. The Queen City Detective Agency

By: Snowden Wright

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspi… read more

Similar categories in Snowden Wright's The Queen City Detective Agency book and Jonathan Ames's The Wheel of Doll

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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Mick Herron

4.13

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4.08

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Eli Cranor

3.72

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Thomas Perry

3.87

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3.88

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Eleanor Catton

3.82

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3.97

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