15 best-selling mystery books like Billy Rags by Ted Lewis

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Billy Rags

By: Ted Lewis

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of…

If you liked the mystery plot in Billy Rags by Ted Lewis , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Instytut

By: Jakub Żulczyk

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Kamienica w centrum Krakowa. Siedem osob, ktore nie moga sie z niej wydostac. Krwawy napis: "To nas… read more

Similar categories in Jakub Żulczyk's Instytut book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

2. The Beast

By: Alexander Starritt

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Ret… read more

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3. The New Wife

By: J.P. Delaney

3.38

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbro… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Delaney's The New Wife book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Vista Chinesa

By: Tatiana Salem Levy

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Estamos em 2014. Euforia no Brasil e especialmente na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Copa do Mundo prest… read more

Similar categories in Tatiana Salem Levy's Vista Chinesa book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
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5. The Five Wounds

By: Kirstin Valdez Quade

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

It’s Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Ama… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Valdez Quade's The Five Wounds book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
"This is death, then: a brief spot of life on earth extinguished, a rippling point of energy swept clear."

-Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

"As Amadeo speaks the words along with the other men, he pities his old self, the self that once believed there was a single, big thing he could do to make up for all his failings. He missed the point…"

-Kirstin Valdez Quade, The Five Wounds

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6. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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7. Conjure Women

By: Afia Atakora

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more

Similar categories in Afia Atakora's Conjure Women book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

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8. Two Wrongs

By: Mel McGrath

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A brand-new psychological thriller from bestselling author Mel McGrath, about the lengths a mother … read more

Similar categories in Mel McGrath's Two Wrongs book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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9. The Homes

By: J.B. Mylet

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There were good people in The Homes. But there were also some very, very bad ones... A thousand … read more

Similar categories in J.B. Mylet's The Homes book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. Remember My Name

By: Sam Blake

3.57

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

If she’d turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died… When Cre… read more

Similar categories in Sam Blake's Remember My Name book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

Similar categories in David Jackson's No Secrets book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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12. The Necklace

By: Matt Witten

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice Susan Lentigo's daughter was murder… read more

Similar categories in Matt Witten's The Necklace book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Not My Child

By: Samantha King

3.78

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

I love him as my own, but is he mine to keep? The playground is the last place I thought you wou… read more

Similar categories in Samantha King's Not My Child book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • thriller
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15. White Riot

By: Joe Thomas

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"One of our very best contemporary crime writers" David Peace 1978: The National Front is gainin… read more

Similar categories in Joe Thomas's White Riot book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • crime
  • fiction
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16. These Streets

By: Luan Goldie

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more

Similar categories in Luan Goldie's These Streets book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
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17. Billy Rags

By: Ted Lewis

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of… read more

Similar categories in Ted Lewis's Billy Rags book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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18. It Could Never Happen Here

By: Eithne Shortall

3.80

Format: None pages, None

Their school is about to be taught a lesson... Beverley Franklin will do whatever it takes to pr… read more

Similar categories in Eithne Shortall's It Could Never Happen Here book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. The Legacy

By: Caroline Bond

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A death in the family rarely brings out the best in people - even the deceased. Jonathan Coulter… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Bond's The Legacy book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
"Throughout his illness she had put his needs first, subsumed her own. Her sole objective had been to make his life as good as possible. She had changed shapre aound him. Reinvented herself to become …"

-Caroline Bond, The Legacy

Cover of London, Burning by Anthony   Quinn

20. London, Burning

By: Anthony Quinn

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Quinn's London, Burning book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
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21. The Vicious Circle

By: Katherine St. John

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Were Never Here and Nine Perfect Strangers, a twisty, escapist suspense about a myst… read more

Similar categories in Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Let’s Pretend

By: Laura Vaughan

3.36

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is now … read more

Similar categories in Laura Vaughan's Let’s Pretend book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
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23. You Had It Coming

By: B.M. Carroll

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WOULD YOU SAVE THE MAN WHO DESTROYED YOUR LIFE? When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scen… read more

Similar categories in B.M. Carroll's You Had It Coming book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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24. Homecoming

By: Luan Goldie

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is … read more

Similar categories in Luan Goldie's Homecoming book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
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25. Nothing Can Hurt You

By: Nicola Maye Goldberg

3.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On a cold day in 1997, student Sara Morgan was killed in the woods surrounding her liberal arts col… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Maye Goldberg's Nothing Can Hurt You book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Theirs was a secret world. No one else was allowed inside. No one else was even allowed to look."

-Nicola Maye Goldberg, Nothing Can Hurt You

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26. The Favour

By: Laura Vaughan

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was… read more

Similar categories in Laura Vaughan's The Favour book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. The Bones of Barry Knight

By: Emma Musty

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In a remote refugee camp many diverse lives collide. A child with a love of wizards and an ageing … read more

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28. Death at the Dress Rehearsal (Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries, #1)

By: Stuart Douglas

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set in this witty, fun who… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Douglas's Death at the Dress Rehearsal (Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries, #1) book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • mystery
Cover of Song Beneath the Tides by Beverley Birch

29. Song Beneath the Tides

By: Beverley Birch

3.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ally arrives from England with her brothers to stay for a month in Africa - weeks of running wild o… read more

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30. Sea Change

By: Alix Nathan

3.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'I'll be back soon, my love. Tonight, I hope.' The last Eve saw of her mother was a wave from th… read more

Similar categories in Alix Nathan's Sea Change book and Ted Lewis's Billy Rags

  • fiction
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31. The Wild Wind

By: Sheena Kalayil

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

In 1978, aged twelve, Sissy Olikara was living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus… read more

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3.38

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4.18

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4.03

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Angie Kim

3.75

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

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