5 best-selling detective books like Split Images by Elmore Leonard

Cover of Split Images by Elmore Leonard

Split Images

By: Elmore Leonard

2.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Constant action and top-notch writing." --New York Times A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself w…

If you liked the detective plot in Split Images by Elmore Leonard , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Cut (Spero Lucas #1) by None, George P. Pelecanos

1. The Cut (Spero Lucas #1)

By: None , George P. Pelecanos

3.71

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the … read more

Similar categories in None's The Cut (Spero Lucas #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1) by Tim Dorsey

2. Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

By: Tim Dorsey

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partn… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dorsey's Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"That, and the untended mental health problems. We have all these insane armed hobos coming from the Midwest, usually Ohio. Fuck Ohio."

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"The television was on Florida Cable News. A gray-haired man behind the anchor desk reported near tragedy at a state motor vehicle office, where a man who had failed the eye exam pulled a gun and fire…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity with violence, each group with a head-and-shoulders e…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

"There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orang…"

-Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

Cover of Cockfighter by Charles Willeford

3. Cockfighter

By: Charles Willeford

4.13

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The sport is cockfighting and Frank Mansfield is the cockfighter - a silent and fiercely contrary m… read more

Similar categories in Charles Willeford's Cockfighter book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • 20th century
Cover of The Getaway by Jim Thompson

4. The Getaway

By: Jim Thompson

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Doc McCoy is the most skilled criminal alive. But when for the first time in Doc's long criminal ca… read more

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's The Getaway book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #1) by Lawrence Block

5. Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profes… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Split Images by Elmore Leonard

6. Split Images

By: Elmore Leonard

2.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Constant action and top-notch writing." --New York Times A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself w… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Split Images book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

7. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Double by None

8. The Double

By: None

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from… read more

Similar categories in None's The Double book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) by Raymond Chandler

9. Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

As Chandler's last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets a well-endowed redhead as she disembarks from … read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Orange Crush (Serge Storms, #3) by Tim Dorsey

10. Orange Crush (Serge Storms, #3)

By: Tim Dorsey

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maybe you can't be too outrageous when the subject is Florida politics, but Tim Dorsey (Florida Roa… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dorsey's Orange Crush (Serge Storms, #3) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

11. New Hope for the Dead

By: James Lee Burke , Charles Willeford

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a letha… read more

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12. Savage Season (Hap and Leonard, #1)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde h… read more

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13. Dark Star (Night Soldiers, #2)

By: Alan Furst

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already und… read more

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14. World Gone By (Joe Coughlin, #3)

By: Dennis Lehane

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Late spring, 1943. The world is at war but the American mob is in its heyday. Former crime boss Joe… read more

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15. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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Cover of The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1) by Don Winslow

16. The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.36

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). This novel of the drug trade… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to."

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"Adán fell asleep to these stories and slept like the dead until the sun struck him in the eyes and the whole long, wonderful summer day started again with the smell of fresh tortillas, manchaca, chor…"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan’s about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss …"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"All this and the wines coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan’s about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss s…"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

17. Native Tongue (Skink, #2)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Trade Paperback

When the precious blue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are… read more

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18. Double Whammy

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

R.J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye is fishing for a killer… read more

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19. Cinnamon Kiss (Easy Rawlins #10)

By: Walter Mosley

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

It's 1966, and Easy Rawlins is desperate for cash to pay for his daughter's much-needed medical tre… read more

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20. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

21. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Elmore Leonard's Split Images

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12 Top fiction books like Split Images by Elmore Leonard

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The Cut (Spero Lucas #1)

None , George P. Pelecanos

3.71

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Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1)

Tim Dorsey

3.67

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Cockfighter

Charles Willeford

4.13

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The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

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Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

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Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

John Sandford

4.45

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A Calamity of Souls

David Baldacci

4.53

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Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

John Grisham

4.26

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