13 Best crime books like Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell

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Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

By: Steven Powell

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular fig…

If you liked the crime plot in Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

1. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

2. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy by Thomas Mallon

3. Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy

By: Thomas Mallon

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Exactly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offer… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mallon's Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy book and Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

4. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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  • crime
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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5. Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, … read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) book and Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • crime

6. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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7. Clandestine

By: James Ellroy

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to i… read more

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8. The Hustler

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about b… read more

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9. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)

By: James Ellroy

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more

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10. The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

On January 15, 1947, the tortured body of a beautiful young woman was found in a vacant lot in Holl… read more

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11. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more

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12. The Enchanters

By: James Ellroy

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

13. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage book and Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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15. 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 Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • crime
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16. 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

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  • crime
"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

Cover of Widespread Panic by James Ellroy

17. 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

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  • crime
Cover of Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell

18. Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

By: Steven Powell

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Love Me Fierce In Danger is the story of James Ellroy, one of the most provocative and singular fig… read more

Similar categories in Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy book and Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

19. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

Similar categories in Ace Atkins's Don't Let the Devil Ride book and Steven Powell's Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

  • crime
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20. 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

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  • crime
Cover of Ashes Never Lie (Sharpe & Walker, #2) by Lee Goldberg

21. Ashes Never Lie (Sharpe & Walker, #2)

By: Lee Goldberg

4.38

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

The secrets hidden in smoldering ashes hold the fate of a city in an explosive thriller by #1 New Y… read more

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  • crime

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