8 best-selling thriller books like The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) by Joe R. Lansdale

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The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.91

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard--a toug…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) by Joe R. Lansdale , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

2. Flowering Judas (Gregor Demarkian, #26)

By: Jane Haddam

3.83

Format: None pages, ebook

Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in Mattuck, New York, leaving no tra… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

3. Riding the Rap

By: Elmore Leonard

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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4. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Hammett

By: Joe Gores

3.79

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction

6. The Gangster (Isaac Bell, #9)

By: Clive Cussler , Justin Scott

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Bell is back in this thrilling new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master … read more

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7. The Perdition Score (Sandman Slim, #8)

By: Richard Kadrey

3.60

Format: 208 pages,

Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action an… read more

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8. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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9. The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.17

Format: None pages, ebook

Sandman Slim returns in this stunning, high-octane ninth thriller in the series, filled with the in… read more

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10. 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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11. Non è la fine del mondo: ovvero La tenace stagista ovvero Una favola d'oggi

By: Alessia Gazzola

3.52

Format: None pages,

Emma De Tessent. Eterna stagista, trentenne, carina, di buona famiglia, brillante negli studi, sald… read more

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12. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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

14. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End” (Rush Across the Decades Book 3) by Martin Popoff

15. Driven: Rush in the ’90s and “In the End” (Rush Across the Decades Book 3)

By: Martin Popoff

4.35

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North. In this conclus… read more

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Cover of The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) by Joe R. Lansdale

16. The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.91

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard--a toug… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • humor
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

17. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Outside Lanes (Miami Jones Private Investigator Mystery Book 18) by A.J. Stewart

18. Outside Lanes (Miami Jones Private Investigator Mystery Book 18)

By: A.J. Stewart

4.66

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Making It To The Games Can Be Murder The trials for the US swimming team to the games in Paris are … read more

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Cover of Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher by Lee Child

19. Safe Enough: Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher

By: Lee Child

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the world's number one thriller writer, twenty pulse-pounding short stories are collected for … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Don't Crowd Me

By: Evan Hunter

3.15

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

An ad executive meets two beautiful—and dangerous—sisters in this sexually charged thriller from th… read more

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11 Top fiction books like The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) by Joe R. Lansdale

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Miami Blues

Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Flowering Judas (Gregor Demarkian, #26)

Jane Haddam

3.83

Riding the Rap

Elmore Leonard

3.44

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Hombre

Elmore Leonard

3.62

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Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Elmore Leonard

3.93

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Swag

Elmore Leonard

3.90

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The Getaway

Jim Thompson

2.67

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Nothing More Than Murder

Jim Thompson

3.61

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