8 must-read crime books like Dead City by Shane Stevens

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Dead City

By: Shane Stevens

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of "By Reason of Insanity", "The Anvil Chorus", and "Go Down Dead" offers "a r…

If you liked the crime plot in Dead City by Shane Stevens , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. I Sailed with Magellan

By: Stuart Dybek

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with e… read more

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  • fiction
"I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories - stories that I'll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She'd…"

-Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan

Cover of Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1) by Brian Panowich

2. Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

By: Brian Panowich

3.99

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. The Long Home

By: William Gay

4.04

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of… read more

Similar categories in William Gay's The Long Home book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Down fabled roads reverting now to woods Winer felt himself imprisoned by the dark beyond the carlights and by the compulsive timbre of Motormouth's voice, a drone obsessed with spewing out words wit…"

-William Gay, The Long Home

"In the molten fire where he lay he could watch the slow machinations of eternity, the cosmic miracle of each second being born, eggshaped, silverplated, phallic, time thrusting itself gleaming throug…"

-William Gay, The Long Home

Cover of Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, Nick Tosches

4. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

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5. The Good Brother: A Novel

By: Chris Offutt

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice -- his hell-rai… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • americana
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6. Kentucky Straight: Stories

By: Chris Offutt

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Riveting, often heartbreaking stories that take readers through country that is figuratively and li… read more

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  • fiction
  • americana
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7. Out of the Woods: Stories

By: Chris Offutt

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight,a fiercely original co… read more

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  • fiction
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8. El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo

By: David B. Gil

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Japon, finales del siglo XVI. El pais deja atras la Era de los Estados en Guerra y se adentra en un… read more

Similar categories in David B. Gil's El guerrero a la sombra del cerezo book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • fiction
Cover of Rain (Blackwater, #6) by Michael McDowell

9. Rain (Blackwater, #6)

By: Michael McDowell

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

The mysterious saga of the Caskey family concludes in Blackwater VI: Rain. Time heals old wound… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Rain (Blackwater, #6) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • fiction
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10. Little Sister Death

By: William Gay

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer's block. He … read more

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  • fiction

11. Recursos inhumanos

By: Pierre Lemaitre , Juan Carlos Durán Romero

5.00

Format: 229 pages, ebook

El antano flamante director de recursos humanos Alain Delambre ha perdido toda esperanza de encontr… read more

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12. Vernon Subutex, 2 (Vernon Subutex, #2)

By: Virginie Despentes

3.10

Format: None pages,

QUI EST VERNON SUBUTEX ? Une legende urbaine. Un ange dechu. Un disparu qui ne cesse de ressurgir. … read more

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13. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
  • americana
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

Cover of La guerra (Blackwater, #4) by Michael McDowell

14. La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

By: Michael McDowell

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

1938. È l’alba di una nuova èra per il clan Caskey e nulla sarà mai più come prima. La determinazio… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La guerra (Blackwater, #4) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the ordinary is presented as a possible future occurrence; but if an unusual …"

-Michael McDowell, La guerra (Blackwater, #4)

Cover of La casa (Blackwater, #3) by Michael McDowell

15. La casa (Blackwater, #3)

By: Michael McDowell

4.19

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La casa (Blackwater, #3) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Where the Body Was book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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17. El abismo del olvido

By: Paco Roca

4.81

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Paco Roca viaja a nuestro pasado con El abismo del olvido para recuperar junto al periodista Rodrig… read more

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"La democracia se cimentó sobre el olvido"

-Paco Roca, El abismo del olvido

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18. 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
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19. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. Contrition

By: Carlos Portela

3.90

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

PORTELA Y KEKO FIRMAN UN MAGISTRAL THRILLER QUE NO TEME PONER EL DEDO EN LA LLAGA Contrition es… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Homesickness

By: Colin Barrett

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, … read more

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  • fiction
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22. Perros

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

3.89

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

En el centro de esta historia hay una mujer que nunca consideró traer un perro a casa. Pero su mari… read more

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23. Cartas desde el manicomio

By: Dario Džamonja

4.14

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

«Lo siento señores, […] pero nadie ha escrito relatos de esta forma. Ni Carver, ni esa anciana y de… read more

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24. Dead City

By: Shane Stevens

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of "By Reason of Insanity", "The Anvil Chorus", and "Go Down Dead" offers "a r… read more

Similar categories in Shane Stevens's Dead City book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery thriller
  • americana
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of El dique (Blackwater, #2) by Michael McDowell

25. El dique (Blackwater, #2)

By: Michael McDowell

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Mientras Perdido se recupera de la inundación, se propone la construcción de un dique que impida un… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's El dique (Blackwater, #2) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Grace began to understand. "I have friends," she protested. "I have Zaddie." "Zaddie is just a little colored girl," Mary-Love pointed out. "It's all right to play with Zaddie, but she's not your rea…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"Mary-Love liked to see herself as the family cornucopia, dispensing all manner of good things, unstintingly, unceasingly. She considered herself amply rewarded by her children's gratitude, and if she…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"That her niece should find such profound pleasure in the company of a thirteen-year-old black girl--and, more to the point, always within the precincts of Elinor's house--was a slap in Mary-Love's fa…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

"To the little girl the house seemed a gigantic head, and she only a morsel of meat conveniently positioned in its gaping mouth. The front porch was that grinning mouth, the white porch railing its lo…"

-Michael McDowell, El dique (Blackwater, #2)

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26. Sin reproches

By: Daniel Woodrell

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

None read more

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27. Sé mía

By: Richard Ford

4.02

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Regresa un viejo conocido, con aires de despedida  Frank Bascombe protagoniza su quinto libro de la… read more

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28. Palabras amables y una pistola cargada: Autobiografía de un delincuente profesional

By: Noel Razor Smith

4.22

Format: 635 pages, Paperback

"Palabras amables y una pistola cargada" (2004) es la autobiografía del exdelincuente británico Noe… read more

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Cover of La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) by Michael McDowell

29. La fortuna (Blackwater, #5)

By: Michael McDowell

4.04

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma. Alcuni affrontano l… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La fortuna (Blackwater, #5) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of La riada (Blackwater, #1) by Michael McDowell

30. La riada (Blackwater, #1)

By: Michael McDowell

3.74

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Descubre el primer volumen de la saga Blackwater. Una saga matriarcal. Mujeres poderosas que luc… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's La riada (Blackwater, #1) book and Shane Stevens's Dead City

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

21 Top fiction books like Dead City by Shane Stevens

Transform Your Habits

I Sailed with Magellan

Stuart Dybek

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Bull Mountain (Bull Mountain, #1)

Brian Panowich

3.99

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The Long Home

William Gay

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

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10 Top fiction books like La casa (Blackwater, #3) by Michael McDowell

Transform Your Habits

El cielo de la selva

Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

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La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

Transform Your Habits

La casa (Blackwater, #3)

Michael McDowell

4.19

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Un animal salvaje

Joël Dicker

4.05

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