5 Best noir books like The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg

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The Low Desert

By: Tod Goldberg

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Tod Goldberg is a terrific writer, and The Low Desert is a smart, surprising page turner." —Don Wi…

If you liked the noir plot in The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

2. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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3. Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more

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4. An American Spy (The Tourist, #3)

By: Olen Steinhauer

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver uncovered a conspiracy linking the Chinese government to the highes… read more

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5. The Good German

By: Joseph Kanon

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled on… read more

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6. In the Morning I'll be Gone (Sean Duffy #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A spectacular escape and a man-hunt that could change the future of a nation - and lay one man's pa… read more

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7. I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy #2)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Irlanda del Norte, anos ochenta. Un torso aparece en una maleta abandonada. Ha estado congelado, lo… read more

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8. The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

By: Adrian McKinty , Gerard Doyle

3.92

Format: 11 pages, Audio CD

Northern Ireland, spring 1981. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?"

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

"The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket."

-Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground (Detective Sean Duffy, #1)

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9. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Kingpin (Joe DeMarco, #17)

By: Mike Lawson

4.37

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his bel… read more

Similar categories in Mike Lawson's Kingpin (Joe DeMarco, #17) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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12. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Dream Town (Eve Ronin #5)

By: Lee Goldberg

4.18

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller … read more

Similar categories in Lee Goldberg's Dream Town (Eve Ronin #5) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. A Spy Alone

By: Charles Beaumont

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

'This is first class' The Times 'A stunning debut' Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time ‘A marvellously con… read more

Similar categories in Charles Beaumont's A Spy Alone book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. This Is What Happened

By: Mick Herron

3.42

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's This Is What Happened book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Mecca

By: Susan Straight

3.86

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Straight's Mecca book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

18. 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 Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

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20. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Broken

By: Don Winslow

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss,… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's Broken book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Calico

By: Lee Goldberg

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigat… read more

Similar categories in Lee Goldberg's Calico book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

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

23. 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

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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25. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel

By: Denise Mina

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dolphin Junction: Stories book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

Cover of City Walls (Amos Walker #31) by Loren D. Estleman

28. City Walls (Amos Walker #31)

By: Loren D. Estleman

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

A new Amos Walker novel from a Grand Master. “Loren D. Estleman is my hero.”—Harlan CobenWhen a sea… read more

Similar categories in Loren D. Estleman's City Walls (Amos Walker #31) book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • mystery
  • fiction
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29. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg

30. The Low Desert

By: Tod Goldberg

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Tod Goldberg is a terrific writer, and The Low Desert is a smart, surprising page turner." —Don Wi… read more

Similar categories in Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • westerns
  • modern
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. Joe Hustle

By: Richard Lange

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Tod Goldberg's The Low Desert

  • crime
  • fiction

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4.42

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Michael Connelly

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John Sandford

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