10 best-selling mystery books like Shadow Thieves by Glen Cook

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Shadow Thieves

By: Glen Cook

3.33

Format: 28 pages, None

Read in anthology Down These Strange Streets ed. George R R Martin and Garder Dozois, also collecte…

If you liked the mystery plot in Shadow Thieves by Glen Cook , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

By: John Scalzi

3.33

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that univ… read more

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  • short stories
"I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

"Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait."

-John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

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2. Restoration of Faith (The Dresden Files, #0.5)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: 12 pages, ebook

A short story of the Dresden Files which introduced Harry Dresden and his world for the very first … read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fantasy
"Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise."

-Jim Butcher, Restoration of Faith (The Dresden Files, #0.5)

"There are people who love you, Faith. Or who one day will. Even if you can't see them beside you, right here, right now, they're out there. But if you let the dark get into your eyes, you might never…"

-Jim Butcher, Restoration of Faith (The Dresden Files, #0.5)

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3. Deep Down (Jack Reacher, #16.5)

By: Lee Child

3.88

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

Summoned by Military Intelligence to Washington, D.C., Reacher is sent undercover. The assignment t… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
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4. Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6)

By: Jim Butcher

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
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5. Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Autonomousfeatures a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her … read more

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6. The Warded Man (Demon Cycle, #1)

By: Peter V. Brett

1.00

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise--demons who possess supernatural powers and burn… read more

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  • fantasy
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7. Carniepunk: The Demon Barker of Wheat Street (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #4.7)

By: Kevin Hearne

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

(This story takes place six years after Tricked, the fourth book of the Iron Druid Chronicles, and … read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
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8. In the Nick of Time: John Rebus vs. Roy Grace

By: Ian Rankin , Peter James

3.45

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery
  • short stories

9. Second Son (Jack Reacher, #15.5)

By: Lee Child

3.58

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme the o… read more

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10. Storm Front (Derrick Storm, #4)

By: Richard Castle

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With the help of a beautiful and mysterious foreign agent--with whom Storm is becoming romantically… read more

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11. Hellbender

By: Laurie R. King

4.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Once people have messed with a man's DNA, what can he do but become a private eye? And when a gorge… read more

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12. A Plague of Zombies (Lord John Grey #3.5)

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.26

Format: 32 pages, ebook

Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Outlander series, delivers a … read more

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13. Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat, #4)

By: Richard Castle

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Hot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel… read more

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14. Down These Strange Streets

By: George R.R. Martin , Carrie Vaughn , Charlaine Harris , Steven Saylor , Laurie R. King , Glen Cook , S.M. Stirling , Conn Iggulden , Gardner Dozois , Joe R. Lansdale , Simon R. Green , Patricia Briggs , Diana Gabaldon , John Maddox Roberts , Bradley Denton , Melinda M. Snodgrass , Lisa Tuttle , M.L.N. Hanover

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Urban fantasy where mystery waits at the end of every alley and things that go bump in the night ha… read more

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15. Deadly Heat (Nikki Heat, #5)

By: Richard Castle

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive f… read more

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16. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and Glen Cook's Shadow Thieves

  • fantasy
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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17. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

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18. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

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  • fantasy
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19. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
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20. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency, #3)

By: John Scalzi

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has … read more

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  • fantasy
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21. Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

By: Steven Brust

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

First comes love. Then comes marriage… Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may ju… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Too much weird at once and you just gotta take what piece of it you can and deal with that, worry about the rest later."

-Steven Brust, Tsalmoth (Vlad Taltos, #16)

22. Mike (The Dresden Files, #9.5)

By: Jim Butcher

3.77

Format: 1 pages, ebook

Storm Front was first published April 1st, 2000, which makes this year The Dresden Files’ 20th anni… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fantasy
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23. We Are Satellites

By: Sarah Pinsker

3.67

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

From award-winning author Sarah Pinsker comes a novel about one family and the technology that divi… read more

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  • fantasy
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24. Death & Honey

By: Kevin Hearne

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Death & Honey contains three novellas by New York Times bestsellers Delilah S. Dawson (as Lila Bowe… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fantasy
Cover of Warrior of the Wind (The Nameless Republic, #2) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

25. Warrior of the Wind (The Nameless Republic, #2)

By: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

4.04

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From city streets where secrets are bartered for gold to forests teeming with fabled beasts, Suyi D… read more

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  • fantasy
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26. In Red, with Pearls

By: Patricia Briggs

4.26

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Warren is a werewolf, and a private detective. This is a noir-flavored story about some truly terri… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy

27. Death by Dahlia

By: Charlaine Harris

3.30

Format: None pages, None

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  • fantasy
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28. Beware of the Snake (SPQR #12.5)

By: John Maddox Roberts

3.56

Format: 30 pages, ebook

Summary: 46 BC: Around the time of the Martialis harvest festival. The Marsians, who live i… read more

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  • mystery

29. The Curious Affair of the Deodand

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.42

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Can also be found in the anthologyDown those strange Streets. read more

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30. Shadow Thieves

By: Glen Cook

3.33

Format: 28 pages, None

Read in anthology Down These Strange Streets ed. George R R Martin and Garder Dozois, also collecte… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fantasy

31. Two Blondes

By: Charlaine Harris

3.75

Format: None pages, None

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3.97

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4.26

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1.00

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4.04

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