18 must-read thriller books like Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1) by Howard Michael Gould

Cover of Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1) by Howard Michael Gould

Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

By: Howard Michael Gould

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood cultur…

If you liked the thriller plot in Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1) by Howard Michael Gould , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2) by John D. MacDonald

1. Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Travis McGee’s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there i… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

2. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Every Day Above Ground (Van Shaw #3) by Glen Erik Hamilton

3. Every Day Above Ground (Van Shaw #3)

By: Glen Erik Hamilton

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A favor for a dying ex-con turns into a violent battle against a mysterious enemy for Van Shaw in t… read more

Similar categories in Glen Erik Hamilton's Every Day Above Ground (Van Shaw #3) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Nooners

By: James Patterson , Tim Arnold

3.52

Format: 352 pages,

Hey, whoever's killing my coworkers, cut it out! Everyone who knows Tim says he's a good guy. But … read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Bottoms

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

The narrator of The Bottomsis Harry Collins, an old man obsessively reflecting on certain key exper… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #2) by Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman, John Bedford Lloyd

6. City of Night (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #2)

By: Dean Koontz , Ed Gorman , John Bedford Lloyd

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Audio CD

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic sto… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
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7. The Dolls

By: James Patterson , Kecia Bal

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

The Dolls are perfect lovers, perfect companions, perfect killers. Investigative reporter Lila Wall… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

8. Lost Souls (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #4)

By: Dean Koontz

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Timesbestselling author Dean Koontz raises the stakes--and the suspense--taking his Fra… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense

9. The Dead Town (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #5)

By: Dean Koontz

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Dean Koontz's enthralling Frankenstein series has redefined the classic legend of infernal ambition… read more

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10. Righteous (IQ, #2)

By: Joe Ide

4.12

Format: 260 pages,

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death … read more

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11. Diary of a Succubus

By: James Patterson , Derek Nikitas

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

I can kill a man with a kiss. 'You're everything I ever wanted,' he says. He leans in and kisses me… read more

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12. Stingrays: BookShots

By: James Patterson

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

Stingrays--they solve unsolvable crimes. When a teenager goes missing on a Caribbean beach, the loc… read more

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13. Blood For Wine (Cal Claxton, #5)

By: Warren C. Easley

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Hardcover

Cal Claxton's old farmhouse sits high in Oregon's Red Hills where some of the finest and most covet… read more

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14. The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library, #1)

By: Django Wexler

3.86

Format: 138 pages, Hardcover

The Forbidden Librarykicks off an action-packed fantasy series with classic appeal, a resourceful h… read more

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15. A Study in Brimstone (Warlock Holmes, #1)

By: G.S. Denning

4.25

Format: 131 pages, ebook

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the mo… read more

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16. Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)

By: Dean Koontz

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic sto… read more

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17. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

Similar categories in David Zucker's Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • humor
  • audiobook
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18. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death and Glory (Barker & Llewelyn, #15) by Will Thomas

19. Death and Glory (Barker & Llewelyn, #15)

By: Will Thomas

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplishe… read more

Similar categories in Will Thomas's Death and Glory (Barker & Llewelyn, #15) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everybody Dies (Jack Daniels #13) by J.A. Konrath

20. Everybody Dies (Jack Daniels #13)

By: J.A. Konrath

4.28

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

MY BROTHER, THE SERIAL KILLER... They call him The Man With Seven Tears. He has a teardrop ta… read more

Similar categories in J.A. Konrath's Everybody Dies (Jack Daniels #13) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

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

21. 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 Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Second-Worst Restaurant in France (Paul Stuart #2) by Alexander McCall Smith

22. The Second-Worst Restaurant in France (Paul Stuart #2)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.59

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Renowned cookbook writer Paul Stuart, renewed and refreshed from his time in Tuscany, has returned … read more

Similar categories in Alexander McCall Smith's The Second-Worst Restaurant in France (Paul Stuart #2) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2) by Meg Gardiner

23. Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2)

By: Meg Gardiner

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

In this exhilarating thriller inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, FBI profiler Caitlin H… read more

Similar categories in Meg Gardiner's Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Coming, baby,' Shana murmured. She tossed back the covers, brushed her sleep-tangled hair from her face, and slogged out of the bedroom. The hardwood floor creaked beneath her bare feet. Jaydee's cri…"

-Meg Gardiner, Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2)

"Did you join the Bureau to get as far from that case as possible?' Rainey said. 'I took this job to make a difference.' 'Honey.' The tries rang on the concrete. 'Course you did. We all did. You can s…"

-Meg Gardiner, Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2)

"She felt a pang, a deep wish for the bay, the soaring towers of the bridge, the sunlight skipping across ten thousand whitecaps between the Golden Gate and Alcatraz. She wanted the scent of the Pacif…"

-Meg Gardiner, Into the Black Nowhere (UNSUB, #2)

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24. Bad Axe County

By: John Galligan

3.59

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Dennis Lehane meets Megan Miranda in this “dark beauty of a novel” (William Kent Krueger, New York … read more

Similar categories in John Galligan's Bad Axe County book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2) by Fabian Nicieza

25. The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2)

By: Fabian Nicieza

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the cocreator of Deadpool and author of Suburban Dicks comes a diabolically funny murder myste… read more

Similar categories in Fabian Nicieza's The Self-Made Widow (Suburban Dicks, #2) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1) by Howard Michael Gould

26. Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

By: Howard Michael Gould

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A razor-sharp, exquisitely paced, madly fun debut thriller that gleefully lampoons Hollywood cultur… read more

Similar categories in Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21) by Tim Dorsey

27. The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.11

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From Florida’s king of mayhem—"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dorsey's The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"One of the side effects of good psychedelics is you can't remember how much you took."

-Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

"Why read a book? If you read books you'd understand that question is like 'Why Breathe?"

-Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

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28. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Rules of War (Logan West #4) by Matthew Betley

29. Rules of War (Logan West #4)

By: Matthew Betley

4.18

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

A DANA PERINO BOOK CLUB PICK Following the events of the “fast, hard-hitting, and impossible to pu… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Betley's Rules of War (Logan West #4) book and Howard Michael Gould's Last Looks (Charlie Waldo, #1)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of Mercy River (Van Shaw, #4) by Glen Erik Hamilton

30. Mercy River (Van Shaw, #4)

By: Glen Erik Hamilton

4.01

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Helping a fellow veteran accused of murder, Van Shaw is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth involving … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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