12 Best crime books like The Substitution Order by Martin Clark

Cover of The Substitution Order by Martin   Clark

The Substitution Order

By: Martin Clark

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wic…

If you liked the crime plot in The Substitution Order by Martin Clark , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of In The Dark (Jonathan Stride, #4) by Brian Freeman

1. In The Dark (Jonathan Stride, #4)

By: Brian Freeman

4.38

Format: 613 pages,

'In the Dark' is an alternative title for this author's novel 'The Watcher'. Two young lovers. A su… read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's In The Dark (Jonathan Stride, #4) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Cold Nowhere (Jonathan Stride, #6) by Brian Freeman

2. The Cold Nowhere (Jonathan Stride, #6)

By: Brian Freeman

3.65

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Ten years ago, six-year-old Catalina Mateo hid under the porch of her family home while a knife but… read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's The Cold Nowhere (Jonathan Stride, #6) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

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

3. Marathon (Jonathan Stride, #8)

By: Brian Freeman

4.07

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

On a rainy June morning, tens of thousands of people crowd into Duluth for the city's biggest annua… read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's Marathon (Jonathan Stride, #8) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

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

4. Eleven Days

By: Lea Carpenter

4.30

Format: 237 pages, ebook

When the story opens on May 11, 2011, Sara's son, Jason, has been missing for nine days from a Spec… read more

Similar categories in Lea Carpenter's Eleven Days book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

Cover of The Burying Place (Jonathan Stride, #5) by Brian Freeman

5. The Burying Place (Jonathan Stride, #5)

By: Brian Freeman

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A stunning, clever and unputdownable thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly Lieu… read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's The Burying Place (Jonathan Stride, #5) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Goodbye to the Dead (Jonathan Stride, #7) by Brian Freeman

6. Goodbye to the Dead (Jonathan Stride, #7)

By: Brian Freeman

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Detective Jonathan Stride's first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs … read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's Goodbye to the Dead (Jonathan Stride, #7) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) by Michael    Connelly

8. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • legal thriller
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Front Sight

By: Stephen Hunter

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This collection of three interconnected novellas follows each generation of the iconic Swagger fami… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Hunter's Front Sight book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

11. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

12. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of Alter Ego (Jonathan Stride, #9) by Brian Freeman

13. Alter Ego (Jonathan Stride, #9)

By: Brian Freeman

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A GRIPPING AND EXPLOSIVE THRILLER FROM #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR BRIAN FREEMANHollywood has a dark side… read more

Similar categories in Brian Freeman's Alter Ego (Jonathan Stride, #9) book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Victory by Karl Marlantes

14. Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me by Rex Chapman

15. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me

By: Rex Chapman

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more

Similar categories in Rex Chapman's It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • audiobook
Cover of Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein

16. Bad Animals

By: Sarah Braunstein

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Braunstein's Bad Animals book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Translator

By: Harriet Crawley

4.04

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

• "A classic thriller of the new Cold War." Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad• A taut, highly top… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Crawley's The Translator book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Substitution Order by Martin   Clark

18. The Substitution Order

By: Martin Clark

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Martin Clark--praised by Entertainment Weekly as "our best legal-thriller writer"--comes a wic… read more

Similar categories in Martin Clark's The Substitution Order book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • legal thriller
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Expat by Hansen Shi

19. The Expat

By: Hansen Shi

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. At 26, Pr… read more

Similar categories in Hansen Shi's The Expat book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

20. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories by Amanda    Peters

21. Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories

By: Amanda Peters

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of short fiction, Amanda Peters describes the Indigenous experience from an… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's Waiting for the Long Night Moon: Stories book and Martin Clark's The Substitution Order

  • fiction
  • audiobook

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4.38

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4.07

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3.99

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Ed Zwick

4.03

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Rich Cohen

3.90

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Keith O'Brien

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