20 best-selling fiction books like Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8) by K.C. Constantine

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Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8)

By: K.C. Constantine

3.77

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When Albert Castelucci's only son is murdered and the detective investigating botches the case, Pol…

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Cover of Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) by Lee Child

1. Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

By: Lee Child

4.07

Format: 567 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his off… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think."

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to sa…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

"People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever the…"

-Lee Child, Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

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2. Wounded

By: Percival Everett

3.99

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Training horses is dangerous--a head-to-head confrontation with a 1,000 pounds of muscle and little… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder, #14) by Lawrence Block

3. Everybody Dies (Matthew Scudder, #14)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

4. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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5. A Long Line of Dead Men (Matthew Scudder, #12)

By: Lawrence Block

4.21

Format: 256 pages,

In Manhattan thirty-one men have been meeting annually for years. Their private club meets only to … read more

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6. So Much Blue

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 320 pages,

A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and th… read more

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7. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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8. Reykjavík Nights: Murder in Reykjavík (Inspector Erlendur, #0)

By: Victoria Cribb , Arnaldur Indriðason

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

THE LIVING Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks i… read more

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9. Assumption

By: Percival Everett

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier Ogden Walker, depu… read more

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10. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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11. Half an Inch of Water

By: Percival Everett

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories set in the West from "one of the most gifted and versatile of contempor… read more

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12. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

13. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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14. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

By: Paul Pringle

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more

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  • mystery
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15. 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

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

Cover of Desert Star (Renée Ballard, #5; Harry Bosch, #24; Harry Bosch Universe, #37) by Michael    Connelly

17. Desert Star (Renée Ballard, #5; Harry Bosch, #24; Harry Bosch Universe, #37)

By: Michael Connelly

4.49

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch’s “white… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) by Colson Whitehead

18. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.74

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."

-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)

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19. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31) by Donna Leon

20. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

By: Donna Leon

4.09

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"

-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)

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21. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28) by Janet Evanovich

22. Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28)

By: Janet Evanovich

4.11

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartme… read more

Similar categories in Janet Evanovich's Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight (Stephanie Plum, #28) book and K.C. Constantine's Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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23. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

Cover of Billy Summers by Stephen        King

24. Billy Summers

By: Stephen King

4.20

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. B… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You can’t help how you feel. Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out."

-Stephen King, Billy Summers

"Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn’t last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it’s awesome. It’s everything."

-Stephen King, Billy Summers

"He sticks out his hand. Billy shakes it. He has shaken with Nick before and never likes it because Nick is a bad guy. Hard not to like him a little, though. Nick is also a pro, and that grin works."

-Stephen King, Billy Summers

"The pieces are there, but no way he can put them together until this job is done. According to William Wordsworth, the best writing is about strong emotion recalled in tranquility. Billy has lost his…"

-Stephen King, Billy Summers

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25. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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26. The Magic Kingdom

By: Russell Banks

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of America's most beloved storytellers--a profound novel about belief, betrayal, and the t… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

28. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

Cover of A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) by Jonathan Ames

29. A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8) by K.C. Constantine

30. Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8)

By: K.C. Constantine

3.77

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When Albert Castelucci's only son is murdered and the detective investigating botches the case, Pol… read more

Similar categories in K.C. Constantine's Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8) book and K.C. Constantine's Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Spook Street (Slough House, #4) by Mick Herron

31. Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

A shakeup at MI5 and a terrorist attack on British soil set in motion clandestine machinery known t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"...What did you say?"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"And me, apparently I’m “irritable"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"So this is what springtime in London was like: the women in knee-length dresses of blue-and-white hoops; the men with dark jackets over sweaters in pastel shades."

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

"A younger listener might assume Moira to be delivering these fragments down a telephone, but in fact they are directed at the papers on her desk, papers which have accumulated in the absence of Cathe…"

-Mick Herron, Spook Street (Slough House, #4)

18 must-read mystery books like Joey's Case (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #8) by K.C. Constantine

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Lee Child

4.07

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4.36

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Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

4.22

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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Jim Thompson

2.67

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Mick Herron

4.29

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Eli Cranor

3.72

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Jordan Harper

3.76

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