14 Best crime books like The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2) by Ralph Dennis

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The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2)

By: Ralph Dennis

4.32

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The second novel in the unforgettable, long lost series by Ralph Dennis is finally back in print… a…

If you liked the crime plot in The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2) by Ralph Dennis , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. August Snow (August Snow #1)

By: Stephen Mack Jones

3.86

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Tough, smart, and struggling to stay afloat, August Snow is the embodiment of Detroit. The son of a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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2. The Horn

By: John Clellon Holmes , Archie Shepp

3.98

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John Clellon Holmes reflects on the history of jazz in this classic novel. Edgar Pool is "The Horn,… read more

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3. Maigret and the Madwoman

By: Georges Simenon

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"I'm relying on you. I trust you." Maigret knew those words would haunt him to his grave. As the… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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4. Hardcase (Joe Kurtz, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge--and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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5. They Don't Dance Much

By: Daniel Woodrell , James Ross

4.16

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

In this classic country noir, featuring a new introduction by Daniel Woodrell, a small town farmer … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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6. Blues per cuori fuorilegge e vecchie puttane

By: Massimo Carlotto

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Il Bene e il Male, ancora una volta mascherati e insidiosi da distinguere, si scontrano nell'arena … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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7. All the Flowers Are Dying (Matthew Scudder, #16)

By: Lawrence Block

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

"A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three hideous murders he swears, in the face of ir… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

8. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

By: James L. Swanson

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more

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  • crime
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9. The Tomb (Repairman Jack, #1; Adversary Cycle, #2; The Secret History of the World)

By: F. Paul Wilson

4.47

Format: 310 pages,

Much to the chagrin of his girlfriend, Gia, Repairman Jack doesn t deal with appliances he fixes si… read more

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  • mystery
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10. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

11. Double Star

By: Robert A. Heinlein

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubl… read more

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12. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)

By: Lawrence Block

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Downing a bourbon or two with a couple of cronies, Scudder witnesses a heist. The Morrisey brothers… read more

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13. Firebreak (Parker, #20)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Parker put down the body and answered the phone. And from that moment on he had two jobs to do. One… read more

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14. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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15. Binary

By: Michael Crichton , John Lange

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Political radical John Wright is plotting an act of mass destruction - and federal agent John Grave… read more

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16. Brown's Requiem

By: James Ellroy

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Fritz Brown's L.A.--and his life--are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the… read more

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17. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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18. Carnosaur

By: Harry Adam Knight

3.00

Format: 468 pages,

The world's most vicious predator is back-and he's got Company. Tyrannosaurus Rex, Deinonychus, Bra… read more

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19. Clandestine

By: James Ellroy

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's -- a town blinded to i… read more

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20. Breakout (Parker, #21)

By: Richard Stark

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

Parker's back in jail, but not just any old jail; it's the correctional center, where people withou… read more

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21. The Advocate

By: Teresa Burrell

4.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

For Sabre Orin Brown, life is good; she has it all...or would have, if only she could solve the mys… read more

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22. Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8)

By: Philip Kerr

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1941. Bernie Gunther returns from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find his home city … read more

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23. A Killing on the Hill

By: Robert Dugoni

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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24. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

3.79

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."

-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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25. The Nenoquich

By: Henry Bean

3.72

Format: 208 pages, ebook

An unsung masterpiece squatting in the ashes of the sixties, The Nenoquich is the diary of a seduce… read more

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26. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall book and Ralph Dennis's The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2)

"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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27. Flags on the Bayou

By: James Lee Burke

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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28. Noir Burlesque

By: Enrico Marini

4.18

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

“Everybody has everything to lose…” An atmospheric, violent crime caper set in 1950s New York, wit… read more

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  • crime
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29. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

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30. The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2)

By: Ralph Dennis

4.32

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

The second novel in the unforgettable, long lost series by Ralph Dennis is finally back in print… a… read more

Similar categories in Ralph Dennis's The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2) book and Ralph Dennis's The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2)

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) by Mick Herron

31. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

13 best-selling mystery books like The Charleston Knife is Back in Town (Hardman Book 2) by Ralph Dennis

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August Snow (August Snow #1)

Stephen Mack Jones

3.86

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Maigret and the Madwoman

Georges Simenon

3.82

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Dan Simmons

4.01

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They Don't Dance Much

Daniel Woodrell , James Ross

4.16

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Max Allan Collins

3.83

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Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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