9 Top suspense books like The Bastard Hand by Heath Lowrance

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The Bastard Hand

By: Heath Lowrance

3.94

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He’s escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhike…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Bastard Hand by Heath Lowrance , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham

By: Mike Mignola , None , Dennis Janke , Richard Pace , Troy Nixey , Bill Oakley

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In this tale of horror in Gotham City co-written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Bruce Wayne unint… read more

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2. Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

By: Bill Willingham , Steve Leialoha , Lan Medina , James Jean , Craig Hamilton

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Paperback

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy … read more

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3. Bleeding Shadows

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bleeding Shadows is Joe R. Lansdale's largest, most varied collection to date. Weighing in at 488 p… read more

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4. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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5. The Pallbearers Club

By: Paul Tremblay

3.10

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable—and unsettling—friendship, with blo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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7. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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8. Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2)

By: Walter Mosley

3.87

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning "master of craft and narrative," Walter … read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Every Man a King (King Oliver, #2) book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

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  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. 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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  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"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

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11. 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

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1)

By: Chris Offutt

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest novel, The Killing Hill… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's The Killing Hills (Mick Hardin, #1) book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton

15. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Fenton's We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • crime
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16. Sing Her Down

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

No Country for Old Men meets Killing Eve in this gritty, feminist Western thriller from the award-w… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"If we could avenge people for their personalities, we'd all be in trouble."

-Ivy Pochoda, Sing Her Down

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17. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's The Rise book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. 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

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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19. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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20. Back to the Dirt

By: Frank Bill

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A timeless--and timely--work: a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of the broken … read more

Similar categories in Frank Bill's Back to the Dirt book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • fiction
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21. 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

Similar categories in Jonathan Ames's A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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22. Devil in a Coma

By: Mark Lanegan

3.92

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was n… read more

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"I didn't leave a trace of myself with them, but they stained me."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"To avoid paying debts is to ask for trouble, I've learned that much in my time here."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

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23. Mastodon

By: Steve Stred

3.63

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

17 years ago, Tyler Barton was born in the Rocky Mountains, while his parents were on a hike. On… read more

Similar categories in Steve Stred's Mastodon book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • thriller
  • fiction
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24. Secret Identity

By: Alex Segura

3.62

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery … read more

Similar categories in Alex Segura's Secret Identity book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Jane Goes North

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale comes a laugh out loud road novel full of outrageous wit, d… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Jane Goes North book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. Black Gypsies

By: Grant Wamack

4.33

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Chiraq… Marcus is a certified Jackboy on the streets of Chicago, stealing car parts w… read more

Similar categories in Grant Wamack's Black Gypsies book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • crime
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27. The Bastard Hand

By: Heath Lowrance

3.94

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Charlie Wesley is not right in the head. He’s escaped from a mental hospital up north and hitchhike… read more

Similar categories in Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Blue Like Me by Aaron Philip Clark

28. Blue Like Me

By: Aaron Philip Clark

4.12

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

A brutal homicide sets an ex-cop and his former partner on the hunt for an enigmatic killer in a gr… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Philip Clark's Blue Like Me book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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29. Project Prometheus

By: Matthew X. Gomez

4.50

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Tom Costigan is a washed-out mercenary, stuck cleaning dishes for a hole-in-the-wall bar despite hi… read more

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30. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic, Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby … read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's The Last King of California book and Heath Lowrance's The Bastard Hand

  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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