16 must-read crime books like The Houseboat by Dane Bahr

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The Houseboat

By: Dane Bahr

2.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 19…

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1. Obsession

By: Simon Beckett

3.21

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. Compromising Positions (Judith Singer, #1)

By: Susan Isaacs

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The brilliant debut that's sold over a million copies-now in trade paperback for the first time! … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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3. The Dark Room

By: Jonathan Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is in the middle of an exhumation when his phone rings. San… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Den döende detektiven

By: Leif G.W. Persson

3.58

Format: 366 pages, Audiobook

Lars Martin Johansson, i sin krafts dagar chef for Rikskriminalen, legendarisk mordutredare och bla… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

5. Once Craved (Riley Paige Mystery, #3)

By: Blake Pierce

3.76

Format: 336 pages,

ONCE CRAVED is book #3 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with ONCE GONE. … read more

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6. Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock

By: Barney Hoskyns

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of … read more

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7. The Shadow House

By: Anna Downes

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman'… read more

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  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"But things had changed shortly after he turned eleven. He clammed up, got angry, became shifty and secretive. And then suddenly it was like we were speaking entirely different languages. I'd say some…"

-Anna Downes, The Shadow House

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8. The Yards

By: A.F. Carter

3.76

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Git O’Rourke is from the wrong side of the tracks—even if, in the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxte… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Hawthorne School

By: Sylvie Perry

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of Riley Sager, The Hawthorne School is a twisty psychological suspense about the lengths … read more

Similar categories in Sylvie Perry's The Hawthorne School book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. Ocean State

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully wr… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Shoot the Moonlight Out

By: William Boyle

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A haunting crime story about the broken characters inhabiting yesterday's Brooklyn, this is the new… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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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15. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Woman of the Year

By: Darcey Bell

2.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A deliciously twisty thriller about the dark side of female friendship and a revenge plot that gets… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade, #3)

By: Christina Dodd

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

I have three deadly problems: 1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer. 2. I just had a bulle… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1) by Ron Corbett

18. The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1)

By: Ron Corbett

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new series from Edgar®-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Songbird

By: Daniel Weizmann

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gritty, fast-paced neo-noir that explores the consumptive nature of fame, celebrity, and motherho… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) by Samantha Jayne Allen

20. Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1)

By: Samantha Jayne Allen

3.36

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private inv… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Jayne Allen's Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15) book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Mailboat II: The Silver Helm (Mailboat Suspense Series Book 2)

By: Danielle Lincoln Hanna

4.20

Format: 189 pages, Kindle Edition

A forgotten teen. A death too close to home. A killer still on the loose.The story continues from M… read more

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23. Everyone Knows But You

By: Thomas E. Ricks

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the r… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Changing Man

By: Tomi Oyemakinde

3.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

Cover of Mailboat IV: The Shift in the Wind (Mailboat Suspense Series Book 4) by Danielle Lincoln Hanna

26. Mailboat IV: The Shift in the Wind (Mailboat Suspense Series Book 4)

By: Danielle Lincoln Hanna

4.29

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A girl left adrift. A widow hunting for truth. A change in the air…The story continues from Mailboa… read more

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27. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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28. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. The Houseboat

By: Dane Bahr

2.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 19… read more

Similar categories in Dane Bahr's The Houseboat book and Dane Bahr's The Houseboat

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. The Moorings of Mackerel Sky

By: M.Z. Emily Zack

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist MZ marries fantasy with the everyday in her contemporary novel of a Maine lobstering… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Captain's Tale (Mailboat #3) by Danielle Lincoln Hanna

31. The Captain's Tale (Mailboat #3)

By: Danielle Lincoln Hanna

4.33

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

A girl who doesn’t belong. A secret she won’t tell. A killer setting the course.The story continues… read more

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