6 must-read noir books like Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale

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Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.10

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Pull up a seat and sit a spell. Master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale has cooked up a passel of tales …

If you liked the noir plot in Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10)

By: John D. MacDonald

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

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  • thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
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2. One Fearful Yellow Eye (Travis McGee #8)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Audio Cassette

"To diggers a thousand yeasrs from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee #9)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.84

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Tush Bannon was in the wrong spot at the wrong time. His measly plot of land just so happened to si… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Dress Her in Indigo (Travis McGee #11)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

"To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the o… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Quarry's Climax (Quarry #14)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
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6. The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee #16)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

"The professional's professional of suspense writers." THE NEW YORK TIMES Travis McGee has been off… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

7. The Green Ripper (Travis McGee #18)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

"McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER Beautiful girls always gr… read more

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8. The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #18; Harry Bosch Universe, #22)

By: Michael Connelly

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992… read more

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9. Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee #7)

By: John D. MacDonald

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A great bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American hero--and maybe the star of a new movie f… read more

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10. The Scarlet Ruse (Travis McGee #14)

By: John D. MacDonald

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing… read more

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11. Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones, #3)

By: Walter Mosley

4.30

Format: 543 pages,

When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door shut, b… read more

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12. Fearless Jones (Fearless Jones, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Walter Mosley's Fearless Jonesinaugurates a new crime series set in 1950s Los Angeles. But can Jone… read more

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13. Quarry's List (Quarry, #2)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Killer-for-hire Quarry is trying to lie low when he gets a midnight visit from two other gunmen sen… read more

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14. The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

"The professional's professional of suspense writers." THE NEW YORK TIMES Van Harder, once a hard d… read more

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15. Bright Orange for the Shroud (Travis McGee #6)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.32

Format: 224 pages,

Travis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as po… read more

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16. The Truelove

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigat… read more

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17. The Turquoise Lament (Travis McGee #15)

By: John D. MacDonald

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

"One of the most enduring and unusual heroes in detective fiction."THE BALTIMORE SUN Now that Linda… read more

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18. The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

"McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER A lovely young girl step… read more

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19. Quarry (Quarry, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid precise killer named… read more

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20. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • short stories
  • fiction
"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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21. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
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22. Germanico

By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi

3.03

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Mai era accaduto prima nella storia di Roma che due giovani dell'aristocrazia si amassero in modo c… read more

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23. Quarry's Blood (Quarry #16)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry’s cr… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
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24. Snerting

By: Olaf Olafsson

4.05

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Kristófer hyggst loka veitingastað sínum í miðbæ Reykjavíkur vegna veirunnar, eftir áratuga farsæla… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Killing Quarry (Quarry #15)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.87

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Qu… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • noir
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26. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. La stanza delle mele

By: Matteo Righetto

3.94

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

È l’estate del 1954, Giacomo Nef ha undici anni e con i due fratelli maggiori vive dai nonni patern… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Into the Night

By: Cornell Woolrich

3.53

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Immediately filled with joy and hope when her suicide attempt fails, Madeleine throws down the revo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

29. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21) by Tim Dorsey

30. The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.11

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

From Florida’s king of mayhem—"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New Yor… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"One of the side effects of good psychedelics is you can't remember how much you took."

-Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

"Why read a book? If you read books you'd understand that question is like 'Why Breathe?"

-Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach (Serge Storms, #21)

Cover of Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale

31. Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.10

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

Pull up a seat and sit a spell. Master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale has cooked up a passel of tales … read more

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  • literature
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime

14 Top fiction books like Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard, The Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale

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John D. MacDonald

3.84

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John D. MacDonald

3.84

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John Grisham

4.26

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First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

Craig Johnson

4.37

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Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Elizabeth Strout

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