21 must-read mystery books like For Those Who Know the Ending by Malcolm Mackay

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For Those Who Know the Ending

By: Malcolm Mackay

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming." - Janet Maslin, …

If you liked the mystery plot in For Those Who Know the Ending by Malcolm Mackay , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

By: James Lee Burke

4.16

Format: 366 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book #3 from the series: Dave Robicheaux BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Hau… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton."

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon beco…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

"The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

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2. Munich

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND, CONCLAVEAND AN OFFICER AND A SPY. September 1938 Hitler … read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Munich book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • thriller
  • fiction
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3. The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

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Similar categories in Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

4. Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8)

By: Walter Mosley

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Walter Mosley's bestselling and award-winning novels -- from Gone Fishin'to Devil in a Blue Dress,n… read more

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5. The Switch

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

"My favorite Leonard book....He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they shar… read more

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6. Savages

By: Don Winslow

3.57

Format: 256 pages,

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beac… read more

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7. The Sisters Brothers

By: Patrick deWitt , Marcelo Barbão

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has… read more

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8. Empty Mile

By: Matthew Stokoe

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Johnny Richardson returns to Oakridge he has one thing on his mind--correcting a terrible mist… read more

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9. The Guise of Another

By: Allen Eskens

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Who was James Putnam? Answering that question may mean salvation for Alexander Rupert, a Minnesota … read more

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10. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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11. 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

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's 1979 book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) by Mark Billingham

13. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Year of the Locust

By: Terry Hayes

3.57

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly gripping, elegantly written... most definitely worth the wait’ Observer'Ticks all the boxe… read more

Similar categories in Terry Hayes's The Year of the Locust book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's London Rules (Slough House, #5) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

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17. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Slough House (Slough House, #7) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

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18. Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3)

By: Charles Cumming

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Veteran agent Lachlan Kite―“a spy for the 21st century” ( Daily Mail )―reckons with the fallout fro… read more

Similar categories in Charles Cumming's Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • thriller
  • fiction
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19. The Dark Remains

By: William McIlvanney

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more

Similar categories in William McIlvanney's The Dark Remains book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."

-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains

Cover of City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow

20. 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 Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Kala

By: Colin Walsh

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more

Similar categories in Colin Walsh's Kala book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."

-Colin Walsh, Kala

Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

22. 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 Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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23. 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

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Buried (The Craftsman #2) by Sharon J. Bolton

24. The Buried (The Craftsman #2)

By: Sharon J. Bolton

3.92

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

She's killed before. She'll kill again. Senior police officer Florence Lovelady returns to Sabde… read more

Similar categories in Sharon J. Bolton's The Buried (The Craftsman #2) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Trio

By: William Boyd

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Mart… read more

Similar categories in William Boyd's Trio book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • fiction
"People come to us...us novelists...looking for information about all the other people in the world; what we're thinking, what we need, what we dream about, what we hate, what makes us tick.... People…"

-William Boyd, Trio

Cover of Trapped (Kerry Casey #4) by Anna Smith

26. Trapped (Kerry Casey #4)

By: Anna Smith

4.55

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping gangland thriller that sees heroine crime boss Kerry Casey in jail - for fans of Kimberl… read more

Similar categories in Anna Smith's Trapped (Kerry Casey #4) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • crime
Cover of In a Place of Darkness by Stuart MacBride

27. In a Place of Darkness

By: Stuart MacBride

4.38

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

THE CLOCK IS TICKING...Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferr… read more

Similar categories in Stuart MacBride's In a Place of Darkness book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of For Those Who Know the Ending by Malcolm Mackay

28. For Those Who Know the Ending

By: Malcolm Mackay

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Don't pick up a Mackay book unless you've got spare time. They're habit-forming." - Janet Maslin, … read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron

29. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.   In Slough House, the … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Joe Country (Slough House, #6) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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30. 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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Spook Street (Slough House, #4) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"...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)

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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

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) book and Malcolm Mackay's For Those Who Know the Ending

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

24 Top fiction books like For Those Who Know the Ending by Malcolm Mackay

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Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

James Lee Burke

4.16

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Munich

Robert Harris

4.00

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The Winter of Frankie Machine

Don Winslow

3.95

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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Sebastian Faulks

3.59

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Act of Oblivion

Robert Harris

4.07

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Sebastian Barry

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