20 Best crime books like Kings of America by R.J. Ellory

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Kings of America

By: R.J. Ellory

3.81

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Fleeing to America following a terrible crime, Irish-born fighter, Danny McCabe, throws in his lot …

If you liked the crime plot in Kings of America by R.J. Ellory , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Hostage

By: Robert Crais

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong the three young men who perpetrated the crime … read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Perfect Remains (D.I. Callanach, #1)

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.20

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to ident… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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3. Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #7)

By: Robert Crais

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two youn… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #7) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. The Last Detective (Elvis Cole, #9)

By: Robert Crais

4.50

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's The Last Detective (Elvis Cole, #9) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

5. The Broker

By: John Grisham

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pa… read more

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6. Nobody Walks

By: Mick Herron

3.95

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited new novel by British espionage fiction master Mick Herron, author of the 2013 Crim… read more

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7. L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8)

By: Robert Crais

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Robert Crais (Free Fall, Monkey's Raincoat) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, L.A. Requie… read more

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8. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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9. Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)

By: Jo Nesbø

4.20

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Your mother should have treated him better, he was her patron, after all. Just like the parasite that is humanity should treat this planet better."

-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)

"She was upfront like that, a one man woman, and always had been. Even if Markus was far from being a one woman man. Because it wasn’t about what he thought of her, but about what she thought of herse…"

-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)

"Have you ever thought about how as children we expect unconditional love from our parents, without giving anything in return? But then we grow up and things change completely. When do you think we st…"

-Jo Nesbø, Killing Moon (Harry Hole, #13)

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10. After That Night (Will Trent, #11)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed … read more

Similar categories in Karin Slaughter's After That Night (Will Trent, #11) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. 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

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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12. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. Lessons

By: Ian McEwan

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more

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  • fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."

-Ian McEwan, Lessons

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14. Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” ( Denver Post ), the… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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15. The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)

By: Ken Follett

4.24

Format: 737 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited sequel to A Column of Fire, The Armor of Light, heralds a new dawn for Kingsbridge… read more

Similar categories in Ken Follett's The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • fiction
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16. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

By: John Connolly

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."

-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

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17. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Hogan's Gangland book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

By: John Banville

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's Snow (St. John Strafford, #2) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"It's an actual fucking library, and there's a body in it!"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

"I'm a priest for Christ's sake - how can this be happening to me?"

-John Banville, Snow (St. John Strafford, #2)

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19. The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more

Similar categories in Damon Galgut's The Promise book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."

-Damon Galgut, The Promise

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20. The Wanted (Elvis Cole, #17; Joe Pike, #6)

By: Robert Crais

4.21

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it’s because her troubled te… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's The Wanted (Elvis Cole, #17; Joe Pike, #6) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. 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 R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) by Dinuka McKenzie

22. Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.00

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

'Dinuka McKenzie has talent to burn' Dervla McTiernan A parent's worst nightmare. A case that's … read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Taken (Detective Kate Miles, #2) book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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23. Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.56

Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition

A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you."

-Guillermo del Toro, Falling Down (The Boy in the Iron Box, #1)

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24. Salvar el fuego

By: Guillermo Arriaga

4.30

Format: 664 pages, Paperback

Una historia de violencia en el México contemporáneo donde el amor y la redención aún son posibles.… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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25. Her Deadly Touch (Detective Josie Quinn, #12)

By: Lisa Regan

4.48

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

The woman is kneeling at a gravestone, her hair blowing in the breeze, a bunch of wilting yellow da… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. Holy Ghost (Virgil Flowers, #11)

By: John Sandford

4.16

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Wheatfield, Minnesota - a metropolis of seven hundred souls. The word "moribund" might have been in… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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27. The Jealousy Man and Other Stories

By: Jo Nesbø

3.65

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A veritable crime lover’s delight from a true master of mystery and suspense. Experience the #1 New… read more

Similar categories in Jo Nesbø's The Jealousy Man and Other Stories book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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28. Bechamel Mucho

By: Dimitri Verhulst

3.44

Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition

In dit ultieme zomerboek volgen we Alex, entertainer bij een clubhotel op Mallorca. Wie zijn we als… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Verhulst's Bechamel Mucho book and R.J. Ellory's Kings of America

  • fiction
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29. The Other Wife (Joseph O'Loughlin, #9)

By: Michael Robotham

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for sixty years. William is a celebrated s… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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30. Kings of America

By: R.J. Ellory

3.81

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Fleeing to America following a terrible crime, Irish-born fighter, Danny McCabe, throws in his lot … read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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31. The Man Who Ate The World

By: RJ Ellory

4.44

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Conrad is an enigma. No one knows where he's from, nor if he has an agenda. All they know is… read more

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