15 Best crime books like Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore

Cover of Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore

Santa Fe Noir

By: Ariel Gore

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Santa Fe joins Phoenix as a riveting Southwest US installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashi…

If you liked the crime plot in Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Toronto Noir by Peter Robinson, Michael Redhill, George Elliott Clarke, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Sean   Dixon, Andrew Pyper, Heather Birrell, Kim Moritsugu, Pasha Malla, Ibi Kaslik, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughan, None, None, None, None

1. Toronto Noir

By: Peter Robinson , Michael Redhill , George Elliott Clarke , Gail Bowen , Emily Schultz , Sean Dixon , Andrew Pyper , Heather Birrell , Kim Moritsugu , Pasha Malla , Ibi Kaslik , Janine Armin , Nathaniel G. Moore , R.M. Vaughan , None , None , None , None

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities … read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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2. Euphoria

By: Lily King

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three yo… read more

Similar categories in Lily King's Euphoria book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • fiction
Cover of New Orleans Noir by Julie Smith

3. New Orleans Noir

By: Julie Smith

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

New Orleans has always had a heart of noir. Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Ace Atkins, Patty … read more

Similar categories in Julie Smith's New Orleans Noir book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of New Jersey Noir by Joyce Carol Oates, Jeffrey Ford, Bill Pronzini, Edmund White, Robert Pinsky, Jonathan Safran Foer, Sheila Kohler, Barry N. Malzberg, C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Richard Burgin, S.J. Rozan, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, Robert Arellano, S.A. Solomon, None, None

4. New Jersey Noir

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Jeffrey Ford , Bill Pronzini , Edmund White , Robert Pinsky , Jonathan Safran Foer , Sheila Kohler , Barry N. Malzberg , C.K. Williams , Paul Muldoon , Bradford Morrow , Jonathan Santlofer , Richard Burgin , S.J. Rozan , Gerald Stern , Lou Manfredo , Robert Arellano , S.A. Solomon , None , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative de… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's New Jersey Noir book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

5. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

By: Tony Hillerman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more

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6. Belfast Noir

By: Ian McDonald , Lee Child , Ruth Dudley Edwards , Gerard Brennan , Stuart Neville , Brian McGilloway , Adrian McKinty , Claire McGowan , Sam Millar , Eoin McNamee , Steve Cavanagh , Arlene Hunt , Glenn Patterson , Alex Barclay , None , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The works are short, allowing readers to savor each snippet or devour the entire compelling book i… read more

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7. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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8. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's The End of the Affair book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • fiction
"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

9. New Haven Noir

By: Roxana Robinson , Alice Mattison , Jessica Speart , Stephen L. Carter , John Crowley , Chris Knopf , Karen E. Olson , Michael Cunningham , Amy Bloom , David Rich , Jonathan Stone , Chandra Prasad , Sarah Pemberton Strong , None

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Brand-new stories by:Michael Cunningham, Roxana Robinson, Stephen L. Carter, John Crowley, Amy Bloo… read more

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10. Sunburn

By: Laura Lippman

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling author Laura Lippman returns with a superb novel of psychological suspens… read more

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11. The Sense of an Ending

By: Julian Barnes

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more

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12. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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13. Los Angeles Noir

By: Denise Hamilton

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Brand-new stories by: Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, R… read more

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14. Hong Kong Noir

By: Jason Y. Ng

3.73

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting… read more

Similar categories in Jason Y. Ng's Hong Kong Noir book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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15. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

Similar categories in Eva Baltasar's Boulder book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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16. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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17. 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 Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Slough House (Slough House, #7) by Mick Herron

18. 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 Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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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19. The Lager Queen of Minnesota

By: J. Ryan Stradal

4.01

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.… read more

Similar categories in J. Ryan Stradal's The Lager Queen of Minnesota book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • fiction
"Young man"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Her mother told her once that the nicest thing you can do for someone is be happy to see them,"

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Money allows people to survive their mistakes, she knew from having observed that phenomenon from a distance, and people like her were fucked."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"She held the bottle to her lips and tilted, slightly. It tasted the like how she'd imagine dirt would taste if someone burned it on the grill. Nope she said, and handed the bottle back."

-J. Ryan Stradal, The Lager Queen of Minnesota

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20. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Bad Actors (Slough House, #8) book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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21. These Violent Delights

By: Micah Nemerever

3.97

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately dr… read more

Similar categories in Micah Nemerever's These Violent Delights book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • fiction
"There’s this idea in psychoanalysis that I’ve always liked."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,"

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"In the end, there wasn’t any difference between trusting someone and underestimating them."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."

-Micah Nemerever, These Violent Delights

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22. A Quiet Retreat

By: Kiersten Modglin

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

You are cordially invited to visit the new Black Hills Manor Writing Retreat. That’s how it all … read more

Similar categories in Kiersten Modglin's A Quiet Retreat book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • fiction
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23. Lady in the Lake

By: Laura Lippman

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that comb… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Again, I have to ask: are you really missing if nobody misses you?"

-Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

Cover of Hotel California: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories (Music and Murder Mystery, #1) by Don Bruns

24. Hotel California: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories (Music and Murder Mystery, #1)

By: Don Bruns

3.52

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel C… read more

Similar categories in Don Bruns's Hotel California: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories (Music and Murder Mystery, #1) book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore

25. Santa Fe Noir

By: Ariel Gore

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Santa Fe joins Phoenix as a riveting Southwest US installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashi… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) by Mick Herron

26. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

Cover of Joe Country (Slough House, #6) by Mick Herron

27. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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)

Cover of Spook Street (Slough House, #4) by Mick Herron

28. 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 Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"...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)

Cover of Real Tigers (Slough House, #3) by Mick Herron

29. 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

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"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)

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30. Berlin Noir

By: Thomas Wörtche

3.47

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Now, Berlin’s noir tradition—fueled by history, geography, and various literary traditions—adds up … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Wörtche's Berlin Noir book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

31. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Ushers: A Short Story book and Ariel Gore's Santa Fe Noir

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction

23 must-read fiction books like Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore

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Toronto Noir

Peter Robinson , Michael Redhill , George Elliott Clarke , Gail Bowen , Emily Schultz , Sean Dixon , Andrew Pyper , Heather Birrell , Kim Moritsugu , Pasha Malla , Ibi Kaslik , Janine Armin , Nathaniel G. Moore , R.M. Vaughan , None , None , None , None

2.78

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Euphoria

Lily King

4.04

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New Orleans Noir

Julie Smith

3.02

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New Jersey Noir

Joyce Carol Oates , Jeffrey Ford , Bill Pronzini , Edmund White , Robert Pinsky , Jonathan Safran Foer , Sheila Kohler , Barry N. Malzberg , C.K. Williams , Paul Muldoon , Bradford Morrow , Jonathan Santlofer , Richard Burgin , S.J. Rozan , Gerald Stern , Lou Manfredo , Robert Arellano , S.A. Solomon , None , None

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Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

John Le Carré

3.94

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Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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