10 best-selling crime books like Wake Up To Murder (LIN) by Day Keene

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Wake Up To Murder (LIN)

By: Day Keene

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Jim Charters claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove sh…

If you liked the crime plot in Wake Up To Murder (LIN) by Day Keene , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. You Will Know Me

By: Megan Abbott

3.43

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnasti… read more

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  • crime
"...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who…"

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

Cover of A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) by Dennis Lehane

2. A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.94

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South … read more

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  • crime
  • noir
"Twelve dead?"

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum"

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'."

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone."

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

Cover of The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6) by Raymond Chandler

3. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.19

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
"To say goodbye is to die a little."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm a native son, born in Santa Rosa."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I'm killing time and it's dying hard."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

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4. Man on the Run

By: Charles Williams

3.66

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pursued by the police, a desperate man fights to stay free--and stay aliveIt's raining hard when th… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
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5. The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

By: Joe Abercrombie

4.21

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he… read more

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"Fucking pinks!"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"I’ve fought in three campaigns,"

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"Body found floating by the docks..."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

"The best steel doesn't always shine the brightest."

-Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)

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6. Nightfall

By: Bill Pronzini , David Goodis

3.87

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

“An almost perfect book, spare, balanced, and inexplicably moving.”—Geoffrey O’Brien Jim Vanning… read more

Similar categories in Bill Pronzini's Nightfall book and Day Keene's Wake Up To Murder (LIN)

  • crime
  • noir
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7. Roughneck

By: Jim Thompson

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawke… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
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8. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

9. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

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  • crime
  • noir
Cover of Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

10. Childhood’s End

By: Arthur C. Clarke

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more

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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."

-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

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11. The Postman Always Rings Twice

By: James M. Cain

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's Th… read more

Similar categories in James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice book and Day Keene's Wake Up To Murder (LIN)

  • crime
  • noir

12. The Fever

By: Megan Abbott

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The panic unleashed by a mysterious contagion threatens the bonds of family and community in a seem… read more

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13. Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Novel

By: Lawrence Block , Charles Willeford

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Hoke Moseley has had enough. Tired of struggling against alimony payments, two teenage daughters, a… read more

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14. New Hope for the Dead

By: James Lee Burke , Charles Willeford

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Miami homicide detective Hoke Moseley is called to a posh Miami neighborhood to investigate a letha… read more

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15. Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in n… read more

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16. 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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17. The Glass Key

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more

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18. The Dain Curse

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside jo… read more

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19. Dead Calm (John Ingram #2)

By: Charles Williams

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

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20. The Hot Spot

By: Charles Williams

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more

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21. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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22. One is a Lonely Number / Black Wings Has My Angel

By: Elliott Chaze , Bruce Elliott

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Two pitch-black noirs from the early 1950's, the first one a story of an escaped con who gets tragi… read more

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23. The Fabulous Clipjoint

By: Fredric Brown

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

1948 Edgar Award Winner Ed Hunter is eighteen, and he isn't happy. He doesn't want to end up like h… read more

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24. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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25. Picture Me Gone

By: James L. Thane

4.16

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

Five years ago, Molly’s idyllic life was irreparably shattered when her seventeen-year-old daughter… read more

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26. Wake Up To Murder (LIN)

By: Day Keene

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Jim Charters claimed he could get Pearl Mantinover out of the death house because he could prove sh… read more

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  • crime
  • noir

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3.94

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3.66

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2.67

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