24 Top mystery books like Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2) by Howard Michael Gould

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Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

By: Howard Michael Gould

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eccentric private eye Charlie Waldo is back in another wildly fun and fast-paced thriller lampoonin…

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1. The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

By: Michael Connelly

4.13

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So w… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27) book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"I have waited twenty years for this phone call . . . and all this time I thought it would go away. I knew I would always be sad for my sister. But I thought the other would go away."

-Michael Connelly, The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

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2. Sea Change (Jesse Stone, #5)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Paradise police chief Jesse Stone faces the case of his career in this exciting novel from the best… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Blue on Black (Harry Bosch, #14.3; Harry Bosch Universe, #21.5) by Michael    Connelly

3. Blue on Black (Harry Bosch, #14.3; Harry Bosch Universe, #21.5)

By: Michael Connelly

3.64

Format: 25 pages, Audiobook

A short story featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch and FBI agent Rachel Walling. The story was firs… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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4. Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)

By: Harlan Coben

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell." Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

-Harlan Coben, Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)

"He truly believed that no one could love him, and no matter who you are, that hurts. It made you insecure. It made you want to hide and build fences"

-Harlan Coben, Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)

"Diamonte shook his head again. He reached down and put his hand on his right boot. Myron had seen him do this before. He liked to sort of pet the boot. Myron had no idea why. Maybe he found the feel …"

-Harlan Coben, Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)

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5. A Murder of Quality

By: John Le Carré

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction

7. Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #15; Mickey Haller, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)

By: Michael Connelly

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of hi… read more

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8. The Nice Guys: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Charles Ardai

3.44

Format: 406 pages, ebook

Holland March is a private eye with a defective nose and a broken arm. Jackson Healy is the tough g… read more

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9. Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

By: Michael Connelly

3.77

Format: None pages,

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Conne… read more

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10. Whiplash River: A Novel

By: Lou Berney

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Having left his life of crime behind, former getaway driver Charles "Shake" Bouchon has finally rea… read more

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11. The Murder Book (Alex Delaware, #16)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In seventeen consecutive bestselling novels, Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the ma… read more

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12. 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 Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"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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13. Cold Snap (Arliss Cutter, #4)

By: Marc Cameron

4.44

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Stranded with three violent prisoners in the deadly Alaskan wilderness, Cutter will become the hunt… read more

Similar categories in Marc Cameron's Cold Snap (Arliss Cutter, #4) book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. Good Dog, Bad Cop (The K Team #4)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the K Team, playing "good dog", "bad cop" is all fun and games... until there's a body on the s… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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15. The Law of Innocence (The Lincoln Lawyer, #6; Harry Bosch Universe #35)

By: Michael Connelly

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

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

"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-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. Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1)

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk abou… read more

Similar categories in Reed Farrel Coleman's Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1) book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mann's Heat 2 book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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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 Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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. Fields of Fire (A Matthew Redd Thriller, #1)

By: Ryan Steck

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

You know Ryan Steck as the Real Book Spy. Now, get to know him as the author of Fields of Fire, his… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Steck's Fields of Fire (A Matthew Redd Thriller, #1) book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Redemption

By: Mike Lawson

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Convicted of insider trading, Jamison Maddox reluctantly accepts a mysterious job that soon takes a… read more

Similar categories in Mike Lawson's Redemption book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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23. Moorewood Family Rules

By: HelenKay Dimon

3.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Knives Out  and  Ocean’s 8  meets  The Nest  in this hilariously twisty novel by award-winning auth… read more

Similar categories in HelenKay Dimon's Moorewood Family Rules book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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24. Swamp Story

By: Dave Barry

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry retu… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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25. Hollywood Hustle

By: Jon Lindstrom

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From 4-time Emmy-nominated actor Jon Lindstrom of General Hospital, Bosch, and True Detective fame,… read more

Similar categories in Jon Lindstrom's Hollywood Hustle book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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26. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • fiction
Cover of Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2) by Howard Michael Gould

27. Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

By: Howard Michael Gould

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eccentric private eye Charlie Waldo is back in another wildly fun and fast-paced thriller lampoonin… read more

Similar categories in Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2) book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Pike Island by Tony Wirt

28. Pike Island

By: Tony Wirt

3.81

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Just Stay Away comes a haunting thriller about a rising politician w… read more

Similar categories in Tony Wirt's Pike Island book and Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • thriller
  • fiction
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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

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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 Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

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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 Howard Michael Gould's Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

26 must-read fiction books like Below the Line (Charlie Waldo #2) by Howard Michael Gould

Transform Your Habits

The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

Michael Connelly

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Sea Change (Jesse Stone, #5)

Robert B. Parker

3.98

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Blue on Black (Harry Bosch, #14.3; Harry Bosch Universe, #21.5)

Michael Connelly

3.64

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Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)

Harlan Coben

4.04

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20 Top fiction books like Pike Island by Tony Wirt

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A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1)

Steven Konkoly

4.11

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Broken Bayou

Jennifer Moorhead

4.18

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Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)

Debra Webb

4.07

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Yasmin Angoe

3.86

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