9 Best crime books like Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops) by Janwillem van de Wetering

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Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops)

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a random break-in, three heroin addicts discover the corpse of banker Martin Ijsbreker. They…

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1. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By: David Foster Wallace

4.15

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television… read more

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"What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

"American human beings are a slippery and protean bunch in real life, hard as hell to get any kind of universal handle on."

-David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

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2. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

By: David Foster Wallace

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more

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3. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)

By: David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.63

Format: None pages,

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for sa… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

4. The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

By: Jussi Adler-Olsen , K.E. Semmel

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Keeper of Lost Causes, Jussi Adler-Olsen introduced Detective Carl Morck, a deeply flawed, b… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

5. High Fidelity

By: Nick Hornby

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a l… read more

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6. The Redeemer (Harry Hole, #6)

By: Jo Nesbø

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for  A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The… read more

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7. The Disappeared (Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht, #3)

By: Kristina Ohlsson

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identif… read more

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8. Syndafloder (Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht, #6)

By: Kristina Ohlsson

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

En man hittas skjuten i brostet, sittande i en fatolj framfor brasan. Markligt nog bar han sin dott… read more

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9. The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)

By: Stieg Larsson , David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

She is the girl with the dragon tattoo--a genius hacker and uncompromising misfit. He is a crusadin… read more

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10. Davidsstjärnor (Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht #5)

By: Kristina Ohlsson

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Enligt en gammal israelisk legend skulle den sa kallade Papperspojken fa liv om natten. Han kom med… read more

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11. Phantom (Harry Hole, #9)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Hardcover

Following from Jo Nesbo's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowmanand The Leopard, now c… read more

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12. My Name Is Asher Lev

By: Chaim Potok

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono … read more

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13. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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14. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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  • fiction
"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

15. Cockroaches (Harry Hole, #2)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole … read more

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16. Kort Amerikaans

By: Jan Wolkers

3.75

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

'"Hartstikke naakt, alleen zo'n klein dingetje hier," zei Peter en klopte genotzuchtig op zijn krui… read more

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17. The Offing

By: Benjamin Myers

4.25

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more

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  • fiction
"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"

-Benjamin Myers, The Offing

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18. The Eighth Life

By: Nino Haratischwili

4.52

Format: 944 pages, Hardcover

Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearin… read more

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  • fiction
"And if you don’t know who you are, then look at all the possible versions of you, find the most impossible one, and become that."

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"and you asked me where people keep their childhood, and I remember telling you that we keep it hidden, between our ribs, in little liver spots and moles, in the roots of our hair, above our heart, in…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

"Love was slow, creeping poison, loge was treacherous and insincere, love was a veil thrown over the misery of the world, love was sticky and indigestible, it was a mirror in which one could be what o…"

-Nino Haratischwili, The Eighth Life

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19. Arr (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

4.13

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Alexander Blix er en slagen mann. Etter å ha blitt dømt for å ha hevnet datterens død, er han plass… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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20. Slagside (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #3)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

4.10

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Etterforsker Sofia Kovic har funnet en sammenheng mellom flere drap og dødsfall i Oslo det siste år… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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21. The Bookshop

By: Penelope Fitzgerald

3.28

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba"

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."

-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

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22. Abbandonare un gatto

By: Haruki Murakami

3.57

Format: 76 pages, Hardcover

Nei suoi romanzi e racconti Murakami ha creato un’infinità di mondi, e ne ha svelato ogni segreto a… read more

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23. Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

3.94

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life … read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"It began as a mistake."

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"من يراهن كثيراً يخسر حصانه ص 154"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"المحترف يذهب إلى السباقات بمفرده ص 81"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

"لا تحب المرأة أن تكون في المرتبة الثانية ص 161"

-Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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24. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

By: Louise Penny

4.33

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

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25. Sneeuwwit (Holger Munch & Mia Krüger, #0)

By: Samuel Bjørk

3.84

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Holger Munch en Mia Krüger, de inspecteurs uit Samuel Bjørks wereldberoemde thrillerreeks, zijn ter… read more

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  • mystery
  • detective
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

By: Geoff Dyer

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more

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27. Till minne av en mördare (Skymningsland #1)

By: Pascal Engman

3.74

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

”True detective” möter ”Jakten på en mördare” i ett kokhett Sverige, VM-sommaren 1994. I skuggan av… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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28. The Accomplice (Eddie Flynn, #7)

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.48

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

THE MOST HATED WOMAN IN AMERICA The Sandman killings have been solved. Daniel Miller murdered fo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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29. Rotterdam. Een ode aan inefficiëntie

By: Arjen van Veelen

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Arjen van Veelen keert na twintig jaar terug naar zijn geboortestad Rotterdam. Hij is op slag verli… read more

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30. Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops)

By: Janwillem van de Wetering

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a random break-in, three heroin addicts discover the corpse of banker Martin Ijsbreker. They… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • mystery
  • crime
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31. Een toevalstreffer (Grijprstra en De Gier )

By: Jan Willem van deWetering

3.00

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Een reserveagent van de hoofdstedelijke politie vraagt de commissaris de dood van zijn oom te onder… read more

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14 Top fiction books like Hard Rain (Amsterdam Cops) by Janwillem van de Wetering

Transform Your Habits

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (Millennium, #5)

David Lagercrantz , George Goulding

3.63

The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

Jussi Adler-Olsen , K.E. Semmel

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

3.74

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The Offing

Benjamin Myers

4.25

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De Camino

Anya Niewierra

4.00

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Morele ambitie

Rutger Bregman

3.71

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Eigen welzijn eerst

Roxane van Iperen

3.89

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We hebben het over je gehad

Stéphanie Hoogenberk

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