17 Top mystery books like The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1) by Lawrence Block

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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evan Michael Tanner hasn't slept in more than a decade--not since a small piece of battlefield shra…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1) by Lawrence Block , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6) by Robert Crais

1. Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)

By: Robert Crais

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s brutal murder. But he’s not goi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6) book and Lawrence Block's The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)

  • adventure
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16) by James Lee Burke

2. The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)

By: James Lee Burke

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that.… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3) by James Lee Burke

3. Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

By: James Lee Burke

4.16

Format: 366 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book #3 from the series: Dave Robicheaux BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Hau… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton."

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon beco…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

"The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

Cover of The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) by Robert B. Parker

4. The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.92

Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hir… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"A cold McDonald's hamburger is halfway between a jelly doughnut and a hockey puck, but the nine-dollar bourbon helped."

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

"It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy go…"

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

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5. Fatal

By: John Lescroart

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart, a riveting standalone novel about the unexpe… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Sudden Mischief (Spenser, #25) by Robert B. Parker

6. Sudden Mischief (Spenser, #25)

By: Robert B. Parker

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Susan Silverman's ex doesn't call himself "Silverman" anymore--he's changed his name to "Sterling."… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield, #8) by Thomas Perry

7. A String of Beads (Jane Whitefield, #8)

By: Thomas Perry

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After two decades protecting innocent victims on the run, and a year after getting shot on a job th… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #7) by Robert Crais

8. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Family Honor (Sunny Randall, #1) by Robert B. Parker

9. Family Honor (Sunny Randall, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A blazingly original novel from the undisputed dean of American crime fiction, featuring a sharp, t… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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10. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evan Michael Tanner hasn't slept in more than a decade--not since a small piece of battlefield shra… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1) book and Lawrence Block's The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)

  • espionage
  • adventure
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

11. The Two Minute Rule

By: Robert Crais

0.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his latest New York Times bestseller, the author of The Last Detective and L.A. Requiem unleashe… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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12. I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down: Collected Stories

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

William Gay established himself as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern L… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Provinces of Night

By: William Gay

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux, #2) by James Lee Burke

14. Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux, #2)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

James Lee Burke's second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

15. A Long Walk Up the Water Slide (Neal Carey #4)

By: Don Winslow

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest… read more

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16. Silent Prey (Lucas Davenport, #4)

By: John Sandford

3.22

Format: 402 pages,

He was right. His guards slain, the brilliant, insane pathologist of Eyes of Preyflees to New York,… read more

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17. Fear of the Dark (Fearless Jones, #3)

By: Walter Mosley

4.30

Format: 543 pages,

When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door shut, b… read more

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18. My Gun Is Quick

By: Mickey Spillane

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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19. The Grifters

By: Jim Thompson

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworki… read more

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20. Way Down on the High Lonely (Neal Carey, #3)

By: Don Winslow

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From domestic war to ballroom brawls. grad student-turned-P.I..I. Neal Carey's got more than studyi… read more

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21. Wilful Behaviour (Commissario Brunetti, #11)

By: Donna Leon

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife's students with a strange and vague… read more

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22. The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee #12)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

"McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER A lovely young girl step… read more

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23. Fiddlers (87th Precinct, #55)

By: Ed McBain , Otto Penzler

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who do… read more

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24. A Hell of a Woman

By: Jim Thompson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife… read more

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25. Cadillac Jukebox (Dave Robicheaux, #9)

By: James Lee Burke

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

No one was surprised when Aaron Crown was arrested for the decades-old murder of the most famous bl… read more

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26. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

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Cover of Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50) by Mike Lupica

27. Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser #50)

By: Mike Lupica

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8) by Nick Petrie

28. The Price You Pay (Peter Ash, #8)

By: Nick Petrie

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

War veteran Peter Ash must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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29. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

Cover of Catchpenny by Charlie Huston

30. Catchpenny

By: Charlie Huston

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual wor… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Money to Burn (Lou Fleener Mystery, #7) by Duane Lindsay

31. Money to Burn (Lou Fleener Mystery, #7)

By: Duane Lindsay

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

WHO YOU GONNA CALL WHEN YOUR HEIST GOES WRONG? It should have been the perfect heist. The crook… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

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