8 Best crime books like Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake

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Under the Skin

By: James Carlos Blake

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers…

If you liked the crime plot in Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

By: Lee Child

4.05

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose, patch… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive"

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

"As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration."

-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)

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2. The Land Breakers

By: John Ehle

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

A motley band of characters makes its way into a high mountain valley in northwestern North Carolin… read more

Similar categories in John Ehle's The Land Breakers book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Wraiths of the Broken Land

By: S. Craig Zahler

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. We Don't Live Here Anymore

By: Andre Dubus , Andre Dubus III , Larry Gross

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
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5. Fallen Land

By: Taylor Brown

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Fallen Landis Taylor Brown's debut novel set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Lonesome Dove

By: Larry McMurtry

4.00

Format: 117 pages,

A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-- winning … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Ham on Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely … read more

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8. Hardscrabble Road

By: George Weinstein

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

The entire MacLeod clan is haunted by secrets - and young Roger "Bud" MacLeod doesn't realize he ca… read more

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9. Plum Island (John Corey, #1)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wry wit of The Gold Coast...this is vint… read more

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10. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

11. The Thicket

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

ALA Reading List Award for History, Short List Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texa… read more

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12. The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.36

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). This novel of the drug trade… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to."

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"Adán fell asleep to these stories and slept like the dead until the sun struck him in the eyes and the whole long, wonderful summer day started again with the smell of fresh tortillas, manchaca, chor…"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"All this and the wine's coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan’s about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss …"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

"All this and the wines coming in and out, and by the time the waiters set the espressos down Callan’s about half in the bag. He watches Calabrese take a long sip from an espresso cup. Then the boss s…"

-Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

13. The Invention of Wings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

3.83

Format: 35 pages,

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece … read more

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14. Gods of Howl Mountain

By: Taylor Brown

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Gods of Howl Mountain,award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiske… read more

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15. Lone Star Noir

By: Bobby Byrd , None , None

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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16. True History of the Kelly Gang

By: Peter Carey

3.87

Format: 334 pages,

"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more

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17. Farmer

By: Jim Harrison

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Joseph is 43, a farmer-teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between… read more

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18. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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20. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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22. The Night Watchman

By: Louise Erdrich

4.10

Format: 464 pages, ebook

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But every so often the government remembered about Indians and when they did they always tried to solve Indians, thought Thomas. They solve us by getting rid of us. And do they tell us when they plan…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

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23. Eventide: A Novel of the Southern Appalachians

By: Terri Fabel

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Eventide is a story about the deep and abiding love two sister have for each other as they struggle… read more

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24. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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25. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Forgiving Kind

By: Donna Everhart

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bitte… read more

Similar categories in Donna Everhart's The Forgiving Kind book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Return to Hardscrabble Road

By: George Weinstein

4.17

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

“Atmospheric, intense, and beautiful.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of … read more

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Cover of Under the Skin by James Carlos Blake

30. Under the Skin

By: James Carlos Blake

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers… read more

Similar categories in James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

31. A Violent Gospel

By: Mark Westmoreland

4.17

Format: None pages, None

If there’s a bad idea in Tugalo County, chances are that Mack and Marshall Dooley are behind it. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Westmoreland's A Violent Gospel book and James Carlos Blake's Under the Skin

  • mystery
  • crime

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