14 Best crime books like Flood (Burke, #1) by Andrew Vachss

Cover of Flood (Burke, #1) by Andrew Vachss

Flood (Burke, #1)

By: Andrew Vachss

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Trade Paperback

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-pric…

If you liked the crime plot in Flood (Burke, #1) by Andrew Vachss , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) by John Connolly

1. Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

By: John Connolly

3.96

Format: 467 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times be… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The evolutionary curve obviously sloped pretty gently where Six came from."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

"She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light..."

-John Connolly, Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)

Cover of The Face-Changers (Jane Whitefield, #4) by Thomas Perry

2. The Face-Changers (Jane Whitefield, #4)

By: Thomas Perry

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jane Whitefield, legendary half-Indian shadow guide who spirits hunted people away from certain dea… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's The Face-Changers (Jane Whitefield, #4) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lifeless (Tom Thorne, #5) by Mark Billingham

3. Lifeless (Tom Thorne, #5)

By: Mark Billingham

4.05

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

It appears that someone is targeting London's homeless community so DI Tom Thorne goes undercover a… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's Lifeless (Tom Thorne, #5) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber

4. Communion: A True Story

By: Whitley Strieber

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

On December 26, 1985, at a secluded cabin in upstate New York, Whitley Strieber went skiing with hi… read more

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"Humanity could be clutching the frail barque of an outmoded world view while the wind of the mind is swaying the stars into very real craft, and out of them is coming… a faint call for help from a la…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

"Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep levels, playing in the band of dream, weaving imagination & reali…"

-Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story

Cover of The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow

5. The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

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Similar categories in Don Winslow's The Winter of Frankie Machine book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

6. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley, #14) by Elizabeth  George

7. What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley, #14)

By: Elizabeth George

4.34

Format: 345 pages,

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Similar categories in Elizabeth George's What Came Before He Shot Her (Inspector Lynley, #14) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr

8. Hitler's Peace

By: Philip Kerr

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Autumn 1943. Since Stalingrad, Hitler has known that Germany cannot win the war. The upcoming Allie… read more

Similar categories in Philip Kerr's Hitler's Peace book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Flood (Burke, #1) by Andrew Vachss

9. Flood (Burke, #1)

By: Andrew Vachss

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Trade Paperback

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-pric… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1) by Ken Bruen

10. The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1)

By: Ken Bruen

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Siochana--the Guards, Ireland's police … read more

Similar categories in Ken Bruen's The Guards (Jack Taylor, #1) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Killing Of The Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2) by Ken Bruen

11. The Killing Of The Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2)

By: Ken Bruen

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guardshis alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dr… read more

Similar categories in Ken Bruen's The Killing Of The Tinkers (Jack Taylor, #2) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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12. American Elsewhere

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on… read more

Similar categories in Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

13. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7) by Joe R. Lansdale

14. Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

15. Acid Row

By: Minette Walters

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Acid Row is a crime-infested housing project that exists by its own laws. When news comes that a ch… read more

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16. The Redeemers (Quinn Colson, #5)

By: Ace Atkins

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The electrifying new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins's acclaimed series about… read more

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17. In the Presence of the Enemy (Inspector Lynley, #8)

By: Elizabeth George

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and… read more

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18. The Magdalen Martyrs (Jack Taylor, #3)

By: Ken Bruen

3.80

Format: 654 pages,

Jack Taylor is walking the delicate edge of a sobriety he doesn't trust when his phone rings. He's … read more

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19. Honky Tonk Samurai (Hap and Leonard, #11)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Only Hap and Leonard would catch a cold case with hot cars, hot women, and ugly skinheads. The stor… read more

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20. In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (Inspector Lynley, #10)

By: Elizabeth George

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A theatrical producer shoots himself on the night of his greatest triumph. A young woman camping on… read more

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21. Savage Season (Hap and Leonard, #1)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde h… read more

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22. The Deep Blue Good-By (Travis McGee, #1)

By: John D. MacDonald , Carl Hiaasen

3.98

Format: 240 pages,

TRAVIS McGEE He's a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knig… read more

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23. The Broken Places (Quinn Colson, #3)

By: Ace Atkins

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from … read more

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24. The Forsaken (Quinn Colson, #4)

By: Ace Atkins

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary new novel in New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins' acclaimed series about… read more

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25. The Good German

By: Joseph Kanon

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

With World War II finally ending, Jake Geismar, former Berlin correspondent for CBS, has wangled on… read more

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26. With No One as Witness (Inspector Lynley, #13)

By: Elizabeth George

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The police never suspected a serial killer was at large until they found the third murdered boy, th… read more

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27. Deception on His Mind (Inspector Lynley, #9)

By: Elizabeth George

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but … read more

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28. Devil Red (Hap and Leonard, #8)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, th… read more

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Cover of Poison (Dismas Hardy, #17) by John Lescroart

29. Poison (Dismas Hardy, #17)

By: John Lescroart

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the “master of the legal thriller” (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart comes a dramatic family … read more

Similar categories in John Lescroart's Poison (Dismas Hardy, #17) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

30. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

31. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Andrew Vachss's Flood (Burke, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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