28 must-read fiction books like Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman

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Clean Hands

By: Patrick Hoffman

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is…

If you liked the fiction plot in Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4) by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson

1. The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The Man Who Smiled begins with Inspector Kurt Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis … read more

Similar categories in Henning Mankell's The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"[...] Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde."

-Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

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2. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

By: Chris Whipple

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and i… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whipple's The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • american
"At a farewell party, his staff presented him with a gift: a beaten-up car seat—a nod to his Secret Service code name."

-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

"When government works, it is usually because the chief understands the fabric of power, threading the needle where policy and politics converge."

-Chris Whipple, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Cover of The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1) by Joanna Schaffhausen

3. The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

By: Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Schaffhausen's The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt."

-Joanna Schaffhausen, The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

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4. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • new york
  • fiction

5. Conclave

By: Robert Harris

4.00

Format: None pages,

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals… read more

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6. Snow Blind

By: Tyler Jenkins , Ollie Masters

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What happens when you discover your parents aren't the people you thought they were? For high schoo… read more

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7. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • fiction
Cover of A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers

8. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Powers's A Line in the Sand book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

9. Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and … read more

Similar categories in Ausma Zehanat Khan's Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Murder Book

By: Thomas Perry

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Murder Book book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. The Arrest

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.15

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Feral Detective and Motherless Brooklyn comes an utterly origi… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's The Arrest book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • fiction
"Basically every two-bit libertarian, free-range asshole you'll ever meet is just waiting for someone to talk them in default cop."

-Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest

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12. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

Cover of The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1) by John Shen Yen Nee

13. The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

By: John Shen Yen Nee

3.62

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a po… read more

Similar categories in John Shen Yen Nee's The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"The British are oddly vulnerable to charm. I've found that in England it's often the easiest path to one's objective. And hurts none along the way."

-John Shen Yen Nee, The Murder of Mr. Ma (Dee & Lao, #1)

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14. The Moose Paradox

By: Antti Tuomainen

3.76

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun,… read more

Similar categories in Antti Tuomainen's The Moose Paradox book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. The Warehouse

By: Rob Hart

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to … read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's The Warehouse book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"It wasn’t good to mess around with knees. Knees were stupid. Like a ball and two sticks held together with rubber bands. It took way less torque than most people thought to screw up a knee."

-Rob Hart, The Warehouse

"The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club. We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now,…"

-Rob Hart, The Warehouse

"The worst part is, we should have seen it coming. For years we lived with stories about this. Brave New World and 1984 and Fight Club . We celebrated these stories while ignoring the message. And now…"

-Rob Hart, The Warehouse

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16. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1) by Paula Munier

17. A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

By: Paula Munier

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

First in a gripping new mystery series about a retired MP and her bomb-sniffing dog who become embr… read more

Similar categories in Paula Munier's A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Mercy knew she would sleep better now, with a dog on her feet and a gun under her head."

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

"But the most striking thing about him was the Buck hunting knife that stuck of of his chest, right under his left nipple, the fatal bulls-eye of a dark red blood blotch that stained his T-shirt with …"

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

"Every morning they marched off their grief mile after mile in the mountains, where the cool greens of the forest could chase away the dark ghosts of the desert, at least until night fell. but not tod…"

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

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18. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • new york
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. Cherry

By: Nico Walker

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a pas… read more

Similar categories in Nico Walker's Cherry book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • crime
  • fiction
"He said, “You look mentally ill."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Sometimes I wonder if life was wasted on me."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"He said, "You look mentally ill" I said "I am, Let's go"

-Nico Walker, Cherry

"Emily’s gone to take a shower. The room’s half-dark and I’m getting dressed, looking for a shirt with no blood on it, not having any luck."

-Nico Walker, Cherry

Cover of The Harbor (Kørner and Werner, #4) by Katrine Engberg

20. The Harbor (Kørner and Werner, #4)

By: Katrine Engberg

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Butterfly House, called “brazen and original”… read more

Similar categories in Katrine Engberg's The Harbor (Kørner and Werner, #4) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

4.09

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future a… read more

Similar categories in Robin Sloan's Moonbound book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • fiction
Cover of The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11) by Scott Turow

22. The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

By: Scott Turow

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

In this explosive legal thriller from New York Times bestselling author Scott Turow, two formidable… read more

Similar categories in Scott Turow's The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hope, that blind songbird. It flies through the bleakest skies."

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown."

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"He has developed an aesthete's appreciation for the knavishness, the guile, the selfish cleverness of so many of his clients, appreciating human misbehavior for its miserable creativity. In almost ev…"

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

"In the last two decades, Stern and Helen had their share of friends relocate to Florida to escape state income and inheritance taxes up north. As far as Stern is concerned, no amount of money is wort…"

-Scott Turow, The Last Trial (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #11)

Cover of Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6) by Lisa Scottoline

23. Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.99

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

In the new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Mary DiNunzio’s ruthles… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Mary had been raised in a family where blood was as thick as tomato sauce."

-Lisa Scottoline, Feared (Rosato & DiNunzio, #6)

Cover of The Boys by Katie Hafner

24. The Boys

By: Katie Hafner

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A tour-de-force novel about love, the yearning for connection, and the ways in which childhood trau… read more

Similar categories in Katie Hafner's The Boys book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Mike the Cat was already a senior citizen by the time I met him, a reality I had trouble adjusting to. I had never owned a pet, yet from knowing people who did I was aware that we bring animals into …"

-Katie Hafner, The Boys

Cover of The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers by Peter Lovesey

25. The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers

By: Peter Lovesey

3.25

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Eighteen delightful holiday short stories by some of your favorite Soho Crime authors! This captiva… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lovesey's The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The President's Lawyer by Lawrence S. Robbins

26. The President's Lawyer

By: Lawrence S. Robbins

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes legal thriller that is perfect for fans of John Grisham and Scott Turow following a W… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence S. Robbins's The President's Lawyer book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart

27. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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28. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • new york
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15) by Spencer Quinn

29. A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15)

By: Spencer Quinn

4.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Spencer Quinn's A Farewell to Arfs is a return to the adventurous New York Times and USA Today best… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Quinn's A Farewell to Arfs (Chet and Bernie Mystery, #15) book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Clean Hands by Patrick  Hoffman

30. Clean Hands

By: Patrick Hoffman

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle is under a lot of pressure. Her prestigious New York law firm is… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • espionage
  • new york
  • american
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway

31. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice book and Patrick Hoffman's Clean Hands

  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction

22 best-selling mystery books like Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

Transform Your Habits

A Line in the Sand

Kevin Powers

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)

Ausma Zehanat Khan

3.75

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Yrsa Sigurdardottir

4.08

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Arr (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4)

Jørn Lier Horst

4.13

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Jørn Lier Horst

4.10

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Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.98

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