6 Best crime books like The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Škvorecký

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The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

By: Josef Škvorecký

3.61

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Toronto, after a spectacular escape from …

If you liked the crime plot in The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Škvorecký , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Katyně by Pavel Kohout, Karel Havlicek

1. Katyně

By: Pavel Kohout , Karel Havlicek

3.79

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Satirický, až absurdní román o krásné adeptce katovského řemesla je osobitým příspěvkem k úvahám o … read more

Similar categories in Pavel Kohout's Katyně book and Josef Škvorecký's The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

  • humor
  • fiction
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2. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

By: Chester Himes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more

Similar categories in Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) book and Josef Škvorecký's The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

  • crime
  • fiction

3. I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone

By: Maurizio de Giovanni

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Non hanno neanche il tempo di fare conoscenza, i nuovi investigatori del commissariato di Pizzofalc… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

4. The Snowman (Harry Hole, #7)

By: Jo Nesbø , Don Bartlett

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back… read more

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5. 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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6. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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7. 1Q84 #1-2 (1Q84, #1-2)

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.29

Format: 176 pages,

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmati… read more

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8. The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)

By: Jo Nesbø

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and beh… read more

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9. The Ferryman

By: Justin Cronin

3.93

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a… read more

Similar categories in Justin Cronin's The Ferryman book and Josef Škvorecký's The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

  • fiction
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10. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

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11. Bláznova smrt

By: Václav Erben

3.80

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

None read more

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12. Poklad byzantského kupce

By: Václav Erben

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

None read more

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13. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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14. Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

By: Mick Herron

4.00

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agent… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
"Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"​This is how River Cartwright slipped off the fast track and joined the slow horses."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"Why am I telling you this?' 'So you'll have an excuse to kill me?' 'That's probably it."

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

"God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?"

-Mick Herron, Slow Horses (Slough House, #1)

Cover of The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Škvorecký

15. The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka

By: Josef Škvorecký

3.61

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Boruvka is working as a parking-lot attendant in downtown Toronto, after a spectacular escape from … read more

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  • humor
  • crime
  • fiction

8 Top fiction books like The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Škvorecký

Transform Your Habits

Katyně

Pavel Kohout , Karel Havlicek

3.79

Transform Your Habits

A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

Chester Himes

4.06

I Bastardi di Pizzofalcone

Maurizio de Giovanni

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin

3.93

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11 Top fiction books like A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) by Chester Himes

Transform Your Habits

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Raymond Chandler

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

3.93

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

James Ellroy

4.26

An Easy Thing (Héctor Belascoarán Shayne, #2)

Paco Ignacio Taibo II , William I. Neuman

3.78

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