7 Best crime books like Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith

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Twentymile

By: C. Matthew Smith

4.33

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

When wildlife biologist Alex Lowe is found dead inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it look…

"The current needs of survival leave little time for luxuries like sentimentality. It is, he figures, a kind of mercy. No time to dwell on what was lost when there is more yet to protect."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"The current needs of survival leave little time for luxuries like sentimentality. It is, he figures, a kind of mercy. No time to dwell on what was lost when there is more yet to protect."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"Harlan chuckles to himself and shakes his head, as though enjoying a joke only he has heard. ‘Now I guess it’s only fair to warn you,’ he says. ‘This is not going to go the way you want it to."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"Harlan chuckles to himself and shakes his head, as though enjoying a joke only he has heard. ‘Now I guess it’s only fair to warn you,’ he says. ‘This is not going to go the way you want it to."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

If you liked the crime plot in Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Wolf Tickets

By: Ray Banks , Ray Banks

3.94

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Sean Farrell – thief, petrol smuggler and all-round scoundrel – just got shafted by the love of his… read more

Similar categories in Ray Banks's Wolf Tickets book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"These two wouldn't be a problem. They talked to much. The talkers of the world ended up being the loudest screamers."

-Ray Banks, Wolf Tickets

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2. Cold Moon Over Babylon

By: Michael McDowell

3.99

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Terror grows in Babylon, a typical sleepy Southern town with its throbbing sun and fog-shrouded swa… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

3. Winter's Bone

By: Daniel Woodrell

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail o… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

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4. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • thriller
  • fiction
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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5. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. The Levee

By: William Kent Krueger

3.51

Format: 4 pages, Audio CD

An audio original novella from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and This Tender Land, The L… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The Levee book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. 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 C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • 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

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10. Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

By: Jean M. Twenge

4.05

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United Stat… read more

Similar categories in Jean M. Twenge's Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

"John Della Volpe, the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, spoke to hundreds of young people for his 2022 book, Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Sa…"

-Jean M. Twenge, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

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11. Guests

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.04

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

A child who can turn your reality into an unspeakable nightmare. A monster from childhood with wire… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Guests book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • fiction
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12. Down in the Hollow

By: Timothy Hobbs

3.98

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

It all begins with a decapitated head found at the bottom of a dark well. Bertram Stone is a former… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Hobbs's Down in the Hollow book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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13. The Wild One (Peter Ash, #5)

By: Nick Petrie

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

War veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer and his criminal family through the most forbidding and sta… read more

Similar categories in Nick Petrie's The Wild One (Peter Ash, #5) book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog

By: Rick McIntyre

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

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15. Below

By: Laurel Hightower

3.70

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO HELP A STRANGER? While driving through the mountains of West Virginia du… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's Below book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • thriller
  • fiction
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16. Hard Mountain Clay

By: C.W. Blackwell

4.51

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

Siblings Ben and Maisy find they have no one to turn to after witnessing a gruesome hit-and-run tha… read more

Similar categories in C.W. Blackwell's Hard Mountain Clay book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

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17. Hurricane Season

By: Mark Powell

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Shy Walsh might be the greatest female fighter of her time, but a loss in a Vegas title fight, and … read more

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18. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

Similar categories in Paula Hawkins's The Blue Hour book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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19. A Bad and Dangerous Man

By: Brett Lovell

4.58

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

In 1911, a young man reignites a bitter political feud when he kisses the wrong girl at a corn shuc… read more

Similar categories in Brett Lovell's A Bad and Dangerous Man book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

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20. Twentymile

By: C. Matthew Smith

4.33

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

When wildlife biologist Alex Lowe is found dead inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it look… read more

Similar categories in C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile book and C. Matthew Smith's Twentymile

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The current needs of survival leave little time for luxuries like sentimentality. It is, he figures, a kind of mercy. No time to dwell on what was lost when there is more yet to protect."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"Harlan chuckles to himself and shakes his head, as though enjoying a joke only he has heard. ‘Now I guess it’s only fair to warn you,’ he says. ‘This is not going to go the way you want it to."

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"From the scene arrayed before her now, Tsula knows this new body means something entirely different. The tight bunchings of onlookers in hushed conversation. The watery eyes and mouths covered by fin…"

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

"Junior finds what he’s seeking in a swale between two ridges. He glasses down at the elk from a hillside aflame with autumn color. The animal strides through the clearing about five hundred yards due…"

-C. Matthew Smith, Twentymile

14 Top fiction books like Twentymile by C. Matthew Smith

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Wolf Tickets

Ray Banks , Ray Banks

3.94

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Cold Moon Over Babylon

Michael McDowell

3.99

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Boys in the Valley

Philip Fracassi

4.18

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The Last Ranger

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21 Top audiobook books like Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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