22 Top mystery books like The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer

Cover of The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer

The Middleman

By: Olen Steinhauer

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing..." --Scott Turow, The New Yor…

"That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it."

-Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

"That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it."

-Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

"That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it."

-Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

If you liked the mystery plot in The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of Exposed (Maggie O'Dell, #6) by Alex Kava

1. Exposed (Maggie O'Dell, #6)

By: Alex Kava

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Agent Maggie O'Dell and Assistant Director Cunningham believe they're responding to a threat made a… read more

Similar categories in Alex Kava's Exposed (Maggie O'Dell, #6) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux, #15) by James Lee Burke

2. Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux, #15)

By: James Lee Burke

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

WHEN A NICE YOUNG WOMAN named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana passing hundred-dollar bills in loca… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux, #15) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum."

-James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending (Dave Robicheaux, #15)

Cover of Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) by Adrian McKinty

3. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Truth and Fear (Wolfhound Century, #2) by Peter Higgins

4. Truth and Fear (Wolfhound Century, #2)

By: Peter Higgins

3.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Investigator Lom returns to Mirgorod and finds the city in the throes of a crisis. The war against … read more

Similar categories in Peter Higgins's Truth and Fear (Wolfhound Century, #2) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • fiction

5. The Soul Catcher (Maggie O'Dell, #3)

By: Alex Kava

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell and her partner Tully investigate two cases--the murder of a senato… read more

Similar categories in Alex Kava's The Soul Catcher (Maggie O'Dell, #3) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

6. The Skorpion Directive (Agent Micah Dalton, #4)

By: David Stone

4.33

Format: 240 pages,

In Vienna for a top-secret meeting with ex-Mossad agent Issadore Galan, Micah Dalton senses that so… read more

Similar categories in David Stone's The Skorpion Directive (Agent Micah Dalton, #4) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

7. 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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8. London Boulevard

By: Ken Bruen

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't eve… read more

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9. The Best of Our Spies

By: Alex Gerlis

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy and the liberation of Europe is un… read more

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10. Havana Bay (Arkady Renko, #4)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The body, at least what was left of it, was drifting in Havana Bay the morning Arkady arrived from … read more

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11. Phantom Orbit

By: David Ignatius

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A subtle and masterful novel from a prescient voice on the cutting edge of spy literature. David… read more

Similar categories in David Ignatius's Phantom Orbit book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bark of Night (Andy Carpenter, #19) by David Rosenfelt

12. Bark of Night (Andy Carpenter, #19)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.12

Format: 7 pages, Audio CD

The next novel in David Rosenfelt’s witty, heartfelt mystery series featuring lawyer Andy Carpente… read more

Similar categories in David Rosenfelt's Bark of Night (Andy Carpenter, #19) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry

13. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

Similar categories in I.S. Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

Cover of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin

14. How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind

By: Clancy Martin

3.71

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous exploration of why the thought of death is so compu… read more

Similar categories in Clancy Martin's How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • audiobook
Cover of Judas 62 (BOX 88, #2) by Charles Cumming

15. Judas 62 (BOX 88, #2)

By: Charles Cumming

4.23

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

The second book in Charles Cumming’s gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 – a covert int… read more

Similar categories in Charles Cumming's Judas 62 (BOX 88, #2) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3) by Charles Cumming

16. Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3)

By: Charles Cumming

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Veteran agent Lachlan Kite―“a spy for the 21st century” ( Daily Mail )―reckons with the fallout fro… read more

Similar categories in Charles Cumming's Kennedy 35 (BOX 88 #3) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of April in Spain (Quirke, #8) by John Banville

17. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)

By: John Banville

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's April in Spain (Quirke, #8) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. The Charm School

By: Nelson DeMille

4.28

Format: 644 pages, Kindle Edition

Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place … read more

Similar categories in Nelson DeMille's The Charm School book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13) by Philip Kerr

20. Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

By: Philip Kerr

4.05

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

1957. El destino ha llevado a Bernie Gunther a trabajar en una compañía de seguros de Múnich, donde… read more

Similar categories in Philip Kerr's Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head."

-Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

"I'd been alone for so long that I started talking to the radio. At least I assumed that's where the voices were coming from. In the country that produced Luther, Nietzsche, and Adolf Hitler, you can …"

-Philip Kerr, Greeks Bearing Gifts (Bernie Gunther, #13)

Cover of The Catch (Slough House, #6.5) by Mick Herron

21. The Catch (Slough House, #6.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Set in the same world as the Slough House series, this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Catch (Slough House, #6.5) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost and Never Found  (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) by Simon Mason

22. Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Mason

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Ma… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2) by P.J. Tracy

23. Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2)

By: P.J. Tracy

3.83

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazz… read more

Similar categories in P.J. Tracy's Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1) by Mark Pryor

24. Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1)

By: Mark Pryor

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown is the first entry in a mystery series set in Paris during World Wa… read more

Similar categories in Mark Pryor's Die Around Sundown (Inspector Henri Lefort, #1) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

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

25. 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 Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

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

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

Cover of A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) by Daniel Silva

26. A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24)

By: Daniel Silva

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A brutal murder, a missing masterpiece, a mystery only Gabriel Allon can solve… Acclaimed #1 Ne… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Silva's A Death in Cornwall (Gabriel Allon, #24) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Polostan (Bomb Light, #1) by Neal Stephenson

27. Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)

By: Neal Stephenson

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early … read more

Similar categories in Neal Stephenson's Polostan (Bomb Light, #1) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • fiction
Cover of Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18) by James Rollins

28. Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18)

By: James Rollins

4.32

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times master of international thrillers comes the story of a global hunt acros… read more

Similar categories in James Rollins's Arkangel (Sigma Force, #18) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5) by Mick Herron

29. The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.92

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelop… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • spy thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Middleman by Olen Steinhauer

30. The Middleman

By: Olen Steinhauer

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing..." --Scott Turow, The New Yor… read more

Similar categories in Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • spy thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it."

-Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

Cover of Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2) by Nelson DeMille

31. Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2)

By: Nelson DeMille

4.32

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, Blood Lines features the r… read more

Similar categories in Nelson DeMille's Blood Lines (Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor #2) book and Olen Steinhauer's The Middleman

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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4.19

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