18 best-selling crime books like Blues in the Dark by Raymond Benson

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Blues in the Dark

By: Raymond Benson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the  New York Times  bestselling and internationally acclaimed author comes a Hollywood crime …

If you liked the crime plot in Blues in the Dark by Raymond Benson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.13

Format: 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The blind shaman called Listening Woman speaks of witches and restless spirits, of supernatural evi… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
"The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's…"

-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

"The big man glanced at him, a friendly look. Across the hogan, Leaphorn noticed, two of the women were smiling at him. He was a stranger, a policeman who had arrested one of them, a man from another …"

-Tony Hillerman, Listening Woman (Leaphorn & Chee, #3)

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2. The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.75

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow,… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Cornwell's The Bone Bed (Kay Scarpetta, #20) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
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3. Detective

By: Arthur Hailey

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hours before he is due to set off on a long-delayed and much-deserved vacation with his wife and so… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Hailey's Detective book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
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4. The Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.75

Format: 320 pages,

A corpse whose palms and soles have been "scalped" is only the first in a series of disturbing clue… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's The Dark Wind (Leaphorn & Chee, #5) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.50

Format: 92 pages,

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutena… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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6. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs

By: Henry Carroll

4.00

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read … read more

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7. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

By: Tony Hillerman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more

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8. Star Island (Skink, #6)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen--and … read more

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9. The Clinic (Alex Delaware, #11)

By: Jonathan Kellerman , John Rubinstein

4.13

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

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10. People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wi… read more

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11. The Summer that Melted Everything

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.45

Format: 864 pages,

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984:the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio.… read more

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12. Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)

By: Walter Mosley

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles of the late 1940s, Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his j… read more

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13. Just Stay Away

By: Tony Wirt

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

When a mysterious neighborhood boy befriends his young daughter, stay-at-home dad Craig considers h… read more

Similar categories in Tony Wirt's Just Stay Away book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
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14. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

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15. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21)

By: Douglas Preston

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Preston & Child continue their #1 bestselling series featuring FBI Special Agent Pendergast and Con… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Cabinet of Dr. Leng (Pendergast, #21) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

By: Tony Hillerman

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The car fire didn't kill Navajo Tribal Policeman Delbert Nez—a bullet did. And the old man in posse… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hillerman's Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it."

-Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee #10)

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17. The Night Of (A Burke and Blade Mystery, #1)

By: Michael Lister

4.07

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

“No badge, no problem. Michael Lister’s first swing at the modern private eye novel is a home run. … read more

Similar categories in Michael Lister's The Night Of (A Burke and Blade Mystery, #1) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25) by Lee Child

19. The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)

By: Lee Child

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One m… read more

Similar categories in Lee Child's The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
"Only a fool would be dishonest about that could be disproved in a matter of seconds."

-Lee Child, The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)

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20. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Ghost Station book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of One Good Deed (Archer, #1) by David Baldacci

21. One Good Deed (Archer, #1)

By: David Baldacci

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces an unforgettable new character: … read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's One Good Deed (Archer, #1) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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22. Swamp Story

By: Dave Barry

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry retu… read more

Similar categories in Dave Barry's Swamp Story book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

23. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Things in Jars

By: Jess Kidd

3.70

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Bridie Devine, female detective extraordinaire, is confronted with the most baffling puzzle yet: th… read more

Similar categories in Jess Kidd's Things in Jars book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Stories, particularly the bad ones, are told in their own time."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"The raven turns in her element and the world turns too, confirming what she already knew: she is the centre of everything."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"For this is their parting: as sudden and slow, surprising and foreseen as any parting. Between together and apart: an eyeblink and all of eternity."

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

"Sir Edmund is a collector, an insatiable, relentless collector, with an interest in anomalies and mutations, aberrations and malformations of life in or around the realm of water. If it swims or padd…"

-Jess Kidd, Things in Jars

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25. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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26. A Most Clever Girl

By: Stephanie Marie Thornton

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A Novel of an American Spy A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incred… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Marie Thornton's A Most Clever Girl book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sinners make the best saints."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Nothing good lasts...Don't trust anyone who claims otherwise."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"No good ever comes from underestimating people...Take it from someone who knows."

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

"Let this be my first lesson to you: words matter. Use them carefully, like bullets.)"

-Stephanie Marie Thornton, A Most Clever Girl

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27. The Hitchcock Hotel

By: Stephanie Wrobel

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed ho… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wrobel's The Hitchcock Hotel book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
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28. Catch Her When She Falls

By: Allison Buccola

3.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thoroughly propulsive (Kimberly McCreight) debut thriller, a young woman questions everythi… read more

Similar categories in Allison Buccola's Catch Her When She Falls book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael    Connelly

29. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

By: Michael Connelly

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
Cover of Blues in the Dark by Raymond Benson

30. Blues in the Dark

By: Raymond Benson

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the  New York Times  bestselling and internationally acclaimed author comes a Hollywood crime … read more

Similar categories in Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

31. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Ushers: A Short Story book and Raymond Benson's Blues in the Dark

  • mystery
  • fiction

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Tony Hillerman

4.13

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3.75

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Arthur Hailey

4.01

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Jack in the Green (Hunt for Reacher, #5)

Diane Capri

3.00

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C.J. Box

4.36

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Michael Connelly

4.56

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John Sandford

4.36

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