15 best-selling thriller books like Head Games by Craig McDonald

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Head Games

By: Craig McDonald

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

A mystery that is a wistful ballad of lost America

If you liked the thriller plot in Head Games by Craig McDonald , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10) by Louise Penny

1. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

By: Louise Penny

4.07

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide w… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"If love was compass enough, said Armand quietly, there would be no missing children."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"You too?" She asked Ruth. "How do your poems start out?" "They start as a lump in the throat," she said."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

"He wasn't addicted to pain, to panic, but he might be addicted to the bliss of having them stop. The mind, he knew, really was its own place."

-Louise Penny, The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)

Cover of A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9) by Craig Johnson

2. A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9)

By: Craig Johnson

4.29

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

The inspiration for A&E's Longmire finds himself in the crosshairs in the ninth book of the New Yor… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon."

-Craig Johnson, A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9)

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3. Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire, #6)

By: Craig Johnson

4.25

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Read Craig Johnson's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. A missing thumb and dead de… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning."

-Craig Johnson, Junkyard Dogs (Walt Longmire, #6)

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4. The Highwayman (Walt Longmire, #11.5)

By: Craig Johnson

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Wyoming highway patrolman Rosey Wayman is transferred to the beautiful and imposing landscape … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)

By: Louise Penny

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

The brilliant new novel in the New York Times best-selling series by Louise Penny, one of the most … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3) by Craig Johnson

6. Kindness Goes Unpunished (Walt Longmire, #3)

By: Craig Johnson

3.50

Format: 31 pages,

Walt Longmire has been sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County for almost a quarter of a century and h… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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7. Spirit of Steamboat (Walt Longmire, #9.1)

By: Craig Johnson

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A holiday tale from the New York Timesbestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the i… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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8. Any Other Name (Walt Longmire, #10)

By: Craig Johnson

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

9. An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12)

By: Craig Johnson

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Longmire series--the basis for the hit … read more

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10. Another Man's Moccasins (Walt Longmire, #4)

By: Craig Johnson

4.20

Format: None pages,

Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty years When the body of a yo… read more

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11. Head Games

By: Craig McDonald

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

A wistful ballad of lost America rooted in borderland history and mythology.Hector Lassiter has Pan… read more

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12. The Dark Horse (Walt Longmire, #5)

By: Craig Johnson

3.75

Format: None pages,

The Denver Posthails Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-read. Joining the four … read more

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13. Death Without Company (Walt Longmire, #2)

By: Craig Johnson

3.56

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Walt investigates a death by poison in this gripping novel from theNew York Times bestselling autho… read more

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14. The Western Star (Walt Longmire, #13)

By: Craig Johnson

2.00

Format: None pages,

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15. Hell Is Empty (Walt Longmire, #7)

By: Craig Johnson

4.08

Format: 96 pages,

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16. As The Crow Flies (Walt Longmire, #8)

By: Craig Johnson

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The eighth novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire series, the basis for L… read more

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17. Manitou Canyon (Cork O'Connor, #15)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.78

Format: None pages, ebook

Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, C… read more

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18. The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire, #1)

By: Craig Johnson

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Walt Longmire, sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County, knows he's got trouble when Cody Pritchard is … read more

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19. How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)

By: Louise Penny

3.62

Format: 272 pages,

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village … read more

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20. Dry Bones (Walt Longmire, #11)

By: Craig Johnson

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Wyoming's beloved lawman must solve his coldest case yet when a T. rexskeleton surfaces--along with… read more

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21. Windigo Island (Cork O'Connor, #14)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the re… read more

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22. Sulfur Springs (Cork O'Connor, #16)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On the Fourth of July, just as fireworks are about to go off in Aurora, Minnesota, Cork O'Connor an… read more

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23. The Edge (The 6:20 Man, #2)

By: David Baldacci

4.37

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murde… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17) by William Kent Krueger

24. Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) by William Kent Krueger

25. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18) by Craig Johnson

26. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14) by Craig Johnson

27. Depth of Winter (Walt Longmire, #14)

By: Craig Johnson

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Cra… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger

28. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Next to Last Stand (Walt Longmire, #16) by Craig Johnson

29. Next to Last Stand (Walt Longmire, #16)

By: Craig Johnson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.One of the most viewed pain… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Land of Wolves (Walt Longmire, #15) by Craig Johnson

30. Land of Wolves (Walt Longmire, #15)

By: Craig Johnson

4.33

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel in Craig Johnson's beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.Attempting to r… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17) by Craig Johnson

31. Daughter of the Morning Star (Walt Longmire, #17)

By: Craig Johnson

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Another New York Times bestseller in the beloved Longmire series. When Lolo Long's niece Jaya be… read more

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  • thriller
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4.07

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4.29

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Craig Johnson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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4.33

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4.35

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4.22

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