22 must-read thriller books like Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7) by Lawrence Block

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Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys i…

If you liked the thriller plot in Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7) by Lawrence Block , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)

By: Dennis Lehane

4.09

Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Boston private investigator Patrick Kenzie meets Karen Nichols, she strikes him as an innocent… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I’m getting dissed way too much lately."

-Dennis Lehane, Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)

"All right', Bubba said. '... Just remember, the only sin in battle is hesitation. So don't fucking hesitate."

-Dennis Lehane, Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)

"Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs an…"

-Dennis Lehane, Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)

Cover of Lemons Never Lie (Alan Grofield #4) by Richard Stark

2. Lemons Never Lie (Alan Grofield #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.85

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

When he's not pulling heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theatre in Indiana.… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Lemons Never Lie (Alan Grofield #4) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Cover of Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2) by John D. MacDonald

4. Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2)

By: John D. MacDonald

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Travis McGee’s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there i… read more

Similar categories in John D. MacDonald's Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, #2) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. Hostage

By: Robert Crais

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong the three young men who perpetrated the crime … read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's Hostage book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.68

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

Donald E. Westlake is one of the greats of crime fiction. Under the pseudonym Richard Stark, he wro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Dame (Alan Grofield, #2) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Cold

By: John Smolens

3.40

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In the frozen reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, fierce winter storms can hit without notice. I… read more

Similar categories in John Smolens's Cold book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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8. Put a Lid on It

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Francis gets out of prison if he'll pull off one very special heist--of an incriminating videotape … read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Put a Lid on It book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11) by Richard Stark

9. The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11)

By: Richard Stark

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A corrupt African colonel has converted half his country's wealth into diamonds and smuggled them t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Black Ice Score (Parker, #11) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Drowning Pool book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Seventh (Parker, #7) by Richard Stark

11. The Seventh (Parker, #7)

By: Richard Stark

4.08

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Why not? Just because no one had ever tried it before? What better place for a heist, if it was … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Seventh (Parker, #7) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the coc…"

-Richard Stark, The Seventh (Parker, #7)

Cover of The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) by Richard Stark

12. The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. The Underground Man

By: Ross Macdonald

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Underground Man book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Miami Blues by Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford

14. Miami Blues

By: Elmore Leonard , Charles Willeford

4.15

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

After a brutal day investigating a quadruple homicide, Detective Hoke Moseley settles into his room… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Miami Blues book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) by Richard Stark

15. The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10)

By: Richard Stark

4.31

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's Parker--planning to steal the entire payroll of an Air Force base in upstate New York, with … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Green Eagle Score (Parker, #10) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7) by Lawrence Block

16. Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

It isn't called Hell's Kitchen for nothing - a gritty landscape of dark doorways and dirty alleys i… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

17. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

Similar categories in Ross Macdonald's The Moving Target book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Slayground (Parker, #14) by Richard Stark

18. Slayground (Parker, #14)

By: Richard Stark

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Wheel of Fortune turned and Parker figured his number had finally come up. An armored car heist… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Slayground (Parker, #14) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark

19. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

20. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Outfit (Parker, #3) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

21. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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22. Schilf

By: Juli Zeh

3.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The gripping international bestseller that fuses an ingenious detective tale with stunning, cinemat… read more

Similar categories in Juli Zeh's Schilf book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

23. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

Similar categories in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

24. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Hunter (Parker, #1) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

Cover of The Mourner (Parker, #4) by Richard Stark

25. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

Cover of Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

26. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) by Richard Stark

27. Plunder Squad (Parker, #15)

By: Richard Stark

4.05

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder and dove… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Plunder Squad (Parker, #15) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

28. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

29. The Damsel (Alan Grofield, #1)

By: Richard Stark

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Alan Grofield has a knack for attracting damsels in distress. When Ellen Marie Fitzgerald comes in … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Damsel (Alan Grofield, #1) book and Lawrence Block's Out on the Cutting Edge (Matthew Scudder, #7)

30. Vortex (Spin, #3)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.87

Format: 400 pages,

Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten … read more

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31. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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Max Allan Collins

4.01

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John D. MacDonald

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