18 best-selling thriller books like Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

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Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s …

"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

If you liked the thriller plot in Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Bait Money (Nolan, #1) by Max Allan Collins

1. Bait Money (Nolan, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.72

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

The mob couldn\x26#8217;t kill him, the cops couldn\x26#8217;t catch him, and even time wouldn\x26#… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Bait Money (Nolan, #1) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
Cover of Bad News (Dortmunder, #10) by Donald E. Westlake

2. Bad News (Dortmunder, #10)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Dortmunder doesn't like manual labor. So when he gets the offer of money to dig up a grave, he… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bad News (Dortmunder, #10) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of 361 by Donald E. Westlake

3. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) by Donald E. Westlake

4. Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

- After a year on the lam, the return of bumbling thief Dortmunder is a cause celebre. The author's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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5. 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 Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Castle in the Air by Donald E. Westlake

6. Castle in the Air

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

A British master criminal assembles an international gang of infamous thieves to steal a castle who… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Castle in the Air book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. What's The Worst That Could Happen? (Dortmunder, #9)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.50

Format: 192 pages,

Dortmunder is in the midst of a routine burglary of a Long Island mansion when who shows up toting … read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's What's The Worst That Could Happen? (Dortmunder, #9) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • hard boiled
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5) by Lawrence Block

8. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

9. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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10. 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 Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

11. Thieves' Dozen (Dortmunder, #12)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Featuring Westlake's hapless hero John Dortmunder, this original compilation of short stories ties … read more

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  • hard boiled
  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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12. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) by Raymond Chandler

13. Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

As Chandler's last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets a well-endowed redhead as she disembarks from … read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Playback (Philip Marlowe, #7) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) by Lawrence Block

14. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) by Richard Stark

15. Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

By: Richard Stark

4.41

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long most of the master heister’s … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
"He's a man who didn't hear the twig snap."

-Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

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16. 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 Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Get Real (Dortmunder, #15) by Donald E. Westlake

17. Get Real (Dortmunder, #15)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.33

Format: 277 pages,

In Donald E. Westlake's classic caper novels, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord he… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Get Real (Dortmunder, #15) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

18. Hit Man (Keller, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more

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Cover of Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) by Donald E. Westlake

19. Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.14

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bumbling comic criminal John Dortmunder is in hot water as he tries to keep a nasty old man from bl… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Drowned Hopes (Dortmunder, #7) book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) by Donald E. Westlake

20. 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 Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

21. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

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22. The Road To Ruin (Dortmunder, #11)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Ever-lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder and his merry band of misfits attempt to drive off w… read more

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23. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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25. God Save the Mark

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc… read more

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26. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.10

Format: None pages,

The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more

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27. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

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28. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Where the Body Was book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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29. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson

30. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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Cover of Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

31. Double Feature

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake was also an Academy Award Nominee—for th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Double Feature book and Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon (Parker, #16)

  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk."

-Donald E. Westlake, Double Feature

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4.01

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3.56

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3.93

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