22 Best fiction books like Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7) by Joe R. Lansdale

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Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it …

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1. The Getaway God (Sandman Slim, #6)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sandman Slim must save himself-and the entire world-from the wrath of some enraged and vengeful anc… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man by None, Richard Walter, Michael  Lawson  Bishop

2. A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man

By: None , Richard Walter , Michael Lawson Bishop

4.08

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-ye… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
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3. Djibouti

By: Elmore Leonard

3.05

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Elmore Leonard, New York Times bestselling author and "the hippest, funniest national treasure in s… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Killing Pretty (Sandman Slim, #7)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.11

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Someone has tried to kill Death—ripping the heart right out of him—or rather the body he's inhabiti… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's Killing Pretty (Sandman Slim, #7) book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. The Dawn Patrol (Boone Daniels #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.01

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). As cool as its California surfer… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Devil in the Dollhouse (Sandman Slim, #3.5) by Richard Kadrey

6. Devil in the Dollhouse (Sandman Slim, #3.5)

By: Richard Kadrey

3.88

Format: 40 pages, ebook

James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh mean… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Winter of Frankie Machine

By: Don Winslow

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Kill City Blues (Sandman Slim, #5)

By: Richard Kadrey

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucife… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Flood (Burke, #1)

By: Andrew Vachss

4.03

Format: 480 pages, Trade Paperback

Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-pric… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • 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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11. They Thirst

By: Robert McCammon

4.38

Format: None pages,

A MASS MURDER. A DISAPPEARANCE. A CEMETERY RANSACKED. It looked like another ordinary day in Los An… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's They Thirst book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"There's no bullshit in a Joe Lansdale book. There's everything a good story needs, and nothing it … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

13. Riding the Rap

By: Elmore Leonard

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wicked and irresistible....Elmore Leonard is a literary genius." --New York Times Book Review Befo… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Riding the Rap book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

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

14. The Perdition Score (Sandman Slim, #8)

By: Richard Kadrey

3.60

Format: 208 pages,

Sandman Slim returns in a stunning, high-octane thriller filled with the intense kick-ass action an… read more

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15. Raylan

By: Elmore Leonard

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash cr… read more

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16. The Kill Society (Sandman Slim, #9)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.17

Format: None pages, ebook

Sandman Slim returns in this stunning, high-octane ninth thriller in the series, filled with the in… read more

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17. White Butterfly (Easy Rawlins #3)

By: Walter Mosley , Stanley Bennett Clay

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 19… read more

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18. Devil Said Bang (Sandman Slim, #4)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim--aka James Stark--is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-a… read more

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19. A Little Yellow Dog (Easy Rawlins #5)

By: Walter Mosley

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

November 1963: Easy's settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It's a quiet, simple existen… read more

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20. Pronto

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"Speedy, exhilarating, and smooth. Nobody does it better." --Washington Post "The man knows how to … read more

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21. Killshot

By: Elmore Leonard

4.18

Format: 411 pages, Paperback

"[Leonard has] written so many first-rate crime stories that it would be fatuous to say Killshotis … read more

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22. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) by John Connolly

23. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

By: John Connolly

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."

-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

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24. Powder Burn

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.76

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

"An explosive read...authentic, compelling and frightening". -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionArchite… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Powder Burn book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Bruises on a Butterfly

By: Chad Lutzke

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A young boy runs away from his abusive home to live in the fort he'd built with friends, smack dab … read more

Similar categories in Chad Lutzke's Bruises on a Butterfly book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • fiction
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26. Zombie Bake-Off

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.50

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gathe… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Zombie Bake-Off book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
"If there's any better place to get stoned than a rolling box full of pastry, then they didn't have the keys for it, anyway."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Zombie Bake-Off

Cover of King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12) by Richard Kadrey

27. King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.15

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The incredible finale of the page-turning, high-octane Sandman Slim series filled with an explosive… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's King Bullet (Sandman Slim, #12) book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • thriller
  • fiction
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28. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

Cover of Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11) by Richard Kadrey

29. Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.13

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Sandman Slim is back in Los Angeles and kicking more supernatural ass in this inventive, high-octan… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11) book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • mystery
  • humor
  • fiction
"Whoever said Hell is other people was wrong. Hell is other people in your house ."

-Richard Kadrey, Ballistic Kiss (Sandman Slim, #11)

Cover of Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim, #10) by Richard Kadrey

30. Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim, #10)

By: Richard Kadrey

4.30

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Life and death takes on an entirely new meaning for half-angel, half-human hero James Stark, aka, S… read more

Similar categories in Richard Kadrey's Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim, #10) book and Joe R. Lansdale's Vanilla Ride (Hap and Leonard, #7)

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Proximity to normalcy is a nice turn of phrase; you ought do a needlepoint, frame it and shove it straight up your ass. Keep it there with the rest of your wisdom."

-Richard Kadrey, Hollywood Dead (Sandman Slim, #10)

Cover of Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2) by Hailey Piper

31. Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

By: Hailey Piper

4.04

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

Four years after the events of The Worm and His Kings, Donna Ashton ekes out a life far removed fro… read more

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  • fiction

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3.70

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