8 Best crime books like The Paperboy by Pete Dexter

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The Paperboy

By: Pete Dexter

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, …

If you liked the crime plot in The Paperboy by Pete Dexter , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Risen

By: Ron Rash

3.67

Format: 230 pages, ebook

New York Timesbestselling author Ron Rash demonstrates his superb narrative skills in this suspense… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Risen book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
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2. Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more

Similar categories in Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Double Dexter (Dexter, #6)

By: Jeff Lindsay

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The dark and witty New York Timesbestselling series... The inspiration for Showtime's critically ac… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Lindsay's Double Dexter (Dexter, #6) book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Ravens

By: George Dawes Green

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

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Similar categories in George Dawes Green's Ravens book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Kill the Messenger

By: Tami Hoag

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

With this new thriller, The New York Timesbestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to … read more

Similar categories in Tami Hoag's Kill the Messenger book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

6. 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 Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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7. The Paperboy

By: Pete Dexter

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The sun was rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call was found on the highway, … read more

Similar categories in Pete Dexter's The Paperboy book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • crime

8. How It Ended: New and Collected Stories

By: Jay McInerney

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

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9. Savage Season (Hap and Leonard, #1)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

Here comes Trudy back into Hap's life, thirty-six but looking ten years younger, with long blonde h… read more

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10. 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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11. The Other

By: Thomas Tryon

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. Holland is bold and mischievous, a b… read more

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12. Dusk and Other Stories

By: James Salter

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Virtuosic and exquisitely compressed, these stories show Salter at his best. The collection receive… read more

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13. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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14. The Gospel Singer

By: Harry Crews

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more

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15. The Knockout Artist

By: Harry Crews

4.07

Format: 112 pages,

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16. 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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17. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

Similar categories in Jim Clemente's Bluebeard book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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18. Reptile Memoirs

By: Silje O. Ulstein

3.65

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling Norwegian debut already sold in thirteen territories, Reptile Memoirs is a brilliantl… read more

Similar categories in Silje O. Ulstein's Reptile Memoirs book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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19. The Devil's Playground

By: Craig Russell

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, … read more

Similar categories in Craig Russell's The Devil's Playground book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Book of X

By: Sarah Rose Etter

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's The Book of X book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Rabbit Foot Bill

By: Helen Humphreys

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking mur… read more

Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Rabbit Foot Bill book and Pete Dexter's The Paperboy

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Michael Crummey

3.85

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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Téa Mutonji

3.57

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Robert Rotenberg

3.85

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