10 Top thriller books like Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

Cover of Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, …

If you liked the thriller plot in Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) by Raymond Chandler

1. Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

By: Raymond Chandler

4.10

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"She was a cute as a washtub."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

"The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on."

-Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Cover of Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis

2. Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more

Similar categories in Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

Cover of The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald

3. 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 James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

4. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

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

5. 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 James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

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

6. 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 James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

7. Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

By: James Ellroy

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins can't stand music, or any loud sounds. He's got a beautiful wife, … read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Mr Majestyk by Elmore Leonard

8. Mr Majestyk

By: Elmore Leonard

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Once, Vincent Majestyk crashed through a jungle with an M-15 and a sack of grenades. Now he works u… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Mr Majestyk book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

9. The Glass Key

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages,

Paul Madvig was a cheerfully corrupt ward-heeler who aspired to something better: the daughter of S… read more

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10. 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

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11. The Grifters

By: Jim Thompson

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworki… read more

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12. Billy Bathgate

By: E.L. Doctorow

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attenti… read more

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13. Give Us a Kiss

By: Daniel Woodrell

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place. And now Doyle Redmond, a thirty-five-year… read more

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14. Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

By: Martin Dugard

4.07

Format: 71 pages,

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15. Stick

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Stick,an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam… read more

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16. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Score (Parker, #5) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

17. Confess, Fletch (Fletch, #2)

By: Gregory McDonald

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Confess, Fletch The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn'… read more

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18. The Whites

By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more

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Cover of In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block

19. In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

3.79

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bad cop Jerry Broadfield didn't make any friends on the force when he volunteered to squeal to an a… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • detective
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts."

-Lawrence Block, In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

Cover of Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11) by Joe R. Lansdale

20. Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

4.01

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Hap and Leonard, the unlikely detective duo now on screen in the highly praised series starrin… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's Jackrabbit Smile (Hap and Leonard #11) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) by Joe R. Lansdale

21. The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12)

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.91

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Hap and Leonard are an unlikely pair--Hap, a self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard--a toug… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Elephant of Surprise (Hap and Leonard #12) book and James Ellroy's Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

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

11 best-selling fiction books like Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1) by James Ellroy

Transform Your Habits

Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Imperial Bedrooms

Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Transform Your Habits

The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald

3.58

Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

Lawrence Block

3.85

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16 Top fiction books like In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block

Transform Your Habits

Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald

3.58

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