7 Top thriller books like The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

Cover of The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

The Pelican Brief

By: John Grisham

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Pelican Brief by John Grisham , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1) by Stieg Larsson, Denise Mina, Andrea Mutti, Leonardo Manco

1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1)

By: Stieg Larsson , Denise Mina , Andrea Mutti , Leonardo Manco

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

The official graphic novel adaptation of Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. This is b… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The DaVinci Code: A Quest for Answers by Josh McDowell

2. The DaVinci Code: A Quest for Answers

By: Josh McDowell

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

Just where does fact end and fiction begin? This work aims to provide an answer to Dan Brown. read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

3. Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

By: James Patterson

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

The classic thriller that launched the Alex Cross series, the #1 detective series of the past twent… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2) by James  Patterson

4. Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)

By: James Patterson

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carol… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

5. The Pelican Brief

By: John Grisham

3.84

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D… read more

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  • legal thriller
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Sycamore Row: by John Grisham -- Analysis by BookBuddy

6. Sycamore Row: by John Grisham -- Analysis

By: BookBuddy

4.25

Format: 127 pages,

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  • mystery
  • fiction

7. The Juror

By: George Dawes Green

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This is a psychological thriller about a young woman threatened by the Mafia who must return a verd… read more

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8. The Firm

By: John Grisham , Robin Waterfield

4.06

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Adaptation for younger readers. Mitch McDeere is a young, intelligent and ambitious lawyer. When… read more

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  • legal thriller
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Her thoughts could not escape the present."

-John Grisham, The Firm

"love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future"

-John Grisham, The Firm

"Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected."

-John Grisham, The Firm

"I've loved you all my life. Even before we met. Part of it wasn't even you. It was just a promise of you."

-John Grisham, The Firm

9. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is mo… read more

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10. 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)

By: James Patterson

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross novels Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, a… read more

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11. Angels and Demons / The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #1-2)

By: Dan Brown

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Enter the labyrinthine world of internationally bestselling author Dan Brown with his first two spe… read more

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12. Deception Point

By: Dan Brown

3.84

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic … read more

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13. The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan Universe, #4)

By: Tom Clancy

4.16

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so… read more

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14. Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide

By: Stephen Harvard , Stephen Eastment

4.15

Format: None pages, ebook

The Dan Brown Inferno Unofficial Guide will allow you to decode the masterful and clever codes, sym… read more

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15. The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  Who is Jason Bourne? Is he an assassin, a terrorist, a… read more

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16. The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.17

Format: 128 pages,

Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics -- until an ac… read more

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17. The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2)

By: Robert Ludlum

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A killer with no face, no identity and a name the world wanted to forget:Jason Bourne Reenter the s… read more

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18. The Client

By: John Grisham , Andy Hopkins , Jocelyn Potter , Janet McAlpin

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Mark Sway is 11 and knows where a body has been hidden. If the FBI can find the body, then they can… read more

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19. Patriot Games (Jack Ryan Universe, #2)

By: Tom Clancy

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguish… read more

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20. Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

By: Dan Brown

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target... Wh… read more

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Cover of The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16) by Michael    Connelly

21. The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

By: Michael Connelly

4.21

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16) book and John Grisham's The Pelican Brief

  • legal thriller
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
" There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962."

-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

"Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him …"

-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

"You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for li…"

-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

"The law school notions about the virtue of the adversarial system, of the system’s checks and balances, of the search for truth, had long since eroded like the faces of statues from other civilizatio…"

-Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer (The Lincoln Lawyer, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

8 Best fiction books like The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

Transform Your Habits

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1)

Stieg Larsson , Denise Mina , Andrea Mutti , Leonardo Manco

3.23

Transform Your Habits

The DaVinci Code: A Quest for Answers

Josh McDowell

3.31

Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

James Patterson

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, #2)

James Patterson

3.82

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9 best-selling fiction books like Sycamore Row: by John Grisham -- Analysis by BookBuddy

Transform Your Habits

The Last Juror

John Grisham

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Book 1 (Millennium: The Graphic Novels, #1.1)

Stieg Larsson , Denise Mina , Andrea Mutti , Leonardo Manco

3.23

The Rainmaker

John Grisham

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Camino Island

John Grisham

4.01

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