19 must-read crime books like Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) by Adrian McKinty

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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This i…

"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world."

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world."

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

If you liked the crime plot in Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6) by Adrian McKinty , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Man Who Liked Slow Tomatoes (Mario Balzic Detective Mystery, #5)

By: K.C. Constantine

3.70

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

K. C. Constantine's Mario Balzic is one of those police chiefs so close to his people that nothing … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Nameless Dead (Inspector Devlin, #5) by Brian McGilloway

2. The Nameless Dead (Inspector Devlin, #5)

By: Brian McGilloway

4.00

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

'You can't investigate the baby, Inspector. It's the law.' Declan Cleary's body has never been … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Bleed a River Deep (Inspector Devlin, #3) by Brian McGilloway

3. Bleed a River Deep (Inspector Devlin, #3)

By: Brian McGilloway

3.85

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

When a controversial US diplomat is attacked during the opening of a Donegal gold mine, Garda Inspe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. The Rising (Inspector Devlin, #4)

By: Brian McGilloway

3.92

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

The  fourth thriller in the Inspector Devlin series, impeccably written  crime set in the Irish bor… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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5. Collusion (Jack Lennon Investigations #2)

By: Stuart Neville

3.94

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A merciless assassin stalks Belfast and Detective Inspector Jack Lennon has been assigned to the ca… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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6. Shadow Unit 6

By: Elizabeth Bear , Emma Bull , Will Shetterly , Leah Bobet , Kyle Cassidy

4.06

Format: 344 pages,

The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit hunts humanity's worst nightmares. But there are nightmares huma… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

7. The Ghosts of Belfast (Jack Lennon Investigations #1)

By: Stuart Neville

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stuart Neville has written not jut a superb thriller but a significant work of literature which exp… read more

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8. Borderlands (Inspector Devlin, #1)

By: Brian McGilloway

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The corpse of local teenager Angela Cashell is found on the Tyrone-Donegal border, between the Nort… read more

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9. Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has tra…"

-Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Detective Sean Duffy, #6)

10. Headstone (Jack Taylor, #9)

By: Ken Bruen

3.23

Format: 304 pages,

Some people help the less fortunate. Others kill them. Evil has many guises. Jack Taylor has encou… read more

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11. Hardcastle's Quartet (Hardcastle Mysteries #12)

By: Graham Ison

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Accident . . . or murder? Detective Inspector Hardcastle s seemingly simple investigation turns mor… read more

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12. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

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13. The Killing Floor (P Division, #9)

By: Peter Turnbull

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. The Dramatist (Jack Taylor, #4)

By: Ken Bruen

3.81

Format: None pages,

Seems impossible but Jack Taylor is sober--off booze and pills, and nearly off cigarettes. One reas… read more

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15. The Ghosts of Galway

By: Ken Bruen

4.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need o… read more

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16. Gallows Lane (Inspector Devlin, #2)

By: Brian McGilloway

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Taking its title from the name of the road down which condemned Donegal criminals were once led, 'G… read more

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17. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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18. Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

By: Gabriel F.W. Koch

4.30

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

Then comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fiancée has committed suicide. Marlowe simply … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Death is the ultimate test of faith."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"You sound like you’re enjoying my suffering."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"Her growing possessiveness felt both good and bad."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

"The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook."

-Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow (Marlowe Black Mystery, #2)

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19. Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

By: Behcet Kaya

4.25

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

While enjoying his usual Friday night after dinner beer at a local restaurant, Jacques (Jack) Ludef… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Jack? It’s Margeaux."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Ludicrous? Seems like wherever you go, trouble follows you."

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"What is it about being ill and wanting to go home? This time there was no Katy to boat sit, so I left Emma out on the deck where she had access to her Emma cage. I closed up as best I could and decid…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

"Darling,’ she said. ‘Darling, darling, Jack…,’ she repeated. It had an echo chamber quality. I felt dizzy and the room began turning. I grabbed the edge of the table thinking I needed to hold on to s…"

-Behcet Kaya, Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

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20. O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

By: A.G. Russo

4.34

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

*Author "I have never used AI in my writing." A.G. RussoThe homefront, summer 1942, Brooklyn, New … read more

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  • mystery
  • historical fiction
"A uniformed cop around 6’4"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"She’s a cop’s wife. She understands what her husband does for a living,"

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

"When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them."

-A.G. Russo, O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted

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21. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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24. A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16)

By: Ken Bruen

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the newest novel in Bruen's thrilling series, ex-cop turned private eye Jack Taylor is pulled ou… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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25. Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

By: Mick Herron

4.30

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. Like the ringing of a … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The voice meant well, but should fuck off."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

"it’d be like choosing between Jeremy Clarkson and Piers Morgan in a bare-knuckle death match. There ought to be a way both could lose."

-Mick Herron, Joe Country (Slough House, #6)

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26. Platinum Magic (Magic Law Book 1)

By: Bruce Davis

3.94

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Elves, orcs, dwarves and other fantasy races are depicted in a modern society whose physics are bas… read more

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27. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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28. Bonehead

By: Mo Hayder

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrifying accident... Alex Mullins knows she is one of the lucky ones. When a fatal coach crash … read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15) by Ken Bruen

29. Galway Girl (Jack Taylor #15)

By: Ken Bruen

3.79

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Jack Taylor has never quite been able get his life together, but now he has truly hit rock bottom. … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Galway Silence (Jack Taylor, #14) by Ken Bruen

30. In the Galway Silence (Jack Taylor, #14)

By: Ken Bruen

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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31. The Last Crossing

By: Brian McGilloway

4.19

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime h… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook

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