10 must-read thriller books like The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju…

"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

If you liked the thriller plot in The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

1. Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by leg… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of 361 by Donald E. Westlake

3. 361

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.56

Format: 207 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The men in the tan-and-cream Chrysler came with guns blazing. When Ray Kelly woke up in the hospita… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's 361 book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

4. 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

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • 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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5. The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark, offers the third Alan Grofield novel of suspense. Gro… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Blackbird (Alan Grofield, #3) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) by Donald E. Westlake

6. Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

(6th Title in the Dortmunder series) John Dortmunder's one of the slyest burglars going. But by God… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) by Donald E. Westlake

7. Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Byzantine Fire: 90 carats of flawless ruby with great national and religious significance. It's… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Why Me? (Dortmunder, #5) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Hooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a m… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

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

9. 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 Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

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

10. Hit Man (Keller, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Hit Man (Keller, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

11. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

3.50

Format: 519 pages,

After he evens the score with those who betrayed him and recovers the money he was cheated out of f… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

12. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #3)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit - almost - as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Gree… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #3) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

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13. Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.03

Format: 189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When John Dortmunder sets out to rob a bank, he really means it. He steals the whole thing. With th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Bank Shot (Dortmunder, #2) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

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

14. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

Similar categories in Jack Clark's Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

15. The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Archibald Dortmunder is the thief whose capers never quite come off. Here, the released convic… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

16. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's The Busy Body book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

Cover of The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

17. The Handle (Parker, #8)

By: Richard Stark

3.96

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Baron ran a gambling island off the Texas coast in the Gulf’s blue waters. To Parker, it was ju… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parker simply went where money was and took it away."

-Richard Stark, The Handle (Parker, #8)

18. Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Somebody Owes Me Money (Hard Case Crime #44) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

19. Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.10

Format: None pages,

The priceless painting is titled "Folly Leads to Man's Ruin," and its owner, the rich and careless … read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

20. Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3)

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here's the five-member Dortmunder Gang trying to achieve the perfect crime by following a paperback… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Jimmy The Kid (Dortmunder, #3) book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

Cover of Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

21. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Richard Stark's The Handle (Parker, #8)

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook

12 best-selling fiction books like The Handle (Parker, #8) by Richard Stark

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Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Transform Your Habits

361

Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

Elmore Leonard

4.00

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21 Best fiction books like Good Behavior (Dortmunder, #6) by Donald E. Westlake

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Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Flashfire (Parker, #19)

Richard Stark , Richard Stark (pseud. Donald E Westlake)

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Dirty Money (Parker, #24)

Richard Stark

3.93

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Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death (Mitch Tobin #1)

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

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