15 Top mystery books like The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15) by Ed McBain

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The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

By: Ed McBain

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on wa…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15) by Ed McBain , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Wild Horses

By: Dick Francis

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who i… read more

Similar categories in Dick Francis's Wild Horses book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6) by Robert Crais

2. Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)

By: Robert Crais

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s brutal murder. But he’s not goi… read more

Similar categories in Robert Crais's Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of East, West by Salman Rushdie

3. East, West

By: Salman Rushdie

3.56

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces tha… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's East, West book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • 20th century
"Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst."

-Salman Rushdie, East, West

"At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in th…"

-Salman Rushdie, East, West

"Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, …"

-Salman Rushdie, East, West

"We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the mora…"

-Salman Rushdie, East, West

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4. Detective

By: Arthur Hailey

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hours before he is due to set off on a long-delayed and much-deserved vacation with his wife and so… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Hailey's Detective book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Every Little Crook and Nanny by Evan Hunter

5. Every Little Crook and Nanny

By: Evan Hunter

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Evan Hunter's Every Little Crook and Nanny book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) by James Ellroy

6. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Blood Defense (Samantha Brinkman, #1)

By: Marcia Clark

3.76

Format: None pages,

First in a new series from bestselling author and famed O. J. Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Clark's Blood Defense (Samantha Brinkman, #1) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. The Blackboard Jungle

By: Evan Hunter

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This "nightmarish but authentic" ("Time") portrait of a high school English teacher and the defiant… read more

Similar categories in Evan Hunter's The Blackboard Jungle book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • fiction

9. Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman, #2)

By: Marcia Clark

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

For defense attorney Samantha Brinkman, it's not about guilt or innocence--it's about making sure h… read more

Similar categories in Marcia Clark's Moral Defense (Samantha Brinkman, #2) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Big Lake Burning

By: Nick Russell

2.00

Format: 238 pages,

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Similar categories in Nick Russell's Big Lake Burning book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Truman's Spy: A Cold War Spy Story by Noel Hynd

11. Truman's Spy: A Cold War Spy Story

By: Noel Hynd

3.50

Format: 240 pages,

It is early 1950, the midpoint of the Twentieth Century. Joe McCarthy is cranking up his demagoguer… read more

Similar categories in Noel Hynd's Truman's Spy: A Cold War Spy Story book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • thriller

12. Line of Fire (The Corps, #5)

By: W.E.B. Griffin

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Line of Firebrings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage … read more

Similar categories in W.E.B. Griffin's Line of Fire (The Corps, #5) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • thriller
  • fiction

13. A Fall of Moondust

By: Arthur C. Clarke

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a se… read more

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14. Double Homicide

By: Faye Kellerman , Jonathan Kellerman

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. Did… read more

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15. 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

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16. 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

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17. The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

By: Ed McBain

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

She was young, wealthy - and dead. Strangled to death in a slum apartment. All they had to go on wa… read more

Similar categories in Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • suspense
  • short stories
  • police
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

18. Hollywood Station (Hollywood Station, #1)

By: Joseph Wambaugh

3.92

Format: 256 pages,

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19. The Fourth Deadly Sin (Deadly Sins, #5)

By: Lawrence Sanders

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A blockbuster with twists and turns that will keep readers up at night, this is the story of a brut… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Sanders's The Fourth Deadly Sin (Deadly Sins, #5) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

20. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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21. What a Carve Up!

By: Jonathan Coe

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced th… read more

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22. Tre ore di pura follia

By: Richard Matheson

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

Vincent, ex pianista talentuoso di Manhattan, aveva da sempre dato segni di squilibrio, finche il s… read more

Similar categories in Richard Matheson's Tre ore di pura follia book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

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23. Call Me a Cab

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.00

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Call Me a Cab book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. Wisdom Spring

By: Andrew Cunningham

4.47

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate Cover Edition for this ASIN B00EP0UQEQ can be found here. Jessica Norton is a woman o… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cunningham's Wisdom Spring book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of On Eden Street (Kings Lake Investigation #2) by Peter Grainger

25. On Eden Street (Kings Lake Investigation #2)

By: Peter Grainger

4.40

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

“He might be a nobody, but he was their nobody and their first case.” The new Kings Lake Central mu… read more

Similar categories in Peter Grainger's On Eden Street (Kings Lake Investigation #2) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • police
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Havana Run: A Short Story by Ace Atkins

26. The Havana Run: A Short Story

By: Ace Atkins

3.41

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A secret buried in Cuba—and a pair of down-on-their-luck Florida journalists following a trail of s… read more

Similar categories in Ace Atkins's The Havana Run: A Short Story book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12) by Richard Wake

27. Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12)

By: Richard Wake

4.28

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

ALEX KOVACS IS BACK, DESPERATELY TRYING NOT TO BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM. Or, rather, the hand … read more

Similar categories in Richard Wake's Bucharest Unbound (Alex Kovacs 12) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

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28. Doors

By: Ezra Hannon

3.54

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Alex Hardy is the finest thief in New York City. A crib burglar, he robs apartments—never hotels, n… read more

Similar categories in Ezra Hannon's Doors book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Sentinel (Armored, #2) by Mark Greaney

29. Sentinel (Armored, #2)

By: Mark Greaney

4.38

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family in this intense t… read more

Similar categories in Mark Greaney's Sentinel (Armored, #2) book and Ed McBain's The Empty Hours (87th Precinct, #15)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"One of the men had been hurt; Mandy heard him cussing in English in the front passenger seat throughout the entire drive, using words she'd learned from her dad,"

-Mark Greaney, Sentinel (Armored, #2)

Cover of Runaway Black by Richard Marsten

30. Runaway Black

By: Richard Marsten

3.53

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Across the scarred and broken pavements ran Johnny Lane, and his bleeding arm...Johnny Lane, lookin… read more

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Cover of Hero and the Terror by Michael Blodgett

31. Hero and the Terror

By: Michael Blodgett

2.70

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Hero, Herrara Fiddleman, chief of detectives for the Venice, California, police department, mat… read more

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