16 best-selling mystery books like In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block

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

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…

"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)

"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)

If you liked the mystery plot in In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10) by Max Allan Collins

1. Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he re… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) by Robert B. Parker

2. The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.92

Format: 204 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hir… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A cold McDonald's hamburger is halfway between a jelly doughnut and a hockey puck, but the nine-dollar bourbon helped."

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

"It was a bright day, but cold, and the whores had emerged, working the Combat Zone, looking cold and bizarre in their miniskirts, boots, and blond wigs. Being seductive at twenty degrees was heavy go…"

-Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Cover of Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51) by Lawrence Block, Lee Duncan

3. Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

By: Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five Americansa bounty hunter, a murderer on the run, a vengeful college kid, a professional thug, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald

4. 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 Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Self-Defense (Alex Delaware, #9) by Jonathan Kellerman

5. Self-Defense (Alex Delaware, #9)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Jonathan Kellerman's Self-Defense (Alex Delaware, #9) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Blackmailer (Hard Case Crime #32) by George Axelrod

6. Blackmailer (Hard Case Crime #32)

By: George Axelrod

4.15

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in George Axelrod's Blackmailer (Hard Case Crime #32) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Ceremony (Spenser, #9) by Robert B. Parker

7. Ceremony (Spenser, #9)

By: Robert B. Parker

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

Pretty teenager April Kyle is in grown-up-trouble, involved with people who'd beat her up for a dol… read more

Similar categories in Robert B. Parker's Ceremony (Spenser, #9) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • detective
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) by Charles   Williams

8. A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17)

By: Charles Williams

3.20

Format: 144 pages,

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Similar categories in Charles Williams's A Touch of Death (Hard Case Crime #17) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard

9. Tishomingo Blues

By: Elmore Leonard

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississipp… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Tishomingo Blues book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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

10. 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 Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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

11. 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 Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

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

12. 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 Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

13. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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14. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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15. A Catskill Eagle (Spenser, #12)

By: Robin Waterfield , Robert B. Parker

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and d… read more

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16. 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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17. The Hunter (Parker, #1)

By: Richard Stark

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Double-crossed, shot, and left for dead -- by his wife. The thriller that introduces Parker. "A bri… read more

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18. Walking the Perfect Square (Moe Prager #1)

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

August 6th, 1998: Moe Prager, a former cop, waits to call his daughter for her 18th birthday. In th… read more

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Cover of The Mourner (Parker, #4) by Richard Stark

19. The Mourner (Parker, #4)

By: Richard Stark

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The statue wore white and grieved. Parker wasn’t interested in its sentimental value. The thief car… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Mourner (Parker, #4) book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-Richard Stark, The Mourner (Parker, #4)

20. 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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21. The Busy Body

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Previously published in paperback by Ballantine. read more

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22. A Dance of Blades (Shadowdance, #2)

By: David Dalglish

3.62

Format: None pages,

"Veldaren aches for a purge, and I will be the one to deliver it. Cry out at me if you wish, but it… read more

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23. Darkness First (McCabe & Savage Thriller, #3)

By: James Hayman

3.60

Format: 224 pages,

The mutilated body of a young woman. The town doctor lying comatose in the road. A hundred and fift… read more

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

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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25. Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)

By: Ed McBain

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes v… read more

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26. 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

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27. 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

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28. The Blue Hammer

By: Ross Macdonald

4.06

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

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

29. 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 Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • new york
  • detective
  • mystery thriller
  • hard boiled
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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 Five Decembers by James Kestrel

30. Five Decembers

By: James Kestrel

4.43

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more

Similar categories in James Kestrel's Five Decembers book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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31. Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

"CHARLESGATE CONFIDENTIAL is terrific" - Stephen KingA breathtakingly clever, twist-filled narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential book and Lawrence Block's In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"It was all like a movie—hell, it was a whole damn film festival."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"His story was incredible—literally, in the sense that it was not credible."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"Jackie wasn’t just out of my league—we weren’t even playing the same sport."

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

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Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

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4.14

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Bret Easton Ellis

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