6 best-selling noir books like Death Comes Too Late by Charles Ardai

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Death Comes Too Late

By: Charles Ardai

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHAR…

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Cover of The First Quarry (Quarry #8) by Max Allan Collins

1. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Cover of Web of the City by Harlan Ellison

2. Web of the City

By: Harlan Ellison

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harlan Ellison was awarded an honorary degree from UCLA for the excellence of his imaginative writi… read more

Similar categories in Harlan Ellison's Web of the City book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17) by Ed McBain

3. Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17)

By: Ed McBain

3.51

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Ed McBain's Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17) book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Farewell Summer (Green Town, #3) by Ray Bradbury

4. Farewell Summer (Green Town, #3)

By: Ray Bradbury

4.31

Format: None pages,

In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to… read more

Similar categories in Ray Bradbury's Farewell Summer (Green Town, #3) book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • fiction
Cover of Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5) by Elmore Leonard

5. 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 Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery thriller
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • 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)

6. Gun Monkeys

By: Victor Gischler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more

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7. The Cocktail Waitress (Hard Case Crime #109)

By: James M. Cain

5.00

Format: None pages,

Following her husband's death in a suspicious car accident, beautiful young widow Joan Medford is f… read more

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8. 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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9. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) by Don Winslow

10. 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

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Death Comes Too Late by Charles Ardai

11. Death Comes Too Late

By: Charles Ardai

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHAR… read more

Similar categories in Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery thriller
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

12. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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13. 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

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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14. Lost Man's Lane

By: Scott Carson

4.28

Format: 516 pages, Hardcover

A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thril… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Dietrich by Don Winslow

15. Dietrich

By: Don Winslow

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Gritty and suspenseful, Dietrich is a hard-boiled whodunnit from Audible Award-winning and internat… read more

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  • mystery
  • short stories
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

16. The Pale House Devil

By: Richard Kadrey

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, o… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
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17. Red Rabbit

By: Alex Grecian

4.18

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

A folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by d… read more

Similar categories in Alex Grecian's Red Rabbit book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • fiction
Cover of California Bear by Duane Swierczynski

18. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Into the Night by Cornell Woolrich

19. Into the Night

By: Cornell Woolrich

3.53

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Immediately filled with joy and hope when her suicide attempt fails, Madeleine throws down the revo… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15) by Paul Doiron

20. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15) book and Charles Ardai's Death Comes Too Late

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty

21. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more

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16 Top fiction books like Death Comes Too Late by Charles Ardai

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The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Max Allan Collins

4.01

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Harlan Ellison

3.50

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Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17)

Ed McBain

3.51

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Ray Bradbury

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C.J. Box

4.36

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Craig Johnson

4.37

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James Lee Burke

4.07

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Randy Wayne White

4.23

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