14 must-read crime books like A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16) by Ken Bruen

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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…

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Cover of The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16) by James Lee Burke

1. The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)

By: James Lee Burke

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5) by Adrian McKinty

2. Rain Dogs (Detective Sean Duffy #5)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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3. Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1)

By: Adrian McKinty

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, … read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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4. Crusader's Cross (Dave Robicheaux, #14)

By: James Lee Burke

3.72

Format: 395 pages,

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux, #8)

By: James Lee Burke

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. The Bloomsday Dead (Michael Forsythe #3)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

In the heart-stopping finale of the Dead trilogy, tough guy Michael Forsythe -- bad-boy antihero of… read more

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

7. Strange Loyalties (Jack Laidlaw, #3)

By: William McIlvanney

4.14

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Detective Laidlaw investigates a case that hits home-his brother's seemingly random death. read more

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8. 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
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"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)

9. Laidlaw (Jack Laidlaw, #1)

By: William McIlvanney

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut i… read more

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10. The Fifth Woman (Kurt Wallander, #6)

By: Henning Mankell , Steven T. Murray

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Sixth in the Kurt Wallander series. In an African convent, four nuns and a unidentified fifth woman… read more

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11. A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy Book 1)

By: Caimh McDonnell

3.28

Format: 5 pages,

The First time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul… read more

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12. In the Drift

By: Michael Swanwick

4.06

Format: 32 pages,

The meltdown at Three Mile Island created the death zone known as the Drift, where the sky burned d… read more

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13. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.92

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more

Similar categories in Eva Björg Ægisdóttir's The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1) book and Ken Bruen's A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

14. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and Ken Bruen's A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

15. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16) by Ken Bruen

16. 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

Similar categories in Ken Bruen's A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16) book and Ken Bruen's A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16)

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

17. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Past Transgressions (Mason Nash #1) by Dave   Sinclair

18. Past Transgressions (Mason Nash #1)

By: Dave Sinclair

4.32

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Retired spy. Trained killing machine. Pacifist. Retired MI6 spy Mason Nash moved to a sleepy Eng… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1) by Liam McIlvanney

19. The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1)

By: Liam McIlvanney

4.10

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Quaker is watching you… It is 1969 and Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial kil… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of You Can't See Me (Forbidden Iceland, #4) by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

20. You Can't See Me (Forbidden Iceland, #4)

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

A wealthy Icelandic family gathers for a reunion in a remote hotel on the isolated lava fields, but… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Beyond the Bone by Reginald Hill

21. Beyond the Bone

By: Reginald Hill

3.69

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

A stolen skeleton leads to a web of “Those who treasure quirky characters, lively dialogue, and in… read more

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  • mystery

15 must-read fiction books like A Galway Epiphany (Jack Taylor #16) by Ken Bruen

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James Lee Burke

4.18

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Adrian McKinty

4.38

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Dead I Well May Be (Michael Forsythe #1)

Adrian McKinty

3.82

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James Lee Burke

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J.T. Sawyer

3.50

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4.32

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Blair Denholm

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Dan Klasing

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