14 must-read crime books like Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

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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…

If you liked the crime plot in Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) by Richard Stark

1. Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

By: Richard Stark

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes mystery master Donald E. Westlake is the author of uproarious crime capers. Sometimes he … read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23) book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

2. 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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3. Quarry's List (Quarry, #2)

By: Max Allan Collins

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Killer-for-hire Quarry is trying to lie low when he gets a midnight visit from two other gunmen sen… read more

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4. 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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5. Quarry (Quarry, #1)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Broker deals in murder on the open market with the assistance of a highly paid precise killer named… read more

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6. Fools Die On Friday

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

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7. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • action
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Gangland by Chuck Hogan

8. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Hogan's Gangland book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime) by Jason Starr

10. The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime)

By: Jason Starr

3.64

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

DYING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING. Steven Blitz didn't think about his own safety when he saw the man… read more

Similar categories in Jason Starr's The Next Time I Die (Hard Case Crime) book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Five Decembers by James Kestrel

11. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical 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

Cover of Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

12. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
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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

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • pulp
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Too Many Bullets

By: Max Allan Collins

4.16

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, r… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's Too Many Bullets book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. 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

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma

17. Are Snakes Necessary?

By: Brian De Palma

3.22

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

When the beautiful young videographer offered to join his campaign, Senator Lee Rogers should’ve kn… read more

Similar categories in Brian De Palma's Are Snakes Necessary? book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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18. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

Cover of Joe Hustle by Richard Lange

19. Joe Hustle

By: Richard Lange

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Joe Hustle has never had much luck—but things start looking up when he meets an intriguing new woma… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lange's Joe Hustle book and Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road

  • crime
  • fiction

14 must-read fiction books like Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

Transform Your Habits

Ask The Parrot (Parker, #23)

Richard Stark

3.89

Transform Your Habits

City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Gangland

Chuck Hogan

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes Too Late

Charles Ardai

4.26

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12 Best fiction books like Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

Transform Your Habits

Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

Transform Your Habits

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

Donald E. Westlake , Tucker Coe

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Wrong Quarry (Quarry #11)

Max Allan Collins

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe

Erle Stanley Gardner

4.33

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