21 must-read fiction books like Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak

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Charlesgate Confidential

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.10

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

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

"I’ve got the Halloween soundtrack here somewhere,"

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

"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

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

-Scott Von Doviak, Charlesgate Confidential

If you liked the fiction plot in Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) by Ariel S. Winter

1. The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108)

By: Ariel S. Winter

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH A breathtaking first novel written in the form… read more

Similar categories in Ariel S. Winter's The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Forever and a Death by Donald E. Westlake, Jeff Kleeman

2. Forever and a Death

By: Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. We… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Forever and a Death book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. Big Trouble

By: Dave Barry

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold d… read more

Similar categories in Dave Barry's Big Trouble book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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4. Turn on the Heat

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Erle Stanley Gardner's Turn on the Heat book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

5. Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Small-time stoolie, Jake "The Spinner" Jablon, made a lot of new enemies when he switched careers, … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) by Chester Himes

6. A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1)

By: Chester Himes

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Rage in Harlemis a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling N… read more

Similar categories in Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem (Harlem Cycle, #1) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of False Negative (Hard Case Crime #107) by Joseph Koenig

7. False Negative (Hard Case Crime #107)

By: Joseph Koenig

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Koenig's False Negative (Hard Case Crime #107) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) by Richard Stark

8. The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

By: Richard Stark

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When it comes to heists, Parker believes in some cardinal rules. On this job, he breaks two of them… read more

Similar categories in Richard Stark's The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
"Parker spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle."

-Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (Parker, #9)

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

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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11. 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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12. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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)

13. 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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14. Help, I Am Being Held Prisoner

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Westlake pens another comedy caper of seven men who have the perfect alibi--they are in jail. The c… read more

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

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.86

Format: 144 pages,

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16. God Save the Mark

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc… read more

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17. 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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Cover of City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) by Don Winslow

18. 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 Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • crime
Cover of In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder, #3) by Lawrence Block

19. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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)

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20. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's An Honest Man book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

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

21. 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 Charlesgate Confidential

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

22. 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 Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • 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

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 Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak

24. 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 Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • art
  • thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • action
  • 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

Cover of Are Snakes Necessary? by Brian De Palma

25. 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 Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Dark Ride by Lou Berney

26. 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 Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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 Double Feature by Donald E. Westlake

27. Double Feature

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Donald E. Westlake was also an Academy Award Nominee—for th… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Double Feature book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk."

-Donald E. Westlake, Double Feature

Cover of The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) by Robert Silverberg

28. The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime)

By: Robert Silverberg

3.31

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

A disgraced LA music star faces execution for a crime he didn't commit in the long-lost crime novel… read more

Similar categories in Robert Silverberg's The Hot Beat (Hard Case Crime) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • noir
Cover of So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) by Oakley Hall

29. So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime)

By: Oakley Hall

3.79

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

The legendary lost crime novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Oakley Hall, instructor of Ann Rice, Am… read more

Similar categories in Oakley Hall's So Many Doors (Hard Case Crime) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Who Sent Clement? (Clement, #1) by Keith A. Pearson

30. Who Sent Clement? (Clement, #1)

By: Keith A. Pearson

4.40

Format: 503 pages, Kindle Edition

Beth Baxter, owner of a not-very-successful book shop, is planning her marriage to Karl — or, at le… read more

Similar categories in Keith A. Pearson's Who Sent Clement? (Clement, #1) book and Scott Von Doviak's Charlesgate Confidential

  • mystery
  • fiction

22 Best mystery books like Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak

Transform Your Habits

The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108)

Ariel S. Winter

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake , Jeff Kleeman

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Big Trouble

Dave Barry

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Turn on the Heat

Erle Stanley Gardner

4.18

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Quarry's Ex (Quarry #10)

Max Allan Collins

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)

Robert B. Parker

3.92

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Killing Castro (Hard Case Crime #51)

Lawrence Block , Lee Duncan

4.14

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Ross Macdonald

3.58

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