18 Top mystery thriller books like City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) by Michael    Connelly

2. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

3. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

Cover of Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) by John Sandford

4. Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

By: John Sandford

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest p… read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's A Calamity of Souls book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2) by John Sandford

6. Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2)

By: John Sandford

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

First, "Investigator,' now 'Dark Angel.' A stunning new series from John Sandford. This time we … read more

Similar categories in John Sandford's Dark Angel (Letty Davenport, #2) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) by John Grisham

7. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

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

8. 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

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

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

9. 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 Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Heat 2

By: Michael Mann

4.26

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more

Similar categories in Michael Mann's Heat 2 book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

11. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

Similar categories in David McCloskey's Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

12. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

Cover of City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) by Don Winslow

13. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • science fiction fantasy
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

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 Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

15. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

Cover of Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

16. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2) by Brian Panowich

17. Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2)

By: Brian Panowich

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Clayton Burroughs is sheriff of Bull Mountain and last surviving member of the brutal and blood-ste… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Like Lions (Bull Mountain, #2) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Dark Ride by Lou Berney

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 Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • 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 Fixit (IQ, #6) by Joe Ide

19. Fixit (IQ, #6)

By: Joe Ide

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment in Joe Ide's "superb" series ( Washington Post ), the relentless, hard-bi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Fixit (IQ, #6) book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of City In Ruins by Winslow Don

20. City In Ruins

By: Winslow Don

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Winslow Don's City In Ruins book and Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

  • fiction

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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4.56

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Paul Vidich

3.96

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4.29

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David Ignatius

4.10

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