9 must-read noir books like Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor

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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…

If you liked the noir plot in Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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2. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • 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

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3. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's My Darkest Prayer book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Powers's A Line in the Sand book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

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11. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like wh… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's The Last King of California book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more

Similar categories in Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • noir
  • 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

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18. Panther Gap

By: James A. McLaughlin

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"Chock-full of adventure, runs the gamut on the human experience....One hell of a good yarn.” ―Davi… read more

Similar categories in James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap book and Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He says when you despair you're just admitting you fell for the happy horseshit in the first place."

-James A. McLaughlin, Panther Gap

Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

19. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

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Nothing but the Bones

Brian Panowich

4.16

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Michael Koryta

4.13

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Stephen King

4.32

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Tananarive Due

4.47

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4.42

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