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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Job
Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg · 320 pages
The FBI had one demand when they secretly teamed up Special Agent Kate O'Hare with charming con man Nicolas Fox -- bring down the world's most-wanted and untouchable felons. This time it's the brutal leader of a global drug-smuggling empire. The FBI doesn't know what their target looks like, where he is, or how to find him, but Nick Fox has a few tricks up his sleeve to roust this particular Knips
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
Malcolm Mackay · 311 pages
"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step
House of Thieves
Charles Belfoure · 485 pages
When his son racks up an impossible gambling debt to a notorious gang in nineteenth-century New York, John Cross uses his inside knowledge of high-society mansions and museums to craft a perfect heist.
Prince of Thieves
Chuck Hogan · 400 pages
Claire Keesey finds herself attracted to two men--Doug MacRay, the leader of a crew of criminals and bank robbers, and FBI agent Adam Frawley--but her relationships are complicated by Frawley's plans to eliminate Boston's criminal element.
What's The Worst That Could Happen?
Donald E. Westlake · 373 pages
It started with a ring. A cheap ring. The yellow metal said brass, not gold, and the sparkly bits were certainly not diamonds. But the ring belonged to May's horse-playing uncle, who swore it brought good luck. Dortmunder, who wouldn't kick a little good luck out of bed, puts it to the test when he goes to burglarize Long Island billionaire Max Fairbanks. As luck would have it, Dortmunder is greet
The Outfit
Richard Stark · 157 pages
You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guards. Lagging a few car lengths behind the Brinks truck on its daily rounds. Surreptitiously jiggling the handle of an unmarked service door at the racetrack. They'r
Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit
Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark · 152 pages
Using a Nebraska plastic surgeon to create a new face, Parker, a master thief, plots revenge on the Outfit, an organization that is trying to kill him, as he sets up robberies in Outfit territory and waits for a confrontation with the head boss.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch · 512 pages
"HIGH-OCTANE FANTASY...A CREAT SWASHBUCKLING YARN OF A NOVEL." -Richard Morgan In this stunning debut, Scott Lynch delivers the thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his tightly knit band of tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of adventure, loyalty, and survival that is one part "Robin Hood," one part Ocean's El
Swag
Elmore Leonard · 240 pages
The smallest of small-time criminals, Ernest Stickley Jr. figures his luck's about to change when Detroit used car salesman Frank Ryan catches him trying to boost a ride from Ryan's lot. Frank's got some surefire schemes for getting rich quick--all of them involving guns--and all Stickley has to do is follow "Ryan's Rules" to share the wealth. But sometimes rules need to be bent, maybe even broken
The Big Knockover and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett · 414 pages
Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo · 560 pages
Crooked Kingdom is a fantasy novel written by Leigh Bardugo.The book is set in a world loosely inspired by 20th century Europe.Crooked Kingdom takes place days after the events of the first book, Six of Crows, finishes.The plot is told from the close third-person viewpoints of six different characters, plus a first and last chapter from two minor characters' points of view.
L.A. Outlaws
T. Jefferson Parker · 372 pages
Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer.
The Rage
Gene Kerrigan · 304 pages
Vincent Naylor is a professional thief, as confident as he is reckless. Just ten days out of jail, and he's preparing his next robbery. Already, his plan is unravelling. While investigating the murder of a crooked banker, Detective Sergeant Bob Tidey gets a call from an old acquaintance, Maura Coady. The retired nun believes there's something suspicious happening in the Dublin backstreet where she
Porno
Irvine Welsh · 483 pages
some of the gang from trainspotting ten years on and as always dream up schemes to make a quick buck whilst doing there normal dodgy things and how their seperate lives entangle!
The Father
Anders Roslund, Stefan Thunberg · 540 pages
How does a child become a criminal? How does a father lose a son? An epic crime novel with the excitement of Jo Nesbo's Headhunters and the depth of We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Father is inspired by the extraordinary true story of three brothers who held Sweden ransom, committing ten audacious bank robberies over just two years. None had committed a crime before. All were under 24 years old.
Life Deluxe
Jens Lapidus · 533 pages
Recently released drug dealer Jorge plans an audacious final heist, unaware that he is being tailed by an undercover investigator, a reckless partier, and an adversary who would take down crime boss Radovan Kranjic.
Blue Lightning
Ann Cleeves · 368 pages
In the fourth book of Ann Cleeves' critically acclaimed series set in the Shetland Islands, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez brings his fiancée home to Fair Isle, a birder's paradise, where strangers are viewed with suspicions and distrust. When a woman's body is discovered at the island's bird observatory, the investigation is hampered by a raging storm that renders the island totally isolated. Ji