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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Darkness More Than Night
Michael Connelly · 418 pages
Terrence McCaleb is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate a series of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings that McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More horrifying still, the suspect who seems to fit the profile
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 220 pages
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
A Savage Place
Robert B. Parker · 184 pages
The Drowning River
Christobel Kent · 309 pages
Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim's final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.
The Rainy City
Earl Emerson · 288 pages
Tahoe Blue Fire
Todd Borg · 351 pages
"The woman seemed paranoid. When Tahoe Detective Owen McKenna gets a call from a woman who's afraid for her life, it sounds like she is excessively paranoid. But the killer was dead serious. McKenna investigates and discovers that two other people have already died. He believes the killer is after something worth millions, a precious artifact that dates back to Renaissance Italy. The next potentia
Dead Wood
Dani Amore, Dan Ames · 258 pages
The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais · 245 pages
When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.
The Unquiet Heart
Gordon Ferris · 269 pages
"Danny McRae, private detective scraping a living in ration-card London. Eve Copeland, crime reporter, looking for new angles to save her career. It's an alliance made in heaven." "Until Eve disappears, a contact dies violently and an old adversary presents Danny with some unpalatable truths." "His desperate search for his lover draws him into a web of black marketeers, double agents and assassins
Death on Deadline
Robert Goldsborough · 185 pages
Soul Patch
Reed Farrel Coleman · 233 pages
Charcoal Joe
Walter Mosley · 320 pages
"Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin home"--
Stolen Away
Max Allan Collins · 561 pages
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie · 228 pages
Sixteen years after Caroline Crale has been convicted of the murder of her husband, Amyas Crale, her daughter, Carla Lemarchant, approaches Poirot to investigate the case. Poirot embarks optimistically upon an unprecedented challenge, but soon fears that the case may be as cut and dried as it had first appeared.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Douglas Adams · 276 pages
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163714W). It was followed by the [Salmon of Doubt](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163715W), an incomplete Dirk Gently novel included in a p
The Laws of Murder
Charles Finch · 366 pages
"It's 1876, and Charles Lenox, once London's leading private investigator, has just given up his seat in Parliament after six years, primed to return to his first love, detection. With high hopes he and three colleagues start a new detective agency, the first of its kind. But as the months pass, and he is the only detective who cannot find work, Lenox begins to question whether he can still play t
The Neruda Case
Roberto Ampuero · 340 pages
"Originally published in Spanish as El Caso Neruda by La otra orilla/Grupo Norma, Barcelona, Spain"-- "Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary. Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brule are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, readers are introduced to Cayetano as he ta
The Governor's Wife
Michael Harvey · 289 pages
Receiving a lucrative anonymous offer to track down an escaped criminal, private investigator Michael Kelly unwinds the past of the fugitive's wife, who harbors deeply complicated and dangerous reasons for standing by her husband. It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in
Too Many Women
Rex Stout · 192 pages
Detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin solve a series of crimes at a large corporation called Naylor-Kerr, which employs not only a large number of attractive, gossipy women, but also an apparent murderer. Archie takes an undercover job at Naylor-Kerr but quickly his cover is blown and his romantic life entangled.
The Lady Who Sang High
Renee Pawlish · 244 pages
Fade Away
Harlan Coben · 368 pages
For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present