AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
πŸ“š AmongReaders β€” track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Rare Coin Score

Richard Stark Β· back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❀ = this matters to me Β· tap again βœ• = don’t care Β· again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❀️

The Mourner

Richard Stark, John Banville Β· 160 pages

The fourth Parker novel has the main character coming up against the KGB while on the trail of a small statue stolen from a fifteenth-century French tomb.

Sparse ProseHeistAnti-HeroNoir
❀️

Flashfire

Richard Stark, Terry Teachout Β· 303 pages

HeistNoirSparse ProseAnti-Hero
❀️

The Sour Lemon Score

Richard Stark, Donald E. Westlake Β· 160 pages

After a four-way split following a job, George Uhl begins to pick off his fellow hoisters, one by one. His first mistake? He doesn't begin things by putting a bullet into Parker.

HeistSparse ProseAnti-HeroNoir
πŸ™‚

Cold Shot to the Heart

Wallace Stroby Β· 289 pages

Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They're the rules her mentor and lover taught her, rules he didn't follow as closely as he should've. Now he's up for parole, and Crissa needs to come up with

HeistNoirAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

The Name of The Game Is Death

Dan J. Marlowe Β· 137 pages

NoirAnti-HeroSparse ProseCrime
πŸ™‚

The Getaway

Jim Thompson Β· 179 pages

Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.

HeistAnti-HeroNoirCrime
πŸ™‚

Driven

James Sallis Β· 147 pages

Driver thinks he has settled into a normal life, but after his fiance e is killed he must confront his criminal past.

NoirSparse ProseAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

You Were Never Really Here

Jonathan Ames Β· 93 pages

Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of

NoirSparse ProseAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

Richard Stark's Parker: Slayground

Darwyn Cooke Β· 96 pages

Parker is put to the test against crooked cops and sleazy gangsters after a heist goes south. He finds himself trapped in an amusement park closed for the winter and embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse...a game that slowly starts to favor the mouse.

HeistNoirAnti-HeroSparse Prose
πŸ™‚

Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit

Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark Β· 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.

HeistAnti-HeroNoirCrime
πŸ™‚

Mask Market

Andrew Vachss Β· 241 pages

NoirAnti-HeroSparse ProseCrime
πŸ™‚

The Big Knockover and Other Stories

Dashiell Hammett Β· 414 pages

HeistNoirSparse ProseCrime
πŸ™‚

Ghostman

Roger Hobbs Β· 397 pages

Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identi

HeistAnti-HeroCrimeFast-Paced
πŸ™‚

The Sudden Arrival of Violence

Malcolm Mackay Β· 391 pages

It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two of Glasgow s biggest criminal organizations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest and bloodiest manoeuvres are yet to come.

NoirSparse ProseAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

Double Indemnity

James M. Cain Β· 144 pages

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.

Sparse ProseAnti-HeroNoirCrime
πŸ™‚

Quarry

Max Allan Collins Β· 218 pages

NoirAnti-HeroSparse ProseCrime
πŸ™‚

Suicide Hill

James Ellroy Β· 284 pages

NoirCrimeSparse ProseAnti-Hero
πŸ™‚

No Beast So Fierce

Edward Bunker Β· 301 pages

NoirAnti-HeroHeistCrime
πŸ™‚

Void Moon

Michael Connelly Β· 391 pages

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die. In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cas

HeistCrimeAnti-HeroFast-Paced
πŸ™‚

The Killing Of The Tinkers

Ken Bruen Β· 254 pages

Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish police, are reluctant to investigate.

NoirSparse ProseAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan Β· 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

NoirAnti-HeroCrimeFast-Paced
πŸ™‚

Pulp

Charles Bukowski Β· 192 pages

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M

Sparse ProseNoirAnti-HeroCrime
πŸ™‚

Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips Β· 432 pages

HeistNoirCrimeAnti-Hero
πŸ™‚

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy Β· 320 pages

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed *Border Trilogy.* The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in th

NoirSparse ProseCrimeFast-Paced
πŸ“– New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon β†—