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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorWhisky from Small Glasses
Denzil Meyrick, D.A. Meyrick · 368 pages
Dark Blood
Stuart MacBride · 487 pages
"Martin Knox has served his time, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, he was convicted of the brutal rape and abduction of a sixty eight year old man, but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle and make a new start. Or so he says. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settl
The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories
Dashiell Hammett · 189 pages
The Damage Done
James Oswald · 453 pages
When an Edinburgh Police Vice Squad raid goes embarrassingly awry, Inspector Tony McLean is confronted by something he had thought long buried. Haunted by the echoes of an old case, the memories won't fade as McLean struggles to piece together the elusive connections between a series of strange and gruesome deaths shocking the city. The investigation draws him ever deeper into the upper echelons o
Suicide Run: Three Harry Bosch Stories
Michael Connelly
Payment in Blood
Elizabeth George · 374 pages
Detective Thomas Lynley and his partner are called in to investigate the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair at an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands.
The Red Road
Denise Mina · 293 pages
Police detective Alex Morrow has met plenty of unsavory characters in her line of work, but arms dealer Mark Lynch ranks among the most brutal and damaged of the criminals she's known. Morrow is serving as a witness in Lynch's trial, where the case hinges on his fingerprints found on the guns he sells. When the investigation leads to a privileged Scottish lawyer who's expecting to be assassinated
The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories Plus a Complete Novel
Arthur Conan Doyle · 636 pages
Cold Grave
Craig Robertson · 456 pages
Even the coldest case will eventually crack. November 1993. A young man and woman walk across ice to the island of Inchmahome. Only the man comes back. In the spring the unidentifiable remains of the body of a girl, her skull crushed, are discovered. Detective Alan Narey is still haunted by the unsolved crime.
Skinner's Festival
Quintin Jardine · 310 pages
The Blackhouse
Peter May · 501 pages
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis with the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin MacLeod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his troubled past. Every step in solving the murder takes him closer to a dange
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
A Long Line of Dead Men
Lawrence Block · 320 pages
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #12. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so close to literature that often there's no degree of difference" (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
Out of Bounds
Val McDermid · 448 pages
"When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. It's a cold case that should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen is mired in grief and guilt after the death of her partner. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to another mystery that she has
Where the Bodies Are Buried
Christopher Brookmyre · 344 pages
"When small-time heroin dealer Jai McDiarmid turns up dead one fine Glasgow morning, no one is that surprised. A heroin dealer openly sleeping with a big-time drug trafficker's girlfriend, Jai had made a lot of enemies in a city with little patience for those stirring up trouble. As a result, Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod has no shortage of early leads on the case when she is assigned
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Walter Mosley · 320 pages