AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Square of Revenge

Pieter Aspe · back to the book

What’s in it

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

24 books with the same feel

Hide books by the same author
❤️

A Reason to Live

Matthew Iden · 342 pages

In the late nineties, a bad cop killed a good woman and DC Homicide detective Marty Singer watched the murderer walk out of the courtroom a free man. Twelve years later, the victim's daughter begs for help: the killer is stalking her now. Marty has retired to battle cancer, but helping her could give his own life new meaning. A second shot at the killer... and a first chance at redemption....

Revenge PlotDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrime
❤️

The Cold Dish

Craig Johnson

Detective ProtagonistCrimeRevenge PlotLaw Enforcement
❤️

Cross

James Patterson · 400 pages

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods.Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's s

Revenge PlotCrimeDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
❤️

The Fifth Woman

Henning Mankell · 448 pages

When a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander must discover how these seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before the killer strikes again.

CrimeRevenge PlotDetective ProtagonistLaw Enforcement
❤️

Camille

Pierre Lemaitre · 316 pages

Anne Forestier finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time when she blunders into a raid on a jeweller's on the Champs-Elysees. Shot three times, she is lucky to survive - and morbidly unlucky to remember the face of her assailant. Followed home from her hospital bed, Anne is in grave danger. But one thing stands in her favour - a dangerously vengeful partner, carrying the scars of devastat

Revenge PlotLaw EnforcementDetective ProtagonistCrime
❤️

A Florentine Death

Michele Giuttari · 358 pages

Michele Ferrara, head of Florence's elite police force, knows that the beautiful surface of his adopted city hides dark undercurrents. And when a spate of brutal murders hits the city, his beliefs are confirmed. It seems that a deadly serial killer is at work and Ferrara, distrusted by his superiors and pilloried by the press, finds time running out as questions pile up. He doesn't understand what

Detective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrimeMystery
❤️

Dance of Death

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 580 pages

Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal.An undying hatred between them.Now, a perfect crime.And the ultimate challenged: Stop me if you can.

Revenge PlotLaw EnforcementDetective ProtagonistCrime
❤️

The Redeemer

Jo Nesbo · 573 pages

"One night in Oslo, Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground. Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he has shot the wrong man, Harry Hole's troubles have only just begun. After some exceptionally shre

Detective ProtagonistCrimeRevenge PlotLaw Enforcement
❤️

Livia Lone

Barry Eisler · 358 pages

Seattle PD sex-crimes detective and former human-trafficking victim Livia Lone must relive the horrors of the past when she gets a fresh lead as to the whereabouts of her little sister, Nason.

Revenge PlotDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrime
❤️

Kindred in Death

J.D. Robb · 416 pages

A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death When the newly promoted captain of the NYPSD and his wife return a day early from their vacation, they were looking forward to spending time with their bright and vivacious sixteen-year-old daughter who had stayed behind. Not even their worst nightmares could have prepared them for the crime scene that awaited them instead. Brutally murdered in her bedroom

Revenge PlotDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrime
❤️

Dead Man's Time

Peter James · 505 pages

"New York, 1922. Five-year-old Gavin Daly and his seven-year-old sister, Aileen, are boarding the SS Mauretania to Dublin--and safety. Their mother has been shot and their Irish mobster father abducted. Suddenly, a messenger hands Gavin a piece of paper on which are written four names and eleven numbers, a cryptic message that will haunt him all his life, and his father's pocket watch. As the ship

Revenge PlotDetective ProtagonistCrimeLaw Enforcement
❤️

Echo Burning

Lee Child · 420 pages

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking

Detective ProtagonistCrimeRevenge PlotLaw Enforcement
❤️

Shadow Prey

John Sandford · 358 pages

Revenge PlotDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrime
❤️

Batman: The Long Halloween

Jeph Loeb · 369 pages

Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.

Detective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrimeRevenge Plot
❤️

The Frozen Dead

Bernard Minier · 496 pages

"In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is b

Revenge PlotCrimeDetective ProtagonistMystery
❤️

Turnstone

Graham Hurley · 368 pages

Detective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrimeMystery
❤️

Cold Granite

Stuart MacBride · 458 pages

The debut thriller from a bright new Scottish talent set to rival Ian Rankin.It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.If that wasn't enough, Logan

Detective ProtagonistCrimeLaw EnforcementMystery
❤️

The Black Echo / The Poet

Michael Connelly

Detective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrimeMystery
❤️

In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball · 186 pages

Detective ProtagonistCrimeLaw EnforcementMystery
❤️

The Blue Hour

T. Jefferson Parker · 480 pages

Detective ProtagonistCrimeLaw EnforcementMystery
❤️

Flesh & Blood

John Harvey · 345 pages

Retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder is pulled back into a 14-year-old unsolved mystery when a possible suspect is released from prison, and another girl is found dead.

Detective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementCrimeMystery
❤️

Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan · 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.

Detective ProtagonistCrimeRevenge PlotMystery
❤️

An Accidental Death

Peter Grainger

Detective ProtagonistCrimeLaw EnforcementMystery
❤️

Broken Silence

Danielle Ramsay · 416 pages

CrimeDetective ProtagonistLaw EnforcementMystery

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.