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
Include books by the same authorThe Mortdecai Trilogy
Kyril Bonfiglioli · 528 pages
Les aventures aux quatre coins du monde de Charlie Mortdecai, un curieux marchand d'art entouré d'amis peu scrupuleux. Par chance, lorsqu'il est soupçonné dans des affaires de vol de tableau, de mariage par intérêt et d'assassinat de la reine d'Angleterre, cet aristocrate dégénéré et snob se sert de ses contacts avantageux au sein de la haute société londonienne pour sen tirer.
Screwed
Eoin Colfer · 307 pages
In Screwed, Colfer adds and entirely new chapter to the adventures and misadventures of Daniel McEvoy, the down-on-his-luck Irish bouncer at a seedy New Jersey bar who, with the help of a motley crew of unlikely characters, solved a bizarre string of murders--including the one of the girl he loved. But people around him continue to die mysteriously, and Daniel is called into action once again. Col
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
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
Benjamin Stevenson · 358 pages
Gun Street Girl
Adrian McKinty · 313 pages
"Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon
The Sacred Art of Stealing
Christopher Brookmyre · 416 pages
Butcher & Blackbird: The Ruinous Love Trilogy
Brynne Weaver · 351 pages
Every serial killer needs a friend. Every game must have a winner. When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive—the friendship of a like-minded, pitch-black soul. From small town West Virginia to upscale California, from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, o
The Rabbit Factory
Marshall Karp · 574 pages
Welcome to Familyland, an offshoot of Lamaar Studios. Once a small, Southern California animation house, it has grown into an entertainment conglomerate encompassing movies, television, music, video games, and a sprawling theme park.When an actor portraying Familyland's beloved mascot, Rambunctious Rabbit,is brutally murdered on park grounds, Lamaar executives are worried that the idyllic image of
Plum Island
Nelson DeMille · 574 pages
Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in rural eastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows is found shot to death on the family patio. The victims were biologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be an incubator for germ warfare. Suddenly, a local double murder takes on shattering global implications - and thrusts Corey and two extraor
The Silkworm
J.K. Rowling · 464 pages
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a
Get Shorty
Elmore Leonard · 304 pages
Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind -- plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars -- plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look -- seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste
The Thought Gang
Tibor Fischer · 310 pages
Eddie Coffin, a washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher, and Hubert, an incompetent, freshly-released one-armed armed robber, question the meaning of life, the value of money, and the role of banks as they wind their way from Montpelier to Toulon in search of the greatest heist in history.
Drowned Hopes
Donald E. Westlake · 437 pages
Tom Jimson, the burglar has $700,000 stashed away in a valley town, which has been converted into a reservoir, by the state of New York. Now, the money lies fifty feet below water and the only way in which Jim wants to retrieve it is to blow up the dam. With the fate of nine hundred people at stake, it falls on John Dortmunder to formulate an alternate plan for retrieving the loot. And, as each at
The Golem's Eye
Jonathan Stroud · 562 pages
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
Ten Big Ones
Janet Evanovich · 352 pages
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum witnesses a gang-executed robbery and police officer shooting and finds herself targeted by a California-based killer looking to claim the price that is subsequently placed on her head.
The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
Matt Dinniman · 544 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Welcome to the Iron Tangle! Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, have to team up with other contestants not just to survive, but to solve a deadly puzzle in this third, mind-twisting novel in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition. Earth has been transformed into the set of the galaxy’s most watched game show
Hollywood Hills
Joseph Wambaugh · 356 pages
A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on
Sick Puppy
Carl Hiaasen · 464 pages
When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction. He favors