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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorRed Iron Nights
Glen Cook · 270 pages
Midnight Riot
Ben Aaronovitch · 310 pages
"As a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic"--P. [4] of cover.
Bad Boy Brawly Brown
Walter Mosley · 320 pages
The Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett · 410 pages
Stolen Away
Max Allan Collins · 561 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
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
The Rainy City
Earl Emerson · 288 pages
Farewell, My Lovely
Raymond Chandler · 249 pages
This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
Soul Patch
Reed Farrel Coleman · 233 pages
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
Point of Hopes
Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett
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 from Zagreb
Philip Kerr · 421 pages
"From New York Times-bestselling author Philip Kerr, the much-anticipated return of Bernie Gunther in a series hailed by Malcolm Forbes as "the best crime novels around today." A beautiful actress, a rising star of the giant German film company UFA, now controlled by the Propaganda Ministry. The very clever, very dangerous Propaganda Minister-close confidant of Hitler, an ambitious schemer and fla
Sleeping Beauty
Ross Macdonald · 271 pages
Private detective Lew Archer challenges the power and ruthlessness of an oil dynasty responsible for a spill on the Southern California coast.
The Musgrave Ritual
Arthur Conan Doyle
Death on Deadline
Robert Goldsborough · 185 pages
Terrier
Tamora Pierce · 581 pages
BEKA COOPER IS a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and she's been assigned to the Lower City. It's a tough beat, but Beka can hear the voices of the dead on the wings of pigeons, and Beka's birds clue her in to two major murderers on the loose. The rest of the Guard is busy investigating the fire opal killer, so it's up to Beka to nab the Shadow Snake.Tamora Pierce begins a new Tortall trilogy int
Time to Depart
Lindsey Davis · 416 pages
From Wikipedia: " Set in Rome during AD 72, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the law which stated that no Roman citizen who had been sentenced to death might be arrested, even after the verdict, until he has been given time to depart, the idea being that for a Roman citizen to choose exile outside the boundaries of the Empire would have been
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
Thud!
Terry Pratchett · 398 pages
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, ou