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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Lawrence Block · 227 pages
Artemis Fowl
Eoin Colfer · 288 pages
Artemis Fowl is the first of a series of semi-realist novels produced by Eoin Colfer. They document the adventures of a precocious prodigal child of the criminal empire, Artemis Fowl. In this book, accompanied by his huge and loyal bodyguard/sidekick/advisor Butler, Artemis engages in a series of surreal activities; the absence of his missing father and the mental disorder of his mother allow him
Be Cool
Elmore Leonard · 304 pages
After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loan-shark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer is desperate for another hit... of the celluloid sort. When a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a hit of the bullet-in-the-brain variety while they're power-lunching, Chili begins to see all kinds of story possibilities. The whacked recording company mogul's midday demise is leading Chili into the
The 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.
Something Missing
Matthew Dicks · 304 pages
A career criminal with OCD tendencies and a savant-like genius for bringing order to his crime scenes, Martin considers himself one of the best in the business. Of course, he only takes items that will go unnoticed by the homeowners. Even though he has never met these homewoners, he's spent hours in their houses, looking through their photo albums and reading their journals. He's developed a frien
Red Seas Under Red Skies
Scott Lynch · 588 pages
In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off.After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidek
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
Bloodthirsty
Marshall Karp · 375 pages
It's a bloodthirsty town, Hollywood. No matter how popular you are, there's always someone who'd be happier if you were dead. And in some cases, you can be such a bastard, everyone would be happier if you were dead. Barry Gerber, one of the most hated men in Hollywood, is a no-show for a red carpet event. The next morning he turns up dead, killed in such a bizarre way that neither Detectives Mike
The Big Bamboo
Tim Dorsey · 381 pages
Serge A. Storms returns! The world's most lovable serial killer is back, bringing together an Oscar-worthy cast of Sunshine State nut jobs with his insatiable passion for All Things Florida.During this latest cavalcade of nonstop felonies -- from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale to Orlando -- Serge finds time to resurrect his obsession with movies, particularly those showcasing his beloved home state. And
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 220 pages
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
Death Masks
Jim Butcher · 416 pages
Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, is hired by a mysterious priest to find the stolen shroud of Turin.
Hollywood Station
Joseph Wambaugh · 392 pages
Under the leadership of their sergeant, known as "The Oracle," the crew of the LAPD's Hollywood Station take on their toughest case yet as they deal with the Russian mob, diamonds, counterfeiting, and grenades.
Absolute Power
David Baldacci · 528 pages
In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman are about to embark on a night of passion, trapping an unsuspecting burglar behind a secret wall. Then the lovemaking turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal slaying involving the president of the United States. Luther Whitney is the career break-in artist who’s i
The Sacred Art of Stealing
Christopher Brookmyre · 416 pages
The Black Dahlia
James Ellroy · 364 pages
The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.
Enter The Saint
Leslie Charteris · 303 pages
> On the side of the law and yet outside it, here is the Saint at his ebullient best - and his ruthless enemies: > The Soho vice king who couldn't help winning - until he crossed swords with the Saint; >the murderous 'Spider' and his hoard of diamonds, buried for seven years on Dartmoor; >'Straight' Audrey alias the Countess Marova - and the yacht-load of millionaires she planned to fleece off
Quinn Checks In
L.H. Thomson · 191 pages
Ex-con and art forger Liam Quinn is back in Philly, up to his neck in miffed family members, suspicious police officers and a best friend he's secretly crazy about -- and who may or may not feel the same. His old man -- a veteran cop -- has pulled some strings, landing Quinn a job as a freelance insurance investigator. When a gallery heist isn't what it seems and crooks start returning stolen pain
Citizen Vince
Jess Walter · 304 pages
Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant in the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician's troubles.