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Patricia Loofbourrow
7 ratings 4.14 ·
adult · crime · industrial-era · steampunk · fiction · historical · sci-fi · noir · book · mystery · suspense · historical-fiction · female-author · justice · apocalyptic · paranormal · urban-fantasy · female-mc · organized-crime · hard-boiled
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Donald Ray Pollock
64 ratings 4.06 ·
historical-fiction · horror · dark · noir · southern-gothic · audiobook · fiction · transgressive-mc · mystery · crime · drama · gothic · literary-fiction · adult · rural · historical · male-author · 21st-century · humor · realistic
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Alan Parks
31 ratings 4.03 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · police-procedural · book · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · noir · dark · scotland · thriller · murder · europe · organized-crime · urban · historical · 21st-century · british-isles · audiobook
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Leonardo Padura
78 ratings 4.01 ·
book · adult · crime · mystery · fiction · noir · historical-fiction · 20th-century · literary-fiction · journey · historical · law-enforcement · action-adventure · drama · audiobook · police-procedural · ww2 · cuba · norway · religion
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Ray Celestin
46 ratings 4.00 ·
mystery · fiction · organized-crime · adult · thriller · crime · book · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · murder · noir · southern-gothic · investigator · suspense · urban · hard-boiled · gothic · season-summer
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Annelie Wendeberg
99 ratings 3.99 ·
fiction · book · adult · crime · literary-fiction · mystery · historical · historical-fiction · noir · action-adventure · victorian · audiobook · industrial-era · murder · suspense · sci-fi · organized-crime · survival · dystopia · apocalyptic
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II
26 ratings 3.96 ·
book · fiction · adult · noir · historical-fiction · crime · politics · mystery · law-enforcement · historical · hard-boiled · contemporary · espionage · 20th-century · violent-conflict · ww2 · political-intrigue · supernatural · epic · revolution
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Nelson Algren
42 ratings 3.95 ·
classics · mystery · literary · fiction · literary-fiction · adult · crime · noir · historical-fiction · book · 20th-century · substance-abuse · audiobook · male-author · historical · urban · spirituality · organized-crime · psychological · murder
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Volker Kutscher
48 ratings 3.92 ·
urban · western-central-europe · europe · mystery · fiction · thriller · adult · crime · noir · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · 20th-century · ww2 · police-procedural · book · audiobook · germany · historical · murder · whodunit
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Eric Ambler
54 ratings 3.91 ·
noir · literary · action-adventure · classics · suspense · book · 20th-century · adult · literary-fiction · crime · thriller · fiction · historical · political-intrigue · espionage · historical-fiction · ww2 · politics · audiobook · cold-war
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Philip Kerr
402 ratings 3.90 ·
book · fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · adult · thriller · audiobook · political-intrigue · historical-fiction · historical · espionage · 20th-century · noir · law-enforcement · violent-conflict · ww2 · war · action-adventure · murder
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Tom Franklin
90 ratings 3.85 ·
adult · crime · gothic · literary-fiction · fiction · mystery · southern-gothic · historical-fiction · dark · noir · book · historical · audiobook · killer · rural · suspense · contemporary · drama · psychological · western
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Leonardo Sciascia
66 ratings 3.82 ·
fiction · mystery · organized-crime · adult · crime · book · 20th-century · literary · classics · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · noir · audiobook · literary-fiction · historical · contemporary · police-procedural · espionage · killer · political-intrigue
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James Ellroy
322 ratings 3.82 ·
crime · mystery · fiction · law-enforcement · noir · suspense · adult · hard-boiled · historical-fiction · book · thriller · historical · audiobook · 20th-century · politics · literary-fiction · dark · true-crime · police-procedural · classics
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Wiley Cash
64 ratings 3.81 ·
rural · audiobook · drama · adult · literary-fiction · fiction · mystery · suspense · book · family · southern-gothic · historical · historical-fiction · dark · noir · thriller · crime · gothic · domestic-drama · coming-of-age
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David Peace
104 ratings 3.78 ·
historical-fiction · adult · fiction · historical · book · 21st-century · audiobook · noir · crime · mystery · horror · law-enforcement · thriller · drama · true-crime · suspense · male-author · police-procedural · dark · killer
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Niklas Natt och Dag
43 ratings 3.74 ·
adult · crime · literary-fiction · fiction · historical · book · historical-fiction · horror · law-enforcement · drama · noir · thriller · mystery · audiobook · suspense · journey · action-adventure · murder · scandinavia · europe
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Daniel Woodrell
92 ratings 3.74 ·
noir · crime · gothic · literary-fiction · fiction · mystery · southern-gothic · audiobook · rural · family · book · contemporary · historical-fiction · dark · poverty · adult · thriller · substance-abuse · young-adult · coming-of-age
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Attica Locke
101 ratings 3.73 ·
fiction · suspense · book · poc-author · audiobook · poc-mc · black-mc · law-enforcement · thriller · female-author · literary-fiction · adult · crime · mystery · racism · killer · historical-fiction · murder · family · historical
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Graeme Macrae Burnet
78 ratings 3.73 ·
21st-century · audiobook · historical-fiction · adult · literary-fiction · thriller · fiction · psychological · mystery · historical · dark · noir · crime · drama · murder · suspense · book · police-procedural · death · law-enforcement
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Cecilia Ekbäck
47 ratings 3.70 ·
fiction · adult · historical · historical-fiction · noir · crime · mystery · suspense · book · action-adventure · spirituality · audiobook · horror · drama · journey · literary-fiction · female-author · murder · magical-realism · thriller
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Kerstin Ekman
46 ratings 3.70 ·
fiction · adult · female-author · book · historical-fiction · historical · noir · audiobook · mystery · romance · literary-fiction · drama · 20th-century · contemporary · literary · classics · season-winter · law-enforcement · dark · retellings
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M.R.C. Kasasian
48 ratings 3.69 ·
victorian · book · noir · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · cozy · humor · mystery · fiction · female-mc · crime · industrial-era · thriller · killer · murder · investigator · literary-fiction · adult
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Jacques Ravenne
22 ratings 3.64 ·
fiction · mystery · adult · historical-fiction · book · suspense · historical · murder · crime · ww2 · horror · noir · law-enforcement · 20th-century · politics · supernatural · conspiracies · religious · action-adventure · thriller
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Éric Giacometti
22 ratings 3.64 ·
mystery · suspense · historical · historical-fiction · book · adult · fiction · murder · horror · ww2 · noir · law-enforcement · 20th-century · crime · action-adventure · audiobook · politics · romantic-love · political-intrigue · violent-conflict
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Benjamin Black
130 ratings 3.55 ·
law-enforcement · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · mystery · fiction · adult · crime · book · suspense · noir · literary-fiction · thriller · ireland · 21st-century · europe · british-isles · family · murder · police-procedural
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Cathi Unsworth
10 ratings 3.50 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · female-author · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · noir · suspense · book · thriller · pulp · witches-wizards · supernatural · europe · hard-boiled · psychological · travel · historical · political-intrigue
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