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Caimh McDonnell
117 ratings 4.32 ·
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · book · humor · contemporary · audiobook · law-enforcement · police-procedural · dark-humor · male-author · literary-fiction · comedy · suspense · action-adventure · thriller · noir · hard-boiled · poc-mc
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Louise Penny
685 ratings 4.22 ·
contemporary · suspense · fiction · murder · adult · audiobook · book · crime · cozy · police-procedural · law-enforcement · killer · whodunit · mystery · thriller · female-author · 21st-century · literary-fiction · family · friendship
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Robert Galbraith
225 ratings 4.13 ·
book · contemporary · suspense · action-adventure · audiobook · fiction · mystery · crime · realistic · whodunit · death · law-enforcement · killer · 21st-century · murder · investigator · drama · adult · female-author · thriller
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Nicole Trope
113 ratings 4.11 ·
book · fiction · psychological · adult · contemporary · suspense · female-mc · crime · literary-fiction · mystery · thriller · domestic-drama · breakup · family · audiobook · dark · friendship · drama · killer · sad
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Suzanne Redfearn
128 ratings 4.06 ·
contemporary · family · audiobook · fiction · female-mc · suspense · book · friendship · literary-fiction · crime · womens-fiction · mystery · action-adventure · drama · adult · romance · coming-of-age · young-adult · new-adult · death
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
310 ratings 4.00 ·
historical · action-adventure · suspense · magical-realism · fiction · historical-fiction · mystery · gothic · fantasy · audiobook · drama · horror · dark · 20th-century · book · literary-fiction · young-adult · urban-fantasy · crime · paranormal
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Kate Morton
246 ratings 3.99 ·
mystery · suspense · book · family · audiobook · historical · historical-fiction · womens-fiction · literary-fiction · gothic · fiction · 20th-century · female-author · adult · crime · drama · romance · realistic · friendship · 21st-century
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John Hart
160 ratings 3.99 ·
crime · drama · thriller · mystery · book · adult · fiction · psychological · audiobook · killer · family · suspense · literary-fiction · murder · contemporary · law-enforcement · action-adventure · abuse · dark · gothic
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Jane Harper
176 ratings 3.97 ·
book · suspense · fiction · murder · mystery · adult · crime · drama · contemporary · family · whodunit · law-enforcement · killer · death · audiobook · psychological · female-author · thriller · journey · literary-fiction
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Natalie Barelli
173 ratings 3.96 ·
psychological · audiobook · suspense · book · thriller · adult · crime · fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · female-mc · mystery · drama · murder · domestic-drama · cheating · revenge · action-adventure · family · humor
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Lyndsay Faye
132 ratings 3.92 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · historical-fiction · book · historical · suspense · adult · audiobook · industrial-era · lgbtq · literary-fiction · action-adventure · murder · female-author · victorian · thriller · urban · law-enforcement · retellings
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Fred Vargas
218 ratings 3.90 ·
book · fiction · murder · mystery · thriller · adult · crime · law-enforcement · noir · audiobook · contemporary · police-procedural · suspense · literary-fiction · 21st-century · supernatural · female-author · 20th-century · europe · ghosts
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Alex Michaelides
106 ratings 3.89 ·
contemporary · book · suspense · psychological · fiction · thriller · adult · mental-illness · dark-academia · realistic · murder · mystery · spooky · literary-fiction · drama · dark · killer · horror · law-enforcement · crime
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Heather Gudenkauf
264 ratings 3.88 ·
suspense · contemporary · audiobook · fiction · psychological · crime · mystery · book · drama · thriller · literary-fiction · family · murder · killer · adult · female-mc · realistic · small-town · young-adult · womens-fiction
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Stuart Turton
131 ratings 3.88 ·
mystery · supernatural · fiction · adult · horror · paranormal · book · suspense · murder · magical-realism · literary-fiction · crime · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · action-adventure · spooky · gothic · dark · killer
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Tana French
331 ratings 3.88 ·
crime · literary-fiction · thriller · mystery · book · fiction · audiobook · law-enforcement · suspense · contemporary · drama · 21st-century · death · realistic · adult · female-author · murder · psychological · dark · killer
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Beatriz Williams
393 ratings 3.88 ·
fiction · adult · historical-fiction · historical · book · mystery · womens-fiction · 20th-century · audiobook · romance · family · literary-fiction · drama · female-mc · crime · action-adventure · war · suspense · violent-conflict · ww2
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Peter Heller
166 ratings 3.84 ·
fiction · literary-fiction · adult · drama · outdoors · audiobook · contemporary · book · suspense · mystery · crime · action-adventure · thriller · 21st-century · realistic · animals · psychological · horror · survival · season-summer
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Amy Engel
104 ratings 3.84 ·
audiobook · fiction · family · book · suspense · drama · female-mc · murder · contemporary · action-adventure · young-adult · horror · new-adult · mystery · thriller · crime · literary-fiction · coming-of-age · apocalyptic · dark
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Rosamund Lupton
103 ratings 3.83 ·
book · contemporary · suspense · mystery · psychological · fiction · literary-fiction · adult · thriller · crime · drama · female-author · family · female-mc · season-winter · audiobook · action-adventure · medical · realistic · grief
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Paul Cleave
118 ratings 3.82 ·
book · suspense · fiction · thriller · crime · mystery · audiobook · adult · serial-killers · murder · literary-fiction · law-enforcement · horror · killer · contemporary · psychological · police-procedural · young-adult · family · new-zealand
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John le Carré
695 ratings 3.82 ·
political-intrigue · espionage · fiction · adult · thriller · suspense · book · crime · action-adventure · audiobook · politics · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · contemporary · war · 20th-century · violent-conflict · classics · literary · cold-war
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Martin Suter
106 ratings 3.78 ·
contemporary · book · fiction · mystery · adult · audiobook · literary-fiction · crime · male-author · classics · literary · suspense · humor · thriller · drama · action-adventure · mental-illness · myths · satire · europe
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J.P. Delaney
134 ratings 3.76 ·
adult · crime · mystery · psychological · thriller · fiction · audiobook · suspense · book · drama · horror · contemporary · literary-fiction · domestic-drama · secrets · dark · female-mc · murder · unreliable-narrator · europe
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Ruth Ware
307 ratings 3.74 ·
thriller · fiction · suspense · crime · adult · psychological · book · murder · audiobook · contemporary · killer · literary-fiction · drama · mystery · horror · female-author · female-mc · death · dark · 21st-century
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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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Juli Zeh
130 ratings 3.73 ·
contemporary · book · adult · fiction · audiobook · crime · literary-fiction · mystery · female-author · suspense · drama · politics · sci-fi · 21st-century · dystopia · humor · psychological · philosophy · satire · terrorism
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Bret Easton Ellis
236 ratings 3.59 ·
book · literary · classics · literary-fiction · crime · mystery · contemporary · audiobook · dark · psychological · fiction · horror · drama · transgressive-mc · satire · substance-abuse · cults · lgbtq · postmodernism · spirituality
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