James Ellroy
3.77 · 433 ratings
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Alan Bradley
3.96 · 397 ratings
fiction · murder · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · mystery · crime · historical · cozy · action-adventure · children · book · whodunit · thriller · young-adult · audiobook · suspense · humor · amateur-sleuth · 20th-century · middle-grade
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C.J. Sansom
4.17 · 232 ratings
fiction · mystery · crime · adult · historical · historical-fiction · book · audiobook · thriller · suspense · murder · spirituality · medieval · law-enforcement · religion · early-modern · politics · killer · action-adventure · drama
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Attica Locke
3.73 · 101 ratings
mystery · fiction · poc-mc · crime · adult · thriller · black-mc · female-author · law-enforcement · book · literary-fiction · poc-author · audiobook · suspense · murder · historical-fiction · racism · killer · family · drama
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Otakar Brousek ml.
4.06 · 59 ratings
action-adventure · epic · mystery · suspense · 20th-century · historical-fiction · audiobook · adult · historical · thriller · violent-conflict · crime · drama · literary-fiction · family · book · war · fiction · british-isles · political-intrigue
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Peter Bart
4.37 · 42 ratings
family · crime · drama · outlaws · urban · mystery · action-adventure · fiction · usa · epic · 20th-century · italy · noir · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · male-author · new-york-state · historical · adult · realistic
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Фредерик Форсайт
4.26 · 41 ratings
20th-century · assassins · dark · male-author · violent-conflict · historical · adult · noir · military · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · thriller · war · crime · drama · espionage · mystery · terrorism · action-adventure · fiction
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Gisela Stege
4.23 · 36 ratings
historical · thriller · assassinations · espionage · book · crime · action-adventure · fiction · humor · conspiracies · murder · mystery · philosophy · suspense · 20th-century · satire · assassins · military · audiobook · historical-fiction
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Татьяна Телегина
3.93 · 36 ratings
suspense · fiction · murder · mystery · urban · lgbtq · crime · drama · europe · university · dark-academia · adult · new-york-state · law-enforcement · female-author · historical-fiction · horror · italy · noir · 20th-century
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David Strathairn
4.14 · 28 ratings
dark · corruption · 20th-century · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · adult · historical · thriller · male-author · crime · drama · hard-boiled · true-crime · fiction · action-adventure · murder · mystery · substance-abuse · suspense
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Günther Frauenlob
3.61 · 28 ratings
survival · thriller · dark · killer · suspense · adult · journey · contemporary · audiobook · female-author · historical-fiction · hard-boiled · book · crime · drama · kidnapping · law-enforcement · literary-fiction · noir · psychological
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Maike Dörries
3.61 · 28 ratings
contemporary · crime · drama · hard-boiled · book · audiobook · kidnapping · literary-fiction · noir · fiction · action-adventure · murder · mystery · psychological · female-mc · suspense · thriller · killer · dark · journey
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Mario Colombo
3.96 · 28 ratings
adult · disaster · male-author · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · audiobook · contemporary · suicide · thriller · 20th-century · literary · suspense · travel · fiction · action-adventure · mystery · classics · crime · book · drama
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Neo Cirillo
3.96 · 28 ratings
book · historical-fiction · adult · crime · drama · suicide · thriller · action-adventure · mystery · fiction · classics · 20th-century · literary · suspense · travel · male-author · disaster · audiobook · contemporary · law-enforcement
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René Basilico
3.85 · 27 ratings
espionage · violent-conflict · thriller · drama · crime · literary-fiction · book · war · classics · fiction · action-adventure · mystery · plot-twist · suspense · political-intrigue · literary · 20th-century · historical-fiction · politics · military
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Mark Meadows
4.00 · 26 ratings
female-author · book · crime · family · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · whodunit · thriller · action-adventure · fiction · humor · classics · murder · mystery · literary · 20th-century · cozy · genre-crime · golden-age-mystery · killer
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Espen Sandvik
3.35 · 26 ratings
audiobook · crime · law-enforcement · book · literary-fiction · whodunit · thriller · fiction · murder · mystery · classics · investigator · literary · 20th-century · cozy · killer · adult · historical · suspense · female-author
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Geoff Wilkes
4.23 · 26 ratings
literary · 20th-century · politics · suspense · death · adult · historical · journey · audiobook · historical-fiction · male-author · literary-fiction · book · family · crime · drama · psychological · violent-conflict · war · ww2
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Jay Ryan
3.33 · 24 ratings
ww2 · audiobook · 21st-century · literary · cozy · suspense · young-adult · classics · literary-fiction · book · male-author · violent-conflict · historical · realistic · noir · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · thriller · 20th-century · sci-fi
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Samantha Bond
3.75 · 24 ratings
literary · 20th-century · mystery · cozy · golden-age-mystery · killer · suspense · adult · historical · audiobook · amateur-sleuth · female-author · gothic · book · crime · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · whodunit · thriller · action-adventure
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Katie Scarfe
3.79 · 24 ratings
adult · female-author · historical-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · law-enforcement · whodunit · literary · 20th-century · thriller · cozy · feminism · fiction · killer · suspense · murder · mystery · classics · female-mc · crime
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Nigel Carrington
3.79 · 24 ratings
gothic · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · victorian · historical · realistic · horror · law-enforcement · adult · thriller · dark · serial-killers · fiction · action-adventure · murder · mystery · crime · industrial-era · whodunit · 21st-century
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Andrew Hurley
3.96 · 24 ratings
fiction · substance-abuse · suspense · action-adventure · mystery · poc-mc · crime · drama · latinx-mc · book · literary-fiction · organized-crime · adult · historical · journey · male-author · historical-fiction · 21st-century · law-enforcement · audiobook
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애거서 크리스티
2.88 · 24 ratings
classics · 20th-century · golden-age-mystery · historical · adult · law-enforcement · female-author · noir · historical-fiction · thriller · crime · espionage · fiction · action-adventure · murder · mystery · political-intrigue · politics · literary · suspense
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Emma Stonex
3.60 · 20 ratings
historical-fiction · crime · book · drama · family · gothic · horror · literary-fiction · psychological · fiction · murder · mystery · thriller · ghosts · spooky · 20th-century · paranormal · magical-realism · grief · suspense
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Michael Kubiak
4.10 · 20 ratings
adult · historical · violent-conflict · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · military · audiobook · thriller · political-intrigue · suspense · fiction · nautical · action-adventure · mystery · outlaws · female-mc · crime · book · espionage · technothriller
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Burt Reynolds
4.10 · 20 ratings
fiction · suspense · 20th-century · audiobook · contemporary · law-enforcement · thriller · adult · book · hard-boiled · crime · investigator · action-adventure · murder · mystery
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Phillip Franks
4.00 · 20 ratings
book · female-author · historical-fiction · audiobook · adult · historical · horror · law-enforcement · british-isles · police-procedural · cozy · genre-crime · golden-age-mystery · killer · literary · 20th-century · united-kingdom · whodunit · classics · england
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Fenella Woolgar
3.85 · 20 ratings
classics · murder · mystery · fiction · anthologies · season-winter · literary-fiction · crime · audiobook · thriller · law-enforcement · female-author · historical-fiction · whodunit · historical · adult · killer · cozy · suspense · 20th-century
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