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Readers who enjoyed Powers: Definitive Collection, Vol. 2 by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Revenge by Meredith Wild
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo one else can stop them… I’ve never loved Tristan more. I’ve never trusted him less. Is it murder in his eyes or just jealousy when he insists we’ll find answers in Boston, headquarters of one of our greatest enemies and home to the man I left back in Rio? I haven’t forgotten Kolt’s betrayal nor the blood that’s already been spilled between our families... -
The Red Ledger: 4 by Meredith Wild
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere’s no turning back…The second I spared Isabel’s life, everything changed. I used to deal in death wishes. Now the instinct to protect her charts the course. Because every time I turn away from her, something turns me back. She’s uncovered a side of me that I can no longer ignore. Doesn’t change the fact that she doesn’t belong in my world... -
Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDaddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table... -
The Depth of Darkness by L.T. Ryan, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Mitch Tanner's life hangs in the balance. He clings to the daughter in his care. He agonizes over the disappearance of his son and estranged wife. Twelve months has yet to turn up a solid lead.While investigating the apparent accidental death of Dusty Anne Miller, Mitch and his partner Sam Foster find themselves in the middle of a fiendish plan that strikes too close to home... -
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Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***THIS IS A TWO-BOOK BUNDLE*** COME – Dirty, Dark, and Deadly Book One THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A SERIES. THIS IS A NOVELLA. YOU WILL GET MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN THIS BOOK. IF YOU HATE THAT - SKIP THIS WHOLE SERIES COMPLETELY. (It's twisty, complicated, dark, dirty, and ALL the main characters are killers.) My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming... -
Blood Lies by Andrew Cunningham
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGunned down on a busy Boston street, bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer is left clinging to life. Media speculation suggests a deranged fan as the shooter. But was Sabrina really the intended target? For Del Honeycutt, a chilling link emerges between Sabrina’s shooting and that of his father’s murder three years earlier... -
Bone's Destiny by Naomi Porter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say don’t drink too much tequila... Funny, I can’t remember why.Oh, right… Or we’ll wake up chained to a wall.The scary-ass biker staring at me says I’m paying for my father’s debt.I’m devastated and scared.Utterly clueless about my dad’s dirty dealings.The tattooed, brooding biker isn’t helpful or friendly.He just watches me with those laser-gray eyes... -
Hideout at Whiskey Gulch by Elle James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe town's former bad boy...is aiding and abetting the lawAfter saving a woman and baby from would-be kidnappers, ex-marine Matt Hennessey discovers he and Aubrey Blanchard have much in common--starting over, painful pasts and an ice-cold murder case. Their attraction is instant and undeniable. But as they search for the baby's abducted sister, a human trafficking cartel threatens their lives...Categorized as:
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Relentless River by Lindsay Cross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe was Ice. Sheriff Bo Lawson was everything a retired Marine Special Operations Operator should be. Cold. Calculating. Calm in all situations. He handled terrorists and too drunk locals without blinking, until a couple of dead bodies show up in his small town, throwing his controlled environment into chaos. She was fire... -
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also—and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier... -
Dark Guardian: A New Dawn by Ammar Habib
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFollowing the events of DARK GUARDIAN, Ethan Daniels has fully embraced his alter ego of The Guardian. His mantle has become a symbol of hope for his nation. After two years of spearheading his mission against the corruption and injustice that has ruled over Crown City for so long, his mission is finally nearing its end... -
Black Demands by C.J. Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe gave me a promise ring and I made the commitment to be his. Submission was a game to criminal defense lawyer, Kelly Black, and he set the expectations high. I had to be flawless as he demanded I do better. There were guidelines that needed to be followed. Rules of engagement he insisted I learn. And just when I thought our relationship was progressing, it came crashing down hard... -
Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane by Peter Grainger
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“So I thought I might take up para-gliding. You know, buy one on eBay and just jump off the cliff one morning.” Emily Willows is middle-aged, widowed, wealthy and bored. When she makes those flippant remarks to her son over coffee one Friday, she has no inkling that within a few hours she will be facing the most terrifying situation of her life... -
Lupa nera by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsRestare viva non è mai stato tanto difficile. Dopo Regina Rossa, che ha incoronato Antonia Scott come la nuova protagonista assoluta del thriller spagnolo, il secondo capitolo della trilogia bestseller di Juan Gómez-Jurado. Antonia Scott e Jon Gutiérrez sono ancora alla ricerca di Sandra Fajardo, quando Mentor li convoca per un altro caso al momento più pressante... -
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Shadow of Perception by Kristine Mason
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when negligent plastic surgeons get a taste of their own medicine…? Chicago investigative reporter, Eden Risk, receives an unmarked envelope containing a postcard ordering her to watch the enclosed DVD…or someone else dies. No police. After Eden watches the DVD, a gruesome, horrifying surgery, she turns to the private criminal investigation agency, CORE, for help... -
Reckless Vows by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe comes as the villain in search of vengeance.What he finds instead is me.I’m flirting with death.Buried beneath scarred muscles and black tattoos.Face down on his bed,Over the desk and out in the open.It’s impossible to stop.He will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him.But now there’s more at stake than just us.Because I’m carrying his baby... -
The Shadow File by A.C. Fuller
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmerica's intelligence security is in the hands of a million private contractors. Now one woman may bring down their entire system.Four months ago, Alex Vane lost his friend James Stacy, killed by private security contractors working for the intelligence-industrial complex. Though Alex exposed the killers, most of the system survived, including the amoral torturer known only as Amand... -
Tempting Evil by Allison Brennan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBIG DIE COUNTRYJoanna Sutton can cope with the fierce winter storm bearing down on the small rural community of Centennial Valley, Montana; the popular romance writer has survived much worse in life. Haunted by the loss of her husband and child, Jo has found refuge at her family’s secluded lodge, but her haven soon becomes a hell... -
Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter, Will Patten
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThey busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him... -
Faking a Murderer by Kathy Reichs, Lee Child
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJack Reacher walked out of the Baltimore bust depot into a world of frozen streets and dirty snow… In this short story from the thrilling anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Kathy Reichs and Lee Child—along with their popular series characters Temperance Brennan and Jack Reacher—team up for the first time ever... -
Rogue by Laura Marie Altom
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsONE WRONG MOVE.Disavowed Navy SEAL, Nash Adamson, knows that's all it will take for his high school sweetheart, Maisey, and her unborn child to die at the hands of her psychopath ex.Vicente Rodriquez is the untouchable drug king of south Florida. He wooed Maisey into believing their whirlwind romance was the fairy tale she'd searched her whole life to find... -
Damaged Empire by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe did not have a heart.So, he took mine.He’s cold.Calculating.The Bratva assassin who knows nothing but rage and violence.Yet, his darkness is pulling me in like a magnet.He consumes me like a predator does its prey.The more I fight him, the more I’m his prisoner.I have no doubt I’m as good as dead.Just a number on his list.But to my surprise,He ends up rescuing me instead... -
The Kings of Cool by Don Winslow
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O... -
The Girl on the Burning Boat by Gregg Dunnett
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomeone put her father in his grave. But they didn’t bury his secrets…Alice is the smart and beautiful daughter of a powerful businessman. She lives a charmed life - until her father is killed in a tragic accident. Then she meets Jamie, a young man from a very different background, who has evidence that her father met a much darker end... -
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Freedom Road by William Lashner
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe’s taking a dangerous path in search of his missing granddaughter—the only part of his life worth saving. Oliver Cross is fresh out of jail. His plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. But when he finds out his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, has vanished—bless her hell-raising heart—Oliver jumps parole... -
Endless Obsession by M. James
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs long as I never meet him in person, it’s safe. As long as he never knows who I really am… On paper, I have almost everything I want. A good job. My own apartment. A steady boyfriend. But when I find him cheating, the picture-perfect life I thought I made for myself starts to unravel.I find myself on the kind of website I should know better than to visit... -
Tears by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI am fearless. I am not afraid of pain…But I can still feel it... -
Wake Up Dead by Roger Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town’s violent badlands—from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard PriceA split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead... -
Kiss & Die by Lee Weeks
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRuby is looking for love- but her kiss is deadly... A serial killer is on the loose and it appears to be a woman-her target, adulterous businessmen. After picking them up in bars, she brutally tortures her victims before decapitating them. Meanwhile, Hong Kong detective Johnny Mann is still struggling to deal with his dead father's legacy of corruption and triad involvement... -
Smoke and Mirrors by Steve Marshall
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen you can’t call the cops… Call Trunk Dennis Trunk has a reputation for figuring things out and he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty. Trunk won’t kill, unless he has to. Between one and two percent of the population are psychopaths. Trunk is highly functional. He has a steady job, an ex-wife, and a plan to kill her boyfriend... -
Dark Tiger by William G. Tapply
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeven years ago, Stoney Calhoun woke up in a VA hospital with no memories and a series of unexplained talents (language ability, weapons expertise, etc.). Since then he’s been living quietly, working as a part time fishing guide and co-owner of a local bait shop—with an unnamed visitor coming around occasionally to see if he’s regained any memories... -
Sweet Vengeance by Cindy Stark
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternate cover edition for ASIN:B007139UD2 Allie Jordan is in love and believes her future is bright. She’s finally going to have the family she longs for. But her dreams fade to black when her mobster-wanna-be boyfriend is executed at her feet. She’s spared the same fate by a muscle-bound vigilante who tosses her over his shoulder and turns her life upside down, in more ways than one... -
Treasure Hunt by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe sixteenth irresistible mystery in the New York Times bestselling Montalbano series.A hail of bullets interrupts a period of dead calm. An elderly brother and sister open fire on the piazza below their apartment, punishing the people of Vigàta for their sins... -
Falling Glass by Adrian McKinty, Gerard Doyle
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRichard Coulter is a man who has everything. His beautiful new wife is pregnant, his upstart airline is undercutting the competition and moving from strength to strength, his diversification into the casino business in Macau has been successful, and his fabulous Art Deco house on an Irish cliff top has just been featured in Architectural Digest... -
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Murder Island by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsProf. Brandt Savage—grandson of the legendary hero Doc Savage—is back in a new action-adventure thriller! They thought they found heaven on earth. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when Professor Brandt Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight stumble on a terrifying conspiracy... -
Fallen for You by Carlie Sexton
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf you believe your life is the sum total of your choices, what do you do when things just don’t add up? You are about to find out. It won’t be pretty. It won’t be dull. And surely, it won’t be safe. In fact, making just one wrong choice could put evil at your bedside watching you sleep... -
The Wheelman by Duane Swierczynski
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMeet Lennon, a mute Irish getaway driver who has fallen in with the wrong heist team on the wrong day at the wrong bank. Betrayed, his money stolen and his battered carcass left for dead, Lennon is on a one-way mission to find out who is responsible--and to get back his loot. But the robbery has sent a violent ripple effect through the streets of Philadelphia... -
Tiger by Wesley Robert Lowe
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an alternate title/cover edition for B06VX5FB2J Is the girl of his dreams worth the nightmare of life?Meet Noah Reid. Born to American missionaries in Shanghai. Mentored by Shaolin grandmaster in Hong Kong. That makes him Yin and Yang: compassionate, yet lethal; ferocious, yet charming; serious, yet sexy. He's a special kind of action hero... -
What She Doesn't Know by Lina Gardiner
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaven Gale can’t put the past behind her. A year ago, her husband tried to kill her in a car accident and killed himself instead. And, as if that wasn’t bad enough; she finds out someone is pretending to be him on an isolated island in the Bay of Fundy. What if it’s really her husband? What if he’s still alive? She’d been in hospital when the funeral was held... -
A WALK IN THE RAIN: A journey of love and redemption by Udai Yadla
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove is poison that kills you. Love is elixir that keeps you alive. An unreciprocated love keeps you alive, but kills every day. Heartbroken Sunny lives a reclusive life, trapped in the past, living in his memories. He has no complaints about his life, but refuses to embrace the present. Saloni is a prostitute who is desperate to earn money by any means... -
Mean Business on North Ganson Street by S. Craig Zahler
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA distraught businessman kills himself after a short, impolite conversation with a detective named Jules Bettinger. Because of this incident, the unkind (but decorated) policeman is forced to relocate himself and his family from Arizona to the frigid north, where he will work for an understaffed precinct in Victory, Missouri... -
Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford, Patrick Lawlor
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen an old gangster friend of Leo's father makes a request he "can't refuse," Leo and his band of drunks, delve into the world of environmental politics in search of Caroline Nobel, a spoiled brat, without the sense God gave a gopher... -
Satan dans le désert by Boston Teran
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1995. Aux confins du désert californien, Gabi, quatorze ans, est kidnappée par un psychopathe ultra-violent et sa secte satanique. L’insondable scène de carnage laissée par les ravisseurs ne livre aucun indice, la police patine, le sort de la jeune fille semble scellé... -
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran, Eric Holweck
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDuring Christmas week in 1995, a fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult. Bob Hightower, the girl's father and a small-town cop, embarks on a desperate mission to find her but his only hope lies with Case Hardin, an ex-cult member and ex-junkie living in a halfway house in Hollywood... -
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Shaker by Scott Frank
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe tense, darkly funny, unputdownable debut novel from one of the most successful screenwriters of the past twenty years--the tale of a hit man mistaken for a hero whose sudden, unwanted fame makes him a target for the surprising number of people who want him dead... -
Never Count Out the Dead by Boston Teran
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the winner of the CWA John Creasey Dagger comes a second thriller equally as powerful, terrifying and gripping as God is a Bullet. When a Los Angeles construction scandal threatens to blow sky-high, suspicions soar, allegiances crumble, and an unlikely investigative reporter uncovers enough material to bring prominent careers crashing to an end... -
Love and Theft: A Novel by Stan Parish
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA high-octane novel featuring a charismatic thief forced to pull off one last spectacular caper in order to save his family. For Fans of Ruth Ware and Robert Crais. When Alex and Diane meet, there are instant, undeniable sparks. Both are single parents living in wealthy suburbia: independent, highly competent, and seemingly settled in their comfortable lives... -
Famished by Meghan O'Flynn
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsStarvation Takes Many FormsAsh Park, a run-down suburb of Detroit, might not be the most idyllic place to live, but for Hannah Montgomery, it’s safe. At least, it feels that way until a serial killer starts dicing up women from the shelter where she volunteers... -
Circle of Death: A Shadow Thriller by James Patterson, Brian Sitts
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen a ruthless killer seeks to overturn the world order, our only hope is vigilante justice.Since Lamont Cranston - known to a select few as the Shadow - defeated Shiwan Khan and ended his reign of terror over New York one year ago, the city has started to regenerate.But there is evil brewing elsewhere. And this time the entire world is under threat... -
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons by Karin Smirnoff
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the best-selling Millennium series.Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas...
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