Books like 'Blood Ties'
Readers who enjoyed Blood Ties by Jo Nesbø & Robert Ferguson also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
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Damaging Secrets by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDamaging Secrets, the first book of her newest crime thriller series, is an engaging story of corruption and cover-up that you won’t soon forget.New to town and a little rough around the edges, Detective Rachel Ryder finds herself on the receiving end of a suspicious person’s call in Hamby, Georgia...Categorized as:
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Chaos in Death / Possession in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChaos in Death When eye witness testimony paints the killer as a green-skinned monster with swollen red eyes and goblin ears, even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer, the trail suggests something far more disturbing - someone is playing with science... Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas, strange things begin to happen... -
Critical Alliance by Elizabeth Goddard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"A cybersecurity specialist with a criminal past joins a troubled federal agent to disarm deadly threats and protect national security secrets hidden in an up-and-coming tech company headquartered in backcountry... -
Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLos Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery... -
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I Am Sal by Abraham Falls
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat if you were born as a fully formed adult? Completely aware of your surroundings, fully able to speak, walk, think, and recognize, by name, all of the items you could see? The only thing missing, the only nagging void in your memory: your identity... -
Rising Sun / Jurassic Park / Sphere by Michael Crichton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere are three of Michael Crichton's research-intensive thrillers in one dandy box. Rising Sun was as timely in 1992 as it now seems ironic. It brilliantly taps the early-'90s American terror of Japan's then apparently invincible high-tech economy with a snappy murder mystery. While celebs rub elbows at the opening party of a Japanese high-rise in L.A... -
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... -
Prepare by Geoffrey Germann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order... -
Mind Slide by Glenn Bullion
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMason has the ability to "mind slide", the ability to project his consciousness. He can be anywhere in the world. Watching. Listening. Kelly tries to put that terrible night behind her. Kidnapped when she was a teenager, she still struggles to overcome the trauma. The details of her rescue were always a little sketchy. It was almost as if someone knew exactly where to find her... -
Meat and Salt and Sparks by Rich Larson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murdered an apparently random stranger on the subway.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied... -
Interface: Technology will change us by Tony Batton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTechnology will change usWhen Tom Faraday joined internationally renowned CERUS Biotech, he thought he’d landed his dream job. A chance to work with their famous CEO, William Bern, perhaps to change the world. But Tom has found himself in an organisation in crisis. The company bet the house on a radical neural interface project, only to be blocked by a government with reasons of its own... -
Bloodlines by Chris Wraight
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first title in the new "Warhammer Crime" imprint. Try to unravel the secrets lurking in the sprawling city of Varangantua.In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight... -
Las otras niñas by Santiago Díaz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLa inspectora Indira Ramos ha estado tres años viviendo en su Extremadura natal por una excedencia. Nadie aparte de su familia sabe que ha sido madre de una niña, Alba. Cuando llega el momento de reincorporarse a su comisaría de Madrid, se siente desmotivada y está dispuesta a renunciar a su cargo, incapaz de enfrentarse de nuevo a Iván, quien la culpa de la muerte de su amigo Dani... -
Travel by Bullet by John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, performed by Zachary Quinto.The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life—and there are professionals, called "dispatchers," who kill in order to save lives, to give those near the end a second chance... -
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald, Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks—and that’s when his life truly begins... -
One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt's not what you've done that counts it's what you remember....If you could sell your conscience, could you get away with murder?Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair... -
More Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe second novel of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery or science fiction magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction, and an afterword following each story by the author... -
Casebook of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery month, the Black Widowers convene for sumptuous food, fine wine, and a cosmically baffling mystery. Attended by Henry, the all-knowing waiter, these gentle rogues ponder such imponderables as: * the one-syllable middle name that represents what every schoolboy knows, yet doesn't... * a murder by solar eclipse very far out in space.. -
Banquets of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis book is the fourth of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author... -
Missing by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNobody knows where I am. Nobody knows how to find me. Nobody knows my real identity.Including me... -
Naked by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most... -
Little Boy Blue by Edward Bunker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs... -
The Cadaver Factory by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJack Rally is an eighteen-year-old boy who is evil and witty. He receives an opportunity from an older film-maker named Mr. Bigsley whose films are films of actual murders. Jack takes the opportunity and runs with it, becoming a master of his murderous profession... -
Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke…Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles... -
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Gentleman Junkie and Other Stories of the Hung-Up Generation by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe original 50 cent paperback edition of this book now goes for $100 in rare book auctions. Why? Because it contains 25 of the best, hardest-to-find stories of the writer the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers," the unpredictable Harlan Ellison... -
Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X... -
Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeter Hamilton brings his trademark flair for narrative sweep and epic ideas to a short novel that tells the story of an near- immortal mankind that grew from the Roman Empire. Paired with WATCHING TREES GROW is TENDELEO'S STORY the Theodore Sturgeon award-winning new Chaga short novel from the acclaimed Ian McDonald... -
Gone by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith Gaia's graduation from high school, Pascal's best-selling series comes to an end...only to be reborn again. Can you feel the fear?Gaia learned what it's like to feel fear -- and it wasn't pretty. Now, just in time for her last few weeks of high school, she's back to her normal, fearless self.Unfortunately, everything else is far from normal...Categorized as:
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The Scorched Earth by Rachael Blok
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho really killed Leo Fenton?Two years ago, Ben Fenton went camping with his brother Leo. It was the last time they ever saw each other. By the end of that fateful trip, Leo had disappeared, and Ben had been arrested for his murder.Ben's girlfriend Ana Seabrook has always protested his innocence. Now, on the hottest day of 2018's sweltering heat wave, she receives a phone call from the police... -
Husk by J. Kent Messum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.LIFE GOES ONFor a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...MAKING A LIVINGRhodes is a 'Husk'... -
No Doors, No Windows by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love by an amoral man... -
Killer, Come Back To Me by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy... -
Obsessions can be Murder by Connie Shelton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTenth book in the Charlie Parker Mystery Series. Charlie digs into the cold case of an exploding house in Watson's Lake, New Mexico and tries to work out the complicated life of a man who turns out to have several false identities and an obsession with money. Big money... -
Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCutter Dunn is a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist... -
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La octava plaga (Saga Casasola) by Bernardo Esquinca
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCasasola debe investigar una serie de asesinatos para conservar ese empleo que no lo satisface, ante la mirada escrutadora y los consejos inútiles de Rivas-Souza, el soberbio jefe de redacción... -
Ghostbox: Der Tod ist nicht das Ende: Staffel 1 by Ivar Leon Menger, Yvonne Greitzke
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSchon seit Wochen ist Lena Gruenwald (Yvonne Greitzke) auf der Suche nach der perfekten Story, um endlich als Redakteurin beim Berliner Tagesspiegel übernommen zu werden. Dabei wird die junge Journalismus-Praktikantin von einem Thema ganz besonders angezogen: dem Jenseits. Auch auf Lenas privatem Youtube-Kanal dreht sich alles nur um Geister, Ouija-Boards oder Tarotkarten... -
Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life... -
Night of the Jabberwock by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThis sharp, ironic, tightly written thriller takes place during a single night, during which our narrator, editor of a small-city newspaper, shows what stuff journalists were made of then by consuming a truly epic amount of alcohol and unweaving an artfully tangled web... -
Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStep into the shoes of a detective and investigate the most mysterious crime of your career. There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn – with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above... -
The Name is Archer by Ross Macdonald
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMYSTERYIncludes the following Find the womanGone girlThe bearded ladyThe suicideGuilt-edged blondeThe sinister habitWild goose chaseMidnight blueSleeping... -
Puzzles of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fifth of the six books featuring the Black Widowers. It collects twelve stories by Asimov, most reprinted from mystery magazines and a few previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword following each story by the author. Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia... -
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... -
Blank: Life or Nothing by Richard C. Hale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThere’s a violence in me. My name is Lincoln Delabar. I was born without a face. Yes, you heard that right. Smooth, clear skin from my forehead to my chin.I see the world differently, yet it is still a place that holds wonder. At least most of the time. With my uniqueness comes a burden. My mind is powerful. Very powerful. And I have an obligation, a purpose, to see things in my own special way... -
Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOut Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion... -
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Killer by Francine Pascal
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThey say to keep your friends close and your enemies even closer... -
Irontown Blues by John Varley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a master of science fiction comes a brand-new noir novel set in the Eight Worlds universe, where a detective hunts for the biohackers who have created a dangerous new disease.Christopher Bach was a policeman in one of the largest Lunar cities when the A.I. Lunar Central Computer had a breakdown. Known as the Big Glitch, the problem turned out to be a larger war than anyone expected... -
The Persona Protocol by Andy McDermott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe latest thriller from bestselling author, Andy McDermott. For fans of Tom Clancy and Matthew Reilly.Adam Gray is the ultimate spy.As the lead agent of the US government's top-secret Persona project, he is its most valuable weapon in the War on Terror... -
"Diane..." - The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper by Scott Frost, Kyle MacLachlan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on the television series Twin Peaks. Here are the actual dictation tapes of FBI Agent Cooper, Chief Investigator of the Laura Palmer murder, plus never-before-heard tapes... -
Forests of the Night by S. Andrew Swann
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in Cleveland 100 years in the future, this debut novel is the story of Nohar Rajasthan, Private Eye, who's a moreau--descended from genetically manipulated tiger stock. When Nohar is hired by a being illegally created from human stock to look into a murder, he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy of awesome proportions... -
Hokkaido Popsicle by Isaac Adamson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billy's room and dies. That same night, the lead singer of Japan's most popular rock band turns up dead in a sleazy love hotel in Tokyo...
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