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Patricia Loofbourrow
4.14 · 7 ratings
fiction · adult · crime · industrial-era · steampunk · noir · sci-fi · book · historical · mystery · historical-fiction · suspense · paranormal · female-mc · organized-crime · urban-fantasy · hard-boiled · psychological · female-author · justice
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Ray Celestin
4.08 · 60 ratings
audiobook · book · adult · historical · thriller · historical-fiction · fiction · mystery · crime · organized-crime · law-enforcement · noir · murder · 21st-century · killer · suspense · season-summer · gothic · horror · 20th-century
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Donald Ray Pollock
4.08 · 65 ratings
dark · audiobook · rural · literary-fiction · gothic · adult · historical-fiction · horror · noir · fiction · mystery · transgressive-mc · southern-gothic · crime · drama · 21st-century · suspense · book · realistic · male-author
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Stephen Spotswood
4.06 · 35 ratings
historical · adult · law-enforcement · amateur-sleuth · historical-fiction · lgbtq · crime · fiction · mystery · female-mc · investigator · cozy · disability · audiobook · book · noir · wlw · murder · lesbian-mc · suspense
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Alan Parks
4.03 · 31 ratings
adult · police-procedural · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · fiction · mystery · crime · book · organized-crime · historical · 21st-century · audiobook · scotland · united-kingdom · thriller · british-isles · dark · suspense · murder
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Leonardo Padura
4.01 · 78 ratings
book · adult · noir · crime · fiction · mystery · literary-fiction · 20th-century · historical · journey · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · police-procedural · audiobook · drama · action-adventure · investigator · politics · hispanic · suspense
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Annelie Wendeberg
3.99 · 99 ratings
fiction · book · crime · action-adventure · mystery · historical · adult · noir · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · industrial-era · victorian · audiobook · murder · suspense · apocalyptic · sci-fi · organized-crime · post-apocalyptic · young-adult
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Paco Ignacio Taibo II
3.96 · 26 ratings
fiction · book · adult · politics · mystery · crime · historical-fiction · noir · hard-boiled · law-enforcement · historical · supernatural · revolution · action-adventure · espionage · ww2 · contemporary · violent-conflict · literary-fiction · epic
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Nelson Algren
3.95 · 42 ratings
literary · historical-fiction · noir · adult · literary-fiction · book · crime · classics · mystery · fiction · substance-abuse · 20th-century · audiobook · male-author · historical · dark · spirituality · murder · contemporary · cults
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Volker Kutscher
3.92 · 48 ratings
urban · western-central-europe · 20th-century · germany · adult · historical · police-procedural · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · audiobook · crime · noir · book · europe · ww2 · thriller · fiction · mystery · suspense · 21st-century
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Eric Ambler
3.91 · 54 ratings
fiction · action-adventure · crime · espionage · historical · adult · historical-fiction · noir · thriller · 20th-century · classics · book · literary-fiction · political-intrigue · literary · suspense · ww2 · cold-war · audiobook · politics
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Philip Kerr
3.90 · 402 ratings
book · fiction · mystery · suspense · crime · adult · audiobook · thriller · political-intrigue · historical-fiction · historical · espionage · 20th-century · law-enforcement · noir · violent-conflict · ww2 · war · action-adventure · murder
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Tom Franklin
3.85 · 90 ratings
fiction · mystery · southern-gothic · crime · adult · historical-fiction · gothic · literary-fiction · noir · dark · book · suspense · historical · rural · audiobook · killer · murder · action-adventure · industrial-era · family
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Leonardo Sciascia
3.81 · 78 ratings
20th-century · adult · crime · mystery · fiction · literary · book · classics · noir · law-enforcement · organized-crime · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · thriller · politics · contemporary · police-procedural · male-author
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David Peace
3.78 · 104 ratings
fiction · historical-fiction · adult · historical · book · crime · mystery · noir · audiobook · 21st-century · drama · thriller · law-enforcement · horror · true-crime · suspense · murder · dark · male-author · literary-fiction
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Daniel Woodrell
3.75 · 106 ratings
crime · mystery · fiction · southern-gothic · noir · gothic · literary-fiction · audiobook · family · historical-fiction · book · rural · contemporary · dark · poverty · thriller · adult · death · male-author · realistic
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Niklas Natt och Dag
3.74 · 43 ratings
adult · historical · historical-fiction · fiction · literary-fiction · book · crime · audiobook · horror · law-enforcement · noir · thriller · suspense · mystery · drama · journey · 21st-century · dark · killer · sweden
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Attica Locke
3.73 · 101 ratings
audiobook · suspense · literary-fiction · book · poc-author · female-author · black-mc · adult · law-enforcement · thriller · poc-mc · fiction · mystery · crime · killer · racism · historical-fiction · murder · drama · noir
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Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.73 · 78 ratings
mystery · fiction · thriller · historical-fiction · adult · psychological · literary-fiction · audiobook · 21st-century · murder · crime · drama · noir · historical · dark · book · suspense · humor · europe · unreliable-narrator
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Cecilia Ekbäck
3.70 · 47 ratings
fiction · adult · book · suspense · action-adventure · historical-fiction · noir · historical · mystery · crime · drama · literary-fiction · religion · horror · audiobook · spirituality · magical-realism · murder · female-author · thriller
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M.R.C. Kasasian
3.69 · 48 ratings
mystery · cozy · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · audiobook · noir · historical · victorian · crime · book · industrial-era · female-mc · fiction · humor · murder · killer · adult · thriller · literary-fiction · investigator
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Jacques Ravenne
3.68 · 28 ratings
fiction · mystery · historical · suspense · adult · book · noir · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · murder · crime · 20th-century · horror · ww2 · political-intrigue · action-adventure · religious · supernatural · conspiracies · apocalyptic
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Éric Giacometti
3.68 · 28 ratings
suspense · historical · fiction · mystery · historical-fiction · noir · book · law-enforcement · adult · horror · ww2 · 20th-century · murder · crime · apocalyptic · violent-conflict · romantic-love · audiobook · politics · political-intrigue
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Gary Indiana
3.54 · 13 ratings
fiction · lgbtq · crime · book · literary-fiction · mystery · historical-fiction · noir · historical · adult · espionage · mental-illness · transgressive-mc · friendship · urban · murder · action-adventure · grief · substance-abuse · political-intrigue
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Cathi Unsworth
3.50 · 10 ratings
crime · adult · fiction · mystery · noir · suspense · book · literary-fiction · female-author · historical-fiction · horror · action-adventure · anthologies · politics · british-isles · united-kingdom · myths · contemporary · thriller · hard-boiled
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Benjamin Black
3.49 · 146 ratings
crime · mystery · fiction · historical-fiction · historical · adult · book · audiobook · law-enforcement · suspense · thriller · noir · literary-fiction · europe · family · british-isles · ireland · 21st-century · murder · psychological
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Didier Daeninckx
3.20 · 15 ratings
adult · crime · fiction · mystery · noir · urban · historical-fiction · book · thriller · literary-fiction · europe · anthologies · hard-boiled · suspense · audiobook · western-central-europe · historical · politics · law-enforcement · dark
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