St. John Strafford: Similar romance series

Power of the Dog

by Don Winslow

4.34 · 80 ratings

action-adventure · mystery · fiction · espionage · noir · crime · drama · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · historical · adult · violent-conflict · war · thriller · organized-crime · book · audiobook · 21st-century · substance-abuse · suspense

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George Smiley

by John le Carré

3.97 · 263 ratings

fiction · espionage · crime · thriller · adult · 20th-century · book · cold-war · suspense · political-intrigue · politics · action-adventure · war · historical-fiction · male-author · violent-conflict · classics · audiobook · literary · law-enforcement

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L.A. Quartet

by James Ellroy

3.97 · 113 ratings

fiction · mystery · crime · hard-boiled · historical-fiction · noir · classics · book · literary · suspense · true-crime · drama · historical · adult · male-author · law-enforcement · thriller · 20th-century · dark · literary-fiction

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Red Princess

by Lisa See

3.62 · 66 ratings

historical · adult · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · mystery · fiction · female-mc · poc-mc · crime · police-procedural · audiobook · killer · suspense · book · literary-fiction · female-author · thriller · murder · communism · organized-crime

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Philip Marlowe

by Raymond Chandler

4.06 · 255 ratings

adult · law-enforcement · noir · crime · fiction · mystery · classics · 20th-century · literary · hard-boiled · thriller · investigator · literary-fiction · historical · murder · action-adventure · suspense · audiobook · book · pulp

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Underworld USA

by James Ellroy

4.05 · 60 ratings

political-intrigue · politics · conspiracies · cold-war · suspense · audiobook · literary-fiction · book · organized-crime · dark · adult · historical · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · crime · thriller · hard-boiled · espionage · fiction

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Kopp Sisters

by Amy Stewart

3.86 · 98 ratings

female-mc · fiction · humor · mystery · crime · thriller · female-author · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · historical · 20th-century · book · audiobook · feminism · action-adventure · adult · literary-fiction · cozy · police-procedural · suspense

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Inspector Alan Grant

by Josephine Tey

3.93 · 136 ratings

crime · audiobook · fiction · murder · mystery · 20th-century · golden-age-mystery · adult · historical · female-author · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · book · classics · literary · police-procedural · thriller · cozy · suspense · whodunit

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Martin Beck

by Maj Sjöwall

3.92 · 150 ratings

mystery · literary · audiobook · police-procedural · scandinavia · book · classics · 20th-century · law-enforcement · noir · adult · sweden · thriller · europe · crime · fiction · murder · historical · suspense · female-author

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Bernie Gunther

by Philip Kerr

4.08 · 280 ratings

mystery · suspense · political-intrigue · 20th-century · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · noir · thriller · adult · violent-conflict · historical · espionage · ww2 · war · crime · fiction · audiobook · book · murder · police-procedural

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Timothy Wilde

by Lyndsay Faye

3.98 · 56 ratings

lgbtq · crime · industrial-era · urban · action-adventure · murder · mystery · fiction · thriller · victorian · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · historical · adult · book · suspense · politics · audiobook · whodunit · police-procedural

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Arkady Renko

by Martin Cruz Smith

3.87 · 184 ratings

book · political-intrigue · mystery · fiction · espionage · adult · police-procedural · audiobook · suspense · action-adventure · crime · thriller · law-enforcement · politics · murder · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · historical · supernatural · ghosts

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The Continental Op

by Dashiell Hammett

4.01 · 92 ratings

hard-boiled · literary · pulp · classics · law-enforcement · noir · historical · adult · 20th-century · fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · anthologies · literary-fiction · thriller · investigator · action-adventure · murder · audiobook

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Detective Sean Duffy

by Adrian McKinty

4.14 · 128 ratings

suspense · police-procedural · audiobook · book · adult · historical · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · thriller · crime · fiction · murder · mystery · action-adventure · male-author · politics · 21st-century · journey · humor

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John Madden

by Rennie Airth

3.93 · 68 ratings

historical · adult · police-procedural · ww1 · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · thriller · 20th-century · fiction · mystery · crime · book · audiobook · killer · murder · ww2 · violent-conflict · suspense · serial-killers · war

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Quirke

by Benjamin Black

3.59 · 118 ratings

historical · literary-fiction · book · suspense · audiobook · crime · fiction · mystery · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · adult · ireland · europe · family · murder · british-isles · thriller · psychological · 21st-century

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Sam Wyndham

by Abir Mukherjee

4.10 · 84 ratings

law-enforcement · book · police-procedural · audiobook · crime · murder · mystery · fiction · adult · historical · thriller · historical-fiction · colonization · action-adventure · 20th-century · poc-author · india · suspense · poc-mc · south-asia

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Detective Kosuke Kindaichi

by Seishi Yokomizo

3.78 · 82 ratings

audiobook · literary · classics · book · adult · historical · thriller · law-enforcement · historical-fiction · murder · fiction · mystery · crime · amateur-sleuth · 20th-century · whodunit · suspense · horror · poc-author · male-author

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Gereon Rath

by Volker Kutscher

3.92 · 48 ratings

audiobook · historical-fiction · law-enforcement · noir · adult · historical · germany · police-procedural · thriller · 20th-century · western-central-europe · urban · fiction · mystery · europe · ww2 · book · crime · 21st-century · suspense

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Perveen Mistry

by Sujata Massey

3.95 · 73 ratings

mystery · feminism · historical-fiction · historical · adult · fiction · cozy · poc-author · book · law-enforcement · crime · female-mc · murder · whodunit · audiobook · literary-fiction · 20th-century · female-author · family · poc-mc

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Inspector Maigret

by Georges Simenon

3.71 · 218 ratings

law-enforcement · noir · historical · adult · 20th-century · fiction · mystery · crime · book · murder · audiobook · suspense · police-procedural · literary · classics · thriller · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · whodunit · france

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