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Sue Grafton Author Read Alikes September 12, 2015 |
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If you enjoy reading books by Sue Grafton try these authors.
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Indemnity Only : A V.I. Warshawski Novel by Sara ParetskyHired by the head of Chicago's biggest bank to find his son's missing girlfriend, private investigator V.I. Warshawski soon finds herself up against the worst of the city's white-collar criminals in a fight to save the life of an innocent young woman
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Twelve Sharp by Janet EvanovichBounty hunter Stephanie Plum's typically chaotic life is thrown into greater turmoil by the appearance of a mysterious female stalker with a close connection to Ranger.
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Guilt by Jonathan KellermanWhen he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains in a neglected fixer-upper Tudor mansion, psychologist-investigator Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unprecedented narcissism and unspeakable cruelty.
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Flesh and Blood : A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Daniels CornwellForensic pathologist, Kay Scarpetta, finds herself in pursuit of a serial sniper targeting victims with seemingly nothing in common
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Honeymoon : A Novel by James PattersonWhen a young investment banker dies under suspicious circumstances, FBI agent John O'Hara pursues a suspicion that the victim's beautiful decorator bride is responsible, but as the evidence mounts, he wonders if he has become obsessed with proving the woman's guilt.
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Left for Dead by Judith A. JanceWhen the near-fatal shooting of a former police academy classmate reveals clues that his wife and he were operating on the wrong side of the law, Alice Reynolds teams up with Sister Anselm, who is attending to an undocumented woman who has been savagely attacked by a drug cartel.
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Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott DavidsonFleeing an abusive ex, caterer Goldy Bear moves herself, her son, and her business to the Aspen Meadow Country Club area, where she becomes enmeshed in a murder mystery involving a handsome local shrink.
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Bones are Forever by Kathy ReichsForensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining
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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson BraunThe first installment of the author's popular series features the unusual detective team of award-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and Koko, his brilliant Siamese cat, who penetrate the world of modern art to solve a mystery
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Field of Prey by John SandfordLucas Davenport investigates the discovery of several bodies in an abandoned Minnesota farmyard, discovering the work of a local serial killer who has been murdering one victim every summer for years.
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Murder 101 : A Decker/Lazarus Novel by Faye KellermanWhile working for the Greenbury Police Department in upstate New York, Peter Decker must draw from his years of experience as a homicide cop when a break-in at the local cemetery leads him into a world of art forgery and murder that is linked to cold case crimes, international intrigue and ruthless people who kill for sport.
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The Night Searchers : A Sharon McCone Mystery by Marcia MullerWhen she is hired to investigate devil worshippers performing human sacrifices in San Francisco, skeptical private detective Sharon McCone discovers what her clients are really up to and goes undercover in a treasure hunting group called The Night Searchers to find the truth.
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Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues by Michael BrandmanMassachusetts police chief Jesse Stone's investigation of a violent series of car thefts is complicated by political pressures, the summer tourist season, and the questionable goals of an ambitious PR executive
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High Country by Nevada BarrWhen four young seasonal park employees at Yosemite National Park mysteriously vanish without a trace, Anna Pigeon is sent in to work undercover at the park's historical Ahwahnee Hotel to uncover the truth.
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Saving Faith by David BaldacciIn a new novel of Washington insider intrigue, influence peddlers Danny Buchanan and Faith Lockhart are pitted against one another when the CIA and FBI take an interest in their bribery activities.
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Collateral Damage : a Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart WoodsReturning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stone's imagining.
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Hold Tight by Harlan CobenWorrying about their sixteen-year-old son Adam in the wake of a friend's suicide, Tia and Mike Baye install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes Adam may have been involved
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A Wanted Man : A Reacher Novel by Lee ChildSix minutes after hitchhiking at the end of Worth Dying For, Jack Reacher finds himself on a roller-coaster ride of escalating tensions where nothing is as it seems.
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Theodore Boone : The Activist by John GrishamClearing his name of the false charges of vandalism and theft that were leveled against him, 13-year-old legal maverick Theodore Boone hopes to return to his life of giving advice to friends and community members when an exciting new case demands his urgent attention. .
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Dead, White, and Blue by Carolyn G. HartAfter two locals disappear during the height of tourist season, local mystery bookshop owners Annie and Max Darling investigate a twisted path of adultery, blackmail and betrayal to find the culprit in the third novel of the series following Death Comes Silently.
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The Perfect Ghost by Linda BarnesRequired to complete a celebrity biography on her own after the suspicious death of her charismatic partner, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job's required interviews with alluring film director Garrett Malcolm, who alludes to dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow star.
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A Fatal Grace by Louise PennySent to a village south of Montreal to investigate the death of CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpopular woman apparently killed in an electrical accident, Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec finds that nearly everyone in town had a motive to kill her
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Come Home by Lisa ScottolineRebalancing her life and career after a painful divorce, pediatrician Jill learns that her ex has died from an alleged overdose that her former stepdaughter believes was actually murder, a situation that forces Jill to choose between her duty to past circumstances and her future happiness. .
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Hit Me : a Keller Novel by Lawrence BlockWith a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him to Dallas to settle a domestic dispute, to New York, where people might remember him
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Love You More
by Lisa Gardner
When state police trooper Tessa Leoni claims to have killed her husband in self-defense, Detective D.D. Warren must investigate a difficult case when she discovers that Tessa's 6-year-old daughter is also missing.
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Fiddlers : A Novel of the 87th Precinct by Ed McBainDetective Steve Carella and his colleagues at the 87th Precinct struggle to discover a link between the apparently random victims of a profile-resistant serial killer who has murdered five times in two weeks
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The Lost Ones by Ace AtkinsA follow-up to The Ranger finds newly elected Tibbehah County sheriff Quinn Colson investigating an old friend's gun sales when stolen military rifles are found in the possession of a Mexican drug gang, a case that is complicated by his discovery of a black market baby adoption ring.
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No Footprints : A Darcy Lott Mystery by Susan DunlapStunt double Darcy Lott searches for a mysterious woman who tried to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge before predicting Darcy's own imminent demise, and tracks her to a dodgy San Francisco neighborhood where she ran an operation for a shady police boss
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Backfire by Catherine CoulterWhen a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time as a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident.
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On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins ClarkMoving to her great-grandmother's Victorian seaside home after a painful divorce, Emily Graham discovers the body of her great-aunt, who disappeared in 1892, beside the body of a young woman who was missing only recently.
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Skeleton Man by Tony HillermanWhile assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier
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