18 books like The Big Clock

What to read after The Big Clock — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Owls Don't Blink Erle Stanley Gardner · 1942 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Cool & Lam Mystery #6 (1942) New York lawyer Emory Hale hires Los Angeles duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find person-of-interest Roberta Fenn in New Orleans. For a client Hale refuses to name. Because there's nothing shady about that set-up, right? Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Thriller

The Word Is Murder Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · ★ 3.9 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate It’s been two years since Injustice aired and Detective Daniel Hawthorne needs cash. Having gotten himself fired from his job at the Metropolitan police, Hawthorne decides to approach Anthony Horowitz. He’s investigating a bizarre and complex murder and he wants Anthony to write a book about it, a bestselling book of course, with a 50/50 split. The only catch is they need to solve the… Shares: Crimes against, Women, Investigation, Crime

Next of Kin David Hosp · 2011 · ★ 3.8 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Next of kin is a persons closest living blood relative or relatives. Shares: Organized crime, Investigation, Crime, Murder

Nutcracker Shana Alexander · 1985 · ★ 4.1 · 453p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Nutcracker begins at the ballet but tells the story of a seemingly wholesome all-American family, whose tranquil life's surface erupted in shocking acts of avarice, theft and murder. The victim was Franklin Bradshaw, Mormon self-made millionaire, workaholic. The killer was Bradshaw's grandson, prep school student. The architect of the crime was said to be Frances Schreuder, Bradshaw's daughter,… Shares: Murderers, Criminals, Murder

Master of the moor Ruth Rendell · 1982 · ★ 3.7 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . . Shares: Crimes against, Women, Thriller, Mystery

Breach of trust David Ellis · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Blaming himself for the deaths of his wife, his infant daughter, and an informant a year earlier, vigilante Jason Kolarich is forced by the FBI to bring down the organization of a corrupt governor of Illinois, a case that reveals devastating truths about his family's deaths. Shares: Witnesses, Crimes against, Investigation, Crime

The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great Henry Fielding · 1754 · ★ 3.4 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Demanding This book is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and Jonathan Wild, the infamous gang leader and highwayman. He implicitly compares the Whig party in Parliament with a gang of thieves being run by Walpole, whose constant desire to be a "Great Man" (a common epithet for Walpole) should culminate only in the antithesis of greatness: being hanged. Shares: Organized crime, Criminals

Infected Scott Sigler · 2008 · ★ 4.2 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government's shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya… Shares: Murderers, Thriller

Deadly Angel Fred Rosen · 2009 · ★ 3.2 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An astonishing true story of bizarre love and lethal obsession in America's last frontier. Mechele Hughes came to Wasilla, Alaska (pop. 4200), looking for a new life and easy money. As an exotic dancer at the Great Alaskan Bush Company in nearby Anchorage, she was soon earning thousands a night—and getting expensive gifts from admiring male clients. Three in particular fell under her spell. Each… Shares: Murderers, Criminals, Investigation, Murder

Night Film Marisha Pessl · 2013 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he… Shares: Investigative reporting, Thriller, Mystery

Crimes by Moonlight Charlaine Harris · 2010 · ★ 3.6 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Moderate An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes an all-new story-set in her Sookie Stackhouse universe-to this anthology from the Mystery Writers of America. Other authors include:Steve BrewerDana… Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Mystery

The only living witness Stephen G. Michaud · 1983 · ★ 4.5 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Michaud and Aynesworth are a reporter and an investigator team who interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy while he was on death row in Florida. This volume chronicles his activities throughout several states but is at its best in a long section of transcripts from the interview in which, while he never admits his quilt, Bundy offers vivid details of the crimes and commentary on the mindset of a… Shares: Murderers, Criminals, Crime, Murder

Big Shots Adam Shand · 2007 · ★ 3.5 · 423p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Vast shoplifting ring operating in Britain'A highly organised gang of Australian shoplifters is at work in Britain stealing goods worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. New members of the gang are flown from Australia whenever the organisers want replacements.'The Guardian, 15 August 1968From the mid 1960s, a brazen band of Australian thieves ran riot in London for more than a decade,… Shares: Organized crime, Murder

Grave doubts Elizabeth Corley · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 538p · ≈ 17h · Moderate "Viciously attacked by a serial rapist, intent on murder, Sergeant Louise Nightingale is recovering from her ordeal, relieved that the psychopath has been put behind bars for a very long time. Escaping to a remote family home for a well-earned rest, she is unaware that her nightmare has only just begun. When a nameless, faceless terror starts terrorising the country, her colleague, Detective… Shares: Criminals, Crimes against, Investigation, Crime

Night school Lee Child · 2014 · ★ 4.0 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate "Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of… Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Investigation, Crime, Murder

City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett · 2014 · ★ 4.3 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its… Shares: Investigation, Crime, Murder

Dead by Sunset Ann Rule · 1995 · ★ 4.5 · 555p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The first 464 pages of this book are standard Ann Rule. A beautiful, brilliant attorney marries a psychopath and suffers dreadfully for her choice of mate. She bears him three beautiful, brilliant little boys while Brad runs through her money, accumulates girlfriends, and is never home when she and the boys need him/ Finally, Cheryl can't bear his abuse any longer. She files for a divorce, and… Shares: Murderers, Criminals, Crime, Murder

The Godfather Mario Puzo · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The Godfather is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Beach, New York), headed by Vito Corleone. Puzo's dedication for The Godfather is "For Anthony Cleri". The novel's epigraph is by the French author Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there… Shares: Organized crime, Criminals, Crime, Mystery

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