Buffalo Jump

8 best books like Buffalo Jump (Howard Shrier): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Gallows View, Phule's Company, The Laughing Policeman, The Man on the Balcony, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke, The Toll, Arm of the Sphinx

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

Gallows View

Author	Peter Robinson
ISBN	0380714000

"A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. Investigating these cases is Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, a perceptive, curious and compassionate policeman recently...

Phule's Company

Author

Robert Lynn Asprin

WIllard Phule is the heir to a super-rich munitions company, and also an officer in the Legion. Unfortunately he gets a little too gung-ho during a peace treaty, and catches the ire of his higher-ups. They can't court-martial him, so instead they try to get him to quit by shipping him off to a remote swamp...

The Laughing Policeman

Author	Maj Sjöwall
ISBN	0679742239

One of the things I dig most about the "Martin Beck" mysteries is that they are only named "Martin Beck" mysteries out of convenience. He's the highest ranking policeman in Sjowall and Wahloo's Stockholm Homicide Division, and a couple of the early books tended to focus on him, but as the series goes on...

The Man on the Balcony

Author	Maj Sjöwall
ISBN	0679745963

The chilling third novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders.In the once peaceful parks of Stockholm, a killer is stalking young girls and disposing their bodies....

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke

Author	Maj Sjöwall
ISBN	0679745971

The masterful second novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck searching for a well-known Swedish journalist who has disappeared without a trace.Inspector Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad...

The Toll

Author

Cherie Priest

From Cherie Priest, the author of The Family Plot and Maplecroft, comes The Toll, a tense, dark, and scary treat for modern fans of the traditionally strange and macabre.

State Road 177 runs along the Suwannee River, between Fargo, Georgia, and the Okefenokee Swamp. Drive that route from east...

Arm of the Sphinx

Author

Josiah Bancroft

The second book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world.

The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive...