Crime of Privilege

10 best books like Crime of Privilege (Walter Walker): Drift, Mortal Bonds, A Fatal Debt, Sacrifice Fly, Blind Man's Alley, Pale Horses, If You Were Here, Weapon of Choice, Something About Sophie, A Certain Summer

Drift
AuthorJon McGoran
ISBN0765334704
When Philadelphia narcotics detective Doyle Carrick loses his mother and step-father within weeks of each other, he gains a twenty-day suspension for unprofessional behavior and instructions to lay low at the unfamiliar house he’s inherited in rural Pennsylvania.
Feeling restless and...
AuthorMichael Sears
ISBN0399158677
From the author of the extraordinary Edgar-nominated debut novel Black Fridays, a sensational story of murder and financial corruption—and one man’s continued search for redemption.

William von Becker ran one of the largest privately held investment banks in North America, until...
A Fatal Debt
AuthorJohn Gapper
ISBN0345527895
This timely debut thriller by an award-winning Financial Times columnist is a gripping tale of lethal intrigue set in the high-stakes Wall Street world—where wealth and privilege are no match for jealousy and betrayal.
 
Ben Cowper, an attending psychiatrist at the prestigious New York–Episcopal...
AuthorTim O'Mara
ISBN1250008980
Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the...
Blind Man's Alley
AuthorJustin Peacock
ISBN0385531060
From the author of the Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller A Cure for Night, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate.

A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three...
AuthorJassy Mackenzie
ISBN1616952210
Book 4 in the PI Jade de Jong thriller series set in South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa: At first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet Meintjies, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story skyscraper. But Sonet’s...
If You Were Here
AuthorAlafair Burke
ISBN0062208357
Magazine journalist McKenna Wright is chasing the latest urban folktale-the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks, seconds before an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a short video snippet that purportedly captures part of the incident, she...
AuthorPatricia Gussin
ISBN1608090515
Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson.? Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital.? This sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn...
Something About Sophie
AuthorMary Kay McComas
ISBN0062084801
Answering a call that summons her to a stranger's deathbed, a reluctant Sophie Shepard is too late to hear what he was so anxious to tell her. What was so important that a dying man would think of her in his final moments? With the help of Dr. Drew McCarren, Sophie begins to dig into her past, setting off a chain...
AuthorPatricia Beard
ISBN1476710260
A richly evocative debut novel set in an exclusive summer colony along the east coast during the aftermath of World War II—for fans of Kate Morton and Jamie Ford.

"Nothing ever changes at Wauregan.” That mystique is the tradition of the idyllic island colony off the shore of Long Island,...
Bristol House
AuthorBeverly Swerling
ISBN0670025933
In the tradition of Kate Mosse, a swiftly-paced mystery that stretches from modern London to Tudor England

In modern-day London, architectural historian and recovering alcoholic Annie Kendall hopes to turn her life around and restart her career by locating several long-missing pieces...
Last of the Seals
AuthorGreg Messel
ISBN0985485906
Mystery, romance and baseball in 1957 San Francisco. Sam Slater is a lifetime minor league baseball player for the San Francisco Seals. The Seals have just one more season left as San Francisco is about to become a major league city. Sam has come to the end of his baseball career and is going to join the private...
The Tragedy of Fidel Castro
AuthorJoão Cerqueira
ISBN1938416163
Award-Winner in the Fiction: Multicultural category of The 2013 USA Best Book Awards, sponsored by USA Book News

2012 ForeWord Book of The Year Awards Winner in Translations (Adult Fiction - Bronze)

Nominated for the 2014 Montaigne Medal

Award-Winning Finalist in the...
Criminal Enterprise
AuthorOwen Laukkanen
ISBN0399157905
The new Stevens and Windermere novel from the author of the dazzlingly acclaimed The Professionals—“one of the best debuts of the year” (Mystery Scene).

From the outside, Carter Tomlin’s life looked perfect: a big house, pretty wife, two kids—a St. Paul success story. But Tomlin...
Black Irish
AuthorStephan Talty
ISBN0345538064
In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of Blue Water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a city’s dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage.

Absalom “Abbie” Kearney...
AuthorLarry Colton
ISBN1455511889
"Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city...
The Last Clinic
AuthorGary Gusick
ISBN0345548884
In a fast-paced, suspenseful debut novel for fans of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, detective Darla Cavannah goes Deep South in pursuit of a merciless killer.
 
Outside the local women’s health clinic, the Reverend Jimmy Aldridge waving his protest sign is a familiar sight. But that changes...
AuthorLeonard Rosen
ISBN1579622224
All Cry Chaos, a debut thriller by the immensely gifted Leonard Rosen, is a masterful and gripping tale that literally reaches for the heavens.

The action begins when mathematician James Fenster is assassinated on the eve of a long-scheduled speech at a World Trade Organization meeting....
AuthorLydia R. Cooper
ISBN1440561265
"...will appeal to fans of Stieg Larsson and Gillian Flynn." --Booklist

In Lydia Cooper's wry and absorbing debut novel, we are introduced to Mickey Brandis, a brilliant twenty-eight-year-old doctoral candidate in medieval literature who is part Lisbeth Salander and part Dexter. She...
AuthorCharles McCarry
ISBN0802121276
Charles McCarry is widely considered one of the greatest espionage writers of the all-time, and in The Shanghai Factor he returns to his roots with an absorbing tale of global skulduggery that leaves the reader guessing at every turn.

A young, unnamed spy is living in Shanghai in order to observe...
Hiding in Sunshine
AuthorJohn Stuart
ISBN1477283315
Gavin had become wealthy from his inventions, so the kid was given only the best. He will need that wealth, because his family is in danger, targeted by the Enterprise, a Serbian criminal outfit. Why? Who will protect them?

I can only try to imagine the fear of being hunted, on your own. But, he...
Drake's Quest
AuthorPat Croce
ISBN1927004160
Sir Francis Drake was one of the most famous and successful pirates ever to cross the seven seas. He was Queen Elizabeth's favorite, and brought her kingdom much glory. Unfortunately, he left no known heirs...

Until now.

Bold, courageous and wise beyond his years, Charlie is a natural...
The Hanging of Samuel Ash
AuthorSheldon Russell
ISBN1250001013
Railroad bull Hook Runyon and his dog, Mixer, are chasing persistent pickpockets on the Santa Fe line, when Hook is called to investigate a malfunctioning wigwag signal in the middle of nowhere. A young man has been strung up there, hung from the signal, and left strangled to death. Hook finds no identification...
AuthorWilliam Manchee
ISBN0966636694
Drop into the home of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, and his wife Rebekah for a Christmas Party. The house is packed with clients and friends eating, drinking and having a great time. But then the lights go out and Stan's CPA, Bobby Wiggins, is found dead. To make matters worse Bobby's wife blames her hubby's...
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