Cross

6 best books like Cross (Ken Bruen): The New Iberia Blues, The Ghosts of Belfast, Nightmare in Pink, Dead I Well May Be, Rain Dogs, I Hear the Sirens in the Street

The New Iberia Blues

Author	James Lee Burke
ISBN	1501176870

Detective Dave Robicheaux’s world isn’t filled with too many happy stories, but Desmond Cormier’s rags-to-riches tale is certainly one of them. Robicheaux first met Cormier on the streets of New Orleans, when the young, undersized boy had foolish dreams of becoming a Hollywood director.

Twenty-five...

The Ghosts of Belfast

Author	Stuart Neville
ISBN	1569476004

Sooner or later, everybody pays.

Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered. Every night, on the point of losing his mind, he drowns their screams in drink. His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths.

From...

Nightmare in Pink

Author	John D. MacDonald
ISBN	0449224147

There is a very fine line between a man liberated by the sixties sexual revolution and a creepy predator of vulnerable ladies. Private investigator Travis McGee is steering very close to the edge here. Not that there is much boat steering in this second outing for Mr. McGee. His barge is back in Florida...

Dead I Well May Be

Author	Adrian McKinty
ISBN	0743470567

This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal."I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went."

So admits Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping the Troubles...

Rain Dogs

Author

Adrian McKinty

Rain Dogs, a stunning installment in the Sean Duffy thriller series, following the Edgar Award-nominated Gun Street Girl, is "another standout in a superior series" (Booklist).It's just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to court....

I Hear the Sirens in the Street

Author	Adrian McKinty
ISBN	1846688183

Sean Duffy knows there's no such thing as a perfect crime. But a torso in a suitcase is pretty close.

Still, one tiny clue is all it takes, and there it is. A tattoo. So Duffy, fully fit and back at work after the severe trauma of his last case, is ready to follow the trail of blood-however faint-that...