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Books like Killing Floor
The best books like Killing Floor are No Country for Old Men, Blood Meridian, and In Cold Blood. Killing Floor by Lee Child is about justice outside institutions, american mythology and violence, brotherhood and loss. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- No Country for Old Men
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Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction
No Country for Old Men begins in the Texas desert in 1980 where a Vietnam veteran named Llewelyn Moss stumbles on the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong: a ring of dead men, trucks, a cache of heroin, and two million dollars in a case.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West is set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1840s and loosely follows a teenage runaway known only as the kid, who falls in with the Glanton gang — a historical band of scalp hunters hired by the Mexican government to kill Apache raiders.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Die Trying
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Lee Child · Thriller
Jack Reacher is in the wrong place at the wrong time in Chicago — helping a woman with dry cleaning when she is snatched off the street.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - A Is for Alibi
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Sue Grafton · Mystery
Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California — Grafton's fictionalized Santa Barbara — recently divorced for the second time and living alone in a small apartment she describes with genuine affection.
Both dig into justice outside institutions.
Read the summary → - The Thursday Murder Club
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Richard Osman · Mystery
The Thursday Murder Club is set in Coopers Chase, an upscale English retirement village, where four residents — Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron — meet weekly to examine unsolved cold cases from the files of Elizabeth's late-policewoman friend.
Both dig into justice outside institutions.
Read the summary → - A Time to Kill
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John Grisham · Thriller
In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Along Came a Spider
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James Patterson · Thriller
Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Angels & Demons
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Dan Brown · Thriller
Physicist Leonardo Vetra is found dead at CERN with a symbol burned into his chest: the Illuminati ambigram.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty · Thriller
Big Little Lies begins with a death at a school trivia night and then spends its entire length working backward to explain how it happened.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blacklands
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Belinda Bauer · Thriller
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb lives in the shadow of an unresolved disappearance.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blindsighted
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Karin Slaughter · Thriller
Blindsighted is Karin Slaughter's debut novel, published in 2001, and the first book in the Grant County series set in fictional Heartsdale, Georgia.
A kindred thriller read.
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Books like Killing Floor: quick answers
What are the best books like Killing Floor?
The best books like Killing Floor by Lee Child are No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Die Trying by Lee Child, A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Killing Floor, such as justice outside institutions, american mythology and violence, brotherhood and loss.
What should I read after Killing Floor?
A natural next read after Killing Floor is No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Die Trying by Lee Child.
What books are similar to Killing Floor by Lee Child?
Killing Floor centers on justice outside institutions, american mythology and violence, brotherhood and loss. Books with a similar feel include No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Die Trying by Lee Child, A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
