If you’ve
enjoyed S. J. Rozan’s books, here are some others similar to her style, topics,
characters, or settings.
Benjamin, Carol Lea
Fall
Guy: A Rachel Alexander and Dash Mystery
When a detective from her
support group dies under suspicious circumstances, therapist and private investigator
Rachel Alexander teams up with her faithful pit bull to explore sinister truths
about the victim's past.
Busch, Frederick
Returning from his Carolina
coast security job to upstate New York, Jack, haunted by memories of his dead
wife and child, is hired to search for a lawyer's missing nephew, a search
that leads into the dark underworld of his hometown.
Doss, James D.
In the wake of mysterious
crimes that have the local police and the FBI baffled, Charlie Moon travels
to a Ute reservation in southern Colorado to discover a link between a disappearance,
a museum burglary, and an assault on a police officer.
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old
son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs
of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
Hamill, Denis
Having forfeited his family
life in the pursuit of his Pulitzer Prize-winning career, columnist Hank Tobin
revisits the story that made him famous--and subsequently destroyed another
man's life--and realizes his son may be perpetuating his own downfall.
Jahn, Michael
Murder
at the Museum of Natural History
When the host of a long-awaited
archaeological exhibit is murdered on the exhibit's opening night at Manhattan's
American Museum of Natural History, Bill Donovan must scour the museum's famous
Hall of the Dinosaurs to find the killer
Kingsbury, Karen
Mistaken for a heroic World
Trade Center victim, financial manager Eric Michaels, who is suffering from
amnesia,
Kingsbury, Karen
When
Jamie discovers her new friend is the brother of a man she has vowed to never
see again, the man who
lived with her for three months after her husband's death on September
11th, she delves deeper into her
volunteer work in order to shut him out, in the hope-filled sequel to One Tuesday Morning.
Lehane, Dennis
Three men, former childhood
friends, are all connected to the murder of one on the men's daughter. One
is a homicide detective, one an ex-con, and the father of the victim, and
the third, came home the night of the murder covered in someone else's blood.
Rinaldi, Nicholas
A beautifully resonant novel
that weaves together the life stories of a diverse range of characters into
a breathtaking braid of love and memory.
Roberts,
Les
Sometime
actor and private eye Saxon teams up with his adopted teenaged son, Marvell,
to search for a missing Chinese mail-order bride on the streets of Chinatown.
Russo, Richard
An unlucky man in a deadbeat
town in upstate New York, Sully must overcome numerous obstacles--a bum knee,
terminal underemployment, and a not-too-helpful group of friends--as he copes
with a new problem, his long-estranged son.
Spencer-Fleming, Julia
To
Darkness and To Death: a Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne Mystery
Episcopalian priest Clare
Fergusson and married police chief Russ Van Alstyne have more to contend with
than their mutual attraction when they investigate the strange disappearance
of a woman in their small upstate New York town.
Tanenbaum, Robert K.
Absolute
Rage
The murders of an ambitious Teamster and members of
his family lands Chief Assistant
D.A. Butch Karp on one of his most challenging cases--one that will threaten
Tanenbaum, Robert K.
Marlene
Ciampi finds herself involved in an organized crime plot, while her husband,
Watt,
Alan
When
seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin accidentally commits a horrifying crime, his
abusive father, the local sheriff, covers up for him, until the FBI arrives
and father and son become locked in a confrontation that could tear them apart.