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Books like Blood Games

Across Hard-Boiled, City Life, Police Procedural, and Psychological — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Blood Games by Faye Kellerman.

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

Festive in Death An Eve Dallas Thriller (Book 39)

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

The Fifth Witness

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Police Procedural

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Psychological

Devil’s Corner

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Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

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This is Why We Lied

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#11

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

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Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#13

Redemption

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#14

Remnants A Gripping and Heart-pounding Serial Killer Thriller

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#15

Out for Blood

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Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#16

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • City Life • Psychological

#17

The Night Man

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#18

Just Another Missing Person A Novel

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Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#19

She Lies in Wait A Novel

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Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#20

The Missing

Chris Mooney

Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#21

Shadows Still Remain A Novel

Peter de Jonge

Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#22

The Little Sleep A Novel

Paul Tremblay

Themes: Hard-Boiled • Police Procedural • Psychological

#23

In the Blink of an Eye

Jo Callaghan

Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

#24

Killer

Jonathan Kellerman

Themes: City Life • Police Procedural • Psychological

If Blood Games by Faye Kellerman is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Hard-Boiled, City Life, Police Procedural and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Laura Lippman, Dennis Lehane, Robert Crais, J. D. Robb, and others.