Read-alikes and related books

Books like Taking Lives

Across SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION, FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL, and FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Taking Lives by Michael Pye.

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Top related books to Taking Lives

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

Nighttime Is My Time

Mary Higgins Clark

Themes: SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

Natchez Burning: A Novel (Penn Cage, 4)

Greg Iles

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

Private L.A.

James Patterson

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE

Two-Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington Novels)

Stuart Woods

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

Woman with a Gun: A Novel

Phillip Margolin

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

F2f

Phillip Finch

Themes: SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

False Memory

Dean Koontz

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

The Sentry (Joe Pike)

Robert Crais

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Novels)

James Patterson

Themes: SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#10

Daylight

David Baldacci

Themes: SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

#11

Cast of Shadows

Kevin Guilfoile

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#12

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#13

Dead Man Running (An Alex McKnight Thriller)

Steve Hamilton

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

#14

No Place Like Home

Mary Higgins Clark

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#15

Lincoln Collector The Story of Oliver R. Barrett’s Great Private Collection

Carl Sandburg

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

#16

Dirt: A Novel

Stuart Woods

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

#17

The Testament: A Novel

John Grisham

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE

#18

Postmortem

Patricia Cornwell

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE

#19

I Married a Dead Man (Crime, Penguin)

Cornell Woolrich

Themes: FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#20

Come and Find Me: A Novel of Suspense

Hallie Ephron

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#21

Case Histories: A Novel (Jackson Brodie, 1)

Kate Atkinson

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_PSYCHOLOGICAL

#22

Deadline (A Virgil Flowers Novel)

John Sandford

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL • FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE

#23

The Secret Adversary: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries, 1)

Agatha Christie

Themes: PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

#24

South of Shiloh

Chuck Logan

Themes: FICTION_THRILLERS_SUSPENSE • FICTION_MYSTERY & DETECTIVE_GENERAL

A curated shelf of 24 read-alikes for Taking Lives by Michael Pye — spanning SERIAL MURDERS_FICTION, PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS_FICTION, FICTION_THRILLERS_GENERAL and featuring authors such as Mary Higgins Clark, Greg Iles, James Patterson, Stuart Woods, and others.