If You Like Lee Child

Lee Child writes compulsively readable moral dramas that feature fine writing, complex plots, relentless pacing, and an engaging loner hero. Like the medieval knight errant or the Western hero, Child's Jack Reacher rides into town bringing justice accompanied by the requisite violent gun play before he leaves without a trace. Try these similarly suspenseful and action-filled books.
 

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1. The black echo

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Book, Audiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
A Vietnam veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an FBI agent, hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon.

2. A private cathedral

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Author:
Burke, James Lee, 1936-
Series:
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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East Regional - Mystery
BURKE
Eva H. Perry Regional - Mystery
BURKE
Holly Springs Community - Mystery
BURKE
Description:
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...