Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 71 Easy Rawlins 52 Le Carré 51 Tess Gerritsen 50 Jeffery Deaver 50 novel 49 Philip Marlowe 49 Today Birthdays Author 49 boiled detective 48 Ellroy 48 Ed McBain 48 protagonist 48 noirish 48 Mickey Spillane 47 John Le Carré 47 Kay Scarpetta 47 James Ellroy 47 Laura Lippman 47 hardboiled 47 Ordinary Heroes 47 Nathan Zuckerman 46 Toshiro Mifune 46 crime solver 46 roman à clef 46 Mikael Blomkvist 46 whodunits 46 film noir 46 unheroic 46 noir 46 Robert Crais 46 Fairstein 45 Linda Fairstein 45 BOOK REVIEW 45 Complications ensue 45 gripping tale 45 Chuck Palahniuk 45 whodunit 45 bestselling novelist 45 Myla Goldberg 45 novelist 45 bildungsroman 45 Jack Reacher 44 Jonathan Kellerman 44 Sara Paretsky 44 Franco Nero 44 Nero Wolfe 44 sensualist 44 Floyd Mayweather JR 44 omniscient narrator 44 Michael Nyqvist 44 amateur sleuth 44 morality tale 44 Agatha Christie mystery 44 Masterpiece Mystery 44 fictional alter ego 44 roman clef 44 Dirk Bogarde 43 Louis Auchincloss 43 William Makepeace Thackeray 43 Robert Graysmith 43 Lisa Scottoline 43 ETA Hoffmann 43 gothic romance 43 Anita Shreve 43 Grimm Fairy Tales 43 Walter Pidgeon 43 Incredible Inman 43 trilogy 43 John Le Carre 43 Dying Gaul 43 Octavia Butler 43 Burning Bright 43 Le Carre 43 Sue Grafton 43 Kindly Ones 43 George Pelecanos 43 Kathy Reichs 43 Mifune 43 richly imagined 43 Christopher Nolan Memento 43 starring Sylvester Stallone 42 moral ambiguity 42 Exit Ghost 42 Protagonist 42 Sam Spade 42 EC Comics 42 Palahniuk 42 vampire lore 42 Humbert Humbert 42 Harlan Coben 42 Morbius 42 poetic prose 42 Zodiac Killer 42 adventuress 42 novella 42 Rupert Graves 42 Mosley 42 Hannibal Rising 42 Lecter 42 paranormal thriller 42 Jeffrey Hatcher 42 gumshoe