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Robert Glenister narrates Career of Evil with a gritty, textured voice that handles the book's dark subject matter without flinching — at 18 hours, the investigation has room to develop its procedural rhythms, and Glenister's understanding of British working-class registers gives the supporting cast real specificity. Six of the recommendations are award-winning titles, and the full list is built around similar-length crime fiction with the same unsentimental tone.

10 books for fans of Career of Evil

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    Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail cover

    Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail

    Security Hounds Investigations • Book 1

    by Dana Mentink

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    Search-and-rescue dogs drive these romantic mysteries, tracking missing persons through wilderness settings. Mentink combines realistic canine training details with faith-based romantic suspense across three connected cases.

    5.00 Goodreads (2 ratings)
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    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction cover

    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

    by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor

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    Twenty-five years of The Strand Magazine's finest short fiction distills masters like Jo Nesbø's Nordic noir and Ray Bradbury's imagination into bite-sized revelations. Each story represents a different flavor of literary excellence.

    4.67 Goodreads (3 ratings)
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    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright cover

    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright

    by Nora Roberts, Sandra Burr, James Daniels, Bernadette Quigley

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    Declan Fitzgerald impulsively buys a crumbling New Orleans mansion, beginning renovations that awaken both supernatural mysteries and unexpected romance in the bayou.

    4.51 Goodreads (1.3K ratings)
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    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2) cover

    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 2

    by Aoibh Wood

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    Seemingly cured of her vampire curse, Detective Cait Reagan faces new supernatural threats while caring for her brain-damaged mother.

    4.43 Goodreads (394 ratings)
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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

    by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine

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    Holmes ventures beyond Victorian London into horror, science fiction, and fantasy realms crafted by modern masters like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman. Each story tests the detective's methods against supernatural and futuristic mysteries.

    4.39 Goodreads (22.7K ratings)
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    The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series) cover

    The Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)

    Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

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    Harry Bosch's origin trilogy follows the haunted LAPD detective from a Vietnam tunnel rat murder that hits too close to home through his most challenging cases.

    4.37 Goodreads (3.9K ratings)
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    The Keeper

    Cal Hooper • Book 3

    by Tana French

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    Irish village secrets reach their breaking point in the concluding chapter of Cal's story. French's atmospheric writing and complex character development culminate in this highly anticipated series finale.

    4.33 Goodreads (870 ratings)
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    Rebecca

    by Daphne du Maurier

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    Maxim de Winter's new bride discovers that his dead first wife, Rebecca, still rules their grand estate through memory, servants, and secrets that threaten to destroy everything.

    4.25 Goodreads (730.8K ratings)
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    We Are All Guilty Here

    North Falls • Book 1

    by Karin Slaughter

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    Officer Emmy Clifton's past haunts her when two girls disappear during North Falls' fireworks night, forcing her to confront the friend she failed to help years earlier. Slaughter launches a new series exploring small-town secrets and guilt.

    4.21 Goodreads (133.0K ratings)
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    Mystic River

    by Dennis Lehane

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    Lehane explores how childhood trauma echoes through decades when three Boston friends are reunited by the murder of one's daughter.

    4.18 Goodreads (166.9K ratings)