Recommendations based on The Forgotten Manby Robert Crais

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  1. The Watchman

    by Robert Crais
    Detective investigates a suspicious death in Los Angeles and discovers a much bigger conspiracy.

    To pay back an old debt, Pike is coerced into protecting Larkin Barkley, a hard-partying young heiress whose life is in danger after a "wrong place wrong time" encounter that quickly escalates and ... (Goodreads)

  2. The Last Detective

    by Robert Crais
    Private detective unravels a web of lies as he searches for missing persons.

    P.I. Elvis Cole’s relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy ... (Goodreads)

  3. Free Fall

    by Robert Crais
    Detective's quest to uncover the truth behind a mysterious death, unearthing dark secrets.

    Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennifer Sheridan's case, which involves her decorated Los Angeles-cop boyfriend in some mysterious trouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon plunged in ... (Goodreads)

  4. Trunk Music

    by Michael Connelly
    Detective investigates a murder in Hollywood, uncovering secrets and lies.

    A body found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce seems to have connections with the mob and leads Bosch and his investigation to Las Vegas . It's Harry Bosch's first case after being transferred to the ... (Wikipedia)

  5. The Enemy

    by Lee Child
    A retired military cop is tasked with finding a missing American soldier in Iraq.

    In the last hours of 1989, Major Gen. Kenneth Kramer dies of a heart attack in a seedy North Carolina motel, apparently while in the company of a prostitute. MP Maj. Jack Reacher investigates and ... (Wikipedia)

  6. The Last Coyote

    by Michael Connelly
    A detective investigating the murder of his mother, trekking through a criminal underworld.

    Bosch is involved in an incident at work and has been put on involuntary stress leave. He must go through therapy sessions to be able to return to work. This involves talking about the incident and ... (Wikipedia)

  7. The Closers

    by Michael Connelly
    A homicide detective's pursuit of justice, determined to solve a decades-old case.

    Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The murder of a 16 year old girl in 1988 is his first file. A DNA match makes the case very much alive ... (Goodreads)

  8. One Shot

    by Lee Child
    A former military investigator must solve a murder case in a short period of time.

    In a small Indiana city, a lone gunman in a parking garage calmly fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter ... (Wikipedia)

  9. Without Fail

    by Lee Child
    An ex-military investigator takes on a secret mission to locate a missing person.

    Jack Reacher arrives in Atlantic City after hitching a ride cross-country with a couple of aging blues musicians who dream of playing at B.B. King 's club in New York City . He is approached there by ... (Wikipedia)

  10. The Pelican Brief

    by John Grisham
    A law student's investigation into a political assassination, uncovering a deadly conspiracy.

    The story begins with the assassinations of two ideologically divergent Supreme Court Justices. Both murders are committed by Khamel, the most wanted hitman in the world. Justice Rosenberg, a ... (Wikipedia)

  11. The Client

    by John Grisham
    A young boy is thrust into a legal battle, as he tries to protect himself and his family.

    Boyd Boyette, a United States Senator from Louisiana, goes missing. Because of his vocal opposition to a proposed major toxic landfill project by a company known to be Mafia-backed, murder is ... (Wikipedia)

  12. Eye of the Needle

    by Ken Follett
    A thrilling tale of espionage and wartime romance, set in the chaos of WWII.

    In 1940, Henry Faber, a German spy nicknamed 'die Nadel' ('The Needle') due to his trademark weapon being a stiletto , is working at a London railway depot, collecting information on troop movements. ... (Wikipedia)

  13. The First Commandment

    by Brad Thor
    Scot Harvath, a former Navy SEAL, must stop a terrorist plot to destroy the United States. Fast-paced action and suspense.

    Covert counterterrorism agent Scot Harvath awakens find a sadistic assassin with a personal vendetta unleashes horrors on those closest to him. Ordered by the president to stay out of the ... (Goodreads)

  14. Mind Prey

    by John Sandford
    Detective Lucas Davenport pursues a criminal mastermind in a thrilling manhunt.

    From the bestselling author of Night Prey and Winter Prey, Lucas Davenport is back in another great thriller. It was raining when psychiatrist Andi Manette left the parent-teacher conference with her ... (Goodreads)

  15. The Good Lawyer

    by Thomas Benigno
    A gripping legal thriller about a lawyer's quest for justice in a high-profile murder case.

    A young, ambitious lawyer is eager to prove he is better than the father who abandoned him and worthy of the devoted mother who raised him beyond the siren call of the mobster dominated family he ... (Goodreads)

  16. Sixkill

    by Robert B. Parker
    Private investigator Spenser takes on a case involving a troubled young actor and his entourage.

    On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the Boston PD calls on Spenser to investigate. Things ... (Goodreads)

  17. Below Zero

    by C.J. Box
    Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious and dangerous cult in the frozen wilderness.

    In this thriller in the #1, New York Times, bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling effect on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett and his family... Six years ago, Joe Pickett's foster ... (Goodreads)

  18. Nowhere To Run

    by C.J. Box
    Game warden Joe Pickett investigates a murder and uncovers a conspiracy involving a wealthy family and a dangerous militia group.

    Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without ... (Goodreads)

  19. Act of Treason

    by Vince Flynn
    CIA operative Mitch Rapp must track down a traitor in the White House before they can do irreparable damage to national security.

    The fallout from a horrific Washington explosion has just begun, along with CIA superagent Mitch Rapp’s hunt for a killer with a personal agenda in this “fun, finger-blistering page-turner” (,Star ... (Barnes & Noble)

  20. Cold Wind

    by C.J. Box
    A chilling mystery unfolds in the small town of Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, as game warden Joe Pickett investigates a series of murders.

    The extraordinary new Joe Pickett novel from the Edgar Award-winning author. When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe ... (Goodreads)

  21. Night Prey

    by John Sandford
    A serial killer is on the loose in Minneapolis, and it's up to Lucas Davenport to catch him before he strikes again.

    Another outstanding Lucas Davenport thriller from one of America’s finest novelists – author of Rules of Prey, Mind Prey, and Sudden Prey. ‘JOHN SANDFORD IS A BRILLIANT WRITER’ Guardian. After a ... (Goodreads)

  22. Heat Lightning

    by John Sandford
    A small town is rocked by a series of murders, and the sheriff must navigate the town's secrets to catch the killer.

    On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body has been found near a veterans’ memorial in Stillwater with two shots to the head and a lemon in his ... (Goodreads)

  23. End of Watch

    by Stephen King
    A retired detective confronts a powerful and mysterious force that has returned to terrorize a small town.

    Retired detective Bill Hodges, who now with his sidekick Holly runs the private investigation agency Finders Keepers, is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer . Given only months to live, he finds himself ... (Wikipedia)

  24. Junkyard Dogs

    by Craig Johnson
    Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates a murder in a Wyoming junkyard, uncovering a web of corruption and deceit.

    Read Craig Johnson's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. ,, A missing thumb and dead developers are only the beginning for Sheriff Walt Longmire , It's a volatile new economy in Durant, ... (Goodreads)

  25. The Dark Horse

    by Craig Johnson
    A sheriff investigates a mysterious murder in the small town of Wyoming.

    Read Craig Johnson's posts on the Penguin Blog.,, Walt Longmire goes undercover to save a woman in an unfriendly place, Interweaving classic noir sensibilities and humor with contemporary themes of ... (Goodreads)

  26. Plum Island

    by Nelson DeMille
    A mysterious investigation into a series of strange, unexplained events on a remote island.

    In 1997, NYPD detective John Corey is on the back porch of his uncle's waterfront home on the North Fork of Long Island recovering from three gunshot wounds while working in his town of Manhattan, ... (Wikipedia)

  27. Live to Tell

    by Lisa Gardner
    A gripping thriller following a detective on the hunt for a serial killer.

    A savage crime has rocked a working-class neighbourhood of Boston; four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father is lying in an intensive care unit, his survival in doubt. He is ... (Goodreads)

  28. Prayers for Rain

    by Dennis Lehane
    Thriller about a PI's investigation into a missing girl's disappearance, uncovering a city's criminal underworld.

    After the events of the preceding novel,, Gone, Baby, Gone, , Patrick Kenzie is working solo; Angie Gennaro has left their partnership for employment at a large investigative firm, moving out of ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Any Other Name

    by Craig Johnson
    A Wyoming Sheriff investigates a cold case murder that uncovers a tangled web of secrets.

    A sheriff’s mysterious death spurs the new novel in the, New York Times, bestselling Walt Longmire series Sheriff Walt Longmire had already rounded up a sizable posse of devoted readers when the A&E ... (Goodreads)

  30. State of the Union

    by Brad Thor
    An ex-Navy Seal must save the United States from a dangerous foreign enemy.

    From the national bestselling author of "The Lions of Lucerne" and "Path of the Assassin" comes another electrifying international thriller featuring all-American hero Scot Harvath, as he plunges ... (Goodreads)