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Books like The Killing Kind: 9 series to read next

The Killing Kind is set in contemporary and our world. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

The Killing Kind is 4 books, 2010–2024.

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The Bourbon Kid
John Decker Universe
Finders Keepers (Stephen King)
Charlie Parker
Anita Blake
Killing Kind Universe
Meredith Gentry
Jack Nightingale
Effective Engineering Solutions

The Bourbon KidSeries

seriesAnonymous3 books2007

Horror and thriller & suspense, dark and tense in tone, set in contemporary and our world.

“The first book in the series was initially written with the intent to make it a Western novel, with the author choosing to move the series to the present day partway through the book.”
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Start with The Book with No Name →

John Decker UniverseSeries

seriesAnthony M. Strong19 books2015

Horror, set in contemporary.

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Finders Keepers (Stephen King)Series

seriesStephen King7 books2014

Thriller & suspense and mystery & detective, tense in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“The mix of true-crime procedural instincts and creeping horror is a hallmark of King's later work with the character.”
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Start with The Outsider →

Charlie ParkerSeries

seriesJohn Connolly22 books1999

Mystery & detective, dark in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“Now well over twenty books, the series has grown Parker's two associates, Louis and Angel, into major recurring characters.”
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Start with Every Dead Thing →

Anita BlakeSeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton & Jonathon Green42 books1993

Urban fantasy, about vampires.

“The books have sold more than six million copies; many have made The New York Times Best Seller list.”
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Start with Guilty Pleasures →

Killing Kind UniverseSeries

seriesBryan Smith6 books2010

Horror, set in contemporary and our world.

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Meredith GentrySeries

seriesLaurell K. Hamilton10 books2000

Urban fantasy, about fae and political intrigue.

“The first book in the series, A Kiss of Shadows, was released by Del Rey on October 3, 2000.”
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Start with A Kiss of Shadows →

Jack NightingaleSeries

seriesStephen Leather, Alex Shaw, Andrew Fusek Peters, Conrad Jones, Lynne Waterman, Matt Hilton & Robert Waterman39 books2010

Set in contemporary.

“Stephen Leather's series follows Nightingale as people around him start dying in increasingly inexplicable ways, forcing a skeptic into treating the occult threat as real.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Nightfall →

Effective Engineering SolutionsSeries

seriesDouglas Preston & Lincoln Child37 books1995

Thriller & suspense and mystery & detective, tense in tone, about murder investigation, set in contemporary and north america.

“Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrote it as a standalone techno-thriller in 2000; it later fed into their separate Gideon Crew series rather than getting a direct sequel of its own.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Ice Limit →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after The Killing Kind?: The Bourbon Kid — the closest match to The Killing Kind on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with The Killing Kind?: The Killing Kind. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for The Killing Kind.
How big is The Killing Kind?: The Killing Kind is 4 books, 2010–2024.

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