What 2019 Thriller Books Launched New Breakout Crime Series?

2026-07-22 03:25:25
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KaraLake
KaraLake
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Looking at my Goodreads: 'The Night Fire' by Michael Connelly (Bosch series) and 'The New Girl' by Daniel Silva (Gabriel Allon) were 2019 entries in established juggernauts. The breakout new series were quieter, often from indie or mid-list publishers that gained word-of-mouth momentum.
2026-07-23 11:19:50
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CamKing
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A niche observation: 'The Nothing Man' by Catherine Ryan Howard (2020) is brilliant. But her 2019 book, 'The Liar's Girl', is part of a loose Dublin-set universe. It wasn't marketed as a series, but readers who piece together her connections enjoy it as a shared world. That's a subtle series breakout.
2026-07-27 01:47:45
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AvaYoung
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S.A. Cosby's 'Blacktop Wasteland' launched in 2020, but his 2019 short story collection 'The Fiery Alphabet' showed his chops. It's not a series, but it's interesting to see where that gritty, rural crime voice came from before his breakout.
2026-07-27 08:02:00
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