Books like 13 Steps Down
12 books with a reading profile close to 13 Steps Down by Ruth Rendell. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
thriller, mystery
In Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a warehouse roof.
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2
Defending Jacob
Also inward-looking · thriller, mystery
Andy Barber, a respected Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts, finds his life dismantled when his fourteen-year-old son, Jacob, is indicted for the murder of a classmate.
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3
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
Also inward-looking · thriller, mystery
Oliver Marks has just finished a ten-year prison sentence for a murder he may not have committed.
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4
The River We Remember
thriller, mystery
In 1958, the small community of Jewel, Minnesota, is upended when the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River.
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5
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
thriller, mystery
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her bunk at an Adirondack summer camp.
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6
Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
thriller, mystery
Mickey is a patrol officer in a Philadelphia neighborhood struggling with high rates of opioid addiction.
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7
Snap
thriller, mystery
Eleven-year-old Jack Bright is left in a broken-down car on a dark motorway to watch over his two younger sisters while his pregnant mother, Nicola, walks for help.
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8
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
thriller, mystery
Toby Hennessy is a man defined by luck and privilege until a brutal home invasion leaves him physically broken and mentally fragile.
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9
You Don't Know Me
thriller, mystery
In a London courtroom, an unnamed young black man stands accused of murder.
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10
Out
thriller, mystery
In the outskirts of Tokyo, four women working the midnight shift at a boxed-lunch factory become entangled in a gruesome cover-up.
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11
Mystic river
Also inward-looking · thriller, mystery
Three childhood friends in a working-class Boston neighborhood, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle, are permanently altered after a stranger abducts one of them.
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12
We Begin at the End
thriller, mystery
In Cape Haven, California, thirty years after he killed a young girl, Vincent King returns home following his release from prison.
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