Books like A dark-adapted eye
12 books with a reading profile close to A dark-adapted eye by Ruth Rendell, Harriet Walter, Richard Bravery. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Broken Harbor
narrative, mystery
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
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Broken Harbour
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.
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3
Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
narrative, mystery
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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4
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
narrative, mystery
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, Richard Papen joins an elite circle of five students at Hampden College dedicated to Greek antiquity.
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5
Nothing Can Hurt You
narrative, mystery
In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.
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6
When We Were Orphans
narrative, mystery
Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.
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7
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
narrative, mystery
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
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8
Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
narrative, mystery
The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
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9
The Glass Hotel
narrative, mystery
Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.
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10
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
narrative, psychology
Roxane Gay’s collection of short stories centers on the private lives of American women navigating a broad spectrum of class, race, and trauma.
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11
The Wonder
narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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12
Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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