Books like A Simple Plan
12 books with a reading profile close to A Simple Plan by Scott Smith. Growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
thriller, narrative
In a rural Virginia town, a pressurized oxygen chamber used to treat autism and infertility explodes, killing two people.
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2
The Night Manager
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jonathan Pine, a former soldier turned night manager at a luxury hotel in Zurich, seeks retribution against Richard Onslow Roper.
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3
Snap
Also escapist · 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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4
When No One Is Watching
by Alyssa Cole
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sydney Green is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn who watches her neighborhood rapidly transform through aggressive gentrification.
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5
Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jule West is a young woman with a gift for becoming other people.
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6
The Force
by Don Winslow
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sergeant Denny Malone leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit authorized to operate with autonomy to disrupt gang violence and drug trafficking.
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7
We Begin at the End
thriller, narrative
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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8
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
thriller, narrative
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her bunk at an Adirondack summer camp.
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9
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
thriller, narrative
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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10
Small Mercies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set in South Boston during the 1974 desegregation busing crisis, the story follows Mary Pat Fennessy, a hardened resident of the Commonwealth housing projects.
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11
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
thriller, narrative
Oliver Marks has just finished a ten-year prison sentence for a murder he may not have committed.
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12
Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
thriller, narrative
Mickey is a patrol officer in a Philadelphia neighborhood struggling with high rates of opioid addiction.
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