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Books like Alex

12 books with a reading profile close to Alex by Pierre Lemaître. Clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.

1

The Woods

by Harlan Coben

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

County prosecutor Paul Copeland lives under the shadow of a summer camp tragedy that occurred twenty years ago.
2

Trust No One

by Paul Cleave

Also escapist · thriller, entertainment

Jerry Grey is a crime novelist who wrote twelve books under the pseudonym Henry Cutter.
3

Six Years

by Harlan Coben

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Jake Fisher watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man six years ago.
4

Cop Town

by Karin Slaughter

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

In 1974 Atlanta, Kate Murphy begins her first day at the police department during a period of intense social friction and systemic corruption.
5

The Book of Cold Cases

by Simone St. James

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Shea Collins spends her nights running a true crime website, driven by a childhood brush with a serial killer.
6

The Last Temptation

by Val McDermid

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill faces a personal crisis when a serial killer begins targeting his professional peers across Europe.
7

The Marsh King's Daughter

by Karen Dionne

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Helena Pelletier grew up in the remote wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, raised in a cabin by a mother who was kidnapped as a teenager and a father who kept them both captive.
8

The Nothing Man

by Catherine Ryan Howard

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

At age twelve, Eve Black was the sole survivor of a home invasion committed by a serial predator known as the Nothing Man.
9

The Chalk Man

by C.J. Tudor

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

In 1986, Eddie Adams and his childhood friends use chalk stick figures as a secret code to leave messages for one another around their English village.
10

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

by Anne Holt

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

In a stifling Oslo heatwave, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates a sequence of gruesome crime scenes where mysterious eight-digit numbers are scrawled in blood on apartment walls.
11

This Book Will Bury Me

by Ashley Winstead

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Deep in the Texas wilderness, a former journalist uncovers a vintage manuscript that implicates a high-profile political dynasty in a decades-old disappearance.
12

A History of Wild Places

by Shea Ernshaw

Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Travis Wren possesses a singular talent for locating missing persons by touching their private belongings.

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