Books like Broken Harbor
12 books with a reading profile close to Broken Harbor by Tana French, Stephen Hogan. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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1
In the Woods
by Tana French
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, mystery
Dublin detective Rob Ryan investigates the murder of a twelve-year-old girl found at an archaeological site in the woods of Knocknaree.
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2
The Trespasser
by Tana French, Hilda Fay
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Detective Antoinette Conway and her partner Stephen Moran investigate the suburban murder of Aislinn Murray.
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3
When We Were Orphans
Also inward-looking and open-ended · 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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4
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Also inward-looking · 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
Also inward-looking · 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
Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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7
Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
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8
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
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9
History of Wolves
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives in a former commune in the woods of Northern Minnesota, isolated by her parents’ counterculture lifestyle and her own social alienation.
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10
Death in Her Hands
Also inward-looking and open-ended · mystery, literary
Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year-old widow living in a remote forest cabin, discovers a handwritten note claiming a woman named Maggs was murdered.
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11
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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12
Eileen
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a 1964 New England winter, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a young woman trapped in a cycle of self-loathing and squalor.
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