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12 books with a reading profile close to Broken Harbour by Tana French. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

  1. 1 The Trespasser

    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.

  2. 2 The Likeness

    The Likeness

    by Tana French

    Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

    Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a young woman is found murdered in a derelict cottage outside Dublin.

  3. 3 Nothing Can Hurt You

    Nothing Can Hurt You

    by Nicola Maye Goldberg

    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.

  4. 4 The Secret History

    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.

  5. 5 Elizabeth Is Missing

    Elizabeth Is Missing

    by Emma Healey

    Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

    Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.

  6. 6 When We Were Orphans

    When We Were Orphans

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    Also inward-looking · 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.

  7. 7 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    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.

  8. 8 Everything I never told you

    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.

  9. 9 Difficult Women

    Difficult Women

    by Roxane Gay

    Also inward-looking · 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.

  10. 10 The Wonder

    The Wonder

    by Emma Donoghue

    Also inward-looking · 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.

  11. 11 The Glass Hotel

    The Glass Hotel

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    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.

  12. 12 L'Avversario

    L'Avversario

    by Emmanuel Carrère

    Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

    On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents before attempting to take his own life.

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