Books like Defending Jacob
12 books with a reading profile close to Defending Jacob by William Landay. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Oliver Marks has just finished a ten-year prison sentence for a murder he may not have committed.
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2
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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3
You Don't Know Me
thriller, narrative
In a London courtroom, an unnamed young black man stands accused of murder.
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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Mystic river
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Three childhood friends in a working-class Boston neighborhood, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle, are permanently altered after a stranger abducts one of them.
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8
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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9
Out
thriller, narrative
In the outskirts of Tokyo, four women working the midnight shift at a boxed-lunch factory become entangled in a gruesome cover-up.
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10
The Searcher
by Tana French
thriller, narrative
Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago police officer, moves to a remote Irish village seeking a quiet life after a divorce and a taxing career.
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11
The Other Black Girl
thriller, narrative
Nella Rogers is an editorial assistant and the only Black employee at Wagner Books, a prestigious but white-dominated publishing house in New York City.
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12
Notes on an Execution
thriller, narrative
Ansel Packer sits on Texas death row with twelve hours left before his lethal injection.
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