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12 books with a reading profile close to Gefrorener Schrei by Tana French. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 The Hunter

    The Hunter

    by Tana French

    narrative, mystery

    Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper has built a quiet life in the West of Ireland, mentoring a local teenager named Trey Reddy.

  2. 2 Broken Harbour

    Broken Harbour

    by Tana French

    narrative, mystery

    In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.

  3. 3 Nothing Can Hurt You

    Nothing Can Hurt You

    by Nicola Maye Goldberg

    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 Elizabeth Is Missing

    Elizabeth Is Missing

    by Emma Healey

    narrative, mystery

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

  5. 5 The Secret History

    The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt

    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.

  6. 6 When We Were Orphans

    When We Were Orphans

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    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

    narrative, mystery

    Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.

  8. 8 I Have Some Questions for You

    I Have Some Questions for You

    by Rebecca Makkai

    narrative, mystery

    Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.

  9. 9 Fingersmith

    Fingersmith

    by Sarah Waters

    narrative, mystery

    Set in the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, the story follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of petty thieves and fences.

  10. 10 The Muse

    The Muse

    by Jessie Burton

    narrative, mystery

    In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.

  11. 11 Everything I never told you

    Everything I never told you

    by Celeste Ng

    narrative, mystery

    The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.

  12. 12 Difficult Women

    Difficult Women

    by Roxane Gay

    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.

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