Books like In the Woods
12 books with a reading profile close to In the Woods by Tana French. Inward-looking and open-ended; a moderate read.
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Broken Harbor
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, mystery
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
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2
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.
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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
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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5
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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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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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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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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Death in Her Hands
Also inward-looking and open-ended · mystery, psychology
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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10
Eileen
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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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History of Wolves
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
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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L'Avversario
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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