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12 books with a reading profile close to My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Balanced in tone; an easy read.

  1. 1 Strange Sally Diamond

    Strange Sally Diamond

    by Liz Nugent

    thriller, mystery

    Sally Diamond is a social recluse living in rural Ireland who follows her father's instructions to put him out with the trash after his death.

  2. 2 We Were Liars

    We Were Liars

    by E. Lockhart

    thriller, mystery

    Cadence Sinclair Eastman belongs to a wealthy, distinguished family that spends every summer on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts.

  3. 3 The River We Remember

    The River We Remember

    by William Kent Krueger

    thriller, mystery

    In 1958, the small community of Jewel, Minnesota, is upended when the body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River.

  4. 4 Snap

    Snap

    by Belinda Bauer

    thriller, mystery

    Eleven-year-old Jack Bright is left in a broken-down car on a dark motorway to watch over his two younger sisters while his pregnant mother, Nicola, walks for help.

  5. 5 Smilla's Sense of Snow

    Smilla's Sense of Snow

    by Peter Høeg

    thriller, mystery

    In Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a warehouse roof.

  6. 6 Yellowface

    Yellowface

    by R.F. Kuang

    thriller, accessible

    When June Hayward witnesses the accidental death of her more successful rival, Athena Liu, she steals Athena’s unfinished manuscript about Chinese laborers in World War I.

  7. 7 Miracle Creek

    Miracle Creek

    by Angie Kim

    thriller, mystery

    In a rural Virginia town, a pressurized oxygen chamber used to treat autism and infertility explodes, killing two people.

  8. 8 Big Little Lies

    Big Little Lies

    by Liane Moriarty

    thriller, mystery

    In the coastal town of Pirriwee, three mothers find their lives entangled through their children’s kindergarten class.

  9. 9 Monday's Not Coming

    Monday's Not Coming

    by Tiffany D. Jackson

    thriller, mystery

    Claudia returns to school for the eighth grade only to find that her best friend, Monday Charles, has vanished.

  10. 10 Shutter Island

    Shutter Island

    by Dennis Lehane

    thriller, mystery

    In 1954, U.S.

  11. 11 The Thirteenth Tale

    The Thirteenth Tale

    by Diane Setterfield

    mystery, accessible

    Margaret Lea, a quiet antiquarian bookshop assistant, receives a summons to the decaying Angelfield estate to interview Vida Winter, a prolific novelist famous for her invented pasts.

  12. 12 Allegedly

    Allegedly

    by Tiffany D. Jackson

    thriller, mystery

    Mary Addison was convicted of killing a white infant when she was only nine years old.

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