Books like Perdida
12 books with a reading profile close to Perdida by Gillian Flynn. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Sharp Objects
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Camille Preaker, a journalist recently discharged from a psychiatric hospital, returns to her Missouri hometown to report on the murders of two preteen girls.
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2
Dark Places
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Libby Day was seven years old when her older brother, Ben, was convicted of murdering their mother and two sisters in a 1985 ritual killing.
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3
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Lexie Gracewell, once known to the media as Girl A, escaped from her parents’ house of horrors where she and her siblings were starved and shackled.
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4
What the Dead Know
thriller, narrative
In 1975, two sisters, Heather and Sunny Bethany, disappear from a shopping mall in Bethesda, Maryland, and are never found.
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5
Sunburn
thriller, narrative
Polly is a woman who leaves her husband and child and settles in a small Delaware town, Belleville, where she meets Adam, a man with his own secrets.
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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
thriller, narrative
Lydia Smith is a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver, a sanctuary for "BookFrogs"—the shop’s eccentric, marginalized regulars.
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10
Sister
thriller, narrative
Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
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11
All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
thriller, narrative
Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff of Charon County, Virginia, confronts a crisis when a school shooting leads to the death of a beloved teacher and the shooter himself.
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12
Ace of Spades
thriller, narrative
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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