Books like Sur Ma Peau
12 books with a reading profile close to Sur Ma Peau by Gillian Flynn. Escapist; an easy read.
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1
Heridas abiertas
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Camille Preaker, a journalist recently released from a psychiatric ward, returns to her hometown of Wind Gap to report on the murders of two young girls.
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2
Dark Places
Also escapist · 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
Ace of Spades
Also escapist · 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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4
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Also escapist · 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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The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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6
Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jule West is a young woman with a gift for becoming other people.
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7
Sister
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
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8
A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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9
The Whispers
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
On a quiet suburban street, the pressure of perfect motherhood shatters when ten-year-old Xavier falls from his bedroom window into a coma.
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10
Small Mercies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set in South Boston during the 1974 desegregation busing crisis, the story follows Mary Pat Fennessy, a hardened resident of the Commonwealth housing projects.
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11
Girl A
by Abigail Dean
Also escapist · 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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12
All the Sinners Bleed
by S.A. Cosby
Also escapist · 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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