Books like The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
12 books with a reading profile close to The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Escapist; a moderate read.
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The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Aiden Bishop wakes up in the middle of a forest at Blackheath Manor with no recollection of his identity.
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Battle Royale
thriller, narrative
In a totalitarian alternative-timeline Japan known as the Republic of Greater East Asia, a class of junior high students is kidnapped for the Program.
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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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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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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
narrative, mystery
Blue van Meer, a polymathic high school senior, moves frequently with her academic father, Gareth, before settling in North Carolina for her graduation year.
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Before the Fall
by Noah Hawley
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
On a foggy night, a private jet carrying two influential families and a struggling painter named Scott Burroughs crashes into the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Conclave
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Within the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Lomeli manages the election of a new pope following the sudden death of the incumbent.
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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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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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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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The Force
by Don Winslow
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sergeant Denny Malone leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit authorized to operate with autonomy to disrupt gang violence and drug trafficking.
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