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Books like The Apprentice

12 books with a reading profile close to The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

The Mephisto Club

by Tess Gerritsen

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles investigate a crime scene where a woman has been dismembered and drained of blood, with Latin messages written in gore.
2

The Scarred Woman

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Detective Carl Mørck and the Department Q team investigate the death of an elderly woman found in a Copenhagen park, a crime that mirrors a cold case from over a decade prior.
3

THE SECRET OF SECRETS

by Dan Brown

Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this thriller centered on the disappearance of a prominent noetic scientist.
4

GLORIOUS RIVALS

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Seven players remain caught in a high-stakes competition on Hawthorne Island, where an eccentric billionaire’s legacy continues to unfold through hidden mechanisms and intellectual trials.
5

JIGSAW

by Jonathan Kellerman

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigate a connection between two seemingly unrelated violent incidents.
6

On the Street Where You Live

by Mary Higgins Clark

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Criminal defense attorney Emily Graham relocates to the coastal town of Spring Lake, New Jersey, seeking a fresh start after her divorce and a terrifying stalking ordeal.
7

While My Pretty One Sleeps

by Mary Higgins Clark

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Neeve Kearney, the owner of a boutique on Madison Avenue, becomes entangled in a criminal investigation after the murder of gossip columnist Ethel Lambston.
8

I Will Find You

by Harlan Coben

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

David Burroughs is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the murder of his young son, Matthew.
9

The Reapers

by John Connolly

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

The narrative pivots away from private investigator Charlie Parker to focus on his recurring companions, Louis and Angel.
10

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

by Anne Holt

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

In a stifling Oslo heatwave, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates a sequence of gruesome crime scenes where mysterious eight-digit numbers are scrawled in blood on apartment walls.
11

The Son

by Jo Nesbø

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Sonny Lofthus has spent twelve years in an Oslo prison, taking the blame for crimes and becoming a heroin addict while the inmates make him a sort of confessor.
12

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

by Nina Simon

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

High-powered Los Angeles businesswoman Lana Rubicon relocates to a quiet coastal town in central California to recover from cancer treatments.

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