Books like The City of Falling Angels
12 books with a reading profile close to The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
history, narrative
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
history, narrative
Set in 1612 Lancashire, the story follows noblewoman Fleetwood Shuttleworth, who is eighteen years old and pregnant for the fourth time.
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Zodiac
history, narrative
Robert Graysmith provides a chronological reconstruction of the unidentified serial killer who terrorized Northern California beginning in the late 1960s.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
history, narrative
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
history, narrative
In 1789 Maine, Martha Ballard is a midwife and healer tasked with investigating a body found trapped in the Kennebec River.
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The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
history, narrative
In 1930s colonial Malaya, an eleven-year-old houseboy, Ren, is tasked with finding his dead master's missing finger and burying it with the body within forty-nine days.
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The Phoenix Crown
by Kate Quinn
history, narrative
Set in 1906 San Francisco, the narrative follows soprano Gemma Bastion and artist Saffron Everleigh, two women whose lives intersect through their connection to a wealthy, mysterious benefactor named Henry Thornton.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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The Historian
history, narrative
The narrative begins when a sixteen-year-old girl discovers a mysterious book with blank pages and a cache of yellowing letters in her father’s library.
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