Books like The Confessor
12 books with a reading profile close to The Confessor by Daniel Silva. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Amber Room
by Steve Berry
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
The Amber Room, a chamber of amber panels, gold leaf and mirrors given to Peter the Great by Prussia, was removed by the Nazis from a palace near Leningrad in 1941 and disappeared at the end of the war.
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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.
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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.
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The Reapers
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.
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Headhunters
by Jo Nesbø
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Roger Brown is a high-level corporate recruiter in Oslo who maintains a lavish lifestyle by stealing expensive artwork from his clients.
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The Last Temptation
by Val McDermid
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill faces a personal crisis when a serial killer begins targeting his professional peers across Europe.
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The Book of Cold Cases
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Shea Collins spends her nights running a true crime website, driven by a childhood brush with a serial killer.
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The Apprentice
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a series of gruesome murders in Boston that mirror the surgical precision of the imprisoned serial killer Warren Hoyt, known as the Surgeon.
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The Mephisto Club
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.
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The Chalk Man
by C.J. Tudor
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In 1986, Eddie Adams and his childhood friends use chalk stick figures as a secret code to leave messages for one another around their English village.
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The Scarred Woman
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.
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