Books like The Holcroft Covenant
12 books with a reading profile close to The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum. Practical, outward-looking, growth-minded, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate 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 Confessor
by Daniel Silva
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
After a prominent Jewish scholar is murdered in Munich, art restorer and Mossad operative Gabriel Allon uncovers a conspiracy rooted in the Vatican’s silence during the Holocaust.
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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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The Bone Garden
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Julia Hamill discovers a human skeleton buried in her Massachusetts garden, triggering a dual-timeline investigation that links modern forensics to nineteenth-century Boston.
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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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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 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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Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown
Also practical and growth-minded · thriller, entertainment
Lilly Martin attempts to escape her strained personal life by driving to her mountain cabin during a winter storm, but her trip ends in a car accident that leaves her stranded with a mysterious hiker named Ben Tierney.
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JIGSAW
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigate a connection between two seemingly unrelated violent incidents.
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Headhunters
by Jo Nesbø
Also practical and growth-minded · 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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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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