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Books like The Hunter

12 books with a reading profile close to The Hunter by Tana French. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Gefrorener Schrei

    Gefrorener Schrei

    by Tana French

    narrative, mystery

    Detectives Antoinette Conway and Steve Moran handle the investigation of Aislinn Murray, a young woman found dead in her living room next to a table set for a romantic dinner.

  2. 2 Nothing Can Hurt You

    Nothing Can Hurt You

    by Nicola Maye Goldberg

    narrative, mystery

    In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.

  3. 3 Broken Harbour

    Broken Harbour

    by Tana French

    narrative, mystery

    In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.

  4. 4 Elizabeth Is Missing

    Elizabeth Is Missing

    by Emma Healey

    narrative, mystery

    Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.

  5. 5 The Secret History

    The Secret History

    by Donna Tartt

    narrative, mystery

    Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, Richard Papen joins an elite circle of five students at Hampden College dedicated to Greek antiquity.

  6. 6 The Muse

    The Muse

    by Jessie Burton

    narrative, mystery

    In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.

  7. 7 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    by Mark Haddon

    narrative, mystery

    Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.

  8. 8 I Have Some Questions for You

    I Have Some Questions for You

    by Rebecca Makkai

    narrative, mystery

    Bodie Kane, a successful film scholar and podcaster, returns to Granby School, the New Hampshire boarding school where she spent four uncomfortable years.

  9. 9 Fingersmith

    Fingersmith

    by Sarah Waters

    narrative, mystery

    Set in the smog-laden streets of Victorian London, the story follows Sue Trinder, an orphan raised among a family of petty thieves and fences.

  10. 10 When We Were Orphans

    When We Were Orphans

    by Kazuo Ishiguro

    narrative, mystery

    Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.

  11. 11 The Book of Speculation

    The Book of Speculation

    by Erika Swyler

    narrative, mystery

    Simon Watson, a young librarian in a small New York town, receives a package from an antiquarian bookseller: a fragile, water-damaged ledger from the 1700s, which appears to be a record kept by a traveling circus.

  12. 12 The Distant Hours

    The Distant Hours

    by Kate Morton

    narrative, mystery

    Edmund's daughter, Katherine, receives a cryptic letter leading her to Milderhurst, a crumbling castle filled with secrets.

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