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12 books with a reading profile close to The Last Temptation by Val McDermid. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

The Wife

by Alafair Burke

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Angela Powell has spent years building a quiet, secure life in Manhattan with her husband, Jason, a brilliant economics professor and media personality.
6

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.
7

The Woods

by Harlan Coben

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

County prosecutor Paul Copeland lives under the shadow of a summer camp tragedy that occurred twenty years ago.
8

THE SECRET OF SECRETS

by Dan Brown

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

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

Those Empty Eyes

by Charlie Donlea

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Alex Garrilley is the sole survivor of a brutal family massacre that left her orphaned and under a cloud of public suspicion.
11

The Therapist

by B.A. Paris

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Leo and Alice move into a renovated house within a private, gated community in London called The Circle.
12

The Book of Cold Cases

by Simone St. James

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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