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12 books with a reading profile close to The Marsh King's Daughter by Karen Dionne. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

  1. 1 Six Years

    Six Years

    by Harlan Coben

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Jake Fisher watched the love of his life, Natalie, marry another man six years ago.

  2. 2 The Last One

    The Last One

    by Will Dean

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Caz Stephens boards the RMS Atlantic, a luxury ocean liner, for a vacation with her partner, Pete.

  3. 3 The Collective

    The Collective

    by Alison Gaylin

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Camille Gardner remains trapped in grief five years after her daughter’s death, an incident involving a privileged young man who escaped legal consequences.

  4. 4 The Woods

    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.

  5. 5 Black-Eyed Susans

    Black-Eyed Susans

    by Julia Heaberlin

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    At sixteen, Tessa Cartwright was discovered in a Texas field, breathing but buried among the skeletal remains of several other girls.

  6. 6 Emma in the Night

    Emma in the Night

    by Wendy Walker

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Three years after disappearing from their suburban home, Cass Tanner returns to her mother’s doorstep alone, claiming she and her sister Emma were held captive on a remote island.

  7. 7 The Secrets She Keeps

    The Secrets She Keeps

    by Michael Robotham

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Meghan Shaughnessy and Agatha Fyfe are both pregnant and due at the same time, but their lives occupy opposite ends of the social spectrum.

  8. 8 Last Girl Ghosted

    Last Girl Ghosted

    by Lisa Unger

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Wren Greenlee, a woman in her thirties, is on an online date with a man named Adam Ford, who vanishes after a few dates and is later reported missing.

  9. 9 Her Every Fear

    Her Every Fear

    by Peter Swanson

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Kate Priddy, a Londoner struggling with a history of trauma and panic attacks, attempts to reset her life by swapping apartments with her distant cousin, Corbin Dell.

  10. 10 They Wish They Were Us

    They Wish They Were Us

    by Jessica Goodman

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    Jill Newhouse is a senior at an elite Long Island prep school, where she belongs to the Players, a secret group of privileged students who run the place.

  11. 11 Who Is Maud Dixon?

    Who Is Maud Dixon?

    by Alexandra Andrews

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Florence Darrow is a low-level publishing assistant in New York who feels entitled to a literary career she hasn’t earned.

  12. 12 The Nothing Man

    The Nothing Man

    by Catherine Ryan Howard

    Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

    At age twelve, Eve Black was the sole survivor of a home invasion committed by a serial predator known as the Nothing Man.

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