Books like The Night Manager
12 books with a reading profile close to The Night Manager by John Le Carré. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
thriller, narrative
Toby Hennessy is a man defined by luck and privilege until a brutal home invasion leaves him physically broken and mentally fragile.
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2
Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
thriller, narrative
In a rural Virginia town, a pressurized oxygen chamber used to treat autism and infertility explodes, killing two people.
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3
A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Hank Mitchell, his brother Jacob, and their friend Lou stumble upon a crashed single-engine plane buried in the snow of rural Ohio.
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4
We Begin at the End
thriller, narrative
In Cape Haven, California, thirty years after he killed a young girl, Vincent King returns home following his release from prison.
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5
You Don't Know Me
thriller, narrative
In a London courtroom, an unnamed young black man stands accused of murder.
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6
Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
thriller, narrative
Mickey is a patrol officer in a Philadelphia neighborhood struggling with high rates of opioid addiction.
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7
Conclave
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, narrative
Within the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Lomeli manages the election of a new pope following the sudden death of the incumbent.
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8
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
thriller, narrative
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her bunk at an Adirondack summer camp.
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9
The Club Dumas
narrative, mystery
Lucas Corso is a cynical "book detective" hired to authenticate a rare manuscript fragment from Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.
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10
Out
thriller, narrative
In the outskirts of Tokyo, four women working the midnight shift at a boxed-lunch factory become entangled in a gruesome cover-up.
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11
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
thriller, narrative
Oliver Marks has just finished a ten-year prison sentence for a murder he may not have committed.
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12
The Force
by Don Winslow
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Sergeant Denny Malone leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit authorized to operate with autonomy to disrupt gang violence and drug trafficking.
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