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12 books with a reading profile close to The Reapers by John Connolly. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

JIGSAW

by Jonathan Kellerman

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigate a connection between two seemingly unrelated violent incidents.
4

All Around the Town

by Mary Higgins Clark

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Twenty-one-year-old Laurie Kenyon is accused of murdering her popular English professor, Allan Grant.
5

You Belong To Me

by Mary Higgins Clark

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Psychologist and Manhattan radio host Susan Chandler begins a series of broadcasts focusing on women who disappear and are later found dead.
6

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.
7

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.
8

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.
9

GLORIOUS RIVALS

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Seven players remain caught in a high-stakes competition on Hawthorne Island, where an eccentric billionaire’s legacy continues to unfold through hidden mechanisms and intellectual trials.
10

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

by Nina Simon

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

High-powered Los Angeles businesswoman Lana Rubicon relocates to a quiet coastal town in central California to recover from cancer treatments.
11

Chill Factor

by Sandra Brown

Also practical and clear-cut · 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.
12

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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