Books like

Books like The Searcher

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

  1. 1 Mystic river

    Mystic river

    by Dennis Lehane

    thriller, narrative

    Three childhood friends in a working-class Boston neighborhood, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle, are permanently altered after a stranger abducts one of them.

  2. 2 Out

    Out

    by Natsuo Kirino

    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.

  3. 3 You Don't Know Me

    You Don't Know Me

    by Imran Mahmood

    thriller, narrative

    In a London courtroom, an unnamed young black man stands accused of murder.

  4. 4 De Laatste Afspraak

    De Laatste Afspraak

    by Tana French

    narrative, mystery

    Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.

  5. 5 Long Bright River

    Long Bright River

    by Liz Moore

    thriller, narrative

    Mickey is a patrol officer in a Philadelphia neighborhood struggling with high rates of opioid addiction.

  6. 6 The Witch Elm

    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.

  7. 7 We Begin at the End

    We Begin at the End

    by Chris Whitaker

    thriller, narrative

    In Cape Haven, California, thirty years after he killed a young girl, Vincent King returns home following his release from prison.

  8. 8 The God of the Woods

    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.

  9. 9 Defending Jacob

    Defending Jacob

    by William Landay

    thriller, narrative

    Andy Barber, a respected Assistant District Attorney in Massachusetts, finds his life dismantled when his fourteen-year-old son, Jacob, is indicted for the murder of a classmate.

  10. 10 If We Were Villains

    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.

  11. 11 The Glass Hotel

    The Glass Hotel

    by Emily St. John Mandel

    narrative, mystery

    Vincent is a bartender at a remote luxury hotel on Vancouver Island when a threatening message scrawled on the glass lobby wall coincides with the arrival of billionaire Jonathan Alkaitis.

  12. 12 Disappearing Earth

    Disappearing Earth

    by Julia Phillips

    narrative, mystery

    The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.

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