Books like THE SECRET OF SECRETS
12 books with a reading profile close to THE SECRET OF SECRETS by Dan Brown. Practical, outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Reapers
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.
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The Scarred Woman
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.
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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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The Apprentice
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Detective Jane Rizzoli faces a series of gruesome murders in Boston that mirror the surgical precision of the imprisoned serial killer Warren Hoyt, known as the Surgeon.
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The Mephisto Club
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
Detective Jane Rizzoli and forensic pathologist Maura Isles investigate a crime scene where a woman has been dismembered and drained of blood, with Latin messages written in gore.
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The Confessor
by Daniel Silva
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
After a prominent Jewish scholar is murdered in Munich, art restorer and Mossad operative Gabriel Allon uncovers a conspiracy rooted in the Vatican’s silence during the Holocaust.
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The Amber Room
by Steve Berry
Also practical and outward-looking · thriller, entertainment
The Amber Room, a chamber of amber panels, gold leaf and mirrors given to Peter the Great by Prussia, was removed by the Nazis from a palace near Leningrad in 1941 and disappeared at the end of the war.
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The Last Temptation
by Val McDermid
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Clinical psychologist Tony Hill faces a personal crisis when a serial killer begins targeting his professional peers across Europe.
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JIGSAW
Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigate a connection between two seemingly unrelated violent incidents.
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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.
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GLORIOUS RIVALS
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.
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