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Books like The Sherlockian

12 books with a reading profile close to The Sherlockian by Graham Moore. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

Headhunters

by Jo Nesbø

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Roger Brown is a high-level corporate recruiter in Oslo who maintains a lavish lifestyle by stealing expensive artwork from his clients.
2

The Book of Cold Cases

by Simone St. James

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Shea Collins spends her nights running a true crime website, driven by a childhood brush with a serial killer.
3

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.
4

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.
5

Trust No One

by Paul Cleave

Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Jerry Grey is a crime novelist who wrote twelve books under the pseudonym Henry Cutter.
6

The Confessor

by Daniel Silva

Also practical and clear-cut · 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.
7

The Chalk Man

by C.J. Tudor

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

In 1986, Eddie Adams and his childhood friends use chalk stick figures as a secret code to leave messages for one another around their English village.
8

The Golden Spoon

by Jessa Maxwell

Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

Six amateur bakers gather at Grafton Manor, the secluded Vermont estate of legendary cookbook author Betsy Goodman, to film the tenth season of a prestigious televised baking competition.
9

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.
10

A History of Wild Places

by Shea Ernshaw

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

Travis Wren possesses a singular talent for locating missing persons by touching their private belongings.
11

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.
12

King of Ashes

by S.A. Cosby

Also escapist · thriller, entertainment

Set in a fictional county in Virginia, the narrative follows a vengeful protagonist navigating a criminal underworld built on old bloodlines and systemic corruption.

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