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Books like The Son

12 books with a reading profile close to The Son by Jo Nesbø. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

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.
7

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.
8

The Reapers

by John Connolly

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.
9

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.
10

The Missing Half

by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester

Also practical and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment

In a small, insular town, the disappearance of a young woman fractures a local family and exposes long-standing secrets.
11

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.
12

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.

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