Books like The Trespasser
12 books with a reading profile close to The Trespasser by Tana French, Hilda Fay. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
The Likeness
by Tana French
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a young woman is found murdered in a derelict cottage outside Dublin.
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2
Broken Harbour
by Tana French
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.
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3
Nothing Can Hurt You
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.
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4
When We Were Orphans
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.
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5
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, Richard Papen joins an elite circle of five students at Hampden College dedicated to Greek antiquity.
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6
Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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7
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
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9
L'Avversario
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents before attempting to take his own life.
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10
The Glass Hotel
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.
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11
Lady Oracle
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Joan Foster fakes her own death by drowning in Lake Ontario to escape a messy entanglement of secret identities.
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12
Difficult Women
by Roxane Gay
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Roxane Gay’s collection of short stories centers on the private lives of American women navigating a broad spectrum of class, race, and trauma.
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