Books like The Twyford Code
12 books with a reading profile close to The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. Escapist; a moderate read.
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
True-crime novelist Amanda Bailey attempts to track down the now-adult survivor of a ritualistic cult suicide that occurred two decades ago.
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La tabla de Flandes
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
Julia, a professional art restorer in Madrid, discovers a hidden inscription while cleaning a fifteenth-century Flemish masterpiece depicting a chess match.
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3
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
On a remote island protected by a shimmering fog, the last hundred humans live under the guidance of three Elders.
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The Cartographers
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
Nell Young’s career as a cartographer ended after a public confrontation with her father, the legendary Dr.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
entertainment, mystery
In the quiet village of King’s Abbot, wealthy widower Roger Ackroyd is found stabbed to death in his study shortly after learning a local woman committed suicide to escape a blackmailer.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
Disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist receives an unusual assignment from industrialist Henrik Vanger: solve the forty-year-old disappearance of his niece, Harriet, from the family’s private island.
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Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1: Dog and Chainsaw
Also escapist · entertainment, experimental
Denji is a teenager so poor that he has sold his organs and works as a devil hunter, paying off his dead father's debts to the yakuza with the help of his pet, Pochita, a small chainsaw devil.
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8
Murder on the Orient Express
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
Stuck in a heavy snowdrift between Istanbul and Paris, the luxury Orient Express becomes the site of a brutal midnight killing.
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9
Batman: The Long Halloween
by Jeph Loeb
entertainment, mystery
Set in the early days of Batman’s career, this mystery follows a year-long investigation into a serial killer known as Holiday, who murders members of the Falcone and Maroni crime families on specific calendar holidays.
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Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas (Comics)
by Garth Ennis
Also escapist · entertainment, experimental
Jesse Custer, a disillusioned Texas preacher, becomes the accidental host to Genesis, a supernatural entity born from the illegal union of an angel and a demon.
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Sacré Bleu
Also escapist · entertainment, mystery
Set in nineteenth-century Paris, the story follows baker and aspiring painter Lucien Lessard as he investigates the suspicious death of Vincent van Gogh.
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