Books like Zodiac
12 books with a reading profile close to Zodiac by Robert Graysmith. Practical, outward-looking and growth-minded; an easy read.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
history, narrative
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
history, narrative
Set in 1612 Lancashire, the story follows noblewoman Fleetwood Shuttleworth, who is eighteen years old and pregnant for the fourth time.
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The Monster of Florence
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In 2000, novelist Douglas Preston moved to an Italian farmhouse, only to discover a double homicide had occurred on his property decades earlier.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
history, narrative
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
Lieutenant General Harold G.
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
history, narrative
In 1789 Maine, Martha Ballard is a midwife and healer tasked with investigating a body found trapped in the Kennebec River.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · history, narrative
In this true crime investigation, Patricia Cornwell applies modern forensic techniques to the 1888 Whitechapel murders.
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The Historian
history, narrative
The narrative begins when a sixteen-year-old girl discovers a mysterious book with blank pages and a cache of yellowing letters in her father’s library.
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