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Books like Blacklands

Blacklands by Belinda Bauer is about childhood and danger, grief and its inheritance, the banality of evil. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Rubbernecker
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    Rubbernecker

    Belinda Bauer · Thriller

    Patrick Fort is a student with autism spectrum disorder studying anatomy at Cardiff University.

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  2. The Silent Patient
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    The Silent Patient

    Alex Michaelides · Thriller

    Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

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  3. The Dry
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    The Dry

    Jane Harper · Mystery

    Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to the drought-ravaged farming town of Kiewarra, Victoria, for the first time in twenty years, drawn back by the apparent murder-suicide of his childhood friend Luke Hadler.

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  4. Crime and Punishment
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    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literary fiction

    Raskolnikov is a former student living in desperate poverty in St.

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  5. In Cold Blood
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    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · Memoir

    Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.

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  6. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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