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Books like Dark Places
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn is about trauma and survival, false memory and testimony, poverty and desperation. 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.
- Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappears from her home in Missouri.
Read the summary → - Sharp Objects
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Gillian Flynn · Thriller
Reporter Camille Preaker is sent back to Wind Gap, Missouri — the small town she escaped a decade earlier — to cover the murders of two young girls.
Read the summary → - In the Woods
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Tana French · Mystery
Dublin detective Rob Ryan is called to investigate a child's murder at an archaeological dig in Knocknaree — the same woods where, twenty years earlier, two of his childhood friends vanished without a trace and Rob was found clinging to a tree, bloodied and with no memory of what happened.
Read the summary → - In Cold Blood
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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.
Read the summary → - Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
Read the summary → - A Time to Kill
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John Grisham · Thriller
In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.
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