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Books like Don't Breathe a Word
Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon is about childhood secrets, memory and truth, folklore and reality. 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.
- 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 → - The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
Read the summary → - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry · Memoir
Helter Skelter is the account of the Tate-LaBianca murders of August 1969 written by Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson, with journalist Curt Gentry.
Read the summary → - The Turn of the Screw
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Henry James · Horror
A young governess is sent to an isolated English country house to care for two children, Miles and Flora, whose guardian — a charming, absent man in London — has made clear he does not want to be bothered.
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.
Read the summary → - Along Came a Spider
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James Patterson · Thriller
Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.
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