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Books like Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum is about norwegian rural community, adolescence and its dangers, guilt and disclosure. 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. The Bat
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    The Bat

    Jo Nesbø · Thriller

    The Bat is the first Harry Hole novel, published in Norwegian in 1997 and set almost entirely in Sydney, Australia.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. In Cold Blood
    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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  5. Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories
    Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

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    Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories

    Agatha Christie · Short stories

    Witness for the Prosecution collects some of Agatha Christie's finest short fiction, anchored by the title story: a courtroom thriller in which a barrister defending a man accused of murder finds his confidence undermined by one of the most audacious plot reversals in crime fiction.

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  6. A Fatal Grace
    A Fatal Grace

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    A Fatal Grace

    Louise Penny · Mystery

    A Fatal Grace is the second novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines.

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