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Books like Gone, Baby, Gone

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane is about moral ambiguity and impossible choices, child welfare and neglect, working-class community loyalty. 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. Mystic River
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    Mystic River

    Dennis Lehane · Mystery

    Three boys play together on a Boston street in 1975.

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  2. 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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  3. No Country for Old Men
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    No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction

    No Country for Old Men begins in the Texas desert in 1980 where a Vietnam veteran named Llewelyn Moss stumbles on the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong: a ring of dead men, trucks, a cache of heroin, and two million dollars in a case.

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  4. Shutter Island
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    Shutter Island

    Dennis Lehane · Thriller

    It is 1954, and U.S.

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  5. 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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  6. A Is for Alibi
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    A Is for Alibi

    Sue Grafton · Mystery

    Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California — Grafton's fictionalized Santa Barbara — recently divorced for the second time and living alone in a small apartment she describes with genuine affection.

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