Mystery · Similar reads
Books like In the Woods
In the Woods by Tana French is about memory and trauma, identity and self-deception, childhood and loss. 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.
- The Maltese Falcon
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Dashiell Hammett · Mystery
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade is hired by a woman calling herself Miss Wonderly to find her missing sister — a lie within thirty seconds of the novel opening.
Read the summary → - The Likeness
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Tana French · Mystery
Detective Cassie Maddox — introduced as Rob Ryan's partner in In the Woods — is pulled back to undercover work when a murdered woman is found bearing her exact face and carrying a false identity Cassie herself once used as an operative.
Read the summary → - 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 → - No Country for Old Men
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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.
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 → - A Fatal Grace
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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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