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Books like Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz is about fiction within fiction, obsession and authorship, death and legacy. 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. 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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  2. The Thursday Murder Club
    The Thursday Murder Club

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    The Thursday Murder Club

    Richard Osman · Mystery

    The Thursday Murder Club is set in Coopers Chase, an upscale English retirement village, where four residents — Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron — meet weekly to examine unsolved cold cases from the files of Elizabeth's late-policewoman friend.

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  3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    Stieg Larsson · Thriller

    Mikael Blomkvist is a financial journalist in Stockholm who has just lost a libel case brought by a billionaire industrialist.

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  4. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    Ben Macintyre · History

    Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.

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  5. 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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  6. A Is for Alibi
    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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