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Books like The Cuckoo's Calling

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith is about celebrity and its costs, class and money, identity and performance. 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
    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 Silkworm
    The Silkworm

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    The Silkworm

    Robert Galbraith · Mystery

    The Silkworm is the second Cormoran Strike novel, and it makes the wise structural decision to set its murder entirely inside the literary world — agents, publishers, authors, and the people who orbit them.

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  3. 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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  4. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

    John Carreyrou · Business

    Bad Blood is Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou's account of Theranos, the blood-testing startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes that claimed its proprietary technology could run hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick of blood.

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  5. 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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  6. And Then There Were None
    And Then There Were None

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    And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · Mystery

    Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast under various pretexts.

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