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Books like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson is about violence against women, corporate corruption, outsider intelligence. 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 Girl Who Played with Fire
    The Girl Who Played with Fire

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    The Girl Who Played with Fire

    Stieg Larsson · Thriller

    Lisbeth Salander returns to Stockholm after more than a year abroad and is almost immediately the prime suspect in three murders, including two investigators who were about to publish an exposé on the Swedish sex trade.

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  2. 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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  3. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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    Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    Patrick Radden Keefe · History

    Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.

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  4. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Killers of the Flower Moon

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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann · History

    In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.

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  5. 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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  6. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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