Mystery · Similar reads
Books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is about unreliable narration, complicity and guilt, secrets and respectability. 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.
- 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 → - The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time
Maria Konnikova · Psychology
Maria Konnikova has a PhD in psychology and writes about it for a wide audience.
Read the summary → - 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.
Read the summary → - Death on the Nile
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
A luxury Nile cruise becomes the setting for one of Agatha Christie's most accomplished locked-room puzzles.
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.
Read the summary → - A Is for Alibi
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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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