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Books like The Snowman

The Snowman by Jo Nesbø is about serial violence and pattern, self-destruction, fatherhood and abandonment. 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 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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  2. The Poet
    The Poet

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    The Poet

    Michael Connelly · Thriller

    Jack McEvoy is a crime reporter in Denver whose twin brother, a homicide detective, apparently kills himself.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. The Devil in the White City
    The Devil in the White City

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    The Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson · History

    The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.

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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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