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Books like The Surgeon

The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen is about trauma and survival, predator psychology, medical knowledge as weapon. 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. Blindsighted
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    Blindsighted

    Karin Slaughter · Thriller

    Blindsighted is Karin Slaughter's debut novel, published in 2001, and the first book in the Grant County series set in fictional Heartsdale, Georgia.

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  2. 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. 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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  4. 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. Faceless Killers
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    Faceless Killers

    Henning Mankell · Mystery

    Faceless Killers is the first Kurt Wallander novel, published in Swedish in 1991 and translated to English in 1997.

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  6. 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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