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Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell is about grief and obsession, missing persons, predation and grooming. 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 Family Upstairs
    The Family Upstairs

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    The Family Upstairs

    Lisa Jewell · Thriller

    Libby Jones turns twenty-five and inherits a large Chelsea townhouse — left to her by parents she never knew, because she was raised in the foster system after being found as a baby amid three adult corpses.

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  2. The Silent Patient
    The Silent Patient

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    The Silent Patient

    Alex Michaelides · Thriller

    Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and then never speaks another word.

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  3. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
    The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

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    The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

    Gavin de Becker · Psychology

    Gavin de Becker's central argument is that fear is a gift, not a problem to manage.

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  4. The Psychopath Test
    The Psychopath Test

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    The Psychopath Test

    Jon Ronson · Psychology

    Jon Ronson is a journalist who starts investigating a strange series of anonymous books sent to academics around the world, and ends up spending a year exploring psychopathy, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and the question of whether the diagnostic categories psychiatry uses are tools for understanding people or labels that do damage of their own.

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  5. 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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  6. Along Came a Spider
    Along Came a Spider

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    Along Came a Spider

    James Patterson · Thriller

    Along Came a Spider introduces Alex Cross, a Black homicide detective and forensic psychologist working in Washington D.C., in the case that made James Patterson a bestseller.

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