Mick Herron 2010
- What it is
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Spies, moles and state secrets · a cozy mystery, no gore
- Genre
- Thriller Crime Humor
- Feels
- Morally grey Funny Mysterious Wry Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Nobody is entirely good · a threat that keeps growing
Notes on a Scandal
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it ties your stomach in a knot
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Only nobody is entirely good
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Fingersmith Msr
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Nobody is entirely good · it's hiding a secret
Presumed Innocent
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
The God of the Woods
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you thinking
Gone Girl
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Safekeep
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No clean hands here, but in literary fiction
The girl on the train
Paula Hawkins 2014
You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
Verity
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Nobody is entirely good · properly scary
Mejor muerto
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Nobody is entirely good · it's hiding a secret
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy 1900
Nobody is entirely good · it tells it with no filter
You
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Nobody is entirely good · it gets under your skin
A Time to Kill
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No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
Nobody is entirely good · it messes with your head
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Only espionage
The Bourne Identity
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I am Pilgrim
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Readers put them together in Spy novels where nobody gets out clean
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
Like yours: espionage · it tells it straight
Earthlight
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You need to know how it ends · you'll keep turning it over for days
Count Zero
William Gibson 1986
In common with yours: espionage · it messes with your head
A Memory Called Empire
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A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
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Lessons in Chemistry
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Funny, and it bites · it stirs you up inside
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman 2020
A cozy mystery, no gore · odd and endearing
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters 1975
A cozy mystery, no gore · odd and endearing
Gentleman in Moscow
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Grouped with yours in Read it before it was prestige TV
The Silver Pigs
David Lindsey 1992
You need to know how it ends · one more chapter, then another
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis 1998
Comedy with teeth · within the walls of a school
Shipping News
Annie Proulx 1993
Funny, and it bites · a love that builds slowly
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Funny, and it bites · comforting, like coming home
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
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Comedy with teeth · odd and endearing
Little Big Man
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Comforting, like coming home · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Three Men in a Boat
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Sharp and very funny · comforting, like coming home
Heartburn
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Sharp and very funny · love hurts sometimes
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