Caroline Kepnes 2014
- What it is
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A narrator who doesn't tell you the truth · nobody is entirely good
- Genre
- Thriller Crime Mystery
- Feels
- Sensual Morally grey Unsettling Dark 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 · properly scary
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It stirs you up inside · nothing is quite what it seems
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The woman in the window
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It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
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It gets under your skin · it tells it with no filter
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
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Books about books and unreliable narrator
The Thirteenth Tale
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Like yours: books about books · it leaves you thinking
14 books · Alike in just one
Only a threat that keeps growing
Behind Closed Doors
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It gets under your skin · it's hiding a secret
Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly 1895
Nobody is entirely good · you can't put it down
The Legacy
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It stirs you up inside · it tells it with no filter
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It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
Before I Go To Sleep
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It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris 1988
It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
Red Dragon
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It ties your stomach in a knot · you'll keep turning it over for days
The Silence of the White City
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Unsettling from the first page · it won't tell you everything at once
Psycho
Robert Bloch 1959
It stirs you up inside · a twist at the end that changes everything
The Crystal Cuckoo
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It gets under your skin · it's hiding a secret
Night Film
Marisha Pessl 2013
Unsettling from the first page · it won't tell you everything at once
Presumed Innocent
Scott Turow 1987
You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
Last Night at Tremore Beach
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A threat that keeps growing · it's hiding a secret
The Patient
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It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
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No clean hands here · nothing is quite what it seems
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In common with yours: books about books · it messes with your head
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Only unreliable narrator
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie 1926
Grouped with yours in Narrators you can't trust for a second
Trust
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Readers put them together in Narrators you can't trust for a second
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