Novels where the killer is known on page one

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Crime novels that skip the whodunnit and spend three hundred pages on the why. You watch it happen, then you watch someone try to live with it.

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Stacked by Drayfus · Updated 3 months ago

The 6 books on this stack

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  • Keigo Higashino 2011

    Why it's on the stack

    You end up rooting for the wrong people · a twist at the end that changes everything

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi.

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  • Oyinkan Braithwaite 2018 1 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · funny, and it bites

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away.

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  • Lionel Shriver 2003

    Why it's on the stack

    Nobody is entirely good · told in letters, diaries or messages

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their…

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  • Donna Tartt 1992 2 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    It ties your stomach in a knot · within the walls of a school

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the…

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  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941 4 want to read

    Why it's on the stack

    Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the…

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  • Alex Michaelides 2018

    Why it's on the stack

    It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once

    It shares this with 3 more books on this stack

    Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most…

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