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Die Trying

Lee Child · 433 pages

When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.

IntenseOrganized CrimeCrimeMultiple POV
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The Story of a New Name

Elena Ferrante · 480 pages

In 2012, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend introduced readers to the unforgettable Elena and Lila, whose lifelong friendship provides the backbone for the Neapolitan Novels. The Story of a New Name is the second book in this series. With these books, which the New Yorker’s James Wood described as “large, captivating, amiably peopled...a beautiful and delicate tale of confluence and reversal,” F

Working-Class ProtagonistDomestic AbuseIntenseOrganized Crime
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King of Ashes

S.A. Cosby · 352 pages

When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortali

IntenseOrganized CrimeCrimeWorking-Class Protagonist
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When We Were Silent

Fiona McPhillips · 320 pages

Working-Class ProtagonistIntenseFemale FriendshipDark
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Too Late

Colleen Hoover · 393 pages

Asa prowadzi nielegalny biznes, jest obsesyjnie zakochany w Sloan. Nie cofnie się przed niczym, by zniszczyć każdego, kto choć spróbuje stanąć między nimi. Sam natomiast pogrąża się w uzależnieniu od imprez, narkotyków, seksu. Sloan jest gotowa znieść wiele, nawet jeśli ceną jest jej godność. Tkwi w toksycznym związku, by... zapewnić opiekę niepełnosprawnemu bratu. Jest stale obserwowana i musi

IntenseOrganized CrimeDomestic AbuseDark
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City on Fire

Don Winslow · 384 pages

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeOrganized CrimeDark
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No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy · 320 pages

In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of his famed *Border Trilogy.* The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in th

Organized CrimeCrimeIntenseDark
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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1

Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima · 184 pages

JapanIntenseCrimeDark
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Somewhere to Hide

Mel Sherratt · 335 pages

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Reaper's Property

Joanna Wylde · 328 pages

Domestic AbuseIntenseOrganized CrimeViolent
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Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 349 pages

Libby Day tinha apenas sete anos quando testemunhou o brutal assassinato da mãe e das duas irmãs na fazenda da família. O acusado do crime foi seu irmão mais velho, que acabou condenado à prisão perpétua. Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas conv

Working-Class ProtagonistCrimeDarkViolent
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The Silent Wife

A.S.A. Harrison · 331 pages

Todd Gilbert and Jodie Brett are in a bad place in their relationship. They've been together for twenty-eight years, and with no children to worry about there has been little to disrupt their affluent Chicago lifestyle. But there has also been little to hold it together, and beneath the surface lie ever-widening cracks. When it becomes clear that their precarious world could disintegrate at any mo

Domestic AbuseIntenseDarkCrime
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The Butterfly Garden

Dot Hutchison · 333 pages

"Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden. In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious butterflies -- young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens. When the garden is discovered, a survivor is

IntenseCrimeDarkViolent
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The Good Life

Martina Cole · 560 pages

The best things in life are never free. Cain Moran wanted Jenny Riley more than he had ever wanted anyone or anything before in his life. But loving Jenny Riley was the easy part; it was telling his wife he wanted a divorce that was going to be the killer ... Jenny is not just any girl. She cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation - she just wants to be with him. But Cain is not a free man. An

CrimeOrganized CrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistDark
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The Housemaid

Freida McFadden · 336 pages

Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But

Domestic AbuseWorking-Class ProtagonistDarkCrime
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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom

Tsugumi Ohba · 200 pages

Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami, a death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legen

JapanIntenseDarkCrime
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Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter · 482 pages

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss -- a

IntenseCrimeDarkMultiple POV
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After Dark

Haruki Murakami · 208 pages

A sleek, gripping novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the spooky hours between midnight and dawn, by an internationally renowned literary phenomenon.Murakami's trademark humor, psychological insight, and grasp of spirit and morality are here distilled with an extraordinary, harmonious mastery. Combining the pyrotechnical genius that made Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle intern

JapanOrganized CrimeFemale FriendshipMultiple POV
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Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King · 307 pages

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years. ([sourc

Domestic AbuseCrimeWorking-Class ProtagonistDark
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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 498 pages

A masterpiece of guilt and redemption that transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, is determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammeled individual will. When he commits an act of murder and theft, he sets in

Working-Class ProtagonistIntenseDomestic AbuseCrime
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The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 400 pages

"Some women get everything. Some women get everything they deserve. Amber Patterson is fed up. She's tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more--a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. To everyone in the exclusive town of Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, Daphne--a socialite and phi

Domestic AbuseFemale FriendshipDarkMultiple POV
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Razorblade Tears

S. A. Cosby · 247 pages

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 • New York Public Library’s Best Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • Book of the Month’s Book of the Year Finalist “Provocative,

Working-Class ProtagonistIntenseCrimeDark
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Mystic River

Dennis Lehane · 487 pages

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to

Working-Class ProtagonistOrganized CrimeCrimeDark
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Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy · 760 pages

The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen.

Organized CrimeIntenseCrimeMultiple POV

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