18 books like We need to talk about Kevin

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Long Gone Alafair Burke · 2011 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate After months of unemployment, Alice Humphrey lands her dream job - managing a Manhattan art gallery near the trendy Meatpacking District. According to recruiter Drew Campbell, the gallery is a passion of its anonymous owner, who remains uninvolved in its daily operations. When Alice arrives one morning, she walks into a nightmare: the gallery is empty, except for the dead body of Drew. Before she… Shares: New york, Crime

Leave Myself Behind Bart Yates · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAH YORK: "Anybody who tells you he doesn't have mixed feelings about his mother is either stupid or a liar." "Real life seldom makes me cry. The only thing that gets to me is the occasional Kodak commercial." "Sometimes I feel like Michelangelo, chiseling away at all the crap until nothing is left but the exquisite thing in the middle that no one else sees until it's… Shares: Mothers and sons, Teenage boys

La Fiesta del Chivo Mario Vargas Llosa · 2000 · ★ 4.4 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "Novela histórica sobre los últimos días del general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo en la República Dominicana en 1961. El hilo conductor de la novela es el retorno a la isla de Urania Cabral, hija de un senador del régimen trujillista, luego de muchos años de la muerte del dictador. Mientras Urania visita a su padre moribundo, la narración reconstruye el fin de una era haciendo un recuento de… Shares: Massacres, Drama

Canto for a Gypsy Martin Cruz Smith · 1972 · ★ 4.0 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey is back in one of Martin Cruz Smith's most beloved novels--​the exciting and fast-paced Canto for a Gypsy . The priceless Royal Crown of Hungary is on display in St Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Guarded by many, including the NYPD and the gypsy antique dealer Roman Grey, a heist is impossible. But everybody wants the legendary Crown of Saint Stephen. The… Shares: New york, Thriller

The Magician Sol Stein · 1971 · 301p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is a tale of two magicians, of high school extortion and violence, and of a criminal trial in which the guilty go free. Shares: High school students, High schools

From a Buick 8 Stephen King · 2002 · ★ 3.7 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Una novela sobre una fascinación enfermiza y peligrosa. Una novela de verdadero terror. Pensilvania, 1979. Llega un extraño a una gasolinera para repostar. Conduce un Buick modelo 1954 pero en perfecto estado. El conductor va al baño y nunca reaparece. La policía se hace cargo del coche, que ahora no funciona, y lo guarda en una nave detrás de la comisaría. Y aquí empieza una historia… Shares: Teenage boys, Thriller

Youth in Revolt C. D. Payne · 1993 · ★ 4.0 · 200p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The hilarious, take-no-prisoners novel about a cynical, sex-obsessed teenager's pining love for an intelligent girl-- now a major motion picture from Dimension Films starring Michael CeraSIX MONTHS IN THE LIFE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS TEENAGERYouth in Revolt is the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high school, deal… Shares: High school students, Teenage boys

Prior Bad Acts Tami Hoag · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Moderate New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag returns with a thriller that begins with a shocking crime scene you'll never forget and follows two relentless detectives on a manhunt that ends in a chilling confrontation with the essence of human evil.It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing… Shares: Mass murder, Thriller

Kinesen Henning Mankell · 2008 · ★ 3.5 · 581p · ≈ 19h · Moderate The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin has particular reason to be shocked: Her grandparents, the Andrens, are among the victims,… Shares: Massacres, Thriller

The killing edge Heather Graham · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Chloe Marin was lucky. She was a teenager when a party turned into a killing spree, and she was one of the few to survive. Chloe's sketch of one of the killers linked two dead cult members to the massacre, closing the case.Ten years later Chloe is a psychologist specializing in helping traumatized victims. A model's disappearance ranks low on the cops' priority list but Chloe suspects a killer's… Shares: Mass murder, Thriller

Depraved Indifference Joseph Teller · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A DRUNK DRIVING CASE IS ONLY A DRUNK DRIVING CASE... UNTIL SOMEONE DIESAn Audi sports car, speeding in the wrong lane, forces an oncoming van off the road. The van bursts into flames, killing all nine occupants...eight of them children.Criminal defense attorney Harrison J. Walker, known simply as Jaywalker, is trying to keep his nose clean while serving a three-year suspension. But when a woman… Shares: New york, Crime, Thriller

Thirteen reasons why Jay Asher · 2007 · ★ 3.8 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through… Shares: Teenage boys, High schools, Drama

Rasen no kakera Kaimu Tachibana · 2005 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Reincarnated souls must adapt to the modern world while trying to save their former (also reincarnated) master from their ancient enemy. Shares: Mothers and sons, High school students

The Angel of Terror Edgar Wallace · 1923 · ★ 3.6 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Challenging The Angel of Terror aka The Destroying Angel Jack Glover of Rennet, Glover and Simpson does not believe his cousin Meredith killed Bulford. Meredith's father was an eccentric and unless Meredith is married by the age of thirty his sister inherits everything. She is dead and Meredith, now in prison, is thirty next Monday. Meanwhile Lydia Beale is struggling to pay her dead father's creditors. When… Shares: Crime, Thriller

Den skrattande polisen Maj Sjöwall · 1968 · ★ 4.1 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The fantastic fourth classic instalment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all crime fiction written ever since.The Martin Beck series is widely recognised as the greatest masterpiece of crime fiction ever written. These are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre and inspired writers from Agatha Christie to Henning… Shares: Mass murder, Crime

Fever Dream Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 584p · ≈ 19h · Moderate At the old family manse in Louisiana, Special Agent Pendergast is putting to rest long-ignored possessions reminiscent of his wife Helen's tragic death, only to make a stunning-and dreadful-discovery. Helen had been mauled by an unusually large and vicious lion while they were big game hunting in Africa. But now, Pendergast learns that her rifle-her only protection from the beast-had been… Shares: New york, Crime, Thriller

The Talbot odyssey Nelson DeMille · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate For forty years Western intelligence agents have known a terrible secret: the Russians have a mole -- code name Talbot -- inside the CIA. At first, Talbot is suspected of killing European agents. Then a street-smart ex-cop uncovers a storm of espionage and murder on the streets of New York, while in a Long Island suburb a civic demonstration against the Russian mission masks a desperate duel of… Shares: Novel, New york, Thriller

The Dead Room Heather Graham · 2007 · ★ 4.0 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A year ago, archaeologist Leslie MacIntyre barely survived the explosion that took the life of her fiance, Matt Connolly. In the long months since, she’s slowly come to terms not only with her loss but with her unsettling new ability to communicate with ghosts, a dubious “gift” received in the wake of her own brush with death.Now she’s returned to lower Manhattan’s historic Hastings House, site… Shares: New york, Thriller

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