Books like The Silkworm
If you liked The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Because same series (Cormoran Strike #1); also by Robert Galbraith; shares tags: mystery, crime, detective.
Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.
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Mr. Mercedes
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.
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Kiss the Girls
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.
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1st to Die
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.
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In the Woods
Because shares tags: mystery, crime, thriller.
A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.
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Along Came a Spider
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Because shares tags: mystery, detective, crime.
Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Because shares tags: crime, detective, mystery.
Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.
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Killing Floor
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, crime.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
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Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, crime.
Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, crime.
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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The Outsider
Because shares tags: crime, mystery, thriller.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
