12 Best mystery books like Scrap by Calla Henkel

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Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f…

If you liked the mystery plot in Scrap by Calla Henkel , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. The In Crowd (DI Caius Beauchamp, #2)

By: Charlotte Vassell

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated author of The Other Half comes a fabulous whodunit about two cold cases in whic… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Vassell's The In Crowd (DI Caius Beauchamp, #2) book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Smith's Brat book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

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5. The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco

By: Michelle Chouinard

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Michelle Chouinard’s clever mystery The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco, the granddaughter … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Chouinard's The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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6. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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7. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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8. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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9. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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10. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
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12. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Examiner book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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13. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

Similar categories in Calla Henkel's Scrap book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
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14. The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

By: Ally Carter

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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15. The Lady Waiting

By: Magdalena Zyzak

3.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets The Talented Mr. Ripley in this high-spirited novel of a stolen Vermeer, a Po… read more

Similar categories in Magdalena Zyzak's The Lady Waiting book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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16. The Hollywood Assistant

By: May Cobb

3.73

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman bec… read more

Similar categories in May Cobb's The Hollywood Assistant book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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17. Die schönste Version

By: Ruth-Maria Thomas

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more

Similar categories in Ruth-Maria Thomas's Die schönste Version book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Dead Animals

By: Phoebe Stuckes

3.61

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Stuckes's Dead Animals book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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20. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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21. The Most Famous Girl in the World

By: Iman Hariri-Kia

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Stars―they're just like us! Except much, much worse. Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phon… read more

Similar categories in Iman Hariri-Kia's The Most Famous Girl in the World book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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22. Shred Sisters

By: Betsy Lerner

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more

Similar categories in Betsy Lerner's Shred Sisters book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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24. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Plaything book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. The Nude

By: C. Michelle Lindley

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, provocative, and sensual debut novel about an art historian who journeys to a Greek isl… read more

Similar categories in C. Michelle Lindley's The Nude book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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26. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

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27. Then Things Went Dark

By: Bea Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are suit… read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's Then Things Went Dark book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

28. We Love the Nightlife

By: Rachel Koller Croft

3.59

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe in this dark and dazzli… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Koller Croft's We Love the Nightlife book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • thriller
  • fiction
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29. Antichristie

By: Mithu M. Sanyal

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London 2022, die Königin ist tot! An den Trauernden vorbei rennt Durga: internationale Drehbuchauto… read more

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30. Such Lovely Skin

By: Tatiana Schlote-Bonne

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An evil video game A lying Twitch streamer A demon hungry for her secrets After spending the s… read more

Similar categories in Tatiana Schlote-Bonne's Such Lovely Skin book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Woo Woo

By: Ella Baxter

3.50

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful … read more

Similar categories in Ella Baxter's Woo Woo book and Calla Henkel's Scrap

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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Charlotte Vassell

4.13

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Gabriel Smith

3.53

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Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

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Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Rachel Harrison

4.03

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C.J. Leede

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