10 must-read thriller books like The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone

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The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

By: Roberto Perrone

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thrille…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Double

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a … read more

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  • fiction
"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered."

-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double

"Reading is probably another way of being in a place."

-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double

"What dogs want most in life is for no one to go away."

-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double

"Cada día que nace es el primero para unos y será el último para otros."

-Margaret Jull Costa, The Double

Cover of L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2) by Gianrico Carofiglio

2. L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2)

By: Gianrico Carofiglio

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Siamo nel 1992, tra maggio e luglio. A Bari, come altrove, sono giorni di fuoco, fra agguati, uccis… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Forse questa è filosofia a buon mercato, ma io credo che certi lavori dovrebbero essere fatti da quelli che non si sentono adatti [...]. Sentirsi un po' fuori posto aiuta, rende più vigili."

-Gianrico Carofiglio, L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2)

"Il confine che separa i matti dai normali ci sembra netto, consistente, difficile da valicare. Invece è sottilissimo e in alcuni punti - in alcuni momenti - sfuma senza che ce ne accorgiamo. Ci trovi…"

-Gianrico Carofiglio, L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2)

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3. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

4. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By: Elizabeth Smart

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

First published in 1945, Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Weptis an enigma… read more

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5. Le Mystère Henri Pick

By: David Foenkinos

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

En Bretagne, un bibliothécaire décide de recueillir tous les livres refusés par les éditeurs. Ainsi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Rouche era fatto così, era costantemente in ritardo sulla versione migliore di se stesso."

-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick

"Eso es lo bonito de las lágrimas: que pueden tener significados opuestos. Se llora de dolor, se llora de felicidad. Pocas manifestaciones físicas tienen esa identidad de dos cabezas, como para materi…"

-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick

"В качестве эпиграфа к своему роману он выбрал известную, отмеченную провидческой иронией, фразу Джонатана Свифта: "О появлении истинного гения в этом низменном мире можно узнать по тому, как дружно в…"

-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick

"Первый роман всегда выдаёт честолюбие "хорошего ученика". Одни гении могут позволить себе быть двоечниками. И, конечно, требуется долгое время, чтобы постичь тайну "свободного дыхания" текста, а для …"

-David Foenkinos, Le Mystère Henri Pick

6. La costola di Adamo

By: Antonio Manzini

5.00

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

<>. Rocco Schiavone ha la mania di paragonare a un animale ciascuna delle fisionomie umane che gli … read more

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7. The Deliverance of Evil

By: Roberto Costantini , Nigel Thompson

3.87

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

TheDeliverance of Evilis a masterful psychological thriller about an edgy policeman's personal evol… read more

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8. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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9. The Fear Index

By: Robert Harris

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the secretive inner circles of the… read more

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10. Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)

By: C.J. Sansom

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

It is 1540, and Henry VIII has been on the throne for thirty-one years when Matthew Shardlake, the … read more

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11. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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12. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Don’t go,"

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

13. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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14. ELP

By: Antonio Manzini

4.12

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Non si fa che parlare dell'ELP, l'Esercito di Liberazione del Pianeta. Il vicequestore Rocco Schiav… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction
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15. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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17. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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18. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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19. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist by Richard Shepherd

20. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

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  • crime
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Cover of Moscow X (Damascus Station #2) by David McCloskey

21. Moscow X (Damascus Station #2)

By: David McCloskey

4.30

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin. But can Langley trust the Russian at its cen… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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23. The Passenger

By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

24. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9) by T.E. Kinsey

25. An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle #9)

By: T.E. Kinsey

4.39

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s The… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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26. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

Cover of The Bitter Taste of Murder by Camilla Trinchieri

27. The Bitter Taste of Murder

By: Camilla Trinchieri

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to MURDER IN CHIANTI finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorit… read more

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  • italy
  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Dr. No by Percival Everett

28. Dr. No

By: Percival Everett

3.71

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star k… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"You sound like a physicist," she said. "There's no need to be insulting."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"When you step on the gas, do it gently, softly, slowly. Okay? All right, let's try it again. Gently. Treat it like you would a woman." "I would never step on a woman."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"And like my BIPDIP husband, it's never been out of the state, not even to Boston." "BIPDIP?" "Born in Providence, died in Providence. We actually honeymooned in Newport. I hate him so much."

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

"Now here he was, tailored iron-gray suit, thin maroon tie, a maroon handkerchief peeking out from his breast pocket. His oxblood wing tips gleamed. He looked like a supervillain or, worse, an upper-c…"

-Percival Everett, Dr. No

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29. La casa degli sguardi

By: Daniele Mencarelli

4.34

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Daniele è un giovane poeta oppresso da un affanno sconosciuto, “una malattia invisibile all’altezza… read more

Similar categories in Daniele Mencarelli's La casa degli sguardi book and Roberto Perrone's The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

  • italy
  • fiction
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30. The Ghost of Frederic Chopin

By: Éric Faye

3.41

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The third book in the Walter Presents Library: a bewitching Prague-set mystery about a woman who cl… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Second Life of Inspector Canessa by Roberto Perrone

31. The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

By: Roberto Perrone

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thrille… read more

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  • italy
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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The Double

Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

3.96

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L'estate fredda (Pietro Fenoglio, #2)

Gianrico Carofiglio

3.99

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The Impossible Dead

Ian Rankin

4.83

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Le Mystère Henri Pick

David Foenkinos

3.64

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Paul Vidich

3.96

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius

4.10

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I.S. Berry

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