Match BookAdnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
Rabia Chaudry
2016 · 410 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial is narrative nonfiction (true crime investigation, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the recent past, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are justice, secrets and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 410 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want a complete story in one book
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, one narrator
- Publication era
- modern classic
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
Books with a similar reading
The closest books in Match Book's catalogue across the same dimensions, and what they share.
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State KillerMichelle McNamaraShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, true crime investigation, fast paced
- Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving MurdersBilly JensenShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, balanced tone, fast paced
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect PredatorsRonan FarrowShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, balanced tone, fast paced
- The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from ViolenceGavin de BeckerShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, balanced tone, recent past setting
- Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold CasesPaul HolesShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, balanced tone, set in multiple locations
- The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed ItScott PattersonShares: narrative nonfiction, tense mood, balanced tone, fast paced
Appears in
Find a copy
Reviews on Goodreads ↗Match Book earns a commission on purchases made through these links, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate, Match Book earns from qualifying purchases.