Books like One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping by Barry Denenberg

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

A tense psychological thriller that pits FBI agent Clarice Starling against the notorious cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter as they collaborate to catch a new predator.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Based on the true story of a Jewish boy's survival during ten concentration camps of the Holocaust, this novel follows Yanek Gruener's harrowing journey from his birth in Poland to the camps in Germany, Germany, and Poland.

Once follows Felix, a young Jewish orphan newly escaped from a Polish orphanage, as he navigates the dangers of Nazi‑occupied Poland to rescue his parents and survive the Holocaust.

A 10‑year‑old boy named Max and his little sister live through the Nazi invasion of 1944 from a child’s perspective, illustrating survival, resistance, and the Holocaust’s impact on young Jewish families.

In Nazi‑occupied Warsaw, a starving orphan boy on the streets struggles with hunger, identity, and the terror of the Holocaust, learning the painful choices survival demands.

Crime‑beat reporter Jack McEvoy races against time to catch a cleverly word‑crafting serial killer who preys on police detectives in Colorado’s streets.

A young girl's journey across borders and through Nazi-occupied Hungary as her mother searches for her in a world of strangers and constant fear of Nazi roundups.

Eleven‑year‑old Zelda lives in Australia with her grandfather, Holocaust‑survivor Felix Salinger, while her physician‑parents work in Africa. A tragic disaster forces the family to confront buried memories of Felix’s first childhood love.

Two brothers flee occupied Paris to escape the Nazis, disguising themselves as Jews to reach the free zone during World War II. Their journey of ingenuity, danger, and secrecy becomes a true story of survival and resilience.

Mickey Haller, a cynical Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, tackles a high‑paying case that turns out to be far more dangerous than it first appears.

Set after Kristallnacht, "Good‑bye Marianne" follows a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany whose life is shattered as schools close and the Gestapo hunts her father. She encounters a boy in the Hitler Youth, forcing her to confront identity and survival.

A young Jewish girl chronicles her life in pre‑war Vienna, detailing the friendship that keeps her alive as persecution rises.

A fictional diary that follows Princess Elisabeth of Austria over her 1853‑1854 engagement and marriage to her cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I, offering a child‑friendly glimpse into her life as an empress.

A gripping psychological suspense novel set in Dublin, focusing on two detectives investigating a series of murders in the woods.

Detective Harry Bosch investigates a drug-related death in Los Angeles.

A young Jewish woman survives a 1944 train transport to a Nazi death camp, is rescued and raised by those who risked their lives for her, and later finds peace within her own family.

A young cat witnesses the transformation of Berlin’s Rosenstrasse into a site of fear and violence as the 1938 Kristallnacht erupts, offering children a factual glimpse into the Holocaust’s first wave of terror.

A 1939 journey to Cuba turns into a quest for family, friendship, and survival, as a young Jewish refugee and a local girl confront the shadows of Nazi persecution together.

In the turmoil of World War II Belgium, a young boy named Willy befriends Max and his Jewish family, forming a bond that endures even when they are separated, united by friendship and a treasured painting.

"In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do Catholic intelligentsia of Rome. But her childhood world of velvet and lace, airy apartments, indulgent nannies, and summers in the mountains was also the world of Mussolini's Fascist regime and the increasing oppression of Italian Jews.". "In First Words, Loy interweaves the two Italys of her early years, shifting with powerful effect from a lyrical evocation of the many comforts of her class to the accumulation of laws stipulating where Jews were forbidden to travel and what they were not allowed to buy, eat, wear, and read. She reveals the willful ignorance of her own family as one by one their neighbors disappeared, and she indicts journalists and intellectuals for their blindness and passivity. And with hard-won clarity, she presents a dispassionate record of the role of the Vatican and the Catholic leadership in the devastation of Italy's Jews."--BOOK JACKET.

A tense, sympathetic tale of Danish Jews and resistance fighters during Nazi occupation, following Julie and Niels as they navigate fear, hope, and rescue amid the peril of 1943 Copenhagen.