50 Books like Lake County

The Bookmaker

by Chris Fraser • 2011

A broke bookmaker writes a dying man's memoirs. The man claims he assassinated JFK.

3.74

613

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔄 Alternate History 🎯 Political Conspiracy 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔐 Family Secrets

The Bookmaker 94%

A broke bookmaker writes a dying man's memoirs. The man claims he assassinated JFK.

by Chris Fraser 2011

3.74

613 ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔄 Alternate History 🎯 Political Conspiracy 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔐 Family Secrets

Scandal in Babylon

by Barbara Hambly • 2021

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

3.77

469

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

Scandal in Babylon 93%

A British scholar in 1920s Hollywood must find the killer who framed her movie-star sister-in-law.

by Barbara Hambly 2021

3.77

469 ratings

🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🕵️ Amateur Sleuth ⚖️ Frame Up Plot 👪 Found Family 🎷 Jazz Age

The Moonflowers

by Abigail Rose-Marie • 2024

A painter memorializes her grandfather in an Appalachian town where his killer waits in the asylum.

4.32

24k+

🌑 Southern Gothic 🌿 Underground Midwifery 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Mountains

The Moonflowers 92%

A painter memorializes her grandfather in an Appalachian town where his killer waits in the asylum.

by Abigail Rose-Marie 2024

4.32

24k+ ratings

🌑 Southern Gothic 🌿 Underground Midwifery 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Mountains

The Storm

by Rachel Hawkins • 2026

An accused murderer, a crumbling inn, a hurricane: forty years of secrets ready to break.

3.73

43k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔑 Generational Secrets 👯 Female Friendship 🔍 True Crime Obsession

The Storm 92%

An accused murderer, a crumbling inn, a hurricane: forty years of secrets ready to break.

by Rachel Hawkins 2026

3.73

43k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔑 Generational Secrets 👯 Female Friendship 🔍 True Crime Obsession

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives

by Elizabeth Arnott • 2026

Once married to murderers, three women in 1960s California pursue a new killer the police dismiss.

3.54

18k+

🖤 Feminist Crime Fiction 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Criminal Profiling 🧠 Psychological Suspense

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives Summary

The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives 92%

Once married to murderers, three women in 1960s California pursue a new killer the police dismiss.

by Elizabeth Arnott 2026

3.54

18k+ ratings

🖤 Feminist Crime Fiction 👯 Female Friendship 🫂 Found Family 🔍 Criminal Profiling 🧠 Psychological Suspense

The Kingdoms of Savannah

by George Dawes Green • 2022

A fractured Savannah dynasty investigates a murder and uncovers a lost free Black settlement.

3.68

7k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 📖 Literary Mystery 🏛️ Buried History 📜 Hidden Black History 🔍 Reluctant Investigator

The Kingdoms of Savannah 92%

A fractured Savannah dynasty investigates a murder and uncovers a lost free Black settlement.

by George Dawes Green 2022

3.68

7k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 📖 Literary Mystery 🏛️ Buried History 📜 Hidden Black History 🔍 Reluctant Investigator

A Fortune of Sand

by Ruta Sepetys • 2026

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

3.63

2k+

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty 🏰 Gilded Cage 💎 Hidden Fortune

A Fortune of Sand 92%

Inside a Jazz Age arts retreat, a Detroit heiress discovers the mansion is a gilded asylum.

by Ruta Sepetys 2026

3.63

2k+ ratings

🎷 Jazz Age 🖤 Gothic Mystery 🏚️ Decaying Dynasty 🏰 Gilded Cage 💎 Hidden Fortune

The Calamity Club

by Kathryn Stockett • 2026

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

4.60

120k+

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

The Calamity Club 92%

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

by Kathryn Stockett 2026

4.60

120k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

Dream Town

by David Baldacci • 2022

1953 Hollywood: a vanished client, a Malibu corpse, and a blackmail web leading straight to the mob.

4.09

39k+

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🎬 Hollywood Noir 💋 Femme Fatale 🔫 Organized Crime 🕶️ Hidden Past

Dream Town 92%

1953 Hollywood: a vanished client, a Malibu corpse, and a blackmail web leading straight to the mob.

by David Baldacci 2022

4.09

39k+ ratings

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🎬 Hollywood Noir 💋 Femme Fatale 🔫 Organized Crime 🕶️ Hidden Past

Shelterwood

by Lisa Wingate • 2024

Children's skeletons in an Oklahoma cave pull a ranger toward a girl's desperate escape in 1909.

3.85

37k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sibling Protection ⚠️ Children In Peril 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

Shelterwood 92%

Children's skeletons in an Oklahoma cave pull a ranger toward a girl's desperate escape in 1909.

by Lisa Wingate 2024

3.85

37k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🫂 Found Family 👭 Sibling Protection ⚠️ Children In Peril 🏘️ Small Town Secrets

All the Little Houses

by May Cobb • 2026

A rich girl seethes, a poor girl charms, and a body drifts under a Texas moon.

3.48

12k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔪 Small Town Noir 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Mother Daughter Rift 🔥 Forbidden Affairs

All the Little Houses 92%

A rich girl seethes, a poor girl charms, and a body drifts under a Texas moon.

by May Cobb 2026

3.48

12k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔪 Small Town Noir 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Mother Daughter Rift 🔥 Forbidden Affairs

Hang the Moon

by Jeannette Walls • 2023

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

3.81

84k+

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter 🚗 Whiskey Running 🤝 Found Family

Hang the Moon 92%

Banished as a child, a bootlegger's daughter returns to claim his empire from a pious half-sister.

by Jeannette Walls 2023

3.81

84k+ ratings

🥃 Prohibition Era 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🏠 Prodigal Daughter 🚗 Whiskey Running 🤝 Found Family

Drowning in Paper Flowers

by E.L. Westbury • 2024

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

4.15

33k+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

Drowning in Paper Flowers 92%

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

by E.L. Westbury 2024

4.15

33k+ ratings

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Girl Who Knew Too Much

by Amanda Quick • 2017

Fleeing murder, a secretary discovers a starlet's body at a Hollywood hotel run by an ex-magician.

3.83

12k+

🎬 1930s Hollywood 🎭 Hidden Identity 🖤 Wounded Hero 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🫂 Found Family

The Girl Who Knew Too Much 92%

Fleeing murder, a secretary discovers a starlet's body at a Hollywood hotel run by an ex-magician.

by Amanda Quick 2017

3.83

12k+ ratings

🎬 1930s Hollywood 🎭 Hidden Identity 🖤 Wounded Hero 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🫂 Found Family

Agony Hill

by Sarah Stewart Taylor • 2024

In 1960s Vermont, a grieving detective questions a farmer's barn-fire death the town calls suicide.

3.83

2k+

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📖 Literary Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 🕵️ Haunted Detective 🌲 Rural Isolation

Agony Hill 92%

In 1960s Vermont, a grieving detective questions a farmer's barn-fire death the town calls suicide.

by Sarah Stewart Taylor 2024

3.83

2k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 📖 Literary Mystery 🔒 Family Secrets 🕵️ Haunted Detective 🌲 Rural Isolation

The Patron Saint of Liars

by Ann Patchett • 1992

Pregnant, she flees California for a Kentucky home for unwed mothers and decides to stay.

3.90

70k+

🏠 Home For Unwed Mothers 💔 Distant Mothers 🏃‍♀️ Fleeing The Past 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 🇺🇸 Mid-Century America

The Patron Saint of Liars 92%

Pregnant, she flees California for a Kentucky home for unwed mothers and decides to stay.

by Ann Patchett 1992

3.90

70k+ ratings

🏠 Home For Unwed Mothers 💔 Distant Mothers 🏃‍♀️ Fleeing The Past 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 🇺🇸 Mid-Century America

The Mad Wife

by Meagan Church • 2025

She found her neighbor's lobotomy records. Now her husband carries the same doctor's phone number.

3.86

148k+

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🏘️ 1950s Suburbia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💊 Medical Gaslighting 🔒 Coercive Control

The Mad Wife 92%

She found her neighbor's lobotomy records. Now her husband carries the same doctor's phone number.

by Meagan Church 2025

3.86

148k+ ratings

🏚️ Domestic Suspense 🏘️ 1950s Suburbia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💊 Medical Gaslighting 🔒 Coercive Control

Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?

by Sarah McCoy • 2025

At her aunt's convent, a student pieces together why a sixties starlet became a cloistered nun.

3.93

3k+

🎬 Old Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timelines 🫂 Chosen Family 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers

Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? Summary

Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? 92%

At her aunt's convent, a student pieces together why a sixties starlet became a cloistered nun.

by Sarah McCoy 2025

3.93

3k+ ratings

🎬 Old Hollywood ⏳ Dual Timelines 🫂 Chosen Family 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Star-Crossed Lovers

The Cut of the Moon

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2025

A 1920s heiress witnesses a death and discovers the servants trapped beneath her family's estate.

4.39

2k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎭 Hidden Identity 🔐 Family Secrets ⚖️ Class Divide 🎷 Jazz Age

The Cut of the Moon 92%

A 1920s heiress witnesses a death and discovers the servants trapped beneath her family's estate.

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2025

4.39

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🎭 Hidden Identity 🔐 Family Secrets ⚖️ Class Divide 🎷 Jazz Age

Broken Bayou

by Jennifer Moorhead • 2024

A psychologist's bayou homecoming unearths barrels of bodies and a car from her own childhood.

4.12

33k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔪 Serial Killer 🏠 Return To Hometown 🔒 Family Secrets

Broken Bayou 92%

A psychologist's bayou homecoming unearths barrels of bodies and a car from her own childhood.

by Jennifer Moorhead 2024

4.12

33k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🔪 Serial Killer 🏠 Return To Hometown 🔒 Family Secrets

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride • 2023

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

3.91

329k+

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤲 Found Family ⚖️ Institutional Cruelty 🌿 Quiet Resilience 🏡 Small Town America

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store Summary

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 91%

Chicken Hill's Black and Jewish neighbors conspire to rescue a deaf boy from a state asylum.

by James McBride 2023

3.91

329k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Secrets 🤲 Found Family ⚖️ Institutional Cruelty 🌿 Quiet Resilience 🏡 Small Town America

The Atomic City Girls

by Janet Beard • 2018

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

3.54

26k+

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Atomic City Girls 91%

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

by Janet Beard 2018

3.54

26k+ ratings

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Lost Heiress

by Elizabeth Klehfoth • 2025

A storm unearths bones at a seaside estate, reopening the cold case of a vanished heiress.

4.18

11k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identity 💰 Class Divides

The Lost Heiress 91%

A storm unearths bones at a seaside estate, reopening the cold case of a vanished heiress.

by Elizabeth Klehfoth 2025

4.18

11k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔍 Cold Case Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identity 💰 Class Divides

Mother of Pearl

by Melinda Haynes • 1999

A Black orphan and a white girl, both abandoned, search for home in 1956 Mississippi.

3.70

21k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🛑 Jim Crow South 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔗 Generational Trauma

Mother of Pearl 91%

A Black orphan and a white girl, both abandoned, search for home in 1956 Mississippi.

by Melinda Haynes 1999

3.70

21k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🛑 Jim Crow South 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔗 Generational Trauma

Dying to Meet You

by Sarina Bowen • 2025

A single mother restoring a Gothic mansion finds her ex murdered outside. The building knows why.

3.80

8k+

🏚️ Gothic Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👩‍👧 Single Mother Protagonist 💔 Generational Trauma 🧬 Hidden Parentage

Dying to Meet You 91%

A single mother restoring a Gothic mansion finds her ex murdered outside. The building knows why.

by Sarina Bowen 2025

3.80

8k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👩‍👧 Single Mother Protagonist 💔 Generational Trauma 🧬 Hidden Parentage

The Boys from Biloxi

by John Grisham • 2022

Two boyhood friends in Biloxi: one a prosecutor, the other a mob heir. Only one side can win.

4.05

96k+

🏛️ Legal Thriller 🕴️ Organized Crime 👦 Friends Turned Rivals 🏚️ Small Town Corruption 🌊 Gulf Coast

The Boys from Biloxi 91%

Two boyhood friends in Biloxi: one a prosecutor, the other a mob heir. Only one side can win.

by John Grisham 2022

4.05

96k+ ratings

🏛️ Legal Thriller 🕴️ Organized Crime 👦 Friends Turned Rivals 🏚️ Small Town Corruption 🌊 Gulf Coast

The Hunting Wives

by May Cobb • 2021

Restless mother joins secret Texas shooting club where wine, guns, and seduction end in murder.

3.48

94k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔑 Secret Society 🏡 Small Town Secrets 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

The Hunting Wives 91%

Restless mother joins secret Texas shooting club where wine, guns, and seduction end in murder.

by May Cobb 2021

3.48

94k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔑 Secret Society 🏡 Small Town Secrets 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 👁️ Unreliable Narrator

Mercury

by Amy Jo Burns • 2024

She married into a roofing family. Now she's hiding a body in the church attic.

3.78

20k+

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🔧 Family Business 🔐 Generational Secrets 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🌈 Queer Self-Discovery

Mercury 91%

She married into a roofing family. Now she's hiding a body in the church attic.

by Amy Jo Burns 2024

3.78

20k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Drama 🔧 Family Business 🔐 Generational Secrets 💔 Marriage Under Strain 🌈 Queer Self-Discovery

The House That Held Her

by Ellis Hart • 2025

Sixteen skulls dug up, then gone. A town sworn to silence. Someone living inside the walls.

3.78

881

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔍 Gothic Mystery 🚪 Secret Passages 🪞 Gaslighting 🤫 Small Town Secrets

The House That Held Her 91%

Sixteen skulls dug up, then gone. A town sworn to silence. Someone living inside the walls.

by Ellis Hart 2025

3.78

881 ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🔍 Gothic Mystery 🚪 Secret Passages 🪞 Gaslighting 🤫 Small Town Secrets

The Quarry Girls

by Jess Lourey • 2022

1977 Minnesota: a girl vanishes into the tunnels beneath town, where the sheriff buries his secrets.

4.01

130k+

🏘️ Small Town Thriller 🔍 Missing Girl 🤫 Small Town Secrets 💔 Family Betrayal 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age

The Quarry Girls 91%

1977 Minnesota: a girl vanishes into the tunnels beneath town, where the sheriff buries his secrets.

by Jess Lourey 2022

4.01

130k+ ratings

🏘️ Small Town Thriller 🔍 Missing Girl 🤫 Small Town Secrets 💔 Family Betrayal 🌑 Dark Coming Of Age

The Nurse's Secret

by Amanda Skenandore • 2022

A pickpocket hiding in Bellevue's nursing school discovers a killer stalking the wards.

4.14

36k+

🕵️‍♀️ Gilded Age Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identity 👮‍♀️ Unlikely Sleuth 🌆 1880s New York City 🤝 Found Family

The Nurse's Secret 91%

A pickpocket hiding in Bellevue's nursing school discovers a killer stalking the wards.

by Amanda Skenandore 2022

4.14

36k+ ratings

🕵️‍♀️ Gilded Age Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identity 👮‍♀️ Unlikely Sleuth 🌆 1880s New York City 🤝 Found Family

Along Came a Spider

by James Patterson • 1993

A D.C. detective hunts a fame-obsessed teacher who kidnapped two children from an elite school.

4.13

491k+

🚔 Police Procedural 🧠 Criminal Profiling 🔪 Serial Killer 🚸 Kidnapping 🐭 Cat And Mouse Game

Along Came a Spider 91%

A D.C. detective hunts a fame-obsessed teacher who kidnapped two children from an elite school.

by James Patterson 1993

4.13

491k+ ratings

🚔 Police Procedural 🧠 Criminal Profiling 🔪 Serial Killer 🚸 Kidnapping 🐭 Cat And Mouse Game

One Desperate Life

by D.J. Maughan • 2024

A Chicago woman marries a charming stranger whose many names hide a trail of murdered women.

4.14

477

🕰️ Historical Suspense 🧠 Psychological Suspense 😈 Charming Sociopath 🏃‍♀️ Woman On The Run 🕯️ Gaslighting

One Desperate Life 91%

A Chicago woman marries a charming stranger whose many names hide a trail of murdered women.

by D.J. Maughan 2024

4.14

477 ratings

🕰️ Historical Suspense 🧠 Psychological Suspense 😈 Charming Sociopath 🏃‍♀️ Woman On The Run 🕯️ Gaslighting

Finding Mrs. Ford

by Deborah Goodrich Royce • 2019

A wealthy widow's secret past resurfaces when FBI agents question her about a man from Iraq.

3.68

3k+

🎭 Stolen Identity 💔 Dark Female Friendship ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🕵️ 1970s Noir 🌊 Coastal New England

Finding Mrs. Ford 91%

A wealthy widow's secret past resurfaces when FBI agents question her about a man from Iraq.

by Deborah Goodrich Royce 2019

3.68

3k+ ratings

🎭 Stolen Identity 💔 Dark Female Friendship ⏳ Dual Timeline Mystery 🕵️ 1970s Noir 🌊 Coastal New England

Wait for Me

by Amy Jo Burns • 2026

A meteor strike resurrects a folk singer's past and the daughter she abandoned in the mountains.

3.66

8k+

📖 Appalachian Fiction 🎸 Nashville Music Scene 💔 Missing Mother 🎵 Stolen Music 🎨 Healing Through Art

Wait for Me 91%

A meteor strike resurrects a folk singer's past and the daughter she abandoned in the mountains.

by Amy Jo Burns 2026

3.66

8k+ ratings

📖 Appalachian Fiction 🎸 Nashville Music Scene 💔 Missing Mother 🎵 Stolen Music 🎨 Healing Through Art

The Island Club

by Nicola Harrison • 2026

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

3.71

4k+

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

The Island Club 91%

Three women's secrets, scandals, and a shot at redemption collide at a 1950s island tennis club.

by Nicola Harrison 2026

3.71

4k+ ratings

🕰️ 1950s America 🌴 California Beach Town 🎾 Women's Tennis 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Strained Marriages

Daughter of Mine

by Megan Miranda • 2024

A drought exposes a sunken car, pulling a daughter into the secrets her detective father buried.

3.91

78k+

🏘️ Small-Town Mystery 👪 Family Secrets 🗄️ Cold Case 📜 Inheritance Drama 🌫️ Atmospheric Suspense

Daughter of Mine 91%

A drought exposes a sunken car, pulling a daughter into the secrets her detective father buried.

by Megan Miranda 2024

3.91

78k+ ratings

🏘️ Small-Town Mystery 👪 Family Secrets 🗄️ Cold Case 📜 Inheritance Drama 🌫️ Atmospheric Suspense

The Antidote

by Karen Russell • 2025

A dust-blighted town paid a witch to bury its secrets. The dust is giving them back.

3.86

19k+

🌪️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🧙‍♀️ Rural Witchcraft 🧠 Memory Magic 👥 Found Family 🔪 Small Town Secrets

The Antidote 91%

A dust-blighted town paid a witch to bury its secrets. The dust is giving them back.

by Karen Russell 2025

3.86

19k+ ratings

🌪️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🧙‍♀️ Rural Witchcraft 🧠 Memory Magic 👥 Found Family 🔪 Small Town Secrets

The Listeners

by Maggie Stiefvater • 2025

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

3.70

16k+

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

The Listeners 91%

Her luxury hotel becomes a WWII internment camp. The water beneath it drinks in every sorrow.

by Maggie Stiefvater 2025

3.70

16k+ ratings

🏠 WWII Home Front 🏨 Luxury Hotel Fiction 💕 Enemies To Lovers 👥 Found Family 🎭 Secret Identity

Not What She Seems

by Yasmin Angoe • 2024

Her grandfather's murder pulls a disgraced academic back to a Southern town hiding a killer.

3.74

20k+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🕵🏾 Cold Case 🔪 Sociopathic Killer 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌫️ Small Town Secrets

Not What She Seems 91%

Her grandfather's murder pulls a disgraced academic back to a Southern town hiding a killer.

by Yasmin Angoe 2024

3.74

20k+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🕵🏾 Cold Case 🔪 Sociopathic Killer 🎭 Hidden Identity 🌫️ Small Town Secrets

The Midnight Hour

by Eve Chase • 2024

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

4.00

12k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

The Midnight Hour 91%

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

by Eve Chase 2024

4.00

12k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery 💕 First Love Reunited 🫂 Sibling Caretaker

The Enemy at Home

by Kevin O'Brien • 2023

A Seattle riveter's hunt for a killer of war workers leads to her own home.

4.10

2k+

🖤 Historical Domestic Noir 🔧 Women War Workers 👤 Killer In The Family 🏚️ Helping Hidden Refugees 🔍 Mother As Detective

The Enemy at Home 91%

A Seattle riveter's hunt for a killer of war workers leads to her own home.

by Kevin O'Brien 2023

4.10

2k+ ratings

🖤 Historical Domestic Noir 🔧 Women War Workers 👤 Killer In The Family 🏚️ Helping Hidden Refugees 🔍 Mother As Detective

Lullaby Town

by Robert Crais • 1992

Elvis Cole finds a director's missing wife and son. Then the mob comes for them all.

4.16

15k+

🕵️ Private Investigator 🎬 Hollywood Underworld 🔫 Mafia Ties 🏃‍♀️ Woman On The Run 💬 Witty Banter

Lullaby Town 91%

Elvis Cole finds a director's missing wife and son. Then the mob comes for them all.

by Robert Crais 1992

4.16

15k+ ratings

🕵️ Private Investigator 🎬 Hollywood Underworld 🔫 Mafia Ties 🏃‍♀️ Woman On The Run 💬 Witty Banter

All the Forgivenesses

by Elizabeth Hardinger • 2019

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

4.25

21k+

🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

All the Forgivenesses 91%

After her brother's drowning, a Kentucky farm girl grows up raising everyone but herself.

by Elizabeth Hardinger 2019

4.25

21k+ ratings

🌾 Rural Historical 🇺🇸 Early 1900s America 👩‍👧‍👦 Eldest Daughter Burden 😔 Childhood Guilt 🏚️ Hardscrabble Life

The Innocent

by David Baldacci • 2012

An assassin's bus explodes. The girl beside him knows why her parents were murdered.

4.19

122k+

🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🎯 Assassin Antihero 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🏃 Child On The Run 🔫 Rogue Agent

The Innocent 91%

An assassin's bus explodes. The girl beside him knows why her parents were murdered.

by David Baldacci 2012

4.19

122k+ ratings

🏛️ Government Conspiracy 🎯 Assassin Antihero 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🏃 Child On The Run 🔫 Rogue Agent

Jazz Funeral

by Julie Smith • 1993

When a JazzFest producer is murdered, his teenage half-sister runs into the New Orleans night.

3.85

2k+

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3.85

2k+ ratings

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4.26

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The Friend of the Family 91%

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4.26

14k+ ratings

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4.04

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Deeper Than the Dead 91%

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4.04

24k+ ratings

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Blue Mountain 91%

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3.93

1k+ ratings

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3.65

17k+

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Meet the Newmans 91%

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3.65

17k+ ratings

🎬 1960s Hollywood ✊ Feminist Awakening 🎭 Show Business Family 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted In Hollywood 💔 Marriage In Crisis

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