9 Top suspense books like Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger

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Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq…

If you liked the suspense plot in Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1) by C.J. Box

1. Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

By: C.J. Box

4.00

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts, an… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Joe had always considered individual words as finite units of currency, and he believed in savings."

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

"I don't know why it is that alcohol and tobacco are now bad, but jolts of caffeine are suddenly good. It is beyond me, and it makes me feel old."

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

"...sometimes we see things in animals that aren't really there. It's called transference, if that makes any sense. ...I think there are a lot of people who say they do things for animals when they're…"

-C.J. Box, Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1)

2. Savage Run (Joe Pickett, #2)

By: C.J. Box

3.62

Format: 171 pages,

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Similar categories in C.J. Box's Savage Run (Joe Pickett, #2) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

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3. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Cover of Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) by C.J. Box

4. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.56

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning ar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of The Covenant of Water by Abraham   Verghese

9. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23) by C.J. Box

11. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci

12. A Calamity of Souls

By: David Baldacci

4.53

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo … read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's A Calamity of Souls book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) by John Grisham

13. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20) by Craig Johnson

14. First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20)

By: Craig Johnson

4.37

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of chara… read more

Similar categories in Craig Johnson's First Frost (Walt Longmire, #20) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

15. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) by Craig Johnson

16. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

Similar categories in Craig Johnson's The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

17. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

18. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny

19. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

Cover of Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger

20. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • native american
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and William Kent Krueger's Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

  • native american
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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