12 Best mystery books like American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

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American Spy

By: Lauren Wilkinson

3.50

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose b…

"I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"I had the impulse to see you. There was something defeated in his voice and his posture. “I know what you are, and I know I can’t trust you. But I can’t trust anyone. At least you’re beautiful. And we have a good time together."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"I had the impulse to see you. There was something defeated in his voice and his posture. “I know what you are, and I know I can’t trust you. But I can’t trust anyone. At least you’re beautiful. And we have a good time together."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

If you liked the mystery plot in American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions: Stories That Take You Away... (Audio CD)

By: Noah Adams , National Public Radio

3.42

Format: 60 pages, Audio CD

Prairie Dog Town in western Kansas. The Elvis Is Alive Museum in Wright City, Missouri. The Velvet … read more

Similar categories in Noah Adams's NPR Road Trips: Roadside Attractions: Stories That Take You Away... (Audio CD) book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • audiobook
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2. Enemy of the Good

By: Matthew Palmer

4.33

Format: None pages,

A tense, complex, and twisting diplomatic thriller in which one woman must choose between morality … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Palmer's Enemy of the Good book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

3. Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids While Losing My Mind

By: Nicole Knepper

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

If you feel like your kids are killing you, you've come to the right place. Attention all potty-mou… read more

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4. Critical Conditions (Alan Gregory, #6)

By: Stephen White

5.00

Format: None pages,

Alan Gregory is called to the ICU before anyone knows the patient's name or what dark demons drove … read more

Similar categories in Stephen White's Critical Conditions (Alan Gregory, #6) book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction

5. Brain Storm (Angela Richman, Death Investigator #1)

By: Elaine Viets

3.33

Format: 75 pages,

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angel… read more

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6. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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7. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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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 Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • 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

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9. 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 Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • african american
  • audiobook
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11. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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12. 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 Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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)

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13. Red Widow (Red Widow, #1)

By: Alma Katsu

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating spy thriller about two women CIA agents who become intertwined around a threat to t… read more

Similar categories in Alma Katsu's Red Widow (Red Widow, #1) book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. Black Cake

By: Charmaine Wilkerson

4.10

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more

Similar categories in Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

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16. American Spy

By: Lauren Wilkinson

3.50

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose b… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • african american
  • audiobook
"I learned that a secret is power, that power in application is force, that force is strength, and strength advantage."

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"I had the impulse to see you. There was something defeated in his voice and his posture. “I know what you are, and I know I can’t trust you. But I can’t trust anyone. At least you’re beautiful. And w…"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"You’ve likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to share my darker self with other people. The only anger I ever expose to the world is through implication, …"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

"After I heard, I switched the radio to music and turned it up as load as it would go and let myself cry...You've likely never seen me like that. Almost no one has. It has never earned me anything to …"

-Lauren Wilkinson, American Spy

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17. Undercover

By: Joe Carter

3.84

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling true story of the reality of undercover police workFor over 20 years, Joe Carter has w… read more

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18. Speaking of Summer

By: Kalisha Buckhanon

3.25

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the author of Upstate, one of five books selected by the National Book Foundatio… read more

Similar categories in Kalisha Buckhanon's Speaking of Summer book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival by Chris Begley

19. The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival

By: Chris Begley

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the… read more

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20. The Shadow Mission (The Athena Protocol, #2)

By: Shamim Sarif

3.89

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Jessie Archer faced down death to prove her dedication to Athena, the elite organization of female … read more

Similar categories in Shamim Sarif's The Shadow Mission (The Athena Protocol, #2) book and Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy

  • espionage
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. By the People A History of the United States

By: James W. Fraser

2.72

Format: 955 pages, Hardcover

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyHistoryLab does not come packaged with this conten… read more

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