12 must-read suspense books like The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green

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The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

2. 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

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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3. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Emerson's Shutter book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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4. 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 George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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6. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's A Dangerous Business book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

8. 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 George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

10. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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11. Killers of a Certain Age

By: Deanna Raybourn

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their … read more

Similar categories in Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Jesus, what did you have for breakfast? A bowl of Honey Bunches of Bitch?"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"He was dressed like a tourist, his T-shirt tucked into belted jeans like a sociopath."

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the Pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

"I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright. Guilt if we want to be mothers, guilt if we take the pill instead or choose to abort. Guilt if we stay home with our kids or guilt if we work. Guilt if we sleep …"

-Deanna Raybourn, Killers of a Certain Age

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12. Carolina Moonset

By: Matt Goldman

4.08

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Both suspenseful and deeply moving, Carolina Moonset is an engrossing novel about family, memories … read more

Similar categories in Matt Goldman's Carolina Moonset book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper

13. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

Similar categories in Jane Harper's Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Flags on the Bayou

By: James Lee Burke

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Flags on the Bayou book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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15. The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives i… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hays's The Cloisters book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

Cover of City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) by Iris Yamashita

16. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.54

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green

17. The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and… read more

Similar categories in George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • southern
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy

18. An Honest Living

By: Dwyer Murphy

3.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Like the best noir practitioners, Murphy uses the mystery as scaffolding to assemble a world of fa… read more

Similar categories in Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Locust Lane by Stephen Amidon

19. Locust Lane

By: Stephen Amidon

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Amidon's Locust Lane book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

20. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and George Dawes Green's The Kingdoms of Savannah

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

20 Best fiction books like The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green

Transform Your Habits

The Princess of Las Vegas

Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Transform Your Habits

All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Shutter

Ramona Emerson

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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