15 best-selling crime books like Distant Sons by Tim Johnston

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Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter…

If you liked the crime plot in Distant Sons by Tim Johnston , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Last Ranger

By:

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Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Cape Rage

By: Ron Corbett

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Danny Barrett is caught between a family of criminals and the psychopath who is tracking them in th… read more

Similar categories in Ron Corbett's Cape Rage book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's An Honest Man book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • 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)

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8. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

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9. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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10. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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11. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Sleeping Giants

By: Rene Denfeld

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more

Similar categories in Rene Denfeld's Sleeping Giants book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Calico

By: Lee Goldberg

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigat… read more

Similar categories in Lee Goldberg's Calico book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

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16. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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17. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

Similar categories in Peter Nichols's Granite Harbor book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more

Similar categories in Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15) book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Sweet Thing: A Novel

By: David Swinson

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this DC-set standalone from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" ( New York Times B… read more

Similar categories in David Swinson's Sweet Thing: A Novel book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Tim Johnston's Distant Sons

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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