13 must-read mystery books like At Loggerheads by Kristen Ness

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At Loggerheads

By: Kristen Ness

4.20

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Brooke Edens, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles, has longed for a sense of home and be…

If you liked the mystery plot in At Loggerheads by Kristen Ness , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Summer Book Club

By: Susan Mallery

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The rules of summer book club are simple: •  No sad books •  No pressure •  Yessssss, wine! … read more

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  • fiction
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2. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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3. The Beautiful People

By: Michelle Gable

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistan… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. Just for the Summer

By: Melody Carlson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Bright Lights, Big Christmas

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, co… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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  • fiction
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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8. In the Shadow of the Greenbrier

By: Emily Matchar

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A poignant multigenerational Jewish family saga inspired by remarkable, yet little-known, true even… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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9. My Magnolia Summer

By: Victoria Benton Frank

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In thi… read more

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  • fiction
"Omitting the truth is also lying."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"Are you planning on kissing me behind a haystack or something?" "Oh, I plan on a lot worse, Maggie."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"Maybe violets don't have thorns like roses, or heavy fragrances like lilies or magnolias, but they are just as strong."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"I unrolled my knife bag and saw all my old friends staring back at me. Some girls liked diamonds, some liked pearls, but just give me a good knife. Knives are sexy, that's all there is to it."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

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10. All the Summers in Between

By: Brooke Lea Foster

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summ… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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11. Edge of Edisto: (The Edisto Island Mysteries, Book 11)

By: C. Hope Clark

4.80

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

A missing woman.An unidentified body.Summer is just getting started...Police Chief Callie Jean Morg… read more

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12. Postcards From Stella Maris: Five Liz Talbot Short Stories

By: Susan M. Boyer

4.33

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

For Fans of the Liz Talbot Mystery Series... Postcards From Stella Maris is a collection of five… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. Lowcountry Bombshell: A Liz Talbot Mystery, Book 2

By: Susan M. Boyer

4.11

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it coincidence or Deadly Destiny?Private Investigator Liz Talbot thinks she’s seen another ghost… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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14. 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

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"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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15. At Loggerheads

By: Kristen Ness

4.20

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Brooke Edens, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles, has longed for a sense of home and be… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Ness's At Loggerheads book and Kristen Ness's At Loggerheads

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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16. When Cicadas Cry

By: Caroline Cleveland

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney, Zach Stander, a lawyer with a past, and Addie … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3) by Natalie Jenner

17. Every Time We Say Goodbye (Jane Austen Society, #3)

By: Natalie Jenner

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant nov… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

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  • fiction
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19. The Golden Hour

By: Jenny Hale

4.54

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Magic of Sea Glass, with over one million copies of he… read more

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20. Beach Haven (Carolina Coast, #1)

By: T.I. Lowe

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Free-spirited Opal Gilbert seems to have everything she needs to keep living a happy life in Sunset… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way

By: Jeffrey Blount

4.22

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

James Henry Ferguson doesn’t belong here. After a highly publicized fall from grace, James attempts… read more

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  • fiction
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22. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

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23. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

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24. Driftwood Dreams (Carolina Coast #2)

By: T.I. Lowe

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the bestselling author of Lulu’s Café Josie Slater has allowed the circumstances anchoring her… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

25. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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26. The Islanders (The Islanders, #1)

By: Mary Alice Monroe

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan, and… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Last Twelve Miles

By: Erika Robuck

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more

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  • fiction
"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"

-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles

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28. Search for Treasure (The Islanders, #2)

By: Mary Alice Monroe

4.44

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe’s The Islanders, a beautiful stor… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

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  • fiction
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30. A Novel Summer

By: Jamie Brenner

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of a quaint beach town bookshop … read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

By: Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more

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Susan Mallery

3.84

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Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

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Michelle Gable

3.73

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Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

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Robyn Carr

3.82

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3.60

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