14 Top mystery books like The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1) by Kwei Quartey

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The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

By: Kwei Quartey

3.71

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest dept…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1) by Kwei Quartey , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Murder in Pigalle (Aimee Leduc Investigations #14) by Cara Black

1. Murder in Pigalle (Aimee Leduc Investigations #14)

By: Cara Black

3.70

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football … read more

Similar categories in Cara Black's Murder in Pigalle (Aimee Leduc Investigations #14) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1) by Edward Kelsey Moore

2. The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

By: Edward Kelsey Moore

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and … read more

Similar categories in Edward Kelsey Moore's The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted down, "Maybe. Or maybe this is just what's supposed to be."

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

"I was free to appreciate the quiet and the way the yellowish-gray light of the rising sun entered the room, turning everything from black and white to color. The journey from Kansas to Oz right in my…"

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

"I looked around for that welcoming light I'd heard about, but I didn't see it. Instead, everything around me seemed to glow and shimmer in the sunlight. I heard beautiful sounds-not the voices of dea…"

-Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

Cover of Tomorrow Died Yesterday by Chimeka Garricks

3. Tomorrow Died Yesterday

By: Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

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Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's Tomorrow Died Yesterday book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • thriller
  • africa
  • fiction

4. Death of the Demon (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #3)

By: Anne Holt

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely dir… read more

Similar categories in Anne Holt's Death of the Demon (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #3) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

5. Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's Blue Lightning (Shetland Island, #4) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

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6. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

Similar categories in I.S. Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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7. Smoke Kings

By: Jahmal Mayfield

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the vein of Get Out and Razorblade Tears, a feast of noir fiction and probing social commentary … read more

Similar categories in Jahmal Mayfield's Smoke Kings book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

8. 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 Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • 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 Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right by Ukamaka Olisakwe

9. Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right

By: Ukamaka Olisakwe

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Ogadinma Or, Everything Will be All Right tells the story of the naïve and trusting teenager Ogadin… read more

Similar categories in Ukamaka Olisakwe's Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • africa
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dangerous Women (Secret Lives #2) by Mark de Castrique

10. Dangerous Women (Secret Lives #2)

By: Mark de Castrique

3.96

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

"A bewitching political thriller."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Ethel looks like Marple but … read more

Similar categories in Mark de Castrique's Dangerous Women (Secret Lives #2) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Nigerwife

By: Vanessa Walters

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Walters's The Nigerwife book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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12. Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)

By: Femi Kayode

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the mur… read more

Similar categories in Femi Kayode's Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Disappearance in Fiji by Nilima Rao

13. A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

3.89

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more

Similar categories in Nilima Rao's A Disappearance in Fiji book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1) by Kwei Quartey

14. The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

By: Kwei Quartey

3.71

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest dept… read more

Similar categories in Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • ghana
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hunting Game (Embla Nyström, #1) by Helene Tursten

15. Hunting Game (Embla Nyström, #1)

By: Helene Tursten

3.35

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in Helene Tursten’s brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective In… read more

Similar categories in Helene Tursten's Hunting Game (Embla Nyström, #1) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Skin & Bones book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) by Femi  Kayode

17. Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2)

By: Femi Kayode

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a mi… read more

Similar categories in Femi Kayode's Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sisters & The Roommate (Cormac Reilly #.5, #.7) by Dervla McTiernan

18. The Sisters & The Roommate (Cormac Reilly #.5, #.7)

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

From one of the most exciting voices in crime fiction comes two riveting prequels to the internatio… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's The Sisters & The Roommate (Cormac Reilly #.5, #.7) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Deus X (August Snow, #4) by Stephen Mack Jones

19. Deus X (August Snow, #4)

By: Stephen Mack Jones

4.10

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Detroit ex-cop August Snow puts his life on the line to protect a friend from modern-day Templars s… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Mack Jones's Deus X (August Snow, #4) book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. A Punishing Breed

By: Denise Frost

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A Punishing Breed , the first in a series of novels featuring Detective DJ Arias, is a murder myste… read more

Similar categories in Denise Frost's A Punishing Breed book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

21. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Kwei Quartey's The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1)

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction

19 Top fiction books like The Missing American (Emma Djan Investigation #1) by Kwei Quartey

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Murder in Pigalle (Aimee Leduc Investigations #14)

Cara Black

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat (The Supremes, #1)

Edward Kelsey Moore

3.99

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Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

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19 Best fiction books like Gaslight (Philip Taiwo #2) by Femi Kayode

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Died Yesterday

Chimeka Garricks

3.87

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Smoke Kings

Jahmal Mayfield

3.98

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Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

Danielle Arceneaux

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

Michael Bennett

3.94

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