12 Best audiobook books like The Distant Dead by Heather Young

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The Distant Dead

By: Heather Young

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a gr…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Distant Dead by Heather Young , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Usual Rules

By: Joyce Maynard

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn--a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to m… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's The Usual Rules book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ten years from now, her mother might not even recognize her. Already she was different, but the day would come when she'd be this person her mother had never seen. There would be other people - someo…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules

"You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You keep on breathing, whether you want to …"

-Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules

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2. The Missing Place

By: Sophie Littlefield

3.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Twenty-year-old Taylor Capparelli and Paul Mitchell go missing in Lawton, North Dakota, where they … read more

Similar categories in Sophie Littlefield's The Missing Place book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. Mountain Time

By: Ivan Doig

3.51

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

At fifty-something, environmental reporter Mitch Rozier has grown estranged from Seattle's coffee s… read more

Similar categories in Ivan Doig's Mountain Time book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Fall (Archer & Bennett #3)

By: Candice Fox

3.88

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A chilling, exhilarating new thriller from the award-winning Candice Fox, described by the Sydney M… read more

Similar categories in Candice Fox's Fall (Archer & Bennett #3) book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Blood Men

By: Paul Cleave

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Edward Hunter is a family man with a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future, and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Cleave's Blood Men book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People

By: Mark Owens , Delia Owens

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

In this riveting real-life adventure, Mark and Delia Owens tell the dramatic story of their last ye… read more

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7. Gone Tomorrow (Bill Slider, #9)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

"All around, for miles and miles in every direction, in streets and shops and houses, real life was… read more

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8. The Far Empty

By: J. Todd Scott

3.40

Format: 208 pages,

In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a s… read more

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9. A Twist of the Knife (Brigid Quinn, #3)

By: Becky Masterman

3.00

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn, "the most original female character to anchor a crime series in years," … read more

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10. Fear the Darkness (Brigid Quinn, #2)

By: Becky Masterman

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Ex-FBI Agent Brigid Quinn thinks she has a second chance at life. After too many years spent in the… read more

Similar categories in Becky Masterman's Fear the Darkness (Brigid Quinn, #2) book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's hard to recognize the devil when his hand is on your shoulder. That's because a psychopath is just a person before he becomes a headline."

-Becky Masterman, Fear the Darkness (Brigid Quinn, #2)

11. The Ridge

By: Michael Koryta

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse … read more

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12. The Right Side

By: Spencer Quinn

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

LeAnne Hogan went to Afghanistan as a rising star in the military, and came back a much lesser pers… read more

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13. Dear Departed (Bill Slider, #10)

By: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Chattie Cornfeld was murdered while jogging in the park. She ran her own small marketing company an… read more

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14. The Yards

By: A.F. Carter

3.76

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Git O’Rourke is from the wrong side of the tracks—even if, in the depressed Rust Belt town of Baxte… read more

Similar categories in A.F. Carter's The Yards book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a … read more

Similar categories in Adam Rapp's Wolf at the Table book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Distant Dead

By: Heather Young

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a gr… read more

Similar categories in Heather Young's The Distant Dead book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Knife River

By: Justine Champine

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When Jess was thirteen her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister Liz… read more

Similar categories in Justine Champine's Knife River book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. A Lonesome Place for Dying

By: Nolan Chase

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blaine, Washington is a seaside town where on an average day, the most serious police work involves… read more

Similar categories in Nolan Chase's A Lonesome Place for Dying book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Fateful Mornings (Henry Farrell, #2) by Tom Bouman

20. Fateful Mornings (Henry Farrell, #2)

By: Tom Bouman

3.51

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Tom Bouman’s Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Tim… read more

Similar categories in Tom Bouman's Fateful Mornings (Henry Farrell, #2) book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Killers Once (Brigid Quinn, #4) by Becky Masterman

21. We Were Killers Once (Brigid Quinn, #4)

By: Becky Masterman

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Retired FBI agent Brigid Quinn returns in Becky Masterman's fourth stunning thriller. In 1959, a… read more

Similar categories in Becky Masterman's We Were Killers Once (Brigid Quinn, #4) book and Heather Young's The Distant Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes the old-age serenity thing is crap."

-Becky Masterman, We Were Killers Once (Brigid Quinn, #4)

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