20 must-read mystery books like The Beautiful and the Wild by Peggy Townsend

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The Beautiful and the Wild

By: Peggy Townsend

3.55

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The dangers of Alaska aren't limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most d…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Beautiful and the Wild by Peggy Townsend , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Keep Your Friends Close

By: Leah Konen

3.67

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

With friends like these, who needs enemies? Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary nee… read more

Similar categories in Leah Konen's Keep Your Friends Close book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's No One Can Know book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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3. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Guest

By: B.A. Paris

3.59

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere … read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's The Guest book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...regret is such a waste of emotion. No matter how much we want to, we can't change the past. We need to acknowledge the mistakes we've made but not allow them to cloud every moment of every day." -…"

-B.A. Paris, The Guest

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5. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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7. Five Bad Deeds

By: Caz Frear

3.39

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful… read more

Similar categories in Caz Frear's Five Bad Deeds book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidenc… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2) book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. A Very Inconvenient Scandal

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a thrilling family drama that ex… read more

Similar categories in Jacquelyn Mitchard's A Very Inconvenient Scandal book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. One Wrong Word

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Hank Phillippi Ryan's One Wrong Word book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Good Girls Don’t Die

By: Christina Henry

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Celia wakes up in a house that isn’t hers. She doesn't recognize her husband or the little girl who… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's Good Girls Don’t Die book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[S]he marveled at how easily the heroines of her favorite books stumbled across physical clues after a crime. Fiction really was easier than truth."

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

"Maggie resisted the urge to explain to the other woman that life was not fair, that it had never been fair, that terrible things happened all the time that nobody planned on, that even when you tried…"

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

"Most women faked half their lives daily, pretending to have their work and their family and their health completely under control, moving through the world with just enough makeup and effortless sham…"

-Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

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12. Good Half Gone

By: Tarryn Fisher

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never and The Wives Iris Walsh saw her … read more

Similar categories in Tarryn Fisher's Good Half Gone book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Clinic

By: Cate Quinn

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic … read more

Similar categories in Cate Quinn's The Clinic book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra

3.86

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The Fallon Spring Reads Book Club Pick A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life an… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Sierra's Nightwatching book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Where You End

By: Abbott Kahler

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut inspired by tru… read more

Similar categories in Abbott Kahler's Where You End book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had time to form one last thought before my mind emptied itself of all things: She will know how to fix me. "

-Abbott Kahler, Where You End

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18. True North

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, follow… read more

Similar categories in Andrew J. Graff's True North book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • adventure
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19. The Beautiful and the Wild

By: Peggy Townsend

3.55

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The dangers of Alaska aren't limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most d… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • adult fiction
  • survival
  • mystery thriller
  • adventure
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's The Nature of Disappearing book and Peggy Townsend's The Beautiful and the Wild

  • mystery thriller
  • survival
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

21 Top fiction books like The Beautiful and the Wild by Peggy Townsend

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Keep Your Friends Close

Leah Konen

3.67

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

B.A. Paris

3.59

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Transform Your Habits

Keep Your Friends Close

Leah Konen

3.67

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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The Guest

B.A. Paris

3.59

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