8 best-selling mystery thriller books like Black River by Nilanjana Roy

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Black River

By: Nilanjana Roy

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is s…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Black River by Nilanjana Roy , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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2. Pyre

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

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3. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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  • india
  • fiction
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5. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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6. Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.25

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

*** SHORTLISTED FOR HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS ***In the fourth rip-roa… read more

Similar categories in Vaseem Khan's Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4) book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Sakina’s Kiss

By: Vivek Shanbhag

3.81

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shanbhag's Sakina’s Kiss book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
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8. The Mercy Chair (Washington Poe #6)

By: M.W. Craven

4.63

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin . . . Washington Poe has a story to tell. And he… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Hunted

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Tell Me What I Am

By: Una Mannion

3.92

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more

Similar categories in Una Mannion's Tell Me What I Am book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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13. The Shadows of London (Marwood and Lovett #6)

By: Andrew Taylor

4.38

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

London 1671 The damage caused by the Great Fire still overshadows the capital. When a man’s brut… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Taylor's The Shadows of London (Marwood and Lovett #6) book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Club You To Death (ACP Bhavani Singh, #1) by Anuja Chauhan

14. Club You To Death (ACP Bhavani Singh, #1)

By: Anuja Chauhan

3.60

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

When a hunky personal trainer is found asphyxiated to death under an overloaded barbell at the posh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Peace (Hirsch, #2) by Garry Disher

15. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. Black River

By: Nilanjana Roy

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is s… read more

Similar categories in Nilanjana Roy's Black River book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • mystery thriller
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan

17. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

By: Aravind Jayan

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
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18. Thirty Days of Darkness

By: Jenny Lund Madsen

3.49

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

A Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Lund Madsen's Thirty Days of Darkness book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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19. Manjhi's Mayhem

By: Tanuj Solanki

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Introducing Sewaram Manjhi in this explosive no… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
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21. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Precipice book and Nilanjana Roy's Black River

  • thriller
  • fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

19 must-read fiction books like Black River by Nilanjana Roy

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Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

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Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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Death of a Lesser God (Malabar House, #4)

Vaseem Khan

4.25

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Water

John Boyne

4.33

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Earth

John Boyne

4.34

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Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy

4.10

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Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

3.78

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