7 Best indigenous books like The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2) by Hartley GoodWeather

Cover of The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2) by Hartley GoodWeather

The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

By: Hartley GoodWeather

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780006395515 From the bestselling author of The Back of the Tur…

"Moses would probably make a pot of tea and tell him a story. And maybe that was it, maybe in the end a good story was the best anyone could do."

-Hartley GoodWeather, The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

"Moses would probably make a pot of tea and tell him a story. And maybe that was it, maybe in the end a good story was the best anyone could do."

-Hartley GoodWeather, The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

If you liked the indigenous plot in The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2) by Hartley GoodWeather , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Green Grass, Running Water

By: Thomas King

4.03

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

Strong, Sassy women and hard-luck hardheaded men, all searching for the middle ground between Nativ… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Look,"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

"The Lone Ranger, Ishmael, Robinson Crusoe, and Hawkeye stood in the parking lot of the Blossom Lodge. Beyond the concrete and the asphalt and the cars, beneath the deep curve of the sky, the prairies…"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

"Every July, when Eli was growing up, his mother would close the cabin and move the family to the Sun Dance. Eli would help the other men set up the tepee, and then he and Norma and Camelot would run …"

-Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water

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2. The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more

Similar categories in Lidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • fiction

3. Dead Irish (Dismas Hardy, #1)

By: John Lescroart

3.90

Format: 205 pages,

The first Dismas Hardy novel by the New York Timesbestselling author of The Fall, The Keeper, and T… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

4. The Jade Peony

By: Wayson Choy

3.00

Format: 81 pages, Paperback

"Beautifully written. . . . It renders a complex and complete human world, which by the end we have… read more

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5. The Back of the Turtle

By: Thomas King

4.00

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winn… read more

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6. The Building Of Jalna (Whiteoaks of Jalna, #1)

By: Mazo de la Roche

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1944, The Building of Jalnais one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written b… read more

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7. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

By: Thomas King

4.65

Format: None pages, ebook

WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize The Inconvenient Indianis at once a "history" and the complete … read more

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8. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10) by Iona Whishaw

9. To Track a Traitor (Lane Winslow #10)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.27

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

With events spanning both world wars, the tenth installment in the Lane Winslow mystery series is a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
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10. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Cover of The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2) by Chris Hadfield

11. The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)

By: Chris Hadfield

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot Chris Hadfield comes a rivetin… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
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12. A Meditation on Murder

By: Susan Juby

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
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13. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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14. Indians on Vacation

By: Thomas King

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • canada
  • indigenous
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15. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • humor
  • canada
Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

16. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
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17. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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18. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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19. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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20. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9) by Iona Whishaw

21. Framed in Fire (Lane Winslow #9)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.28

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A shallow grave, a missing person, and near-fatal arson keep Lane, Darling, and the Nelson police o… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of It Begins In Betrayal (Lane Winslow #4) by Iona Whishaw

22. It Begins In Betrayal (Lane Winslow #4)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth book in what the Globe and Mail has proclaimed “a terrific series” by “a writer to watch… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
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23. Sufferance

By: Thomas King

3.92

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that… read more

Similar categories in Thomas King's Sufferance book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • canada
  • humor
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Deepest Lake by Andromeda Romano-Lax

24. The Deepest Lake

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlán,… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3) by Eden Robinson

25. Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)

By: Eden Robinson

4.12

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling a… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
Cover of Full Disclosure (Jilly Truitt, #1) by Beverley McLachlin

26. Full Disclosure (Jilly Truitt, #1)

By: Beverley McLachlin

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the former Chief Justice of Canada comes a riveting thriller starring Jilly Truitt, a rising, … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2) by Hartley GoodWeather

27. The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

By: Hartley GoodWeather

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780006395515 From the bestselling author of The Back of the Tur… read more

Similar categories in Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2) book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • humor
  • indigenous
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • crime
"Moses would probably make a pot of tea and tell him a story. And maybe that was it, maybe in the end a good story was the best anyone could do."

-Hartley GoodWeather, The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

Cover of The Sister's Tale by Beth Powning

28. The Sister's Tale

By: Beth Powning

3.70

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when th… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Legacy: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (22) by Gail Bowen

29. The Legacy: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (22)

By: Gail Bowen

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

From the Arthur Ellis Award–winning Grand Master of Crime Writers comes the next installment in the… read more

Similar categories in Gail Bowen's The Legacy: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (22) book and Hartley GoodWeather's The Red Power Murders (DreadfulWater, #2)

  • mystery
Cover of Gull Island by Anna Porter

30. Gull Island

By: Anna Porter

2.37

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A haunting psychological suspense novel about a young woman who visits her remote family cottage se… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

31. Monkey Beach

By: Eden Robinson

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“ Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • indigenous
"Six crows sit in our greengage tree. Half awake, I hear them speak to me in Haisla."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"As I drove away, I felt deeply comforted knowing that magical things were still living in the world."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"You honkies want women to be like cookies, all sweet and dainty and easy to eat. But I'm fry bread, you bitch, and I'm proud of it."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

"We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are."

-Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

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3.90

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