21 must-read fiction books like What Has Mother Done? (Thea Browne Mystery, #1) by Barbara Petty

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What Has Mother Done? (Thea Browne Mystery, #1)

By: Barbara Petty

3.92

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

“Barbara Petty has written a riveting mystery reminiscent of Psycho. Somewhere, Hitchcock is smilin…

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1. Sea to Sky (A Hunter Rayne Highway Mystery, #3)

By: R.E. Donald

4.24

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A dead man rides a chairlift at the popular ski resort on Whistler Mountain. Former homicide detect… read more

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2. The Red Garden

By: Alice Hoffman

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The Red Gardenintroduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts, capturi… read more

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3. Corktown (Abby Kane FBI Thriller, #1)

By: Ty Hutchinson

4.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Doctor Is Back. In the quiet Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, a mutilated body has the residen… read more

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4. Girl in Trouble (Alex Mercer Thriller #1)

By: Stacy Claflin

4.26

Format: None pages,

He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he'll risk his life to save hers. Alex Mercer is no stra… read more

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5. Forget Me Not (Mark Kane Mysteries Series #1)

By: John Hemmings

4.15

Format: None pages,

A devoted husband has planted a blanket of Forget-Me-Nots in memory of his wife who has recently di… read more

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6. Cicada Spring

By: Christian Galacar

None

Format: None pages, None

A brutal sexual assault, a serial killer, and a shocking accusation rock the small New England town… read more

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7. Coffee at The Beach House Hotel

By: Judith Keim

4.42

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Ann and Rhonda continue to deal with guests at The Beach House Hotel on the Gulf Coast of Florida, … read more

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  • fiction
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8. Little Lost Secrets (Georgiana Germaine #2)

By: Cheryl Bradshaw

4.33

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

When a dead body is found in the walls during a home renovation, detective Georgiana Germaine gets … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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9. Lost Soul (Serenity's Plain Secrets Book 16)

By: Karen Ann Hopkins

4.35

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Serenity’s investigative skills are put to the test when the family of a popular local doctor is mu… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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10. The Orphan's Island (Amherst Island #1)

By: Katharine Swartz

4.42

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

1904: Ellen Copley is still a child when she leaves behind the sooty rail yards of Glasgow, and cro… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Not This Way (Rachel Blackwood #1)

By: Blake Pierce

4.06

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas Ranger (and part Native American) Rachel Blackwood, fierce and resilient, must cross the hars… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. Little Girl Missing (Detective Rachel Hart #1)

By: J.G. Roberts

3.98

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

How can a little girl vanish into thin air? Five-year-old Cassie Bailey’s mother tucked her into… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. The House of Closed Doors (The House of Closed Doors, #1)

By: Jane Steen

4.07

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian Note: There is an alternate cover edition here In Nell Lillington's small Midwestern … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Even a lie told for a good purpose has a way of perpetuating itself, doesn't it? Look at all the trouble I caused by refusing to tell the truth about Sarah's father." - Nell"

-Jane Steen, The House of Closed Doors (The House of Closed Doors, #1)

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14. Cuckoos on the Mersey : My Name Was Leo and I Never Stood a Chance

By: Conrad Jones

4.62

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Cuckoos on the Mersey follows the child protection teams in social services and the PVPU (protectin… read more

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15. The Missing Children (DI Kayli Bright Trilogy, #1)

By: M.A. Comley

4.09

Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition

The first gripping thriller in the DI Kayli Bright trilogy. "I want my mummy..." The whisp… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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16. Let Me In (Morgan Young, #1)

By: Adam Nicholls

3.77

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

All he wanted was to stop a killer. He never knew what it would cost. Morgan Young only took the sm… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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17. One Perfect French Summer

By: Lucy Coleman

4.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Summer doesn't last forever, but can a perfect one change your life?For successful estate agent Fre… read more

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18. Dangerous Habits (Leah Nash Mysteries #1)

By: Susan Hunter

4.09

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

LEAH NASH WOULD KILL FOR A GOOD STORY"Smart, witty, fast-paced, and kept me guessing up to the last… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. Flight Risk

By: Joy Castro

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman is forced to face her past in a heartbreaking and triumphant novel of old wounds and family… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
"It's a hard fact, Daughter, but pretend love feels better than no love at all."

-Joy Castro, Flight Risk

"I didn't want to go inside, to nod at condolences, to taste that mixture of casseroles and grief."

-Joy Castro, Flight Risk

"Perhaps it is impossible for people who don't have younger siblings - or, to be more precise, people never charged in childhood with complete responsibility for their younger siblings - to imagine th…"

-Joy Castro, Flight Risk

"Sometimes I think of us all, temporarily inhabiting the same vehicles, the same streets, but with our networks of love overlapping, like layers upon layers of spiderwebs until the whole thing is a de…"

-Joy Castro, Flight Risk

Cover of The Silent Quarry (DI Winter Meadows, #1) by Cheryl Rees-Price

20. The Silent Quarry (DI Winter Meadows, #1)

By: Cheryl Rees-Price

4.37

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

The Silent Quarry is the first in the DI Winter Meadows series by Cheryl Rees-Price. In 1987 a quie… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. Night Song (Serenity's Plain Secrets, #14)

By: Karen Ann Hopkins

4.28

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

After the bishop’s younger sister, Martha Mast, makes a plea for help, the holy man asks a favor of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Her Hidden Past (Rosemary Run, #2)

By: Kelly Utt

3.61

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Bea Hughes had put the past behind her. Until an anonymous caller phoned to say they knew what she'… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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23. A Good Enough Mother

By: Sheila Norton

4.11

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Mia is telling me a story. It’s about a princess, who lives in a castle, on a street that bears a r… read more

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24. Inside the Whispers (Dr. Samantha Willerby #1)

By: A.J. Waines

3.90

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

When a cognitive psychologist loses three patients to suicide, she finds herself confronting a dang… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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25. What Happened at the Lake

By: Phil M. Williams

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

They went on vacation. Not everyone made it back. The Palmers went to the lake for a week of fun… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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26. What Has Mother Done? (Thea Browne Mystery, #1)

By: Barbara Petty

3.92

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

“Barbara Petty has written a riveting mystery reminiscent of Psycho. Somewhere, Hitchcock is smilin… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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27. Burying Ben (Dot Meyerhoff, #1)

By: Ellen Kirschman

4.06

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

A COP’S DEAD; SHE WAS HIS SHRINK.GUESS WHO EVERYONE’S BLAMING?"Riveting, compelling and authentic! … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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28. Underneath

By: Andie M. Long

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

The book that will make you look closely at those around you - including yourself. An ordinary l… read more

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  • psychological thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Deadly Game by Gayle  Brown

29. A Deadly Game

By: Gayle Brown

3.99

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

"Gayle Brown's debut novel unravels a web of secrets and lies that will keep you on the edge of you… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders As Told By Jack The Ripper by Doug Lamoreux

30. Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders As Told By Jack The Ripper

By: Doug Lamoreux

3.93

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Come into the East End of London, 1888. Walk the streets of Whitechapel and slums of Spitalfields, … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Perverse Consequences: Book 1 (Smith Street Investigator) by Robert  Blain

31. Perverse Consequences: Book 1 (Smith Street Investigator)

By: Robert Blain

3.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Australian private investigator Andrew Schlakier is hired by a government agency that wants a convi… read more

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  • mystery thriller

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