5 Top mystery books like Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard

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Not That Kind of Place

By: Michael Melgaard

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return … Twenty …

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1. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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3. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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4. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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5. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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6. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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7. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

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9. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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10. 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
  • audiobook
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11. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past by Brett Popplewell

12. Outsider: An Old Man, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past

By: Brett Popplewell

4.31

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Into the Wild  meets  Born to Run  meets  The Stranger in the Woods  in a fascinating true story of… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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13. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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14. The Observer: A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shad… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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15. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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16. Away from the Dead

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. Daughter

By: Claudia Dey

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Claudia Dey’s Daughter, a woman long caught in her father's web strives to make a life—and art—o… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. An Unthinkable Thing

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tragedy brings a young boy into the home of a "perfect" family--one whose dark secrets begin clos… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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19. Not That Kind of Place

By: Michael Melgaard

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In May 1997, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return … Twenty … read more

Similar categories in Michael Melgaard's Not That Kind of Place book and Michael Melgaard's Not That Kind of Place

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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20. A Hero of Our Time

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A wry comic novel with an acerbic wit, A Hero of Our Time is a vicious takedown of superficial dive… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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21. Wild Failure: Stories

By: Zoe Whittall

3.80

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In these raucous and poignant short stories, bestselling novelist Zoe Whittall contends with the me… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada

20 must-read fiction books like Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard

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The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein

3.05

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Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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