9 must-read thriller books like American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) by Derek B. Miller

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American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

By: Derek B. Miller

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid―the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller’s bes…

"Do you believe that?"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

"Do you believe that?"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

"We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence." "Why do you think that is?" "On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we don't want to shoot each other." "That could be our problem right there," says Melinda"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

"We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence." "Why do you think that is?" "On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we don't want to shoot each other." "That could be our problem right there," says Melinda"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

If you liked the thriller plot in American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) by Derek B. Miller , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Terra Incognita (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #2)

By: Ruth Downie

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

In this highly anticipated sequel to Ruth Downie's New York Timesbestselling debut, beloved army do… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Downie's Terra Incognita (Gaius Petreius Ruso, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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2. Tumbled Graves (Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery, #3)

By: Brenda Chapman

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A missing child. A dead mother. Kala Stonechild is about to discover what one betrayal can lead to.… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Chapman's Tumbled Graves (Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery, #3) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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4. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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5. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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7. What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19)

By: C.S. Harris

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen … read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's What Cannot Be Said (Sebastian St. Cyr, #19) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) by Stephen Spotswood

8. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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9. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

Similar categories in Fareed Zakaria's Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

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10. All That's Bright and Gone

By: Eliza Nellums

3.72

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Fans of Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Backman will fall for this tenderhearted debut mystery following a… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Nellums's All That's Bright and Gone book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. The Laundryman’s Boy: A Novel

By: Edward Y.C. Lee

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Fall 1913, St. Catharines, thirteen-year-old Hoi Wing Woo, the son of a scholar, is forced to give… read more

Similar categories in Edward Y.C. Lee's The Laundryman’s Boy: A Novel book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

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12. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) by Derek B. Miller

15. American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

By: Derek B. Miller

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid―the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller’s bes… read more

Similar categories in Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • nordic noir
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • scandinavian literature
"Do you believe that?"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

"We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence." "Why do you think that is?" "On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we…"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

Cover of Midnight Atlanta (Darktown, #3) by Thomas Mullen

16. Midnight Atlanta (Darktown, #3)

By: Thomas Mullen

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown se… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Mullen's Midnight Atlanta (Darktown, #3) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

17. Off the Books

By: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Recent Dartmouth dropout Mei, in search of a new direction in life, drives a limo to make ends meet… read more

Similar categories in Soma Mei Sheng Frazier's Off the Books book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Going karura mean ride service off the books."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"On the Fourth, he’d been cowardly. And this time he hadn’t missed."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"Was the decline of journalistic ethics an inevitable result of capitalism?"

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

"She would hate it, but she’s saving her hate for the Three I’s. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana."

-Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, Off the Books

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18. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1) book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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19. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

Similar categories in Evan Friss's The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • contemporary
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21. How to Leave the House

By: Nathan Newman

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's Natwest's last day before he leaves for university, and there's only one thing on his mind: th… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Newman's How to Leave the House book and Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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3.21

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Elly Griffiths

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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Elizabeth Strout

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Chris Brookmyre

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