12 best-selling suspense books like The Red Canoe by Wayne Johnson

Cover of The Red Canoe by Wayne Johnson

The Red Canoe

By: Wayne Johnson

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suic…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Red Canoe by Wayne Johnson , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1) by Graham  Smith

1. Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1)

By: Graham Smith

3.71

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Watching The Bodies: an explosive new crime thriller from a critically acclaimed authorWhen Jake Bo… read more

Similar categories in Graham Smith's Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1) by Kristen Lepionka

2. The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)

By: Kristen Lepionka

3.97

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Sarah Cook, a beautiful blonde teenager, disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Lepionka's The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Be nice, but not too fucking nice."

-Kristen Lepionka, The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)

"People give the worst advice about lost things. Retrace your steps. Pray to Saint Anthony. Think about where you last saw it. But that doesn't apply to the things that matter. Those are right in fron…"

-Kristen Lepionka, The Last Place You Look (Roxane Weary, #1)

3. Blood Hollow (Cork O'Connor, #4)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When the corpse of a beautiful high school student is discovered on a hillside four months after he… read more

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4. Windigo Island (Cork O'Connor, #14)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a teenage Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the re… read more

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5. Notorious (Max Revere, #1)

By: Allison Brennan

4.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Maxine Revere has dedicated her life to investigating murders that the police have long since given… read more

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6. Tamarack County (Cork O'Connor, #13)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Violence and murder blow into Minnesota's sleepy Tamarack County as ex-sheriff Cork O'Connor return… read more

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7. Cold Storage, Alaska

By: John Straley

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage from the Sha… read more

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8. The Relic Master

By: Christopher Buckley

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Buckley, "one of the funniest writers in the Eng… read more

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9. Mercy Falls (Cork O'Connor, #5)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O'Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reser… read more

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Cover of Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

10. Crow Lake

By: Mary Lawson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you kn… read more

Similar categories in Mary Lawson's Crow Lake book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • adult
  • fiction
"Feeling must have rendered her numb."

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye, who was older than the rest of them, said that it would be safe if they slid out on thei…"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

"My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book …"

-Mary Lawson, Crow Lake

11. Trickster's Point (Cork O'Connor, #12)

By: William Kent Krueger

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The latest in the New York Timesbestselling Cork O'Connormystery series--the action never stops whe… read more

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Cover of Prophet Song by Paul    Lynch

12. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

Cover of Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3) by Marcie R. Rendon

13. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Shutter by Ramona Emerson

14. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Emerson's Shutter book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

Cover of Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13) by Paul Doiron

15. Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13)

By: Paul Doiron

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappe… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) by William Kent Krueger

16. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Maze (John Corey, #8) by Nelson DeMille

17. The Maze (John Corey, #8)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.76

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a “genuinely thrilling” ( The New … read more

Similar categories in Nelson DeMille's The Maze (John Corey, #8) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

18. Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

3.75

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and … read more

Similar categories in Ausma Zehanat Khan's Blackwater Falls (Blackwater Falls, #1) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Snow Road Station by Elizabeth Hay

19. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power

20. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

Similar categories in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

Cover of Abandoned (Max Revere, #5) by Allison Brennan

21. Abandoned (Max Revere, #5)

By: Allison Brennan

4.18

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Investigative reporter Max Revere has cracked many cases, but the one investigation she's never att… read more

Similar categories in Allison Brennan's Abandoned (Max Revere, #5) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr

22. 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

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

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

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

Cover of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen by Sarah Bird

23. Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

By: Sarah Bird

4.08

Format: 17 pages, Audio CD

The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve wit… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bird's Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Storyteller's Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal

24. The Storyteller's Death

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

3.82

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

From International Latino Book Award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes a gorgeously written … read more

Similar categories in Ann Dávila Cardinal's The Storyteller's Death book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2) by P.J. Tracy

25. Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2)

By: P.J. Tracy

3.83

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

P.J. Tracy “seems to have found her literary sweet spot” (New York Times Book Review) with her dazz… read more

Similar categories in P.J. Tracy's Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Touch by Olaf Olafsson

26. Touch

By: Olaf Olafsson

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man's search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades… read more

Similar categories in Olaf Olafsson's Touch book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
"He used to say that breakfast resembles the first line of a haiku, it shows the way. Lunch is the second line and carries the momentum. The third line, then, is dinner, as it brings everything to a c…"

-Olaf Olafsson, Touch

Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

27. 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 Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost Boy Found by Kirsten Alexander

28. Lost Boy Found

By: Kirsten Alexander

3.50

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of the NYT bestseller Sold on a Monday, this Southern historical novel based on th… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Alexander's Lost Boy Found book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Deer Season (Flyover Fiction) by Erin  Flanagan

29. Deer Season (Flyover Fiction)

By: Erin Flanagan

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It’s the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan’s intelle… read more

Similar categories in Erin Flanagan's Deer Season (Flyover Fiction) book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of The Red Canoe by Wayne Johnson

30. The Red Canoe

By: Wayne Johnson

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suic… read more

Similar categories in Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell

31. Never Name the Dead

By: D.M. Rowell

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old grudges, tribal traditions, and outside influences collide for a Kiowa woman as forces threaten… read more

Similar categories in D.M. Rowell's Never Name the Dead book and Wayne Johnson's The Red Canoe

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1)

Graham Smith

3.71

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Kristen Lepionka

3.97

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Crow Lake

Mary Lawson

4.00

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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Tim Federle

4.12

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David Nicholls

4.08

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Colm Tóibín

3.82

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