8 best-selling mystery books like The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard

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The Ballad of Laurel Springs

By: Janet Beard

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls , a provocative novel set in e…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5) by Martha Grimes

1. Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)

By: Martha Grimes

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A white Christmas couldn't make Newcastle any less dreary for Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richar… read more

Similar categories in Martha Grimes's Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5) book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Once Upon a River

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty w… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Jo Campbell's Once Upon a River book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult

3. The Girl in the Glass

By: Susan Meissner

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter. Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of … read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's The Girl in the Glass book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. The Night Garden

By: Lisa Van Allen

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinar… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Van Allen's The Night Garden book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. One Amazing Thing

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa… read more

Similar categories in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's One Amazing Thing book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

6. Hush Hush (Tess Monaghan, #12)

By: Laura Lippman

3.94

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Tess Monaghan has encountered almost every possible criminal motive throughout her career: greed, r… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Hush Hush (Tess Monaghan, #12) book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

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7. Patchwork Quilt Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery, #30)

By: Leslie Meier

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

During a heatwave in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, part-time reporter Lucy Stone becomes unseasonably entan… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Meier's Patchwork Quilt Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery, #30) book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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8. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

Similar categories in Sean Dietrich's Kinfolk book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • music
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

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10. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's Canary Girls book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Skenandore's The Medicine Woman of Galveston book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

12. 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 Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. 1964: Eyes of the Storm

By: Paul McCartney

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget.” ―Paul McCartney T… read more

Similar categories in Paul McCartney's 1964: Eyes of the Storm book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • music
  • adult
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14. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Library Thief

By: Kuchenga Shenjé

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England a… read more

Similar categories in Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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17. A Parchment of Leaves

By: Silas House

4.22

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more

Similar categories in Silas House's A Parchment of Leaves book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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18. 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 Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
"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

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19. The Last Twelve Miles

By: Erika Robuck

3.82

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more

Similar categories in Erika Robuck's The Last Twelve Miles book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"

-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles

Cover of The Ballad of Laurel Springs by Janet Beard

20. The Ballad of Laurel Springs

By: Janet Beard

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of The Atomic City Girls , a provocative novel set in e… read more

Similar categories in Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • music
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Bear Witness (Alaska Untamed Mystery, #1) by Lark O. Jensen

21. Bear Witness (Alaska Untamed Mystery, #1)

By: Lark O. Jensen

2.77

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Alaska tour boat guide Stacie Calder faces the deep freeze in this scenic cozy series debut perfect… read more

Similar categories in Lark O. Jensen's Bear Witness (Alaska Untamed Mystery, #1) book and Janet Beard's The Ballad of Laurel Springs

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)

Martha Grimes

3.96

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3.71

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4.33

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4.25

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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