9 best-selling nonfiction books like The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton

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The Suitcase Baby

By: Tanya Bretherton

3.47

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

SYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from th…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. A Mother's Story

By: Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

At the start of 2014, Rosie Batty was an ordinary single mum doing everything in her power to give … read more

Similar categories in Bryce Corbett's A Mother's Story book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia

2. Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on th… read more

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3. Boy Swallows Universe

By: Trent Dalton

4.34

Format: 474 pages, Paperback

A novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class subu… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Boy Swallows Universe book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • australia
"Don't fuckin' swear."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Stay sweet, Eli Bell."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"Most things people say don't need to be said."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

"To burn this house down or set the world on fire. Up to you, Eli."

-Trent Dalton, Boy Swallows Universe

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4. The Wife and the Widow

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's The Wife and the Widow book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • australia
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5. The Twins of Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor

4.22

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and h… read more

Similar categories in Eva Mozes Kor's The Twins of Auschwitz book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • nonfiction
  • history

6. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
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7. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's The Bookseller at the End of the World book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • nonfiction
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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8. Friend Request

By: Laura Marshall

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn't she?1989. When Louise first notic… read more

Similar categories in Laura Marshall's Friend Request book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
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9. The Chocolate Factory

By: Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Love, friendship and dangerous secrets in the early years of Cadbury's Tasmanian factory. It's 1… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Lou Stephens's The Chocolate Factory book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • australia
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10. The Nowhere Child

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's The Nowhere Child book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • australia
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11. Wild Place

By: Christian White

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia.… read more

Similar categories in Christian White's Wild Place book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • australia
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12. The Talented Mrs Greenway

By: Tea Cooper

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

From a bestselling Australian author, this compellingly realised novel brings to life the story of … read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Talented Mrs Greenway book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • australia
Cover of Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) by Michael Robotham

13. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

Similar categories in Michael Robotham's Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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14. The Dinner Party

By: Rebecca Heath

3.60

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Four Couples. It's Summer 1979 in the idyllic suburban neighbourhood of Ridgefield, during a scorc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Heath's The Dinner Party book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
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15. The Widow of Walcha

By: Emma Partridge

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Emma Partridge's The Widow of Walcha book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia
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16. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
Cover of Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook

17. Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

By: Lizzie Pook

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set… read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • australia
Cover of Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi

18. Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia

By: Mark Tedeschi

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC … read more

Similar categories in Mark Tedeschi's Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • australia
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19. In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares

By: Lindsey Wade

4.16

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Dogged determination and DNA leads Detective Lindsey Wade and her team to the truth behind a thirty… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Wade's In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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20. The Suitcase Baby

By: Tanya Bretherton

3.47

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

SYDNEY, 1923: a suitcase washed up on a harbourside beach reveals its grisly contents - and from th… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • australia
  • crime
Cover of Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure by Sue      Williams

21. Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure

By: Sue Williams

4.44

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australi… read more

Similar categories in Sue Williams's Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure book and Tanya Bretherton's The Suitcase Baby

  • nonfiction

12 Top crime books like The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton

Transform Your Habits

Boy Swallows Universe

Trent Dalton

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Wife and the Widow

Christian White

3.99

The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

Ann Cleeves

4.33

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Friend Request

Laura Marshall

3.76

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21 Top fiction books like The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10) by Ann Cleeves

Transform Your Habits

Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

Peter Robinson

4.09

Transform Your Habits

A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

Ian Rankin

4.20

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