8 best-selling mystery books like The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society by Shane Dunphy

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The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society

By: Shane Dunphy

4.01

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling, true account about a troubled young boy who disappears…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society by Shane Dunphy , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles, #3)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.03

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The third novel in Jeffrey Archer’s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles 1945. The vote in th… read more

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  • mystery
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2. Tiny Prisoners

By: Maggie Hartley

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggi… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • true story
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3. Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

3.97

Format: 605 pages, Paperback

In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for g… read more

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"Time belongs to the Tower."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"A broken spoon may become a fork."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"Black as night and as beautiful as forever."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

"I decided it didn't matter a fuck in a rabbit hutch."

-Stephen King, Everything's Eventual

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4. To Selena, With Love

By: Chris Pérez

3.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short o… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

By: Steven H. Strogatz

2.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A world-class mathematician and regular contributor to the New York Timeshosts a delightful tour of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Endurance

By: Patrick O'Brian , Frank A. Worsley

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. Love Her To Death

By: M. William Phelps

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of our most engaging crime journalists. --Katherine Ramsland True Love Kills In the midst of Pe… read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime

8. Cry Salty Tears

By: None

4.05

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable do… read more

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9. Dani's Story: A Journey from Neglect to Love

By: Diane Lierow , Kay West , None

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Story That Captivated the Nation In July 2005, a little girl named Danielle was removed from he… read more

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Cover of LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal by Aphrodite Jones

10. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. The Shadow (The Shadow #1)

By: James Patterson

3.62

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Even time cannot stop the Shadow.  Only two people know Lamont Cranston's secret identity as the Sh… read more

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  • mystery
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12. Stranger in the Woods

By: Anni Taylor

4.00

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she’s landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are … read more

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  • mystery
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13. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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14. An Almost Perfect Murder

By: Gary C. King

3.59

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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15. Deadly Deceit

By: Don Lasseter

4.02

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

The chilling true crime story of a man willing to do whatever it takes to live life on his lavish t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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16. A Secret Garden Affair

By: Erica James

4.19

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

July 1981. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles’ wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants … read more

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17. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • irish literature
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18. The Girl She Left Behind

By: Jo Bartlett

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

A family in turmoil... Phoebe Spencer left home a long time ago, desperate to get away from her … read more

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19. Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts

By: Amy Bruni

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Star of Kindred Spirits and paranormal investigator Amy Bruni shares stories from her years of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Little Girl Lost

By: Casey Watson

4.59

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson Six-year-old Amel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Heart of Steel

By: Kevin D. Miller

4.12

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early morning hours of September 13, 1920, a tragic murder takes place at the Pulchalski far… read more

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22. The Royal Librarian

By: Daisy Wood

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A royal palace. A closed book. A betrayal that will echo through generations… Windsor, 1940: Sec… read more

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  • mystery
"The room smelt exactly as a library should: of old paper, leather and sweet, sticky glue, overlaid with furniture polish and the smoke from a thousand dead fires."

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"She loved the calm regularity of librarianship; each book a treasure trove of information or experience that would be categorised, labelled and stored in its rightful place. And she could think of no…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

"Most walls of the family's apartment were lined with bookshelves, and more volumes were stacked in boxes under every bed and table. Her mother often threatened to throw them out with the rubbish, and…"

-Daisy Wood, The Royal Librarian

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23. The Little Orphan Girl

By: Sandy Taylor

4.38

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

For readers of Orphan Train and The Throwaway Children, this unforgettable story of one little Iris… read more

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  • irish literature
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24. Circle of Death (The Shadow 2)

By: James Patterson

3.51

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

When a ruthless killer seeks to overturn the world order, our only hope is vigilante justice. Si… read more

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  • mystery
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25. Cry, Little Girl: Based on a True Story

By: Chelsea Nicole

3.89

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

When she was eleven, Emma’s mother tried to kill her. The plan was Tim, her mother’s boyfriend, w… read more

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26. The Devil’s Dice (DI Meg Dalton, #1)

By: Roz Watkins

3.77

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The Times Crime Book of the Month, April 2018‘A fascinating debut’ Sunday Times‘A touch of Agatha C… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of A Desperate Cry for Help (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story) by Maggie Hartley

27. A Desperate Cry for Help (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)

By: Maggie Hartley

4.53

Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Meg arrives at Maggie's after a fire destroys the children's home she's been living… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society

By: Shane Dunphy

4.01

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling, true account about a troubled young boy who disappears… read more

Similar categories in Shane Dunphy's The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society book and Shane Dunphy's The Boy They Tried to Hide: The true story of a son, forgotten by society

  • biography
  • true crime
  • true story
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • irish literature
  • sociology
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29. The Girl with the Saddest Secret

By: Angela Hart

4.58

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

An uplifting true story from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author, Angela Hart.Why has … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Helpless: Part 2 of 3: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?

By: Cathy Glass

4.69

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three … read more

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31. Helpless: Part 1 of 3: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?

By: Cathy Glass

4.76

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three … read more

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2.70

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