21 Best fiction books like Simmering Season by Jenn J. McLeod

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Simmering Season

By: Jenn J. McLeod

4.02

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

A country hotel, an unexpected houseguest, and a school reunion. Maggie’s perfect storm is about t…

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1. The Family Next Door

By: Sally Hepworth

3.83

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A gripping domestic page-turner full of shocking reveals, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Amand… read more

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2. Lessons in Heartbreak

By: Cathy Kelly

3.73

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Upbeat and bursting with emotion - this is another gem from the No. 1 bestselling author, Cathy Kel… read more

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3. The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

By: Jane Harper

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for t… read more

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4. The Forgotten Garden

By: Kate Morton

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denie… read more

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5. The Italian Girl

By: Lucinda Riley , Lucinda Edmonds

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rosanna Menici is just eleven years old when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her… read more

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6. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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7. Outback Ghost (Bunyip Bay, #3)

By: Rachael Johns

4.35

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Stella only wanted a holiday... the last thing she expected was a love interest and a possible ghos… read more

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8. The Honey Queen

By: Cathy Kelly

4.09

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

To discover the sweetest things in life, you sometimes have to lose your way... It's easy to fall i… read more

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9. Red Dust

By: Fleur McDonald

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

After the tragic death of her husband in a light-plane accident, Gemma Sinclair is left with the da… read more

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10. Moonlight Plains

By: Barbara Hannay

4.00

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In 1942, as the Japanese sweep towards northern Australia and allied troops swarm into Townsville, … read more

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11. Blue Skies

By: Fleur McDonald

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Red Dust comes the inspirational story of a young woman battling to … read more

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12. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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13. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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14. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

By: John Boyne

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more

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15. The Sugar Palace

By: Fiona McIntosh

3.89

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

One woman’s ambition Sydney, 1925: When Grace Fairweather meets the irresistible Londoner Alfie Swe… read more

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16. Once There Were Wolves

By: Charlotte McConaghy

4.10

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in th… read more

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"Can’t track wolves, not really."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Wolves don't need forests, they grow them."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Then take from me. I have more than enough."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

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17. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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18. The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club

By: Faith Hogan

4.17

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. 'Up… read more

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19. The Nurses' War

By: Victoria Purman

4.29

Format: 608 pages, ebook

There is more than one way to fight a war...An extraordinary story of grit, love and loss, based on… read more

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20. Broad River Station

By: Fleur McDonald

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A young constable faces prejudice in a small country town, but the search for a missing child chang… read more

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21. Birthright

By: Fiona Lowe

4.11

Format: 450 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of Robyn Carr and Kristan Higgins comes a family drama from best-selling Australian author… read more

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22. The Orphans

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.13

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Orphan Fleur Appleby is adopted by a loving undertaker and his wife and she quickly develops a spec… read more

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23. The Night Tide

By: Di Morrissey

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Di Morrissey returns to her roots with a heartfelt tale of secrets, mystery and community in an idy… read more

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24. Mother's Day (Aussie Outback Medical Romance #8)

By: Fiona McArthur

4.31

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Burra District Hospital's maternity unit is under threat and will close for births unless a new obs… read more

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25. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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26. The Diamond Hunter

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.15

Format: 432 pages, ebook

‘It won’t matter how many diamonds you find if you lose the love of your child.’ When six-year-o… read more

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27. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

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28. Something to Hide (Young Detective Dave Burrows)

By: Fleur McDonald

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A riveting new novel of rural suspense from the bestselling Voice of the Outback. With the sicke… read more

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29. The Good Sister

By: Sally Hepworth

4.16

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BYCWK6T can be found here. Sally Hepworth, the author of T… read more

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"If it were up to me, every child would have a year in the library before they went to school."

-Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

"I look up. Carmel is wearing those eyeglasses that become sunglasses when you go outside. Except she’s inside and the glasses don’t seem to have realized."

-Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

"The library belongs to everyone. The library, Janet used to say, is one of only a few places in the world that one doesn't need to believe anything or buy anything to come inside."

-Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

"Angry is just a pen name for sad," Janet had explained. "In my experience, nine times out of ten if you are kind to the angry person, you will calm them down and find out what is really going on with…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Good Sister

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30. Daughter of the Home Front

By: Jennie Jones

4.23

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

A war. The girl she'd been. And the woman she was forced to become. A dazzling, heartbreaking story… read more

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31. Simmering Season

By: Jenn J. McLeod

4.02

Format: 425 pages, Paperback

A country hotel, an unexpected houseguest, and a school reunion. Maggie’s perfect storm is about t… read more

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18 Top fiction books like The Ladies' Midnight Swimming Club by Faith Hogan

Transform Your Habits

The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

Laura Pearson

4.03

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Very Very Lucky

Amanda Prowse

4.37

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The Keeper of Stories

Sally Page

4.08

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Sally Page

4.24

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