22 Best fiction books like Cold Hard News (The Bernie O'Dea mystery series) by Maureen Milliken

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Cold Hard News (The Bernie O'Dea mystery series)

By: Maureen Milliken

4.10

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

This is an updated and republished edition of Cold Hard News Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea, editor o…

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1. The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch, #1)

By: Paul Doiron

3.84

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
"Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness."

-Paul Doiron, The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch, #1)

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2. Trespasser (Mike Bowditch, #2)

By: Paul Doiron

3.97

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In Paul Doiron’s riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine ga… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
"You can't tell by the look of a frog how far they'll jump."

-Paul Doiron, Trespasser (Mike Bowditch, #2)

"You never really know someone until your relationship is over."

-Paul Doiron, Trespasser (Mike Bowditch, #2)

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3. Clammed Up (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #1)

By: Barbara Ross

3.92

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Julia Snowden returned to her hometown of Busman’s Harbor, Maine to rescue her family’s struggling … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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4. Bad Little Falls (Mike Bowditch, #3)

By: Paul Doiron

3.63

Format: 353 pages,

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile, transferred by his superiors to a remote … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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5. Scone Cold Dead (A Liss MacCrimmon Mystery, #2)

By: Kaitlyn Dunnett

4.20

Format: 228 pages,

With one solved murder case under her dance belt, Liss has no idea she's about to spiral into anoth… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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6. Nantucket Nights

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean-but so can the secrets. For 20 years, Kayla, An… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. Among The Shadows (Detective Byron #1)

By: Bruce Robert Coffin

3.00

Format: None pages,

Fall in Portland, Maine usually arrives as a welcome respite from summer's sweltering temperatures … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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8. The Scorpio Races

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)

By: Louise Penny

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Arm… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

10. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

By: Julian Rubinstein

4.00

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Buda… read more

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11. Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories

By: Darcy Coates

3.19

Format: None pages,

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12. Boar Island (Anna Pigeon, #19)

By: Nevada Barr

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of cr… read more

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13. The One-in-a-Million Boy

By: Monica Wood

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help he… read more

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14. The Story of Arthur Truluv

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, life-affirming novel about a remarkably loving man who creates for himself and others … read more

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15. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

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"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

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16. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of Mafia Boss (The Accidental Mafia Queen, #1) by Khardine Gray

17. Mafia Boss (The Accidental Mafia Queen, #1)

By: Khardine Gray

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today Bestselling author Khardine Gray comes a sexy, delightfully devilish, seductive Mafi… read more

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  • suspense
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18. Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared tha… read more

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"Nanette is basically Eat Pray Love for autistic queer folk."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"So, I will just share it here, because I truly believe that the only universal “body"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"It really is something when you can make collecting and organising objects boring to a young kid with autism spectrum disorder (but that’s exactly what Stamp Explorer managed to do)."

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

"And I needed my audience to trust me because I needed my audience to feel safe, and I needed my audience to feel safe so that I could take that safety away and not give it back. Why? Because that is …"

-Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette

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19. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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20. Dead Man's Wake (Mike Bowditch, #14)

By: Paul Doiron

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch's engagement party is interrupted by the discovery of a gruesome double m… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) by Shannon Bowring

21. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

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  • fiction
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22. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

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  • fiction
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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23. The Matchmaker's Gift

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more

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  • fiction
"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."

-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift

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24. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • fiction
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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25. Come Find Me

By: Megan Miranda

3.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

After surviving an infamous family tragedy, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones has made it her mission … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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26. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

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  • fiction
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

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27. A Woman of Intelligence

By: Karin Tanabe

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks l… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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28. Northeaster: A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952

By: Cathie Pelletier

3.96

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A vivid and gripping story of an epic Maine snowstorm that tested the very limits of human enduranc… read more

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Cover of Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15) by Paul Doiron

29. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of Beneath the Depths (Detective Byron, #2) by Bruce Robert Coffin

30. Beneath the Depths (Detective Byron, #2)

By: Bruce Robert Coffin

4.29

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

In this latest gripping mystery from bestselling author Bruce Robert Coffin, Detective Sergeant Joh… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
Cover of Cold Hard News (The Bernie O'Dea mystery series) by Maureen Milliken

31. Cold Hard News (The Bernie O'Dea mystery series)

By: Maureen Milliken

4.10

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

This is an updated and republished edition of Cold Hard News Bernadette “Bernie” O’Dea, editor o… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense

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