23 Top mystery thriller books like Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver

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Dodging and Burning

By: John Copenhaver

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep …

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The House That Horror Built

By: Christina Henry

3.22

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The House That Horror Built book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • fiction
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3. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's All Hallows book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • thriller
  • horror
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) by S.T. Gibson

4. Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

By: S.T. Gibson

3.66

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

The Devil knows your name, David Aristarkhov. As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodig… read more

Similar categories in S.T. Gibson's Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"He looked as he always did: slightly underfed, terminally scholastic, and two weeks overdue for a haircut."

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

"She didn't quite share her husband's passion for antiquarian books, but she understood it. She understood that if you cracked Rhys open, he would probably have paperback pages inside him instead of o…"

-S.T. Gibson, Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

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5. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

6. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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7. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Last Word book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) by Robert Thorogood

10. The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.93

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The Marlow Murder Club is on the hunt for a killer... Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies su… read more

Similar categories in Robert Thorogood's The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) by Elly Griffiths

11. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.93

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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12. The Chinese Groove

By: Kathryn Ma

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Ma's The Chinese Groove book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • fiction
Cover of Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

13. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)

By: Attica Locke

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and p… read more

Similar categories in Attica Locke's Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) by Stephen Spotswood

14. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
Cover of The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10) by Jane Casey

15. The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10)

By: Jane Casey

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

At first glance, Jellicoe Close seems to be a perfect suburban street – well-kept houses with prist… read more

Similar categories in Jane Casey's The Close (Maeve Kerrigan, #10) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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17. Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

By: Lev A.C. Rosen

3.87

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the … read more

Similar categories in Lev A.C. Rosen's Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"Even when your dream is taken from you, you can have a great new life."

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

"People are always trying to claim you, without ever listening to who you are. They want you to be something else, to be the role they have for you in the family. But really, we're all better off just…"

-Lev A.C. Rosen, Lavender House (Evander Mills, #1)

Cover of Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23) by Kathy Reichs

18. Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s never easy working fire scenes.   Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysteri… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Reichs's Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

19. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

Similar categories in Marina Yuszczuk's Thirst book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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21. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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22. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

Similar categories in Kellye Garrett's Missing White Woman book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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23. Where You End

By: Abbott Kahler

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut inspired by tru… read more

Similar categories in Abbott Kahler's Where You End book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
"I had time to form one last thought before my mind emptied itself of all things: She will know how to fix me. "

-Abbott Kahler, Where You End

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24. The Vacation

By: John Marrs

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

How far would you run to escape your past? For eight strangers in a Los Angeles backpacking hostel… read more

Similar categories in John Marrs's The Vacation book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"And only when you allow the warmth of new experiences to fill your heart will you truly realize how precious a gem your life is."

-John Marrs, The Vacation

"How long do you stay in each place? It depends. I travel by three rules - never outstay your welcome; always leave them wanting more; disappear when no one's looking."

-John Marrs, The Vacation

"I see it like this - people are like the tide. Some come into your life and bring things you'll only need for a short time, and others will bring things you'll carry forever. But some are just destin…"

-John Marrs, The Vacation

"Recently, she had begun allowing herself to imagine what it must feel like to live for the moment - to wake up and not have your day mapped out in front of you; to go where you pleased; to meet new p…"

-John Marrs, The Vacation

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25. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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26. The Paris Widow

By: Kimberly Belle

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in t… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's The Paris Widow book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld by Catherine Lloyd

27. Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld

By: Catherine Lloyd

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Set against the timelessly intriguing backdrop of 1830s high-society London, this delightful histor… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Lloyd's Miss Morton and the Spirits of the Underworld book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
Cover of American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) by Derek B. Miller

28. American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

By: Derek B. Miller

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid―the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller’s bes… read more

Similar categories in Derek B. Miller's American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2) book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Do you believe that?"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

"We actually do have a lot of guns. There's a lot of hunting in Norway. But there's almost no gun violence." "Why do you think that is?" "On a fundamental level," says Sigrid, "I think it's because we…"

-Derek B. Miller, American by Day (Sigrid Ødegård #2)

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29. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver

30. Dodging and Burning

By: John Copenhaver

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep … read more

Similar categories in John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • queer
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

31. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and John Copenhaver's Dodging and Burning

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

31 Best fiction books like Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver

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The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

3.91

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All Hallows

Christopher Golden

3.55

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Evocation (The Summoner’s Circle, #1)

S.T. Gibson

3.66

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The Heron's Cry (Two Rivers, #2)

Ann Cleeves

4.05

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #4)

Anthony Horowitz

4.09

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