21 Top thriller books like The Dig by Anne Burt

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The Dig

By: Anne Burt

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul were adopted by a wealthy Midwestern family in the 199…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Dig by Anne Burt , here is a list of 21 books like this:

1. Gutshot Straight

By: Lou Berney

4.13

Format: None pages,

Charles "Shake" Bouchon, professional wheel man is too nice a guy for the life he's led, but not ni… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Gutshot Straight book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
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2. Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

By: Marcella Hazan , None

3.65

Format: None pages,

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3. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

Similar categories in Cathleen Schine's Künstlers in Paradise book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

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4. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Barker-White's My Name Was Eden book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. Daughters of Nantucket

By: Julie Gerstenblatt

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Set against Nantucket’s Great Fire of 1846, this sweeping, emotional novel brings together three co… read more

Similar categories in Julie Gerstenblatt's Daughters of Nantucket book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, you need tragedy to remind you of one of life's most important questions: what would you take from your home in a fire?"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

"This is life we are speaking of, not a poem by Tennyson, and not one of Grimm's fables. Life is dangerous and - as we have just witnessed - it can change in an instant. An existence in which a true, …"

-Julie Gerstenblatt, Daughters of Nantucket

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6. Beware the Woman

By: Megan Abbott

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, an eerie and prescient novel… read more

Similar categories in Megan Abbott's Beware the Woman book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

Similar categories in Donal Ryan's The Queen of Dirt Island book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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8. Pay Dirt (V.I. Warshawski, #22)

By: Sara Paretsky

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Paretsky's Pay Dirt (V.I. Warshawski, #22) book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. White Ivy

By: Susie Yang

3.55

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Ivy Lin is a thief and a liar—but you’d never know it by looking at her. Raised outside of Bosto… read more

Similar categories in Susie Yang's White Ivy book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... Give with one hand and take with the other. No one will be watching both."

-Susie Yang, White Ivy

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10. You Never Know

By: Connie Briscoe

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revered New York Times bestselling writer makes her triumphant return with this electrifying no… read more

Similar categories in Connie Briscoe's You Never Know book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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12. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. I Will Ruin You

By: Linwood Barclay

3.98

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher’s act of hero… read more

Similar categories in Linwood Barclay's I Will Ruin You book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. The House Is on Fire

By: Rachel Beanland

4.10

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Beanland's The House Is on Fire book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."

-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

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16. The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard

By: Michael Callahan

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tantalizing novel of two women bound by blood but divided by a long-buried secret, and the island… read more

Similar categories in Michael Callahan's The Lost Letters from Martha's Vineyard book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Girl by the Bridge (Detective Konrad, #2)

By: Arnaldur Indriðason

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice b… read more

Similar categories in Arnaldur Indriðason's The Girl by the Bridge (Detective Konrad, #2) book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidenc… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2) book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Rogue Justice (Avery Keene, #2)

By: Stacey Abrams

4.02

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Abrams's Rogue Justice (Avery Keene, #2) book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. You Can Trust Me

By: Wendy Heard

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her plac… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's You Can Trust Me book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Fake Money, Blue Smoke

By: Josh Haven

3.55

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

In the first caper from a "promising new talent" (Publishers Weekly), a skilled counterfeiter hires… read more

Similar categories in Josh Haven's Fake Money, Blue Smoke book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. Like a Mother

By: Mina Hardy

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing as Mina Hardy, New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart delivers a nail-biting psycholo… read more

Similar categories in Mina Hardy's Like a Mother book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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24. You Must Remember This

By: Kat Rosenfield

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Knives Out-style whodunnit with a twist of Taylor Jenkins Reid, You Must Remember This is an imme… read more

Similar categories in Kat Rosenfield's You Must Remember This book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. A Flaw in the Design

By: Nathan Oates

3.49

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

A professor's life is turned upside down when he takes in his charming, wildly dangerous nephew, wh… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Oates's A Flaw in the Design book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. Decent People

By: De'Shawn Charles Winslow

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De'Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and u… read more

Similar categories in De'Shawn Charles Winslow's Decent People book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Nossett's The Professor book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

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28. You Can't Stay Here Forever

By: Katherine Lin

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

29. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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30. The Dream Builders

By: Oindrila Mukherjee

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Good Morning America and PureWow Best Book of January A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year A… read more

Similar categories in Oindrila Mukherjee's The Dream Builders book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I would have done anything to have your life. That was why I was able to let you go even though it felt like one of my limbs was being torn from me when you left. So that you might experience all the…"

-Oindrila Mukherjee, The Dream Builders

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31. The Dig

By: Anne Burt

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When Sarajevo-born siblings Antonia and Paul were adopted by a wealthy Midwestern family in the 199… read more

Similar categories in Anne Burt's The Dig book and Anne Burt's The Dig

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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Gutshot Straight

Lou Berney

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Künstlers in Paradise

Cathleen Schine

3.53

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My Name Was Eden

Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

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Daughters of Nantucket

Julie Gerstenblatt

3.73

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Lone Women

Victor LaValle

3.72

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S.A. Cosby

4.00

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Danielle Arceneaux

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