15 Top mystery books like The Prodigal Daughter (Linda Wallheim Mystery, #5) by Mette Ivie Harrison

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The Prodigal Daughter (Linda Wallheim Mystery, #5)

By: Mette Ivie Harrison

3.31

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, has it become easier to speak out about sexual assault in relig…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Prodigal Daughter (Linda Wallheim Mystery, #5) by Mette Ivie Harrison , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

By: Rebecca Musser , M. Bridget Cook

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" o… read more

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2. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

By: None

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more

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3. Ripper

By: Isabel Allende , Oliver Brock , Frank Wynne

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Isabel Allende-the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya's Notebook, Island… read more

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4. Murder is Binding (Booktown Mystery, #1)

By: Lorna Barrett

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The streets of Stoneham, New Hampshire, are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder. When she… read more

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5. The Undertaker's Daughter (Untitled #1)

By: Sara Blaedel

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Already widowed by the age of forty, Ilka Nichols Jensen, a school portrait photographer, leads a m… read more

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6. Fragile

By: Lisa Unger

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

New York Timesand USA Todaybestseller, Good Morning AmericaTop Book Pick, Walmart Bookclub Pick, Ha… read more

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7. The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard fro… read more

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8. Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

By: Jon Krakauer , Sam Brower

4.01

Format: 532 pages,

From the private investigator who cracked open the case that led to the arrest of Warren Jeffs, the… read more

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9. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

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  • religion
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10. Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends

By: Marisa G. Franco

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the… read more

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11. When the Lights Go Out

By: Mary Kubica

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman is forced to question her own identity in this riveting and emotionally charged thriller. … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. The Legacies

By: Jessica Goodman

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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13. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

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14. Little Souls

By: Sandra Dallas

3.93

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now a Denver Post bestseller Finalist, 2023 Colorado Book Awards Sandra Dallas's Little Souls… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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15. Baby X

By: Kira Peikoff

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

When any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest b… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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16. Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

By: Nev March

3.76

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona militar… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"Secrets are like serpents, Jim. They grow in the dark. [Diana Framji, to Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Most things, I find, are temporary and pass into distant memory with the next great event. But this commentary drew blood to my face."

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Joy was made of moments like this, each insignificant in itself, piled together into a monolith, immutable and strong, something to lean against when one's world went awry. [Jim Agnihotri]"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

"Whatever I had expected, it was not this. Astonishment gave way to bitterness. I was a mixed breed, a bastard, not worthy of his daughter. Had I not seen that mix of pity and disapproval all my life?…"

-Nev March, Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)

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17. Send for Me

By: Lauren Fox

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction that moves between Germany on the eve of World War… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"She went out for dinner with the guy who fixed her computer. All evening long, she couldn't remember his name. But he smiled sweetly as he explained motherboards to her and asked her about her life. …"

-Lauren Fox, Send for Me

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18. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. 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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  • adult fiction
  • 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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20. Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)

By: Allen Eskens

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his ow… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"There are no miracles, my friend. God's hand is in everything; it's only when we can't explain it that we call it a miracle."

-Allen Eskens, Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)

Cover of Murder on Wall Street (Gaslight Mystery, #24) by Victoria Thompson

21. Murder on Wall Street (Gaslight Mystery, #24)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Midwife Sarah Brandt Malloy and her detective husband, Frank, must discover who killed a prominent—… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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22. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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23. All We Were Promised

By: Ashton Lattimore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

24. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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25. Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live

By: Lily Ebert

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the powe… read more

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26. Darkness, My Old Friend

By: Lisa Unger

3.75

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is hav… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1) by Ashley Weaver

27. A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

By: Ashley Weaver

3.99

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
"This, I thought, was perhaps the ultimate symbol of the decadently rich, huge amounts of space devoted to nothing in particular."

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

"I didn't have time to marvel at this exceptionally efficient tousling before his mouth found mine. The kissing was done as he did everything else—thoroughly and extremely competently."

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

"I looked up at Major Ramsey. I could almost see the various scenarios flashing across his eyes as he considered his options. Then, he leaned toward me so close, his lips were almost touching my cheek…"

-Ashley Weaver, A Peculiar Combination (Electra McDonnell, #1)

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28. The Golem of Brooklyn

By: Adam Mansbach

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more

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  • religion
  • fiction
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29. Dragonfly

By: Leila Meacham

4.31

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

At the height of WWII, five idealistic young Americans receive a mysterious letter from the OSS, as… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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30. The Unquiet Heart (Sarah Gilchrist #2)

By: Kaite Welsh

3.99

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Kaite Welsh's thrilling THE UNQUIET HEART is the second in the gothic Sarah Gilchrist series, follo… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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31. The Prodigal Daughter (Linda Wallheim Mystery, #5)

By: Mette Ivie Harrison

3.31

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, has it become easier to speak out about sexual assault in relig… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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