11 Best mystery books like The Runaway Man by Kelley Tantau

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The Runaway Man

By: Kelley Tantau

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Nick Greene flees the life he’s known in exchange for peace in his quaint town’s rugged forest park…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Runaway Man by Kelley Tantau , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Luminaries

By: Eleanor Catton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On… read more

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  • mystery

2. Inheritance

By: Jenny Pattrick

5.00

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. It is twenty-three… read more

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3. The Echo Chamber

By: John Boyne

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

'His relish is infectious' Times'The funniest book I've read in ages. Savage but compelling' Ian Ra… read more

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"They wouldn’t understand anyway. The cheese fell off their crackers a long time ago."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

"I’m sorry, but there is nothing – nothing – that squeezes my lemons more than people saying that."

-John Boyne, The Echo Chamber

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4. Paper Cage

By: Tom Baragwanath

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This prizewinning debut from New Zealand novelist Tom Baragwanath is both a nail-biting thrill-ride… read more

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  • mystery
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5. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • mystery
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6. Before You Knew My Name

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This is not just another novel about a dead girl. Two women—one alive, one dead—are brought togethe… read more

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  • mystery
"I know what it's like for the horror to follow you home."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"What happened to her makes me so mad. The entitlement of these fucking men who destroy lives, just because they can."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"The thing is. When the dead speak back, we are seldom loud enough to be heard over the clamour of all that living going on."

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

"For the first time, I understand it's not only the dead who have lives they don't get to live out. The people left behind have as many versions of themselves unexplored, as many possible paths that c…"

-Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My Name

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7. Remember Me

By: Charity Norman

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

They never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me… read more

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  • mystery
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8. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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9. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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10. The Axeman's Carnival

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more

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11. The Doctor's Wife

By: Fiona Sussman

4.04

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Stan Andino's unremarkable life could prepare him for the day he discovers his wife in t… read more

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  • mystery
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12. Home Before Night

By: J.P. Pomare

3.38

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8pm to get to the… read more

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  • mystery
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13. The Bone Tree

By: Airana Ngarewa

3.71

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more

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14. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • mystery
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15. The Girl from London

By: Olivia Spooner

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

London, 1940. Ruth, a young schoolteacher, volunteers as an escort helping to evacuate children fro… read more

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16. The Night She Fell

By: Eileen Merriman

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

‘When I last saw Ashleigh, she was lying in a pool of blood . . . Her eyes were open, staring sight… read more

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17. The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historica… read more

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18. The Waters

By: Carl Nixon

3.77

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

One family. Forty years. The Waters kids ― practical, athletic Mark; the physically beautiful drea… read more

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19. Dice

By: Claire Baylis

3.86

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A compelling courtroom drama, Dice is an incredibly timely exploration of how sexual violence is vi… read more

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20. Double Helix

By: Eileen Merriman

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A gripping new medical drama from the bestselling author of The Silence of Snow. Would you want … read more

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21. In Her Blood

By: Nikki Crutchley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Two missing girls, two decades apart. Only one person knows the truth ... Jac Morgan never plan… read more

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  • mystery
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22. Golden Days

By: Caroline Barron

3.55

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

'Nostalgic and tender as a bruise.' - Jacqueline Bublitz, Before You Knew My NameBecky thought she'… read more

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23. Hannah & Huia

By: Charlotte Lobb

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Hannah is in a mental health unit, in shock and rendered speechless following the sudden death of h… read more

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24. Rings On Water (The Matakana Series)

By: Madeleine Eskedahl

3.59

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

A narcotics pick-up at sea goes horribly wrong. A man is lost overboard. A dangerous series of even… read more

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25. Rings On Water (The Matakana Series Book 2)

By: Madeleine Eskedahl

3.63

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

A narcotics pick-up at sea goes horribly wrong. A man is lost overboard. A dangerous series of even… read more

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26. Savage Point (D.I. Anderson Book 1)

By: Denise Fitzpatrick

3.97

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

A killer is watching... A bride's wedding ends in tragedy when her matron of honour is brutally mur… read more

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27. Running Towards Danger

By: Tina Clough

3.27

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Karen's life is abruptly thrown into chaos when her flatmate is gunned down in front of her in the … read more

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28. The Seasonwife

By: Saige England

4.28

Format: 287 pages, Unknown Binding

It's 1832 on an isolated coast on the South Island of New Zealand. A lush and tranquil bay is facin… read more

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29. By the green of the spring

By: Paddy Richardson

3.92

Format: 303 pages, Unknown Binding

None read more

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30. No One Will Know

By: Rose Carlyle

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A deliciously twisty and suspenseful novel from #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl i… read more

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  • mystery
Cover of The Runaway Man by Kelley Tantau

31. The Runaway Man

By: Kelley Tantau

3.95

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Nick Greene flees the life he’s known in exchange for peace in his quaint town’s rugged forest park… read more

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  • mystery

17 Top fiction books like The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)

Michael Bennett

3.94

Transform Your Habits

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Emily Perkins

3.43

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