9 Top mystery books like Touched by Carolyn Haines

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Touched

By: Carolyn Haines

4.23

Format: 522 pages, ebook

Conflicts in a small Southern town bubble to the surface in this tale of repression and prophecy, t…

If you liked the mystery plot in Touched by Carolyn Haines , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

By: Fannie Flagg

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-c… read more

Similar categories in Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Quienes más sufren son quienes menos lo dicen."

-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."

-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

"By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?"

-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"

-Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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2. The Casual Vacancy

By: J.K. Rowling

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pa… read more

Similar categories in J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • mystery
  • fiction

3. Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper… read more

Similar categories in Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. I Heard the Owl Call My Name

By: Margaret Craven

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In a world that knows too well the anguish inherent in the clash of old ways and new lifestyles, Ma… read more

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5. Middlegame

By: Seanan McGuire

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

It's a story of friendship, of family, of designer gods, and of life versus death, good versus evil… read more

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6. Arcadia

By: Lauren Groff

4.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set … read more

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7. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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8. Ein Lied über der Stadt

By: Ewald Arenz

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Die Sehnsucht vom Fliegen Die beruhrende Geschichte einer starken Frau, die fur ihren Traum vom Fli… read more

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9. The Cherry Robbers

By: Sarai Walker

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Kn… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. When the Jessamine Grows

By: Donna Everhart

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. A Different Kind of Gone

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel ab… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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12. Just a Regular Boy

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.46

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

An orphaned boy raised by a survivalist wends his way into the real world in an emotional novel abo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Hyde's Just a Regular Boy book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • fiction
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13. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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  • fiction
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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14. Alte Sorten

By: Ewald Arenz

4.20

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Sally und Liss: zwei Frauen, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Sally, kurz vor dem Abit… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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  • fiction
"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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16. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

By: William Landay

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

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17. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Grissom's Crow Mary book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. In the Middle of Hickory Lane

By: Heather Webber

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe comes Heather Webber's next… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You're smart to leave the past behind you. Otherwise, if you keep looking over your shoulder at it, you might miss what's right ahead of you."

-Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

"I'm surprised there aren't any lotus flowers in the gazing pool, seeing that they mean rebirth. After all, this is essentially where Bee Gipson died and Glory Wynn was born, isn't it?"

-Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

"I wished I could read the personalities of young children more easily, but because the early years were all about formation, true personalities didn't start showing up until nine or ten years of age."

-Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

"For the first time, I saw a pink glow breaking through the gray wisps that surrounded her, revealing the color of her true personality. Blush pink. I smiled. I should've known. I had known. Emme was …"

-Heather Webber, In the Middle of Hickory Lane

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19. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By: Roshani Chokshi

3.70

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Whatever you have let me know of you, I have loved, and still love."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"We looked less like two distinct beings and more like a torn reflection."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"Look how I will carve myself to fit into your life. Who will not do less?"

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

"I was left with everything and nothing. I was free and forever trapped. I was a multitude of blues."

-Roshani Chokshi, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

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20. Woman of Light

By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more

Similar categories in Kali Fajardo-Anstine's Woman of Light book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"

-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light

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21. The Housekeepers

By: Alex Hay

3.34

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

On the night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women launches a daring revenge heist again… read more

Similar categories in Alex Hay's The Housekeepers book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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22. Light to the Hills

By: Bonnie Blaylock

4.32

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. The Kitchen Front

By: Jennifer Ryan

3.97

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In a new World War II-set story from the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, four wom… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ryan's The Kitchen Front book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

By: Rachel Linden

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to li… read more

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  • fiction
"You don't need magic to change your life. You just need to follow your bliss as best you can."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"Whatever you do, keep following your bliss. Be honest. Pay attention. Seek joy. That is the key to unlocking your destiny."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"...we must be emptied of that which fills us that we may be filled with those things which we are lacking. [ST. AUGUSTINE, paraphrase by Gertrude Lund]"

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

"My life is a lemon. I faced the truth afresh, bent over a cold stainless-steel mixing bowl, whipping egg whites and sugar into stiff French meringue peaks."

-Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie

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25. Surviving Savannah

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection fo… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's Surviving Savannah book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Grief had been coiled quietly inside me since Papa's death 10 years ago-an absence that was as much a presence as any ghost."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

"I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - se…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

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26. Bloomsbury Girls

By: Natalie Jenner

3.86

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and hea… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Jenner's Bloomsbury Girls book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"As her eyes met his, Grace took strength in that feeling of understanding, which she now knew to be another form of love. Being understood, appreciated, and not judged: these, surely, were the corner…"

-Natalie Jenner, Bloomsbury Girls

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27. The Ways We Hide

By: Kristina McMorris

3.98

Format: 536 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday comes a sweeping World War II tale … read more

Similar categories in Kristina McMorris's The Ways We Hide book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Mayfair Bookshop

By: Eliza Knight

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Na… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. Touched

By: Carolyn Haines

4.23

Format: 522 pages, ebook

Conflicts in a small Southern town bubble to the surface in this tale of repression and prophecy, t… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Haines's Touched book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • southern gothic
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30. Haunted Sweets (Samantha Sweet Magical Cozy Mysteries #17)

By: Connie Shelton

4.55

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

When Emily Plankhurst is visited by the ghost of Gabriel Graystone, and learns he was murdered, she… read more

Similar categories in Connie Shelton's Haunted Sweets (Samantha Sweet Magical Cozy Mysteries #17) book and Carolyn Haines's Touched

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Dangerous Inheritance (The Bellamy Legacy Book 1) by Susan Yawn Tanner

31. A Dangerous Inheritance (The Bellamy Legacy Book 1)

By: Susan Yawn Tanner

4.62

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

First book in the eagerly anticipated sequel to the Bellamys of Texas trilogy! Fast-forwarding a fe… read more

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