9 Top mystery books like The One True Ocean by Sarah Beth Martin

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The One True Ocean

By: Sarah Beth Martin

3.43

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

A gripping, atmospheric novel about buried secrets that drive two generations of women apart. …

"Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated and moths panted against my window screen, I would crawl into my smooth white bed of ice cream."

-Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

"It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for things to be fuzzy, always out of reach, whether doorknobs or flowers or her own baby. She was no longer intact or in control."

-Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

If you liked the mystery plot in The One True Ocean by Sarah Beth Martin , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Sing You Home

By: Jodi Picoult

3.82

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

After Zoe Baxter loses her baby, the only way she can find of coping is to try again. But her husb… read more

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  • fiction
"Better safe than sorry!"

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"Music is the language of memory"

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"We Pisces, we're a special breed."

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

"We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less."

-Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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2. The Wedding (The Notebook, #2)

By: Nicholas Sparks

3.23

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

After thirty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook… read more

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  • fiction

3. The Winter People

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Promise Not to Tellreturns with a simmering literary thrill… read more

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4. The Pilot's Wife

By: Anita Shreve

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyon… read more

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5. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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6. The Forgotten (John Puller, #2)

By: David Baldacci

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

In Paradise, nothing is what it seems...Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A comb… read more

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7. The Ambassador's Daughter (The Kommandant's Girl, #0.5)

By: Pam Jenoff

4.06

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for … read more

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8. The Bookshop by the Bay

By: Pamela M. Kelley

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Bookshop by the Bay is a breezy, escapist beach read from powerhouse bestselling women’s fictio… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Paris Agent

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

1970—In the aftermath of his war-ravaged past, Noah Ainsworth is still haunted by memories of his t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"To truly love someone, we must accept the real version of them, scars and all."

-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent

"And whatever we do with the freedom we have been gifted, whether our achievements and our struggles are big or small, we will do it in honor of those who gave so much so that we could live in a bette…"

-Kelly Rimmer, The Paris Agent

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10. It All Comes Down to This

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more

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  • fiction
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11. Beyond the Moonlit Sea

By: Julianne MacLean

4.15

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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12. The Last Dance of the Debutante

By: Julia Kelly

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of young women are swept up in a life-changing journey as they become three of the last deb… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Beyond That, the Sea

By: Laura Spence-Ash

4.24

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.09

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

Three plucky women lift the spirits of home-front brides in wartime Britain, where clothes rationin… read more

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  • fiction
"Clothes do that sometimes. They have the power to make you into someone else. They can make anything seem possible."

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

"Sometimes we just need someone with a fresh perspective to hold up a mirror and show us who we really are – who we could become, if we put our minds to it."

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

"In a good family, you're loved, simply, for being you, and whatever happens, wherever you go, you will always know that you are loved. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, how beautiful, or how …"

-Jennifer Ryan, The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

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15. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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16. All the Ways We Said Goodbye

By: Beatriz Williams

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glor… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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17. A Light in the Forest

By: Melissa Payne

4.22

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of The Night of Many Endings, comes an emotional and suspens… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

By: Annie Lyons

4.31

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late to start living. Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the i… read more

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  • fiction
"Life is precious and as long as we have a reason to continue, we should follow that path."

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"Why is life so sad sometimes?"..."Perhaps it's the universe's way of making you appreciate the happier times"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"I always used to think it was silly when people said life was short, but I completely get that now. We're here for such a limited time. The least we can do is try to be kind to the people around us. …"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

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19. The One You're With

By: Lauren K. Denton

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Written in Lauren K. Denton's signature Southern style, The One You’re With tells the story of a se… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Last Garden in England

By: Julia Kelly

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes… read more

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  • fiction
"Each new garden is like an unread book, its pages brimming with possibility."

-Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

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21. The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

By: Pamela Terry

4.05

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother's sudden death--only to fi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"What an effort she made to change me, and when it was clear those surface alterations would never occur, she began to mistake my solitary nature for sullenness, my laughter for mockery, my silence fo…"

-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

"I would never be happy till I managed to separate God from religion...God was infinitely bigger than I had ever imagined, infinitely more mysterious, and infinitely more kind. He was not to be held i…"

-Pamela Terry, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines

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22. 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

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  • 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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23. The Lake Villa

By: Ann Bennett

4.28

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

From Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Villa, a spellbinding stor… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Beyond the Crushing Waves

By: Bronwen Pratley

4.26

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Two generations face heartbreak and injustice in this poignant and emotional novel inspired by true… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

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  • fiction
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26. A Place to Land

By: Lauren K. Denton

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hidden past isn’t past at all. Violet Figg and her sister Trudy have lived a quiet life in Sug… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. Wherever the Wind Takes Us

By: Kelly Harms

4.01

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

When life stops making sense, it’s time to raise the anchor and follow the tide. Twenty-two year… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Saltwater and Driftwood

By: Anna J. Walner

4.09

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

The tragic story of The Great Storm in Galveston, Texas in 1900 comes to life once more. The yea… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1) by Debra Webb

29. Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)

By: Debra Webb

4.07

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone’s found the skeleton in the closet, and it’s not the only one. Wall Street Journal bestsell… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
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30. The One True Ocean

By: Sarah Beth Martin

3.43

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

A gripping, atmospheric novel about buried secrets that drive two generations of women apart. … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • suspense
"Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated and moths panted against my window screen, I would crawl in…"

-Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

"It was strange letting her body do such things, while her mind hovered outside somewhere, just on the outside of her skull. Strange for things to be fuzzy, always out of reach, whether doorknobs or f…"

-Sarah Beth Martin, The One True Ocean

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31. Like Family

By: Michele M. Feeney

4.45

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

“In Like Family, Feeney not only brings us back to the terrifying time when the Spanish flu had its… read more

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Jodi Picoult

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3.23

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3.95

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4.20

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Kate Morton

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