25 must-read mystery books like Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook

Cover of Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook

Pleasant Day

By: Vera Jane Cook

4.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fiftee…

"Love is not only blind it's imbecilic."

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"Insinuation is not truth, just conjecture"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"like who ever guessed he had an inner life?"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"Everybody has got to hate someone, human nature"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

If you liked the mystery plot in Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Dark is the Grave (DCI Duncan Bone #1) by T.G. Reid

1. Dark is the Grave (DCI Duncan Bone #1)

By: T.G. Reid

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

A dead cop. A damaged detective. A copycat killer on the loose. When the chief suspect in the no… read more

Similar categories in T.G. Reid's Dark is the Grave (DCI Duncan Bone #1) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Silent Tide (DCI Boyd, #1) by Alex Scarrow

2. Silent Tide (DCI Boyd, #1)

By: Alex Scarrow

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

A sinking boat is spotted a few miles off the south coast. Waiting onboard, is a grisly discover… read more

Similar categories in Alex Scarrow's Silent Tide (DCI Boyd, #1) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of All He Has Left by Chad Zunker

3. All He Has Left

By: Chad Zunker

4.05

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Power, money, and dark family secrets are a killer combination in a propulsive novel of suspense by… read more

Similar categories in Chad Zunker's All He Has Left book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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4. The Unknown Beloved

By: Amy Harmon

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative st… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's The Unknown Beloved book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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5. Out of the Ashes

By: Kara Thomas

3.89

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s investigation into her family’s murders uncovers lies, secrets, and dangerous truths in a… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Out of the Ashes book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Hide (Detective Harriet Foster, #1) by Tracy    Clark

6. Hide (Detective Harriet Foster, #1)

By: Tracy Clark

4.15

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

A mystery featuring hard-boiled Chicago detective Harriet Foster, who’s on the hunt for a serial ki… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Clark's Hide (Detective Harriet Foster, #1) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. They Call Her Dirty Sally

By: Amy Matayo

4.42

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

For years, the town of Silver Bell, Arkansas has quietly mourned the hospital fire that claimed the… read more

Similar categories in Amy Matayo's They Call Her Dirty Sally book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Luck works best when it isn't pressed more than once."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter."

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me." --nursery rhyme, and the first lie we learned in school"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

"Isn't that what every child wants even well into adulthood --- the opportunity to look their parents in the eye and see a glimmer of pride shining back at them?"

-Amy Matayo, They Call Her Dirty Sally

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8. Damaged Intentions (Abby Mullen #2)

By: Mike Omer

4.33

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author Mike Omer returns with chilling twists and turns for a hostage ne… read more

Similar categories in Mike Omer's Damaged Intentions (Abby Mullen #2) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1) by Jess Lourey

9. The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1)

By: Jess Lourey

4.23

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

Two girls vanished. A woman buried alive. Between two crimes—decades of secrets yet to be unearthed… read more

Similar categories in Jess Lourey's The Taken Ones (Steinbeck and Reed, #1) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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10. I Know Where You Live

By: Gregg Olsen

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Revenge, justice, or closure? Family crimes can’t be hidden forever in this provocative novel of su… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's I Know Where You Live book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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11. The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #3)

By: D.D. Black

4.42

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

If the marshlands could speak, whose name would they whisper? On Memorial Day,1992, three decora… read more

Similar categories in D.D. Black's The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #3) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Horror at Murden Cove (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #4) by D.D. Black

12. The Horror at Murden Cove (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #4)

By: D.D. Black

4.39

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

A triple homicide. A blind witness. What is the sound of evil? Late one night, two young couples… read more

Similar categories in D.D. Black's The Horror at Murden Cove (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #4) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
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13. Beneath Devil's Bridge

By: Loreth Anne White

4.28

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A true crime podcast yields new revelations about a shocking murder. True crime podcaster Trini… read more

Similar categories in Loreth Anne White's Beneath Devil's Bridge book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of If You're Reading This... by Kiersten Modglin

14. If You're Reading This...

By: Kiersten Modglin

3.58

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

The day of their dreams was nothing short of a nightmare. On the one-year anniversary of her wed… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten Modglin's If You're Reading This... book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. What the Wind Knows

By: Amy Harmon

4.36

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everythi… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's What the Wind Knows book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • fiction
"Idealism often rewrites history to suit her narrative."

-Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

"Stress and loss have made us all phantoms of ourselves."

-Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

"He said freedom was the ability to go wherever you heart called"

-Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

"We keep the people we love in our hearts. We never lost them as long as we can remember how it felt to be loved by them."

-Amy Harmon, What the Wind Knows

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16. Broken Bayou

By: Jennifer Moorhead

4.18

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

In this debut thriller, a troubled child psychologist returns to a small Louisiana town to protect … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Moorhead's Broken Bayou book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Gone Again by Minka Kent

17. Gone Again

By: Minka Kent

3.93

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

In this novel of escalating fear and suspense, a secret from a woman’s past unearths a lifetime of … read more

Similar categories in Minka Kent's Gone Again book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Price of Justice (Mara Brent Legal Thriller, #2) by Robin      James

18. Price of Justice (Mara Brent Legal Thriller, #2)

By: Robin James

4.54

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Vicious felons are going free. Can one determined attorney stop them from slaughtering more innocen… read more

Similar categories in Robin James's Price of Justice (Mara Brent Legal Thriller, #2) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • fiction
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19. The Watcher Girl

By: Minka Kent

3.89

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s suspicions about her ex-boyfriend become a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of psy… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kent's The Watcher Girl book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Kill Them Cold (Hidden Norfolk #7) by J.M. Dalgliesh

20. Kill Them Cold (Hidden Norfolk #7)

By: J.M. Dalgliesh

4.40

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

One lie requires commitment... Multiple lies require dedication... When the remains of a young w… read more

Similar categories in J.M. Dalgliesh's Kill Them Cold (Hidden Norfolk #7) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Vacation Wars by Meghan Quinn

21. Vacation Wars

By: Meghan Quinn

3.78

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

Prepared for a good time, Tessa is thrilled to spend the weeks before her sister’s wedding at their… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Quinn's Vacation Wars book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Weight of Silence (Nicole Foster Thriller, #2) by Gregg Olsen

22. The Weight of Silence (Nicole Foster Thriller, #2)

By: Gregg Olsen

4.18

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-pounding novel of unspeakable crimes and unforgivable sins from the #1 New York Times bests… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's The Weight of Silence (Nicole Foster Thriller, #2) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Her Deadly Homecoming (Carolina McKay, #1) by Tony Urban

23. Her Deadly Homecoming (Carolina McKay, #1)

By: Tony Urban

4.31

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Three girls. Brutally murdered. Eyelids surgically removed. Their killer never caught. Eighte… read more

Similar categories in Tony Urban's Her Deadly Homecoming (Carolina McKay, #1) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Secrets Never Sleep (PI Nia Carter #1) by Dan Padavona

24. Secrets Never Sleep (PI Nia Carter #1)

By: Dan Padavona

4.24

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to a small town’s deadliest secret . . . When PI Nia Carter moves to the Finger Lakes of Ne… read more

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Cover of The Final Girl (Wolf Lake #8) by Dan Padavona

25. The Final Girl (Wolf Lake #8)

By: Dan Padavona

4.56

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking murder awakens forgotten memories. Sheriff Thomas Shepherd knows what it takes to cat… read more

Similar categories in Dan Padavona's The Final Girl (Wolf Lake #8) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
Cover of The Shadow Cell (Wolf Lake #6) by Dan Padavona

26. The Shadow Cell (Wolf Lake #6)

By: Dan Padavona

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

He's a wolf in sheep's clothing. And he's watching you tonight . . . When a distraught husband h… read more

Similar categories in Dan Padavona's The Shadow Cell (Wolf Lake #6) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
Cover of Never Forget Me (Wolf Lake #7) by Dan Padavona

27. Never Forget Me (Wolf Lake #7)

By: Dan Padavona

4.55

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Revenge is a dish best served cold. A few weeks have passed since Sheriff Thomas Shepherd rescue… read more

Similar categories in Dan Padavona's Never Forget Me (Wolf Lake #7) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery
Cover of Cold Blood (Thomas Shepherd Mystery #4) by Dan Padavona

28. Cold Blood (Thomas Shepherd Mystery #4)

By: Dan Padavona

4.39

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

An escaped murderer hunts the wilderness. And a killer storm is thundering toward Wolf Lake. … read more

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Cover of Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook

29. Pleasant Day

By: Vera Jane Cook

4.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fiftee… read more

Similar categories in Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
"Love is not only blind it's imbecilic."

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"Insinuation is not truth, just conjecture"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"like who ever guessed he had an inner life?"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

"Everybody has got to hate someone, human nature"

-Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

Cover of The Executioner of Yrecep Forest by Laura DiNovis Berry

30. The Executioner of Yrecep Forest

By: Laura DiNovis Berry

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Pesdari grew up in the Coven, a place of murder, ancient magic, and sacrifice. When an opportunity … read more

Similar categories in Laura DiNovis Berry's The Executioner of Yrecep Forest book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

Cover of Salt Island (E&A Investigations Thriller Series Book 2) by Lisa Towles

31. Salt Island (E&A Investigations Thriller Series Book 2)

By: Lisa Towles

4.53

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

At the request of an old college chum, former CIA operative and private investigator Mari Ellwyn in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Towles's Salt Island (E&A Investigations Thriller Series Book 2) book and Vera Jane Cook's Pleasant Day

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Transform Your Habits

Dark is the Grave (DCI Duncan Bone #1)

T.G. Reid

4.21

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Silent Tide (DCI Boyd, #1)

Alex Scarrow

4.29

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All He Has Left

Chad Zunker

4.05

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Amy Harmon

4.34

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Pretty Dead (Elise Sandburg, #3)

Anne Frasier

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Truly Dead (Elise Sandburg Series Book 4)

Anne Frasier

3.94

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Melinda Leigh

4.54

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