18 must-read mystery books like A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery by Kathleen Ernst

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A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

By: Kathleen Ernst

4.78

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Wisconsin widow Hanneke Bauer, a German immigrant, is a fervent abolitionist. After yearning to pla…

If you liked the mystery plot in A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery by Kathleen Ernst , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Hired Girl

By: Laura Amy Schlitz

4.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Today Miss Chandler gave me this beautiful book. I vow that I will never forget her kindness to me,… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) by Rhys Bowen

2. Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

By: Rhys Bowen

3.42

Format: 320 pages,

London 1932. Narrator Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is fl… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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3. Above the Bay of Angels

By: Rhys Bowen

4.19

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria’s royal kitchen, setting off a… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
"The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art f…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"It is Jean-Paul Lepin. Chef Lepin." I could not stifle a grin. I thought he had said lapin , which is the French word for rabbit. "For a rabbit, you seem quite fearless." This made the other chefs ch…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"And on that table was the most impressive assortment of food: salmon mousse in the shape of a salmon; cold chickens; quail; a huge platter of oysters, shrimp and lobster claws; all kinds of salads; f…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"Her Majesty's daughter Princess Helena and her granddaughter Princess Thora are visiting. Here's the menu: consommé aux fines herbes, cheese croutons, poached fillet of sole with parsley sauce and po…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

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4. Open Carry (Arliss Cutter #1)

By: Marc Cameron

4.17

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

ALASKAN CRIME, AMERICAN JUSTICE   Raised in the swamplands of Florida, U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter i… read more

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  • mystery
"It was a quote by Isak Dinesen. 'The cure for anything is salt water--sweat, tears, or the sea."

-Marc Cameron, Open Carry (Arliss Cutter #1)

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5. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
  • historical
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6. The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

By: Claire Swinarski

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Armed with a Crock-Pot and a pile of recipes, a grandmother, her granddaughter, and a mysterious yo… read more

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"All these kids today thought you needed so much time. Time, time, time! As if another year would show you the kind of father a person could be, or how the nightmares about battlefields in Vietnam wou…"

-Claire Swinarski, The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County

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7. The Hebrew Teacher

By: Maya Arad

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more

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"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

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8. The Irish Nanny

By: Sandy Taylor

4.31

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

There is a fierce wind blowing in from the sea, as I step off the boat towards my new life in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Sandy Taylor's The Irish Nanny book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • historical
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9. Put Out to Pasture (Farm to Table Mysteries, #2)

By: Amanda Flower

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A delightful new cozy mystery from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower! There's fowl play… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Flower's Put Out to Pasture (Farm to Table Mysteries, #2) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
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10. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
  • historical
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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11. The Burning (Kate Burkholder, #16)

By: Linda Castillo

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter … read more

Similar categories in Linda Castillo's The Burning (Kate Burkholder, #16) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
Cover of Death in the Dark Woods (A Monster Hunter Mystery) by Annelise Ryan

12. Death in the Dark Woods (A Monster Hunter Mystery)

By: Annelise Ryan

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A potential Bigfoot sighting is linked to a vicious murder, but skeptical cryptozoologist Morgan Ca… read more

Similar categories in Annelise Ryan's Death in the Dark Woods (A Monster Hunter Mystery) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
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13. Forgotten Trail (National Parks Mystery, #3)

By: Claire Kells

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

In this third installment of Claire Kells’s thrilling National Park mystery series, Investigative S… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kells's Forgotten Trail (National Parks Mystery, #3) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
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14. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

Similar categories in David Wroblewski's Familiaris book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • historical
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

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15. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

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  • mystery
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16. At the Edge of the Woods (Lew Ferris, #3)

By: Victoria Houston

3.78

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone is murdering pickleball players in Loon Lake and Sheriff Ferris is on the hunt for their ki… read more

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  • mystery
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17. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • historical
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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18. A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway

By: Lorelou Desjardins

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Lorelou is French, has lived in 7 different countries, and dreams of living on a tropical beach. Sh… read more

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19. The Bletchley Riddle

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collaboration between award-winning and bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Shein… read more

Similar categories in Ruta Sepetys's The Bletchley Riddle book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
  • historical
Cover of Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3) by Benjamin   Stevenson

20. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
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21. Big in Sweden

By: Sally Franson

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish… read more

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Cover of The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5) by Jonathan Kellerman

22. The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, pa… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Kellerman's The Lost Coast (Clay Edison, #5) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

23. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

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24. The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1)

By: James Ponti

4.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery… read more

Similar categories in James Ponti's The Sherlock Society (The Sherlock Society, #1) book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
Cover of Den of Iniquity (J.P. Beaumont, #26) by J.A. Jance

25. Den of Iniquity (J.P. Beaumont, #26)

By: J.A. Jance

4.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance returns with a new pulse-pounding suspense novel feat… read more

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  • mystery
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26. A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

By: Kathleen Ernst

4.78

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Wisconsin widow Hanneke Bauer, a German immigrant, is a fervent abolitionist. After yearning to pla… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery book and Kathleen Ernst's A Most Perilous Journey: A Hanneke Bauer Mystery

  • mystery
  • historical
Cover of The Hollywood Strangler (Venator Cold Case Series Book 3) by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

27. The Hollywood Strangler (Venator Cold Case Series Book 3)

By: Nathan Dylan Goodwin

4.69

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hollywood Strangler (Venator Cold Case #3)In the glitzy, gritty underbelly of 1980s Los Angeles… read more

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28. Night Owls

By: A.R. Vishny

4.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female … read more

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29. The Hotel Balzaar

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of No… read more

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30. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

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  • mystery
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31. Golemcrafters

By: Emi Watanabe Cohen

4.43

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

On the same day Faye’s brother comes home with a black eye, a package arrives from a relative they … read more

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Laura Amy Schlitz

4.80

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Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

Rhys Bowen

3.42

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Rhys Bowen

4.19

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Ellen Baker

3.89

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A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861

Karen Hesse

0.00

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty

Ellen Emerson White

3.23

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Scott Reintgen

4.20

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Kristiana Gregory

4.39

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