11 Top suspense books like Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie Loewenstein

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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

3.77

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tender…

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Cover of The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4) by Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson

1. The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The Man Who Smiled begins with Inspector Kurt Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis … read more

Similar categories in Henning Mankell's The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"[...] Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde."

-Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

Cover of The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1) by Colin Cotterill

2. The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

By: Colin Cotterill

3.97

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

Laos, 1976: Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old medical doctor, has been unwillingly appointed the nati… read more

Similar categories in Colin Cotterill's The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself."

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"There was nothing fake or added or subtracted about him. He was all himself."

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"Watching Siri and Dtui 'run' to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches"

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

"He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But fo…"

-Colin Cotterill, The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

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3. The Precipice (Mike Bowditch, #6)

By: Paul Doiron

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for t… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's The Precipice (Mike Bowditch, #6) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

By: James Lee Burke

4.16

Format: 366 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Book #3 from the series: Dave Robicheaux BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Hau… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton."

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon beco…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

"The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded…"

-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

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5. Green for Danger

By: Christianna Brand

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in a military hospital during the blitz, this novel is one of Brand's most intricately plotted … read more

Similar categories in Christianna Brand's Green for Danger book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Paradise Valley (The Highway Quartet, #4) by C.J. Box

6. Paradise Valley (The Highway Quartet, #4)

By: C.J. Box

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author. She almost… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Paradise Valley (The Highway Quartet, #4) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Highway (Highway Quartet, #2)

By: C.J. Box

3.93

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, the New York Times bestselling author of Back of Beyond a… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's The Highway (Highway Quartet, #2) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

8. Badlands (A Highway Quartet Novel #3)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

Grimstad, North Dakota - a place people used to be from, but were never headed to - has struck oil.… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's Badlands (A Highway Quartet Novel #3) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

9. A Duty To The Dead (Bess Crawford, #1)

By: Charles Todd

4.07

Format: None pages,

England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usua… read more

Similar categories in Charles Todd's A Duty To The Dead (Bess Crawford, #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

10. Where Serpents Sleep (Sebastian St. Cyr, #4)

By: C.S. Harris

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Gard… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Harris's Where Serpents Sleep (Sebastian St. Cyr, #4) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

11. Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, #7)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.42

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Henry Meloux, Cork's friend and spiritual advisor, asks the Minnesota sheriff turned private invest… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, #7) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

Cover of A Useful Woman (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #1) by Darcie Wilde

12. A Useful Woman (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #1)

By: Darcie Wilde

3.84

Format: 357 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduce… read more

Similar categories in Darcie Wilde's A Useful Woman (Rosalind Thorne Mysteries, #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook

13. The Measure of a Lady

By: Deeanne Gist

3.88

Format: None pages,

Rachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger sibling… read more

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14. Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.98

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Nothing in Renee Blackbear’s world had prepared her for college or for the hurt that happens in the… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"But this is the country I know. This Valley. This river. This flat land that goes on forever. The dang wind chill every winter. The wind blowing across this prairie we bend over and walk into. We get…"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

"Happens more than we want to know. There are Indian kids, just like your brother, heck just like me, all over this Valley. Fostered out, adopted out, working their fingers to the bone--heck, many of …"

-Marcie R. Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #2)

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15. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

By: Timothy Egan

4.05

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like no… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • historical
  • audiobook
"It still scares people driving cars named Expedition and Outlander... Throughout the Great Plains, a visitor passes more nothing than something. Or so it seems."

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

"Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What …"

-Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Cover of The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1) by Harini Nagendra

16. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

Similar categories in Harini Nagendra's The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch, #9) by Paul Doiron

17. Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch, #9)

By: Paul Doiron

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Paul Doiron's Stay Hidden, a supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder … read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Stay Hidden (Mike Bowditch, #9) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) by Craig Johnson

18. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

Similar categories in Craig Johnson's The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) by Marcie R. Rendon

19. Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Set in 1970s along Red River Valley, Marcie R. Rendon's gripping new mystery follows the life of a … read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

Cover of Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) by Stephen Spotswood

21. Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series fo… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Murder Crossed Her Mind (Pentecost and Parker, #4) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5) by C.J. Box

22. The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5)

By: C.J. Box

4.08

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar-Award winning author. Former … read more

Similar categories in C.J. Box's The Bitterroots (Highway Quartet, #5) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Call of the Wrens by Jenni L. Walsh

23. The Call of the Wrens

By: Jenni L. Walsh

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Introducing the little-known story of the daring women who rode through war-torn Europe, carrying s… read more

Similar categories in Jenni L. Walsh's The Call of the Wrens book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Brown's Rednecks book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker, #3) by Stephen Spotswood

25. Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker, #3)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Spotswood's Secrets Typed in Blood (Pentecost & Parker, #3) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) by Jonathan Ames

26. A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1)

By: Jonathan Ames

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff b… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Ames's A Man Named Doll (Happy Doll #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. The All-American

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

2024 Michigan Notable Book It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's The All-American book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) by Karen Odden

28. Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1)

By: Karen Odden

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, Karen Odden’s mystery introduces Inspector Michael Corr… read more

Similar categories in Karen Odden's Down a Dark River (Inspector Corravan #1) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) by Donna Leon

29. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

Similar categories in Donna Leon's A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33) book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie Loewenstein

30. Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

By: Laurie Loewenstein

3.77

Format: 320 pages, ebook

A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tender… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway

31. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice book and Laurie Loewenstein's Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

25 Top fiction books like Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery by Laurie Loewenstein

Transform Your Habits

The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)

Colin Cotterill

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Precipice (Mike Bowditch, #6)

Paul Doiron

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

James Lee Burke

4.16

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19 Top fiction books like The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1) by Harini Nagendra

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The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

Vaseem Khan

4.05

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The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star

Vaseem Khan

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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