21 must-read fiction books like Shutter by Ramona Emerson

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Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,…

"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next to it. On the lower levels, the paint was still the hollow green of a hospital emergency room. It remained that way in part because all the elderly people who had settled there since the 1960s detested change--each existing in their small apartments, watching the walls of their rooms outlive their husbands and wives."

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

If you liked the fiction plot in Shutter by Ramona Emerson , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

By: Marcie R. Rendon

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in 1970s Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation, Pinckley Prize–winner Marcie R. Rendon’s gri… read more

Similar categories in Marcie R. Rendon's Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3) book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

Cover of Shutter by Ramona Emerson

3. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Emerson's Shutter book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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4. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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5. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

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6. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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7. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

11. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of Murder on the Red River (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #1) by Marcie R. Rendon

12. 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 Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) by Iris Yamashita

13. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.54

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Indian Burial Ground

By: Nick Medina

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Indian Burial Ground book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
"What happened in the cemetery causes us pain, not her. You understand that, don’t you?"

-Nick Medina, Indian Burial Ground

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15. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

Similar categories in David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

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16. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

17. Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

3.85

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lillie's Blood Sisters book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

Similar categories in Nick Medina's Sisters of the Lost Nation book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

Cover of Night Will Find You by Julia Heaberlin

19. Night Will Find You

By: Julia Heaberlin

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A scientist with a special gift riles a wasp's nest of conspiracy theories while investigating a co… read more

Similar categories in Julia Heaberlin's Night Will Find You book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Petersen

21. Picnic in the Ruins

By: Todd Robert Petersen

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology… read more

Similar categories in Todd Robert Petersen's Picnic in the Ruins book and Ramona Emerson's Shutter

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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Ramona Emerson

3.80

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3.69

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Victor LaValle

3.72

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Nick Medina

3.63

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Heather Chavez

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Alice Feeney

3.66

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