6 Best suspense books like The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian

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The Lioness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting …

"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

If you liked the suspense plot in The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

7. Hang the Moon

By: Jeannette Walls

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more

Similar categories in Jeannette Walls's Hang the Moon book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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9. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.27

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more

Similar categories in Geraldine Brooks's Horse book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

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12. 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 Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

14. 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 Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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 Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris  Pavone

15. Two Nights in Lisbon

By: Chris Pavone

3.73

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under … read more

Similar categories in Chris Pavone's Two Nights in Lisbon book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian

16. The Lioness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • africa
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

Cover of The Good Left Undone by Adriana Trigiani

17. The Good Left Undone

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.98

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From Adriana Trigiani, "a master of visual and palpable detail" (The Washington Post), comes a lush… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Trigiani's The Good Left Undone book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

18. Our Missing Hearts

By: Celeste Ng

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gard… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Cover of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

19. The Diamond Eye

By: Kate Quinn

4.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Diamond Eye book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The It Girl

By: Ruth Ware

3.85

Format: 423 pages, Hardcover

April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasion… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's The It Girl book and Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of h to add a prurient kick to the piece-a hint of scandal, maybe. A student rivalry. A sniff of drugs, or promis…"

-Ruth Ware, The It Girl

"The usual. Soft focus, syrupy memories of April and her potential. Sad-faced pictures of her friends and family pondering all they've lost. Anecdotes about punting and May balls and bright futures. A…"

-Ruth Ware, The It Girl

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21. 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 Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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