Books like Happiness Falls
12 books with a reading profile close to Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
During a 1961 summer party, teenager Laurel Nicolson witnesses her mother, Dorothy, kill a stranger with a paring knife.
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2
The Book of Speculation
by Erika Swyler
narrative, mystery
Simon Watson, a young librarian in a small New York town, receives a package from an antiquarian bookseller: a fragile, water-damaged ledger from the 1700s, which appears to be a record kept by a traveling circus.
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3
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
Edmund's daughter, Katherine, receives a cryptic letter leading her to Milderhurst, a crumbling castle filled with secrets.
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4
The Lost Man
by Jane Harper
narrative, mystery
Cameron Bright is found dead from heat exhaustion at the Stockman’s Grave, a remote landmark in the brutal Australian outback.
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5
Motherless Brooklyn
narrative, mystery
Lionel Essrog has Tourette's syndrome, which makes him blurt, count and tap compulsively.
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6
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
narrative, mystery
In a small Mississippi town, two boys grew up on opposite sides of a divide: Larry Ott, a white loner whose father owned a garage, and Silas Jones, a Black boy who became friends with him.
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7
The Christie Affair
narrative, mystery
In December 1926, the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, and her car is found abandoned near a chalk pit.
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8
The Survivors
by Jane Harper
narrative, mystery
Kieran Elliott returns to his coastal hometown of Evelyn Bay, Tasmania, to help his parents move while grappling with the guilt of a past boating accident that claimed his brother’s life.
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9
The Muse
narrative, mystery
In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.
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10
The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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11
Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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12
Winter's Bone
narrative, mystery
Ree Dolly is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, taking care of her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother.
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