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Books like Homecoming

12 books with a reading profile close to Homecoming by Kate Morton. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 The Christie Affair

    The Christie Affair

    by Nina de Gramont

    narrative, mystery

    In December 1926, the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, and her car is found abandoned near a chalk pit.

  2. 2 Happiness Falls

    Happiness Falls

    by Angie Kim

    narrative, mystery

    When Mia Parkson’s father disappears during a morning hike in Virginia, the only witness is her younger brother, Eugene, who has autism and a rare genetic condition called Angelman syndrome.

  3. 3 The Secret Keeper

    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.

  4. 4 The Lost Man

    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.

  5. 5 The Survivors

    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.

  6. 6 The Lake House

    The Lake House

    by Kate Morton, Caroline Lee

    narrative, mystery

    In 1933, the Edevane family hosts a Midsummer Eve party at their Cornish estate, Loeanneth, which ends in the unexplained disappearance of their eleven-month-old son, Theo.

  7. 7 The Book of Speculation

    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.

  8. 8 The House We Grew Up In

    The House We Grew Up In

    by Lisa Jewell

    narrative, mystery

    Lorelei Bird has raised her children in a sprawling house where nothing is thrown away and every room is full.

  9. 9 Motherless Brooklyn

    Motherless Brooklyn

    by Jonathan Lethem

    narrative, mystery

    Lionel Essrog has Tourette's syndrome, which makes him blurt, count and tap compulsively.

  10. 10 Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

    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.

  11. 11 Lady in the Lake

    Lady in the Lake

    by Laura Lippman

    narrative, mystery

    In 1966 Baltimore, Maddie Schwartz walks out of her marriage at thirty-seven, determined to become a journalist.

  12. 12 The Muse

    The Muse

    by Jessie Burton

    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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