Books like The River We Remember
12 books with a reading profile close to The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
Snap
thriller, mystery
Eleven-year-old Jack Bright is left in a broken-down car on a dark motorway to watch over his two younger sisters while his pregnant mother, Nicola, walks for help.
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2
Smilla's Sense of Snow
by Peter Høeg
thriller, mystery
In Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a warehouse roof.
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3
Miracle Creek
by Angie Kim
thriller, mystery
In a rural Virginia town, a pressurized oxygen chamber used to treat autism and infertility explodes, killing two people.
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4
Velvet Was the Night
thriller, mystery
Set in 1970s Mexico City during the Dirty War, the narrative follows Maite, a reclusive secretary obsessed with romance comics, and Elvis, a criminal enforcer for a government-sanctioned hit squad.
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5
We Begin at the End
thriller, mystery
In Cape Haven, California, thirty years after he killed a young girl, Vincent King returns home following his release from prison.
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6
A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
thriller, mystery
Hank Mitchell, his brother Jacob, and their friend Lou stumble upon a crashed single-engine plane buried in the snow of rural Ohio.
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7
Strange Sally Diamond
by Liz Nugent
thriller, mystery
Sally Diamond is a social recluse living in rural Ireland who follows her father's instructions to put him out with the trash after his death.
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8
My Sister, the Serial Killer
thriller, mystery
Korede is a Lagos nurse whose life is defined by cleaning up after her sister, Ayoola.
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9
Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
thriller, mystery
Mickey is a patrol officer in a Philadelphia neighborhood struggling with high rates of opioid addiction.
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10
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
thriller, mystery
Toby Hennessy is a man defined by luck and privilege until a brutal home invasion leaves him physically broken and mentally fragile.
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11
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
thriller, mystery
In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar vanishes from her bunk at an Adirondack summer camp.
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12
If We Were Villains
by M.L. Rio
thriller, mystery
Oliver Marks has just finished a ten-year prison sentence for a murder he may not have committed.
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