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Books like The Secret Keeper

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

  1. 1 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.

  2. 2 The Distant Hours

    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.

  3. 3 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.

  4. 4 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.

  5. 5 Homecoming

    Homecoming

    by Kate Morton

    narrative, mystery

    On Christmas Eve in 1959, a traveler discovers the Turner family lifeless beside a creek on their South Australian estate.

  6. 6 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.

  7. 7 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.

  8. 8 Ordinary Grace

    Ordinary Grace

    by William Kent Krueger

    narrative, mystery

    In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.

  9. 9 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.

  10. 10 Motherless Brooklyn

    Motherless Brooklyn

    by Jonathan Lethem

    narrative, mystery

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

  11. 11 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.

  12. 12 The Lie Tree

    The Lie Tree

    by Frances Hardinge

    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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