Books like The Survivors
12 books with a reading profile close to The Survivors by Jane Harper. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
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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2
Lady in the Lake
narrative, mystery
In 1966 Baltimore, Maddie Schwartz walks out of her marriage at thirty-seven, determined to become a journalist.
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3
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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4
Motherless Brooklyn
narrative, mystery
Lionel Essrog has Tourette's syndrome, which makes him blurt, count and tap compulsively.
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5
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.
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6
The Lake House
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.
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7
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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8
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.
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9
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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10
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.
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11
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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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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