8 books like The dry
The Dry
"Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasn't been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Luke, is dead, his entire family murdered, Falk still isn't planning on going back. But then he gets a note: 'Luke lied. You lied. Be at the funeral.' And just like that, Falk is swept back into the…
Shares: Truthfulness and falsehood, Homecoming, Homicide investigation, Officials and employees
The Rules of Magic
From beloved author Alice Hoffman comes the spellbinding prequel to her bestseller, Practical Magic.Find your magic.For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children…
Shares: Secrecy -- Fiction, Secrecy
Exposure
A suspensful story about sexual obsession, identity and the dangers of self-deceit. An esploration of the nature of love - in long-married couples, the young, parents, between siblings and friends...
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Inherit the Bones
In this mystery series debut, the circus visits a Colorado mountain town—and murder follows soon after.
In the summer, campers flock to Cedar Valley's meadows and fields. In the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. But those who live there know that dark secrets are buried beneath the town's natural splendor.
When a clown from a traveling circus is murdered, Detective Gemma…
Shares: Truthfulness and falsehood, Secrecy
The Barrowfields
"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father…
Shares: Homecoming, Death
The anatomy of motive
From legendary FBI profiler John Douglas and Mark Olshaker -- authors of the nonfiction international bestsellers Mindhunter, Journey into Darkness, and Obsession -- comes an unprecedented, insightful look at the root of all crime.
Every crime is a mystery story with a motive at its heart. With the brilliant insight he brought to his renowned work inside the FBI's elite serial-crime unit, John…
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Unbound
Former CIA operative Teddy Fay -- now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy Barnett -- loses his beloved wife to a drunk driver, the wife of a powerful man who was able to shield her from punishment. Taking a leave of absence to grieve, Teddy lands in Santa Fe in the company of his friends Stone Barrington and Ed Eagle. There, fate hands him an unexpected opportunity to exact quiet…
Shares: Officials and employees, Death
The Trinity Six
The Trinity Six is a 2011 thriller novel by Charles Cumming.
Shares: Secrecy, Death