4 books like The Highway

What to read after The Highway — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Wrong Case James Crumley · 1986 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. he takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting… Shares: Montana, Missing persons

The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley · 1993 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate C.W. Sughrue is at it again, and this time he's looking for a beautiful, kidnapped woman named Sarita Cisneros Pines. No one can find her -- not her well-connected Republican husband, not the FBI, not even a group of violent guys with South American accents. And when Sughrue starts searching, working his way from Montana to the Mexican border, he comes up empty too. Shares: Montana, Missing persons

Die Trying Lee Child · 1998 · ★ 3.9 · 500p · ≈ 16h · Moderate When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both. Shares: Montana, Missing persons

Simisola Ruth Rendell · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a job, disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the… Shares: Serial murders, Missing persons

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