New York Times Bestselling author Louise Penny relishes secrets in her breathtaking mysteries. Known best for Chief Inspector Gamache‘s adventures, Penny has a way of taking a simple police procedural and twisting and turning it into a thrilling adventure. If you enjoy detectives investigating extraordinarily mysterious cases, try these books to read if you like Louise Penny.
Books to Read if You Like Louise Penny
Savage Reckoning
C. Hoyt Caldwell
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Deputy Dani Savage is used to being treated like a woman in a man’s world. The townsfolk in Baptist Flats, Tennessee call her “little deputy” but when she stumbles upon some disturbing facts about a missing teen, people start paying attention. Unfortunately, not all of the attention is good. When Dani discovers that this case spans decades and there’s a history of young women being stolen from the Tennessee hills, things take a turn for the worst.
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Charlaine Harris
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Newlywed Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids vanish from the school soccer field. Aurora’s 15-year-old brother Phillip is one of them. While the police search the town, Aurora and her true crime writer husband Robin, begin their own investigation. Aurora is determined to find these kids but she’s more than a little worried Phillip may be the reason the four of them are missing.
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Damien Boyd
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The body of an elderly man is found in an abandoned World War Two pillbox beside the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal. With no obvious motive and no credible suspect, DI Nick Dixon starts digging into the victim’s past. The more he digs, the deeper Dixon is drawn into a case that takes him from the cave systems beneath rural Somerset to the heart of government, and threatens to expose a military cover-up at the highest level. Blocked by a wall of silence, Dixon must unravel a dangerous conspiracy before the killer strikes again.
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Barbara Nickless
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A young woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is the victim’s fiancé, a hideously scarred Iraq War vet known as the Burned Man. But railroad police Special Agent Sydney Rose Parnell, brought in by the Denver Major Crimes unit to help investigate, can’t shake the feeling that larger forces are behind this crime. Parnell and her K9 partner, Clyde―both haunted by their time in Iraq―descend into the underground world of a savage gang of rail riders. There, they uncover a wide-reaching conspiracy and a series of shocking crimes. Crimes that threaten everything Parnell holds dear.
Buy on AmazonIn the Clearing
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a soft spot for unsolved crimes so when her former police academy classmate asks Tracy to help solve a case, she agrees. Now Tracy is involved in the suspicious suicide of a Native American high school girl forty years earlier. Following up on evidence, Tracy probes one small town’s memory and finds dark, well-concealed secrets hidden in the community’s fabric. Can Tracy keep her promise to solve this case? Or will she become the next victim?
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The Trespasser
Tana French
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Being on the Murder squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she’s getting close to the breaking point. Her new case looks like yet another lovers’ quarrel gone bad. Aislinn Murray is blond, pretty, groomed to a shine, and dead in her living room, next to a table set for a romantic dinner. There’s nothing unusual about her—except that Antoinette’s seen her somewhere before.And everything they find out about Aislinn takes her further from the glossy, passive doll she seemed to be. Antoinette knows the harassment has turned her paranoid, but she can’t tell just how far gone she is. Is this case another step in the campaign to force her off the squad, or are there darker currents flowing beneath its polished surface?
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