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Tana French · 2024 · Ireland · mystery · literary fiction
Book 2 of 3 in Cal Hooper
★ 4.07 Goodreads · 79,980 ratings

Trey's long-absent father returns to the Irish village with an English millionaire and a scheme about gold in the hills, and retired cop Cal Hooper tries to keep her out of the fallout.

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The Likeness

Tana French · 2008 · Ireland 96% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 188,056 ratings
Book 2 of 6 in Dublin Murder Squad
shares: Irish · intimate, unhurried

An undercover detective takes the identity of a dead woman and infiltrates a group of friends, only to find herself becoming the person she's impersonating.

The Lost Man

Jane Harper · 2018 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 115,729 ratings
shares: slow burn, rural, family · intimate, unhurried

Two brothers meet at the stockman's grave, a lonely landmark on the line between their cattle stations in outback Queensland, where their middle brother, Cameron, has been found dead.

Foster

Claire Keegan · 2010 · Ireland 93% match ★ 4.29 Goodreads · 206,081 ratings
shares: Irish, rural, family · intimate, easy read

A girl from a large, struggling family is sent to live with relatives on a farm in rural Ireland for a summer, and the quiet kindness she finds there changes her, in a single, devastating novella.

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead · 2021 · US 93% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 86,871 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Harlem Trilogy
shares: crime, family · intimate, easy read

A furniture dealer in 1960s Harlem runs a criminal sideline, and the heist novel becomes a portrait of a neighbourhood navigating the edge of the Civil Rights era.

The Dry

Jane Harper · 2016 · Australia 92% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 278,788 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Aaron Falk
shares: rural, small town · intimate, easy read

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.

The Bee Sting

Paul Murray · 2023 · Ireland 92% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 158,217 ratings
shares: Irish, rural, family · easy read, familiar

The Barnes family of a small Irish town is coming apart: the father's car dealership is failing after the 2008 crash, the mother watches the money and the marriage slip away, and their teenage daughter and young son each struggle in secret.

The Guest List

Lucy Foley · 2020 · UK 91% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 1,371,063 ratings
shares: Irish · easy read, intimate

On a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, guests gather for the wedding of a television star and a magazine publisher, and as a storm rolls in, old grudges surface and one of them is found dead.

Lucky

Marissa Stapley · 2021 · Canada 90% match ★ 3.58 Goodreads · 82,291 ratings
shares: con artist, crime · easy read, intimate

Lucky Armstrong, raised by her con-man father, is alone after a job goes wrong when she finds she is holding a winning lottery ticket she can't cash, because the name she is living under is stolen.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk · 2009 · Poland 90% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 181,931 ratings
shares: village, small town · intimate, unhurried

In a remote Polish village near the Czech border, an eccentric retired engineer who translates Blake and casts horoscopes insists that the local hunters now turning up dead were killed by the animals.

Songs in Ordinary Time

Mary McGarry Morris · 1995 · US 90% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 32,564 ratings
shares: con artist, family, small town · unhurried, easy read

In the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle, divorced and raising three children on almost nothing, falls for Omar Duvall, a drifter with a sales pitch and a past.

Dodgers

Bill Beverly · 2016 · US 90% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 6,611 ratings
shares: crime · intimate, easy read

East, fifteen, a lookout for a drug house in Los Angeles, is sent with his volatile younger brother and two other boys on a drive halfway across the country to Wisconsin to kill a witness.

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · 1939 · US 89% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 174,300 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Philip Marlowe
shares: crime · intimate, easy read

A private detective in 1930s Los Angeles takes a missing-person case that leads through a web of pornography, murder, and the corruption of the California rich.