Psst: 40 Books About Family Secrets
This Riot Recommendation asking for the best books about family secrets is sponsored by Poisoned Pen Press, bringing you Fogland Point by Doug Burgess.
David Hazard wanted nothing more than to forget his renegade family and the foggy New England village “on the wrong side” of Narragansett Bay where he grew up. When sudden tragedy brings him back to Little Compton to care for his grandmother during her struggle with dementia, he discovers her fragile memories may hold the key to a bizarre mystery half a century old—and perhaps to the sudden and brutal murder right next door.
A good story has conflict, right? And what’s more conflict-inducing than a family secret that just can’t be kept any longer? So we asked you to give us your picks for books worth reading because of the family secrets they revolve around. And here is but a smattering of what you divulged. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown Tomorrow by Graham Swift The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot The Guestbook by Andrea Hurst When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware Coming to Rosemont by Barbara Hinske Broken Pieces by Kathleen Long The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng A Family Affair by Mary Campisi The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley Blood’s Echo by Isabella Maldonado Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave The House by the Lake by Ella Carey The Broken Girls by Simone St. James The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams The Pleasing Hour by Lily King Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet Chance Harbor by Holly Robinson Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan What You Don’t Know by Joann Chaney The Distant Hours by Kate Morton Family Tree by Susan Wiggs The Wilding Sisters by Eve Chase The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Reunion by Hannah Pittard Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon
David Hazard wanted nothing more than to forget his renegade family and the foggy New England village “on the wrong side” of Narragansett Bay where he grew up. When sudden tragedy brings him back to Little Compton to care for his grandmother during her struggle with dementia, he discovers her fragile memories may hold the key to a bizarre mystery half a century old—and perhaps to the sudden and brutal murder right next door.
A good story has conflict, right? And what’s more conflict-inducing than a family secret that just can’t be kept any longer? So we asked you to give us your picks for books worth reading because of the family secrets they revolve around. And here is but a smattering of what you divulged. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley The Light of Paris by Eleanor Brown Tomorrow by Graham Swift The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot The Guestbook by Andrea Hurst When I’m Gone by Emily Bleeker Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware Coming to Rosemont by Barbara Hinske Broken Pieces by Kathleen Long The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng A Family Affair by Mary Campisi The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley Blood’s Echo by Isabella Maldonado Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave The House by the Lake by Ella Carey The Broken Girls by Simone St. James The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams The Pleasing Hour by Lily King Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet Chance Harbor by Holly Robinson Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Miller’s Valley by Anna Quindlen Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan What You Don’t Know by Joann Chaney The Distant Hours by Kate Morton Family Tree by Susan Wiggs The Wilding Sisters by Eve Chase The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter Reunion by Hannah Pittard Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon