Books like Forsaken Country by Allen Eskens

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

In a Minnesota college English class, a routine writing assignment leads Joe to confront a dying Vietnam veteran—also a convicted murderer—forcing unexpected choices about justice and family.

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When global sea levels surge beyond expectations, NUMA scientists Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala uncover a sinister plot to destabilize the Pacific and displace a billion people, forcing them on a high‑stakes globe‑wide race to stop catastrophe.

It is 1974 when Leni Allbright's impulsive father Ernt decides the family is moving to Alaska. But the Alaskan winter is just as unforgiving as Ernt, and life quickly becomes a struggle for survival.

A family’s dream of an ancient North Carolina house turns into a nightmarish haunt as unseen forces begin to terrorize the occupants.

With his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, self-deprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to full-time country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenth-century farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like:Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich. And everyone in the area is fully aware that Michael "don't know shit about septics."The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a year-round event -- right on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roe -- whose motto regarding the local flora is "Whack it all back! " -- the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.

Detective Max Rupert and attorney Boady Sanden, long‑time friends, find their loyalty tested when they each take opposite sides in the mysterious murder of Jennavieve Pruitt—revealing past traumas and personal guilt along the way.

Minnesota detective Alexander Rupert, on a grand‑jury subpoena, tackles an identity‑theft case that could restore his tarnished name—until a seasoned assassin, Drago Basta, crosses his path.

Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates a murder in a small Minnesota town, only to uncover that the victim—who shares his name—may be his estranged father. The story blends crime, family secrets, and journalism.