Books like The Glass Lake by Maeve Binchy

In Maeve Binchy’s warm tale of friendship, two young women from a small Irish village follow their hopes to Dublin, where hidden secrets and love stories collide and test the bonds of their Circle of Friends.

In the Irish countryside, three generations of women are reunited, unraveling decades of separation and estrangement in a quiet family drama.

Elizabeth White, evacuated from wartime London, finds solace and friendship in small Kilgarret, Ireland, where she bonds with Aisling, a spirited young woman who teaches her about faith and life. Their decades‑long friendship faces its greatest test yet.

Ella Brady documents the famed Dublin restaurant Quentins, tracing the city’s evolving social scene from the 1970s to today through the voices of those whose lives the restaurant shaped.

Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The After House turns a thrilling shipboard setting into a tense murder mystery, combining classic detective intrigue with the suspense of axe‑handled murders on the high seas.

In Cedar Cove, private‑investigator Roy McAfee and his wife Corrie confront mysterious postcards while their daughter Linnette starts a new job at a local clinic and flirts with a horse‑farm worker. A cozy mystery filled with local life, romance, and family ties.

Three elderly men gunned down at a diner, a prosecutor's daughter joins her mother in investigating a pattern of violence.

A teenage girl, Liza Beck, lives in isolation with her mother, Eve, at Shrove House. After Eve is taken by police, a new detective uncovers strange murders linked to the house.

An emotional journey that follows Caretta Rutledge as she returns to her Lowcountry roots to restore a family beach house, become a turtle volunteer, and heal the bond with her mother.

Kate, a newly widowed mother, returns to Lost Lake in Georgia—a sleepy summer resort—to heal with her eccentric daughter Devin, hoping the place’s forgotten magic and their shared past can revive the cottage community and their hearts.

"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller, "* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea ... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business). Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his father's business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone's relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda, the psychic who is afraid of her own visions. You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true."--

Margaret Maron's mystery, Slow Dollar, follows fictional judge Deborah Knott as she navigates a North Carolina case that turns to the intrigue of a circus.

Alzheimer’s threatens the life of famed advice columnist Grace Dorian, forcing her daughter Francine to step into the spotlight, manage the family business, and navigate a growing romantic interest, all while keeping Grace’s condition a secret.