Books like River thieves by Michael Crummey

A middle‑aged man returns to his childhood home, where memories of a magical girl and a mysterious farm haunt him, revealing a dark, supernatural mystery from his youth.

A young woman raised alone in a North Carolina marsh is accused of murder after a local man's death, weaving a tale of survival, love, and secrets in the wilderness.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

In Seattle's Japantown, a decades‑old hotel holds the hidden belongings of families uprooted during World War II, and a young Chinese‑American man and a Japanese‑American girl must navigate love, war, and a painful legacy to find forgiveness and hope.

A fast-paced historical romance set in early America, featuring the legendary Natty Bumppo and a love story set against the backdrop of the French and Indian War.

Natty Bumppo's first journey into frontier life and the challenges of defending his freedom against dangerous Indians and the corrupting influence of a ruthless new lawman, setting the stage for the larger story of The Last of the Mohicans.

A tender sequel to Skylark, Caleb's Story follows the Witting family’s prairie farm as a mysterious stranger reveals himself to be their long‑lost grandfather, prompting Jacob to confront his past.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished follows the Sartoris family, whose code of personal responsibility and courage embodies the best of Old South traditions.

Nineteenth‑century Nebraska, eleven‑year‑old Nate is left homebound after a broken leg. When his father brings home an orphan to work the farm, Nate’s pride and sense of usefulness are challenged.

A London waterman sentenced to New South Wales faces the ultimate decision when he is transported as a convict, forcing him to confront themes of love, identity and belonging in the harsh early colonial landscape.

At thirteen, Eli McCullough is taken captive by the Comanche, rises to the chief’s adopted son, and later struggles alone as frontier tensions and disease strip his people—an epic of survival and identity.

After surviving a deadly civil war and a perilous sea voyage, Sri Lankan refugee Mahindan and his young son face detention and terrorism accusations in Canada, while his lawyer and an adjudicator grapple with the ethics of asylum.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Nell Zink’s debut novel, Mislaid, explores intricate family ties—mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters, fathers and sons—against a backdrop of historical New York, touching on cultural heritage, race awareness, and identity.

A Good Man is the final installment in Guy Vanderhaeghe's popular Western trilogy, focusing on the Canadian-American frontier in the 1860s.