The Trouble Up North by Travis Mulhauser

For almost two hundred years, the Sawbrooks have owned a vast tract of land in northern Michigan. Because the land was unsuitable for farming, the family were bootleggers--transporting goods between the U.S. and Canada. Now Rhoda Sawbrook is struggling to keep the land. Her husband, Edward, is dying of cancer and his health care needs are straining them financially. Rhoda and Edward have three children--Lucy, Buckner, and Jewell. Lucy is considered by Rhoda to be a traitor to the family because she is a park ranger and has given the land Rhoda gifted her to a land trust. Middle child Buckner is an alcoholic who has struggled to maintain steady employment and staying sober. The youngest, Jewell, agrees to help someone out for some quick cash--an act that lands the five members of the Sawbrook family on the other side of the law yet again, fighting for survival. A great read-alike for Small Mercies.

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

It's 1968 when novelist Gabriel Wolfe comes back into Beth's life. When they were teenagers, Gabriel and Beth were passionately in love. Now, years later, Beth is married to Frank, while divorced Gabriel has moved back to his family's estate, Meadowlands, with his son, Leo. When Frank shoots Leo's dog to protect his lambs, it sets in motion a series of tragedies and secrets for all involved.

Nobody's Fool by Harlan Coben

PI Sami Kierce is teaching a night school class when a woman walks in. Sami believes she is Anna, a girlfriend he last saw over twenty years ago. In fact, back then, Anna was last seen covered in blood and presumed dead--with Sami next to her in bed. Sure that the woman is Anna, Sami tries to follow her to figure out what's going on, but Sami's investigation ends up raising way more questions than answers. In Nobody's Fool, Coben writes another multi-layered puzzle of a novel that's hard to put down.