Books Set in North Carolina

Fiction set in North Carolina. Find mysteries, historical fiction, and YA books about North Carolina.

Updated July 24, 2023
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Big lies in a small town
Chamberlain, Diane
Paper Book
A decades-old disappearance, and a quest to find the truth . . . From the bestselling author Diane Chamberlain, Big Lies in a Small Town is an emotional novel about two women connected by a painting that holds many dark secrets. 'Excellent' - Jodi Picoult,...
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Henry, Emily
Paper Book
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books. Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis. Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the woman men date beforethey find...
The girl from Widow Hills : a novel
Miranda, Megan
Paper Book
A good neighborhood
Fowler, Therese
Paper Book
A land more kind than home
Cash, Wiley.
Paper Book
One Sunday, nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting image - inspired by a horrific true event - to bring us this story about cruelty and innocence, and the failure of...
Look homeward, angel : a story of the buried life
Wolfe, Thomas
Paper Book
Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to realise that he must leave his home behind if he...
Serena : a novel
Rash, Ron
Paper Book
George and Serena Pemberton arrive in the wilds of the North Carolina mountains to build a life together in a rural logging town. But Serena Pemberton is unlike any woman this town has ever seen: overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes and even saving her husband in the wilderness. So when Serena...
Where the crawdads sing
Owens, Delia
Paper Book
OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews...

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