Books Like The Grownup

Loved The Grownup by Gillian Flynn? If its short stories, female lead and twisty hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Turn of the Key, Home Before Dark and A Flicker in the Dark. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The Grownup: Short Stories · Female Lead · Twisty · First Person Narrator · Novella

The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware

Haunted House · Psychological Thriller · Unreliable Narrator · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful

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Home Before Dark
Riley Sager

Haunted House · Ghosts & Hauntings · Twisty · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful

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A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham

Unreliable Narrator · Psychological Thriller · Twisty · First Person Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid

Unreliable Narrator · Psychological Thriller · Twisty · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful

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Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak

Ghosts & Hauntings · Twisty · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · First Person Narrator

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The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn

Unreliable Narrator · Psychological Thriller · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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Verity
Colleen Hoover

Unreliable Narrator · Twisty · Psychological Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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Never Lie
Freida McFadden

Twisty · Psychological Thriller · Unreliable Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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Cold Eternity
S.A. Barnes

Ghosts & Hauntings · Haunted House · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Twisty

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The Heiress
Rachel Hawkins

Psychological Thriller · Twisty · Thriller · Mystery · Tense and Suspenseful

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Little Darlings
Melanie Golding

Psychological Thriller · Unreliable Narrator · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Horror

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The Sun Down Motel
Simone St. James

Ghosts & Hauntings · Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Twisty · Mystery

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The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell

Psychological Thriller · Twisty · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller · Mystery

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Goodnight Beautiful
Aimee Molloy

Unreliable Narrator · Twisty · Psychological Thriller · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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Something in the Water
Catherine Steadman

Psychological Thriller · Twisty · Unreliable Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful · First Person Narrator

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Phantasma
Kaylie Smith

Haunted House · Ghosts & Hauntings · Horror · Thriller · First Person Narrator

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We Used to Live Here
Marcus Kliewer

Haunted House · Twisty · Unreliable Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful · Thriller

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The Complete Stories and Poems
Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories · Unreliable Narrator · Ghosts & Hauntings · Mystery · Horror

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson

Psychological Thriller · Thriller · Twisty · First Person Narrator · Tense and Suspenseful

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The Invited
Jennifer McMahon

Haunted House · Ghosts & Hauntings · Mystery · Thriller · Horror

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