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The Grownup

Gillian Flynn · 71 pages

A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful, rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However, when the "psychic" visits t

Haunted HouseUnreliable NarratorPsychological ThrillerTwisty
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The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 400 pages

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."—New York Times Book ReviewBestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massa

Nanny or CaregiverEpistolary FormatTwistyPsychological Thriller
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Verity

Colleen Hoover · 314 pages

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to fi

Psychological ThrillerUnreliable NarratorTwistyEpistolary Format
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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James · 142 pages

The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.

Nanny or CaregiverKids in DangerUnreliable NarratorAtmospheric
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Night Film

Marisha Pessl · 624 pages

Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he lo

TwistyGothic FictionUnreliable NarratorPsychological Thriller
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Hidden Pictures

Jason Rekulak · 372 pages

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Mājkalpotāja

Freida McFadden · 336 pages

Nanny or CaregiverPsychological ThrillerTwistyPrison
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid · 224 pages

*I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.* *Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.”* *And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.* In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Ia

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The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 464 pages

Jewell has a way with the quietly creepy subgenre of domestic suspense. Her books, this one included, often rely on the kind of passive spying we do on our neighbors and loved ones—the kind of spying that uncovers unsettling secrets. In this book, the heroine, Libby Jones, has reached her twenty-fifth birthday and thus learns what her long-dead parents left to her: a house in London’s chichi Kensi

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The Asylum

Johan Theorin · 410 pages

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Little Darlings

Melanie Golding · 312 pages

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VERITY- A NOVEL: COLLEEN HOOVER.

Hoover Colleen Hoover

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The Likeness

Tana French · 466 pages

In the follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must

Psychological ThrillerTwistyAtmosphericEerie
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The Widow's House

Carol Goodman

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins · 294 pages

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I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh · 384 pages

Devastated by a hit-and-run accident that has ended the life of her young son, Jenna moves to the remote Welsh coast to search for healing while two dedicated policemen try to get to the bottom of the case.

Psychological ThrillerUnreliable NarratorTwistyTense and Suspenseful
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The Ice Twins

S.K. Tremayne · 339 pages

Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.

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A Reliable Wife

Robert Goolrick · 291 pages

A widower advertises for "a reliable wife" and he chooses Catherine. To her surprise, Catherine learns to love Ralph and must, as a result, abandon the remaining traces of her former life and cope with the haunting effects of family secrets.

TwistyPsychological ThrillerUnreliable NarratorHidden Identity
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How I Lost You

Jenny Blackhurst · 352 pages

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In the Blood

Lisa Unger · 374 pages

Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling t

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Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane · 392 pages

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.

Psychological ThrillerUnreliable NarratorTwistyAtmospheric
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Playing Nice

J. P. Delaney · 416 pages

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Cold Eternity

S.A. Barnes · 248 pages

"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author Cold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death... Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for w

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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 736 pages

Unreliable NarratorHaunted HouseEpistolary FormatTwisty
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