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In Her Eyes

Sarah Alderson · 286 pages

Home InvasionPsychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTense and Suspenseful
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The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier · 454 pages

Home InvasionPsychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulMother and Daughter
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As Night Falls

Jenny Milchman · 469 pages

"From the acclaimed author of Ruin Falls and Cover of Snow comes a breathless new novel of psychological suspense about a dark, twisted turn of events that could shatter a family--a read perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard. Gazing out at the shadowy woods, Sandy has no idea that tonight her life will be forever changed. As a late autumn sky darkens over the Adiron

Home InvasionPsychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTense and Suspenseful
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That Night

Chevy Stevens · 384 pages

"Toni Murphy was eighteen when she and her boyfriend, Ryan, were wrongly convicted of the murder of her younger sister. Now she is thirty-four and back in her hometown, working every day to forge and adjust to a new life on the outside. She's doing everything in her power to avoid violating her parole and going back to prison. But nothing is making that easy--not Ryan, who is convinced he can figu

BullyingPsychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTense and Suspenseful
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Intensity

Dean Koontz · 436 pages

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himse

Home InvasionTense and SuspensefulPsychological ThrillerThriller
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Transgressions

Sarah Dunant · 352 pages

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Safe As Houses

Simone van der Vlugt · 262 pages

A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is not quick enough. Suddenly Lisa and her young daughter find themselves held hostage in their own home.

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The Nothing Man

Catherine Ryan Howard · 288 pages

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Friend Request

Laura Marshall · 384 pages

"Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston's dead. Isn't she? 1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior year, Maria seems to be everything Louise's other friends aren't. Authentic. Funny. Brash. Within just a few days, Maria and Louise are on their way to becoming fast friends. 2016. Louise receives a heart-stopping email: Maria W

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Into the Water

Paula Hawkins · 388 pages

"A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the car

Psychological ThrillerBullyingTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Dear Killer

Katherine Ewell · 359 pages

"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--

Psychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistThriller
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Don't Look for Me

Wendy Walker · 342 pages

Mother and DaughterPsychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 297 pages

WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls.NASTY on her kneecap, BABYDOLL on her legSince she left town eight years a

Mother and DaughterPsychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Dolores Claiborne

Stephen King · 307 pages

Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years. ([sourc

Psychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Endless Night

Richard Laymon · 470 pages

Home InvasionTeen ProtagonistThrillerDark
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Method 15/33

Shannon Kirk · 258 pages

She isn't your typical teenage kidnapped victim. She's a 16 year old pregnant teenager and from the moment she is kidnapped, she feels a calm desire to not only save her unborn son but to also exact merciless revenge. Leaving nothing to chance, and secure in her timing and practice, she considers what her assets are and waits for the perfect moment to strike. Method 15/33 is what happens when the

Psychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistThriller
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The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D Jackson · 400 pages

BullyingMother and DaughterTeen ProtagonistDark
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The Quiet Girl

Nichole Heydenburg · 292 pages

How far would you go for revenge? Violet Hale is a quiet teenager whose family moved from Michigan to North Carolina. She misses her friends, especially her best friend, Abby, and her old life. But the worst part of her new school is the popular students who have targeted her, bullying her ceaselessly until she can’t stand going to school. When Violet meets a cute boy named Jess, she’s shocked whe

BullyingPsychological ThrillerTeen ProtagonistDark
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The Bad Seed

William March · 247 pages

Psychological ThrillerMother and DaughterTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 437 pages

"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, frien

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Lacy Eye

Jessica Treadway · 341 pages

Surviving a brutal attack that ends her husband's life, Hanna struggles to remember her attacker, who may be her awkward daughter's boyfriend.

Mother and DaughterPsychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulThriller
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Laird Koenig · 230 pages

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives all alone in the big house at the edge of town, and that's just how she likes it. But certain grown-ups don't like how self-possessed and fearless Rynn is. They don't like the cool way she stares them down when they threaten her, or the way she calls them out on their lies. They want to speak to her father. But Rynn has two big secrets hidden away in the cellar...and

Psychological ThrillerTense and SuspensefulTeen ProtagonistThriller
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Broken Harbour

Tana French · 544 pages

Home InvasionPsychological ThrillerThrillerDark

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