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Diary

Chuck Palahniuk · 272 pages

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty

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Home Before Dark

Riley Sager · 389 pages

Secret PastEerieTense and SuspensefulFamily Secrets
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The Naturals

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 308 pages

Young Adult thriller book series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes about a classified FBI program that recruits teenagers with exceptional abilities to solve cold cases. The protagonist, Cassie Hobbes, joins other gifted teens, including a profiler and a statistician, in this program. The series combines suspenseful crime-solving with personal danger as the Naturals find themselves in a lethal game of cat a

CultsFamily SecretsSecret PastTense and Suspenseful
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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

Secret PastFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulSmall Town
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Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 349 pages

Libby Day tinha apenas sete anos quando testemunhou o brutal assassinato da mãe e das duas irmãs na fazenda da família. O acusado do crime foi seu irmão mais velho, que acabou condenado à prisão perpétua. Desde aquele dia, Libby passou a viver sem rumo. Uma vida paralisada no tempo, sem amigos, família ou trabalho. Mas, vinte e quatro anos depois, quando é procurada por um grupo de pessoas conv

CultsTense and SuspensefulSmall TownFamily Secrets
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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose · 614 pages

CultsSecret PastTense and SuspensefulThriller
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The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James · 338 pages

Upstate NY, 1982. Viv Delaney knows something isn't right at the Sun Down motel, where she works as a night clerk, and she's determined find out what. Upstate NY, 2017. Carly Kirk has always been fascinated by her aunt Viv who disappeared from the Sun Down before Carly was born. Using a small inheritance from when her mom dies, Carly leaves college to figure out what happened to her aunt thirty-fi

Tense and SuspensefulSmall TownEerieFamily Secrets
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The Birthday Party

Laurent Mauvignier · 454 pages

Secret PastFamily SecretsTense and SuspensefulArtist Protagonist
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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

CultsSecret PastTense and SuspensefulFamily Secrets
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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulSmall TownCults
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Unspoken

Lisa Jackson · 400 pages

WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her daughter is alive. But going home means demanding answers that her father, Judge Jerome Cole, won't be happy to give--and facing Nevada Smith, the m

Secret PastFamily SecretsSmall TownTense and Suspenseful
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The Other Child

Lucy Atkins · 528 pages

Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth ... but what happens when that lie destroys everything you love? . When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high profile paediatric heart surgeon, she sees something troubled in his face, and feels instantly drawn to him. Their relationship quickly deepens, but then Tess, single mother to nine-year-old Joe, falls pregnant, and Greg is offered the job of a

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The Face on the Milk Carton

Caroline B. Cooney · 188 pages

After recognizing the photo of the little girl listed as missing on the milk carton, 15-year-old Janie Johnson’s life is forever changed as she struggles to balance loyalty with doing what is right.

Secret PastCultsTense and SuspensefulFamily Secrets
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Eight Days To Live

Iris Johansen · 408 pages

CultsArtist ProtagonistTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Local Girl Missing

Claire Douglas · 352 pages

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulSmall TownFamily Secrets
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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

CultsTense and SuspensefulEerieFamily Secrets
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The Tale of Halcyon Crane

Wendy Webb · 367 pages

A young woman travels to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling, modern, ghost story. A letter upends Hallie's life. She was raised by her loving father, having been told her mother died in a fire. Her mother, Madlyn, was alive until very recently. Why would Hallie's father have taken her away? What happened to her family thirty years ago? Hallie travels to where her mother li

Secret PastEerieTense and SuspensefulFamily Secrets
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A Cry In The Night

Mary Higgins Clark · 328 pages

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The Final Judgment

Richard North Patterson · 500 pages

A woman lawyer returns to her family she has not seen for 20 years. She is Caroline Masters, the daughter of a New Hampshire judge, who agrees to defend her niece, accused of murder. All the ghosts from her past rise up, including the memory of the death of her mother and a man with whom she had an affair. A family drama by the author of Eyes of a Child.

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsSmall Town
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The Perfect Lie

Jo Spain · 400 pages

'Will keep you guessing and guessing' Cara HunterHe jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder.Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ord

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulFamily SecretsSmall Town
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Strange Sally Diamond

Liz Nugent · 384 pages

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Dead Sleep

Greg Iles · 467 pages

They are called "The Sleeping Women." A series of unsettling paintings in which the nude female subjects appear to be not asleep, but dead. Photojournalist Jordan Glass has another reason to find the paintings disturbing...The face on one of the nudes is her own-or perhaps the face of her twin sister, who disappeared and is still missing. At the urging of the FBI, Jordan becomes both hunter and hu

Artist ProtagonistSecret PastTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Pray for Silence

Linda Castillo · 304 pages

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulSmall TownThriller
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In the Waning Light

Loreth Anne White · 420 pages

Secret PastTense and SuspensefulSmall TownThriller

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