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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA 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.
Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon · 246 pages
Lady Audley’s Secret was the most successful of a long series of novels written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in what was then called the “sensation” genre because of the inventive and slightly scandalous plots of such works. Published in 1862, Lady Audley’s Secret was immediately popular and is said to have made a fortune for its author. It has never been out of print and has been the basis for a
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith · 256 pages
The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary modus operandi. Accepting a commission from a wealthy businessman to travel to Italy in an attempt to convince his wayward son to return to the United States, Ripley gradually develops a plan to assume the young man’s identity along with his bank account.
Simply Lies
David Baldacci · 432 pages
You Should Have Known
Jean Hanff Korelitz · 451 pages
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted, devoted to her husband, their young son, Henry, and the patients in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of a forthcoming book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition about men. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of
Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie · 276 pages
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway ( Linnet Doyle) had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish, rich and beautiful. A girl who had everything... until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet
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.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave · 320 pages
**The "page-turning, exhilarating" (PopSugar) and "heartfelt thriller" (Real Simple) about a woman who thinks she's found the love of her life—until he disappears.** Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, w
Heist Society
Ally Carter · 287 pages
When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her to Louvre... to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her uncle travelled to Austria... to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she conned her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. But now her dad's life is on the line, and Kat must go back to the world she tried s
The Cuckoo's Calling
J.K. Rowling · 480 pages
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 182 pages
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to
The Passenger
Lisa Lutz · 328 pages
She's left her dead husband -- and within forty-eight hours Tanya Dubois is a fugitive. It's almost impossible to live off the grid today, but Tanya-once-Amelia-now-Debra and Blue, a bartender, have the courage, the ingenuity, and the desperation, to try. Hopscotching from city to city, Debra especially is chased by a very dark secret ... can she outrun her past?
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
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 380 pages
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, M
The Gatecrasher
Madeleine Wickham · 302 pages
Everything's coming up roses for Fleur Daxeny, as she goes through more rich men than she does designer hats... if that's humanly possible. Beautiful, charming, and utterly irresistible, her success at crashing funerals to find wealthy men is remarkable. But behind Fleur's Harvey Nichols wardrobe, is a woman with a mysterious past. Fleur wastes no time in seducing her latest conquest, the han
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · 48 pages
A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde told in graphic novel format. In the murky streets of Victorian London, a vicious killer is on the prowl. The killer is Mr. Hyde. And why does Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, try to protect him? The work also contains information about Robert Louis Stevenson's life and the film versions of the work.
Pretending to Be Erica
Michelle Painchaud · 254 pages
"Violet has been preparing her entire life to step into the shoes of the missing heiress Erica Silverman, in order to pull off the biggest inside job in Las Vegas history. She doesn't count on having a conscience"--
Await Your Reply
Dan Chaon · 334 pages
The lives of three strangers interconnect in unforeseen ways–and with unexpected consequences–in acclaimed author Dan Chaon’s gripping, brilliantly written new novel. Longing to get on with his life, Miles Cheshire nevertheless can’t stop searching for his troubled twin brother, Hayden, who has been missing for ten years. Hayden has covered his tracks skillfully, moving stealthily from place to
The Ivy Tree
Mary Stewart · 320 pages
A TRICK OF COLORING... HER WALK... THE WAY SHE SMILED... An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inheritance for one of the two remaining Winslow heirs. There had been a third, but Annabel Winslow had died four years ago - so when a young woman calling
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum · 576 pages
The Impersonator
Mary Miley · 358 pages
From amazon dot com: "In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he learns he's wrong. Orphaned young, Leah's been acting since she was a todd
Here Lies Daniel Tate
Cristin Terrill · 393 pages
A young runaway is welcomed into the arms of an affluent family after he takes on the identity of the family's missing son, Daniel, only to slowly realize that the family knows more about Daniel's disappearance than they are letting on.
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray · 352 pages
In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collectio