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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorTempted by Trouble
Eric Jerome Dickey · 400 pages
When his promising future is upended by the recession, former Detroit auto industry employee Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, make a morally ambiguous and ultimately violent deal with a crime boss that forces Dmytryk to reassess his beliefs.
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · 336 pages
Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But
Black Widow
Christopher Brookmyre · 432 pages
There is no perfect marriage. There is no perfect murder. Diana Jager is clever, strong and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal details are released on the internet as revenge for her writing. Then she meets Peter. He's kind, generous, and knows nothing about her past: the second chance she
Garnethill
Denise Mina · 432 pages
When Maureen O'Donnell finds her boyfriend butchered in her living room, her world is shattered--and she is the chief suspect in the murder case.
Death of a Bookseller
Alice Slater · 481 pages
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024 *** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR at the FINGERPRINT AWARDS *** WOULD YOU KILL FOR A GOOD STORY? 'A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut' CAROLINE KEPNES 'Your new obsession' ERIN KELLY 'Savage, witty and all-consuming' ABIGAIL DEAN 'A dark masterpiece. It will work its way under your skin like
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane · 487 pages
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to
Perfect Match
Jodi Picoult · 368 pages
What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? Perfect Match In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is trauma
The Widow
Fiona Barton · 401 pages
"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. A
The Devil She Knows
Bill Loehfelm · 329 pages
Struggling with a dead-end job and a strained relationship with her mother, Maureen witnesses a gay encounter between a co-worker and an aspiring politician and is threatened into silence, a situation that is complicated by the co-worker's suspicious death.
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
Killshot
Elmore Leonard · 304 pages
It’s not Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne’s fault that they were in the real estate office when a pair of thugs walked in with extortion on their minds. But as far as aging Ojibway Indian hit man Armand Degas is concerned, the Colsons are going to have to pay dearly for seeing too much ... and for the damage Wayne inflicted on Armand and his sicko partner Richie Nix with a tire iron.
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell · 384 pages
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Over 1 million copies sold! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author known for her “superb pacing, twisted characters, and captivating prose” (BuzzFeed), Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, p
Sweetheart
Chelsea Cain · 328 pages
Damaged detective Archie Sheridan is back home in Portland, Ore., trying to resume a normal life. Archie's ties to serial killer Gretchen Lowell still run deep, even if he's stopped their weekly visits in prison. Meanwhile, reporter Susan Ward is finishing an article accusing a beloved U.S. senator of seducing his children's 14-year-old babysitter a decade earlier. When three bodies are discovered
Hanging Hill
Mo Hayder · 432 pages
What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible? These are questions Sally has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. When Sally's daughter gets into difficulties, Sally finds she needs cas
All Yours
Claudia Pineiro · 172 pages
"Inés is convinced that every wife is bound to be betrayed one day, so she is not surprised to find a note in her husband Ernesto's briefcase with a heart smeared in lipstick crossed by the words 'All Yours'. Following him to a park in Buenos Aires on a rainy winter evening, she witnesses a violent quarrel between her husband and another woman. The woman collapses; Ernesto sinks her body in a near
White Lines
Tracy Brown · 512 pages
Fleeing her home to escape the abuse of her mother's boyfriend, Jada seeks refuge with Born, the neighborhood kingpin, but her new life is threatened by crack addiction, prostitution, a struggle to rebuild her life, and a stormy romance with a street hustler.
Little Secrets
Jennifer Hillier · 352 pages
National Bestseller!"Unflinching and unforgettable. Little Secrets has everything you want in a thriller" —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every DoorOverwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting novel of psychological suspense. All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...
Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl · 144 pages
Lamb to the Slaughter is a short, sharp, chilling story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale. In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police . . . -- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/191998/lamb-to-the-slaughter--a-roald-dahl-short-stor
Long Bright River
Liz Moore · 473 pages
A female cop begins to fear for her addicted sister. A serial murder is targeting homeless female prostitutes. Can Mickey find her sister before the killer does ?
Let That Be the Reason
Vickie M. Stringer · 288 pages
A true to life story of a female hustler, who gets caught up in the street game. She take you through it all with her mind on one thing and one thing on her mind "money."