AmongReaders.com Add a tiny library
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

The Dying Breath

Alane Ferguson · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Nearly Found

Elle Cosimano · 384 pages

AFTER HELPING TO CATCH A SERIAL KILLER last spring, Nearly Boswell isn't looking for her internship in a crime lab to be anything more than an edge on her college applications. She's determined to get out of Sunny View trailer park and prove to herself that she's nothing like her con man father. But on her first day, a girl from the trailer park turns up dead and an old ally of Nearly's calls i

Forensic InvestigationTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultMystery
❤️

Blindsighted

Karin Slaughter · 393 pages

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another lo

Forensic InvestigationStalkerMysteryTense and Suspenseful
❤️

From Potter's Field

Patricia Cornwell · 405 pages

In Richmond, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of Virginia and consultant for the FBI, is in the midst of a late-night autopsy at the morgue when the call comes: Gault, the sadistic psychopath who has eluded capture for years, has struck again. For Scarpetta, her worst nightmare returns. While Scarpetta sorts through strange forensic evidence, including an uncommon tread pattern and ext

Forensic InvestigationStalkerMysteryTense and Suspenseful
❤️

Killer

Sara Shepard · 336 pages

ROSEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA, SEEMS PICTURE PERFECT. BUT PICTURES OFTEN LIE--AND SO DO ROSEWOOD'S FOUR PRETTIEST GIRLS. Hanna's on a mission to corrupt Rosewood's youth--starting with a very attractive sophomore. Aria's snooping into her boyfriend's past. Spencer's . . . stealing from her family. And pure little Emily's abstaining from abstinence. Tsk, tsk, tsk. These pretty little liars sho

StalkerYoung AdultMysteryTense and Suspenseful
❤️

The Surgeon

Tess Gerritsen · 368 pages

If it's gripping, it's Gerritsen. The terrifying first Jane Rizzoli bestseller.In Boston, there's a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician – a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.But as hom

Forensic InvestigationStalkerTense and SuspensefulMystery
❤️

The Naturals Collection

Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 798 pages

Don’t miss a page of the thrilling Naturals series by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes—this collection of four books includes a bonus e-novella! In The Naturals, seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But, it's not a skill that she's ever taken seriously. That is, until th

Forensic InvestigationMysteryYoung AdultTense and Suspenseful
❤️

Finale

Becca Fitzpatrick · 464 pages

"Nora and Patch must hide their relationship in order to end the war between the fallen angels and the Nephilim."-- Nora and Patch must hide their relationship in order to end the war between the fallen angels and the Nephilim. The plot contains violence. Book #4.

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
❤️

Déjà Dead

Kathy Reichs · 509 pages

Un beau jour d'été à Montréal, sur la table de dissection du laboratoire de médecine légale de la police provinciale, arrive un cadavre découvert dans l'ancien parc du Grand Séminaire. Le docteur Temperance Brennan est chargé d'autopsier ce qu'il reste d'une femme découpée en morceaux. Sa sinistre expertise va l'amener en première ligne de l'enquête, face à l'assassin pervers qui collectionne les

Forensic InvestigationStalkerMysteryTense and Suspenseful
❤️

The Body Finder

Kimberly Derting · 329 pages

High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murderers and their victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town, and although her best friend and would-be boyfriend Jay promises to keep her safe, she becomes a target.

StalkerYoung AdultMysteryTense and Suspenseful
❤️

To Catch a Killer

Sheryl Scarborough · 320 pages

When Erin discovers the body of her biology teacher, she begins her own investigation into the murder of her mother when Erin was just a toddler.

Forensic InvestigationYoung AdultMysteryTeen Protagonist
❤️

Perception

Kim Harrington

When you can see things others can't, what happens when someone is watching you? Everybody knows about Clarity "Clare" Fern. She's the psychic girl in school, the one who can place her hands on something and see hidden visions from the past. Only, Clare would rather not be a celebrity. She prefers hanging back, observing. Her gift is not a game to her. But then someone starts playing wi

StalkerTense and SuspensefulMysteryYoung Adult
❤️

The Watched

Casey Hill · 409 pages

Quantico-trained forensic investigator Reilly Steel is back in Florida. Unsure about both her future and her position within the Dublin police force, Reilly hopes that reconnecting with her old FBI mentor Daniel Forrest will help get her thoughts together. When Daniel's son, policeman Todd Forrest, is called to a murder scene he is stopped in his tracks. Not just because of the grotesque and theat

Forensic InvestigationStalkerMysteryFemale Lead
❤️

As Good as Dead: The Finale to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 480 pages

An amazing thriller part of the 3 part series, and the final book. the main character, Pip Fitz-Amobi is about to head to college, but she is still daunted by the results of her previous investigations regarding other crimes (see *a good girls guide to murder*, and *as good as dead*). These days, she is death threats in the wake of her well known-true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an

StalkerYoung AdultTense and SuspensefulMystery
❤️

Deadly Little Secret

Laurie Faria Stolarz

When someone starts stalking high school junior Camelia, everyone at school assumes that it is Ben, who is new at school and rumored to have killed his previous girlfriend, but Camelia is nevertheless inexplicably drawn to him.

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
❤️

Made for You

Melissa Marr · 358 pages

"Southern small town darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer, and realizes that she, too, is a target of the depraved stalker"-- Southern darling Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital with the frightening ability to see through the eyes of the victims of a serial killer and realizes that she, too, is a ta

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultMystery
❤️

The Best Friend

R.L. Stine · 147 pages

Becka Norwood's life is turned upside down when a new girl named Honey starts claiming to be her best friend. And it soon becomes clear as to what lengths Honey will go to make that delusion reality....

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
❤️

White Water Terror

Carolyn Keene · 149 pages

Nancy and her friends find their lives in danger when a maniac stalks them while they are on a white water rafting expedition.

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultMystery
❤️

I Hunt Killers

Barry Lyga · 359 pages

*What if the world's worst serial killer...was your dad?* Jasper "Jazz" Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he's also the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the criminal's point of view. And now bodies are piling up in Lobo's

Forensic InvestigationYoung AdultTense and SuspensefulMystery
❤️

The Stalker

Joan Lowery Nixon · 180 pages

When her best friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove her innocence by finding the real culprit.

StalkerYoung AdultMysteryTeen Protagonist
🙂

Pretty Twisted

Gina Blaxill

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
🙂

Lost Bullet

Malcolm Rose · 216 pages

Forensic InvestigationYoung AdultMysteryTeen Protagonist
🙂

The Missing Girl

Norma Fox Mazer · 286 pages

He could be any man, any respectable, ordinary man.But he's not.This man watches the five Herbert girls — Beauty, Mim, Stevie, Fancy, and Autumn — with disturbing fascination.Unaware of his scrutiny and his increasingly agitated and forbidden thoughts about them, the sisters go on with their ordinary everyday lives — planning, arguing, laughing, and crying — as if nothing bad could ever breach the

StalkerYoung AdultTense and SuspensefulTeen Protagonist
🙂

Mistress of the Art of Death

Ariana Franklin · 408 pages

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition."In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed

Forensic InvestigationTense and SuspensefulMysteryFemale Lead
🙂

Are You in the House Alone?

Richard Peck · 156 pages

**Sixteen-year-old Gail is living the upper-class suburban life when she begins receiving terrifying phone calls and notes in her locker**. And the calls keep coming. When she's attacked by the town's golden boy everyone refuses to take action against him and his powerful family. **A frightening drama that deals with heavy teen issues and the idea of justice *(or lack thereof)* from bestselling au

StalkerTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultTeen Protagonist

In the works

To be read SpinnerCan’t pick your next book? Spin your Want to read.Blind date with a bookPick a mood, unwrap a surprise.Add a tiny librarySnap a little free library and its books.