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THE BOOKSHELF
Explore psychological thrillers, from secrets at home to mysteries built around an unanswered question.
Freida McFadden
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A live-in housemaid enters a wealthy household where the comfortable surface hides something troubling. The appeal is the gap between what a home looks like and what happens inside it.
Ruth Ware
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A nanny takes a job in a remote Scottish smart home. What first looks like an opportunity becomes a story of suspicion, surveillance and a household that is hard to trust.
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B. A. Paris
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Jack and Grace appear to have an enviable marriage. Small details about their life together invite a much less comfortable explanation of what happens away from their guests.
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Alex Michaelides
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An artist stops speaking after a violent event. A psychotherapist becomes determined to understand her silence, turning the search for an explanation into the center of the story.
Colleen Hoover
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An injured author's series needs finishing, and Lowen Ashleigh takes the job. Inside the Crawford home, she finds a manuscript Verity wrote about herself.
Freida McFadden
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A house viewing turns into a stay when a storm strands a newlywed couple in a missing psychiatrist's home.
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Alice Feeney
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A couple with a struggling marriage spends a weekend in Scotland that was not won by chance.
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Ruth Ware
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A travel journalist on a small cruise ship sees a woman go overboard. The facts on board seem to say otherwise.
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Paula Hawkins
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A commuter's habit of watching strangers from her train leads her into a police investigation.
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Ruth Ware
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A message brings Isa and her old school friends back to Salten. A discovery on the beach threatens a secret they have kept for seventeen years.
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Lucy Foley
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Guests arrive on an Irish island for a lavish wedding. Behind the celebrations, old grievances surface, and someone ends up dead.
Ashley Elston
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Evie Porter's life is an assignment. Her employer gave her the identity and target, but her feelings for Ryan Sumner complicate the job.
Lucy Foley
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Old university friends gather at a remote Scottish estate for New Year. A blizzard cuts them off, their resentments surface, and one of the group dies.
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Julie Clark
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Meg changes names and occupations to gain people's trust. Kat has waited ten years to expose her, but getting close to Meg complicates what Kat believes about her target.
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Liv Constantine
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Amber wants the wealthy life Daphne and Jackson Parrish appear to have. She befriends Daphne to get close to the family while keeping parts of her own past hidden.
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Inspired by: The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
AFTER THE LAST PAGE
Finished The Housemaid? Compare three possible next reads by the household secrets, uneasy settings and unanswered questions that connect them.
Explore this guide : Books like The HousemaidA suggested starting book: Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
A NEW WRITER TO DISCOVER
Explore B. A. Paris, Ruth Ware and Alex Michaelides through one suggested starting book each, with clear reasons to choose your next author.
Explore this guide : Authors like Freida McFaddenInspired by: The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
ANOTHER QUESTION TO FOLLOW
Looking for books like The Silent Patient? Compare Never Lie, The Girl on the Train and Verity by their hidden accounts, central questions and settings.
Explore this guide : Books like The Silent PatientInspired by: Verity by Colleen Hoover
SECRETS BEHIND THE FRONT DOOR
Find books like Verity for a newcomer in a secretive home, letters from a troubled marriage or a couple whose public image hides a different private life.
Explore this guide : Books like VerityA suggested starting book: Never Lie by Freida McFadden
FOLLOW THE KIND OF MYSTERY YOU LOVE
Explore authors like Ruth Ware through three starting books: Freida McFadden for isolation, Alice Feeney for marital secrets and Paula Hawkins for a witness mystery.
Explore this guide : Authors like Ruth WareInspired by: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
WHEN THE LIE IS PART OF THE PLAN
Looking for books like First Lie Wins? Start with The Lies I Tell for a con artist with changing names, then compare The Last Mrs. Parrish and The Housemaid.
Explore this guide : Books like First Lie WinsInspired by: The Guest List by Lucy Foley
CHOOSE YOUR NEXT GATHERING
Find books like The Guest List: The Hunting Party for a snowed-in reunion, The Lying Game for old school friendships and The Woman in Cabin 10 for a trip at sea.
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