Character: Complex Tone: Creepy Writing Style: Compelling

A psychologist is unwittingly embroiled in two spectacular unsolved murders, three decades apart, when the foster brother convicted of killing their family years earlier is exonerated, making him question the testimony that led to the conviction. By the award-winning author of Among the Missing.

If you like Ill Will by Dan Chaon, you may also like The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

Resolving to leave her secrets behind when she gets married, a young lawyer is strangely drawn to a convicted killer during her first murder case in ways that shape her psychologically charged relationship with a young neighbor years later.

If you like My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry, you may also like The Hidden Girl by Louise Millar.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

A psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.

If you like The Girl Before by JP Delaney, you may also like The Apartment by S.L. Grey.

Character: Complex, Quirky Writing Style: Compelling and Witty

Zelda Antipova–presumed dead–leaves a series of clues for her twin sister, Ava, which leads her on a scavenger-hunt-like quest to solve the mystery of Zelda’s disappearance.

If you like Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach, you may also like The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht.

Character: Flawed, Sympathetic Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Atmospheric, Suspenseful and Thought-provoking Writing Style: Compelling

A gripping suspense tale set in 1960s New York and inspired by true events follows the investigation of a cocktail waitress whose two young children have been brutally murdered and a rookie tabloid reporter who would uncover the truth.

If you like Little Deaths by Emma Flint, you may also like The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates.

Character: Flawed Tone: Atmospheric and Moving Writing Style: Compelling and Stylistically complex

Living with her parents in a nearly abandoned counterculture commune, fourteen-year-old Linda finds her perspectives and desires changed by the arrest of a teacher and the secrets of a new neighbor family.

If you like History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund, you may also like Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell.

Character: Unreliable narrator Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Creepy and Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

Moving to a Hudson River valley community to revitalize their marriage and literary ambitions, Jess and Clare confront a dark pall that hangs over the crumbling estate where they work as caretakers before Clare begins to have hallucinations about the house’s anguished past.

If you like The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman, you may also like Sweet Damage by Rebecca James.

Character: Complex; Well-developed Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

After neurosurgeon Eitan Green hits and kills an African migrant while driving on a deserted road late at night, the victim’s wife tracks him down and confronts him the next day, and her price for silence shatters his safe existence.

If you like Waking Lions, you may also like Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell.

Character: Strong female and Well-developed Pace: Intensifying Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

Spotting her own picture in a classified ad referencing a mysterious website, Zoe discovers that other women who have appeared in the ad have become the victims of increasingly violent crimes.

If you like I See You by Clare Mackintosh, you may also like I Am No One by Patrick Flanery.

Character: Complex Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

When a civic-minded high-school senior is found murdered on the opening night of the school play, town sheriff and family friend Del Goodman discovers unsettling truths about the victim’s mesmerizing nature and the secrets that led to her death.

If you like Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia, you may also like The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan.

Tone: Haunting and Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

A young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances.

If you like The Possessions by Sarah Flannery Murphy, you may also like The Lost Child of Lychford by Paul Cornell.

Character: Unreliable narrator Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Disturbing and Menacing Writing Style: Compelling and Stylistically complex

The secretary of a successful psychiatrist is drawn into the seemingly picture-perfect life of her boss and his wife before discovering a complex web of controlling behaviors and secrets that gradually reveal profound and dangerous flaws in the couple’s relationship.

If you like Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, you may also like The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Fast-paced

A reclusive best-selling author, haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister, spots her sister’s killer on television and resolves to use the plot of her next novel to set an irresistible trap for him.

If you like The Trap by Melanie Raabe, you may also like The First Prophet by Kay Hooper.

Character: Unreliable narrator Storyline: Character-driven Tone: Haunting and Menacing Writing Style: Compelling

A first English translation by an award-winning Spanish author follows the nightmarish experiences of a dying woman and a boy beside her hospital bed, who explore the dynamics of broken souls, toxic relationships and the power and desperation of family.

If you like Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, you may also like The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler.

Character: Unreliable narrator Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Atmospheric and Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

When someone begins stalking her, intimidating her boyfriend, and shadowing her daughter, Lindsey Nash is convinced it’s her abusive ex-husband, but his claims of innocence have her wondering if the threat is closer to home.

If you like Never Let You Go by Chevy Stevens, you may also like Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry.

Character: Unreliable narrator Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Intensifying Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

A woman prone to panic attacks in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping relocates to a cousin’s home in Boston, where a neighbor’s murder embroils her in speculation about her cousin’s nature and the intentions of an appealing stranger.

If you like Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson, you may also like Twisted River by Siobhan MacDonald.

“White weaves a story that is mesmerizing and thrilling…Mystery lovers will be well served with this novel, as it grabs the reader instantly and can be devoured in one afternoon.” – Booklist

A successful self-help author, recovering from a devastating car accident, finds her life spiraling dangerously out of control in the face of a caterer’s murder and her husband’s ominous secrets.

If you like The Secrets You Keep by Kate White, you may also like How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway.

Character: Unreliable narrator Storyline: Intricately plotted Writing Style: Compelling

A debut psychological thriller in the vein of Gone Girl or Girl On A Train that focuses on a mommy blogger, her best friend who disappears suddenly, and the latter’s husband with betrayals and reversals, a dead body, and the ever-revolving question of who is duping whom.

If you like A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell, you may also like The Passenger by Lisa Lutz.

“Twists, turns, and a puzzling mix of suspects . . . will keep readers turning the pages.” – Booklist

A debut suspense novel by a former New York City federal prosecutor depicts an increasingly troubled friendship among three former college roommates who reflect on their shared experiences and growing animosity when one of them is found dead.

If you like It’s Always the Husband by Michele Campbell, you may also like A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Tone: Menacing

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. 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 care of her mother’s sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from–a place to which she vowed she’d never return. With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present. Beware a calm surface–you never know what lies beneath.

If you like Into the Water by Paula Hawkins, you may also like The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry.

Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

In this explosive new thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a wronged woman becomes a vigilante seeking revenge on the men who destroyed her family.

If you like The Red Hunter by Lisa Unger, you may also like Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Suspenseful

A seemingly loving husband abruptly walks out on his wife, taking their baby with him, and turns up at the home of his best friend, who faces an impossible choice between calling the police and allowing him to stay when he threatens to expose a terrible secret.

If you like Almost Missed You by Jessica Strawser, you may also like The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer.

Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Menacing Writing Style: Compelling

Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston, when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake, and Emmy disappears days later. Determined to find Emmy, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan, a handsome young police officer on the case.

If you like The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda, you may also like The Widow by Fiona Barton.

Character: Well-developed Pace: Fast-paced Tone: Disturbing and has a strong sense of place Writing Style: Compelling

A woman whose birth occurred as a result of her teen mother’s abduction and imprisonment in an isolated marshland cabin risks the adult family that does not know her past when she uses survival skills honed in childhood to track down her murderous father.

If you like The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne, you may also like Night Film by Marisha Pessl.

Character: Flawed Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

In the wake of a woman’s horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher. By the best-selling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood.

If you like The Lying Game by Ruth Ware, you may also like A Dark Matter by Peter Straub.

Character: Sympathetic and Unreliable narrator Storyline: Intricately plotted Pace: Intensifying Tone: Suspenseful Writing Style: Compelling

A woman who loses her husband in a car crash that her daughter survived unharmed, begins to suspect his death wasn’t an accident. By the best-selling author of The Good Girl.

If you like Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica, you may also like Good As Gone by Amy Gentry.