Robert Bloch 1959
- What it is
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Hunting a serial killer · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Horror Thriller Crime
- Feels
- Chilling Unsettling Dark Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
Books similar to Psycho
Coming from Psycho? Start with The Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Jaws. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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The Silence of the Lambs
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It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
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It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
The Legacy
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir 2025
It stirs you up inside · it tells it with no filter
El Filatelista
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It ties your stomach in a knot · it tells it with no filter
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A threat that keeps growing and serial killer
The Hunter's Daughter
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Properly scary · the truth comes out bit by bit
Closing The Circle
P. A. Wilson 2012
It'll scare you · it's hiding a secret
The Invisible Guardian
Dolores Redondo 2013
It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
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A threat that keeps growing and twist ending
Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris 2016
It'll scare you · it's hiding a secret
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane 2003
It'll scare you · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides 2018
It stirs you up inside · nothing is quite what it seems
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden 2022
It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn 2011
It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell 2023
It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
Before I Go To Sleep
S.J. Watson 2012
It stirs you up inside · it won't tell you everything at once
The Crystal Cuckoo
Javier Castillo 2023
It gets under your skin · it's hiding a secret
Home Before Dark
Todd Ritter 2020
Properly scary · it's hiding a secret
The woman in the window
A. J. Finn 2017
It ties your stomach in a knot · the truth comes out bit by bit
Night Film
Marisha Pessl 2013
It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Defending Jacob
William Landay 2012
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly 1895
A threat that keeps growing · nobody is entirely good
End of October
Lawrence Wright 2020
Properly scary · a world to get lost in
Last Night at Tremore Beach
Mikel Santiago 2014
A threat that keeps growing · it's hiding a secret
The Patient
Jasper DeWitt 2020
It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
The last days of Jack Sparks
Jason Arnopp 2016
It'll scare you · a cozy mystery, no gore
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn 2007
It gets under your skin · it tells it with no filter
The girl on the train
Paula Hawkins 2014
You read it holding your breath · the truth comes out bit by bit
1 book
Serial killer and twist ending
The Marlow Murder Club (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 1)
Robert Thorogood 2021
In common with yours: serial killer · odd and endearing
2 books · Alike in just one
Only a threat that keeps growing
You
Caroline Kepnes 2014
It gets under your skin · nobody is entirely good
The ritual
Adam Nevill 2012
Properly scary · horror in the countryside, with old rites
1 book · Alike in just one
Only serial killer
Deadly Thyme
R. L. Nolen 2014
Properly scary · it tells it with no filter
10 books · Alike in just one
Only twist ending
Jaws
Peter Benchley 1976
A reader shelved it with yours in Famous films whose novels tell another story
First Blood
David Morrell 1972
Readers put them together in Famous films whose novels tell another story
Day by Day Armageddon
J. L. Bourne 2009
It'll scare you · it tells it straight
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum 1966
It's hiding a secret · it grabs you with a mystery
I am Pilgrim
Terry Hayes 2013
It tells it straight · the truth comes out bit by bit
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk 1996
Readers put them together in Famous films whose novels tell another story
Sahara
Clive Cussler 1982
A world to get lost in · the truth comes out bit by bit
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