Liz Moore 2024
- What it is
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Two eras told side by side · it stays with you
- Genre
- Mystery Literary Thriller
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.
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It grabs you with a mystery and small-town secrets
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It grabs you with a mystery · it's hiding a secret
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It grabs you with a mystery · it messes with your head
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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No clean hands here · spies, moles and state secrets
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A mystery you want to solve · properly scary
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A mystery you want to solve · it'll scare you
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A mystery you want to solve · you'll finish it in two nights
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It stays with you · told in two timelines
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
The girl on the train
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
The Silent Patient
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A mystery you want to solve · nothing is quite what it seems
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No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Nobody is entirely good · properly scary
The woman in the window
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You need to know how it ends · the truth comes out bit by bit
The devotion of suspect X
Keigo Higashino 2011
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
10 books · Alike in just one
Only small-town secrets
Empire Falls
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A reader shelved it with yours in Novels about children who drifted away
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Readers put them together in Village novels where nobody says what they know
Sharp Objects
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It grabs you with a mystery · it tells it with no filter
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious 1900
You end up rooting for the wrong people · it tells it straight
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie 2026
In common with yours: small-town secrets · a cozy mystery, no gore
Jaws
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In common with yours: small-town secrets · properly scary
Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides 1993
In common with yours: small-town secrets · it's hiding a secret
Small Things Like These
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Like yours: small-town secrets · you come out liking people more
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Juan Rulfo 1955
It leaves you thinking · properly strange
Couples
John Updike 1968
In common with yours: small-town secrets · comedy with teeth
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Only two timelines
Great Circle
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Like yours: two timelines · told in two timelines
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In common with yours: two timelines · a love story that makes you laugh
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