If You Like ‘Gone Girl’
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Carry the One: A Novel by Carol Anshaw When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen’s wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies. Catalog Link |
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The Accident: A Thriller by Linwood Barclay Glen Garber’s wife Sheila is killed in a car accident and the police claim she was responsible. But Glen knows this is impossible. As he investigates he begins to uncover layers of lawlessness and secrets in his suburb. He is forced into a vortex of illegal activity and confronted by threats from his neighbors. Catalog Link |
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Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana French In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorcher’s haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood. Catalog Link |
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A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets. Catalog Link |
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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran In the first of a new mystery series featuring quirky private investigator Claire DeWitt, Claire investigates the disappearance of a top prosecutor in post-Katrina New Orleans. Catalog Link |
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The Other Woman's House: A Novel by Sophie Hannah Connie Bowskill sees a bloody, murdered woman in the virtual tour of an online real estate listing, but the images aren’t there when she shows her husband. Catalog Link |
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Into the Darkest Corner: A Novel by Elizabeth Haynes Married to an erratic, controlling and sometimes frightening husband, Catherine plans a meticulous escape. Four years later, struggling to overcome her demons, Catherine dares to believe she might be safe from harm. Until one phone call changes everything. Catalog Link |
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Defending Jacob: A Novel by William Landay When his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student, assistant district attorney Andy Barber is torn between loyalty and justice as facts come to light that lead him to question how well he knows his own son. Catalog Link |
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I'd Know You Anywhere: A Novel by Laura Lippman Eliza Benedict’s peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row. Catalog Link |
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Darling Jim: A Novel by Christian Moerk A reclusive aunt and her two nieces turn up dead and a young postal worker finds a diary in the dead letter office which offers clues about Jim Quick, a mysterious Irish storyteller, who had become obsessed with the aunt. Catalog Link |
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The Expats: A Novel by Chris Pavone An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems. Catalog Link |
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The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney Hovering between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed, half-Romany private investigator Ray Lovell evaluates a case involving the missing wife of a charismatic traveling Gypsy whose hostile family is hiding a tragic secret. Catalog Link |
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We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel by Lionel Shriver The mother of a teenage boy who killed seven fellow students and two adults in a high-school shooting writes a series of letters to her estranged husband on their son’s upbringing and questions what she fears may be her own part in the tragedy. Catalog Link |
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Fragile: A Novel by Lisa Unger When her rebellious teenage son’s girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from 20 years earlier that involved her police officer husband. Catalog Link |
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Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel by S. J. Watson An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor. Catalog Link |