11 must-read suspense books like Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin

Cover of Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin

Playing Dead

By: Julia Heaberlin

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The letter that turns Tommie McCloud…

If you liked the suspense plot in Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Tempting Evil (Prison Break Trilogy, #2) by Allison Brennan

1. Tempting Evil (Prison Break Trilogy, #2)

By: Allison Brennan

4.07

Format: 419 pages, Mass Market Paperback

BIG DIE COUNTRY Joanna Sutton can cope with the fierce winter storm bearing down on the small ru… read more

Similar categories in Allison Brennan's Tempting Evil (Prison Break Trilogy, #2) book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Remember Mia by Alexandra Burt

2. Remember Mia

By: Alexandra Burt

3.56

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Like Girl on the Train and Gone Girl, Remember Mia is a riveting psychological suspense, exploring … read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Burt's Remember Mia book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. The Heavens May Fall

By: Allen Eskens

4.31

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Detective Max Rupert is convinced that Jennavieve Pruitt was killed by her husband, Ben. Max's frie… read more

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4. The Hiding Place

By: David Bell

5.00

Format: None pages,

Sometimes it's easier to believe a lie. Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old J… read more

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5. Almost Missed You

By: Jessica Strawser

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Violet and Finn were "meant to be," said everyone, always. They ended up together by the hands of f… read more

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6. Pretty Deadly, Vol. 2: The Bear

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick , Emma Ríos

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

DeCONNICK (Captain Marvel, BITCH PLANET) and RIOS (ISLAND, MIRROR) present the follow up to the Eis… read more

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7. All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky

By: Joe R. Lansdale

2.18

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

Jack Catcher's parents are dead--his mom died of sickness and his dad of a broken heart--and he has… read more

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8. Things You Won't Say

By: Sarah Pekkanen

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

In this timely and provocative novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen takes us in… read more

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9. Cover of Snow

By: Jenny Milchman

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, … read more

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10. The Guise of Another

By: Allen Eskens

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

Who was James Putnam? Answering that question may mean salvation for Alexander Rupert, a Minnesota … read more

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11. The Deep Dark Descending

By: Allen Eskens

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Homicide Detective Max Rupert never fully accepted his wife's death, even when he believed that a r… read more

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12. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

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14. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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15. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing Dead by Julia Heaberlin

16. Playing Dead

By: Julia Heaberlin

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?” The letter that turns Tommie McCloud… read more

Similar categories in Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What My Sister Knew by Nina Laurin

17. What My Sister Knew

By: Nina Laurin

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

We're not just siblings; we're twins. We're supposed to be able to read each other's thoughts. Alth… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger

18. Darkness, My Old Friend

By: Lisa Unger

3.75

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

After giving up his post at the Hollows Police Department, Jones Cooper is at loose ends. He is hav… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Darkness, My Old Friend book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

19. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

20. Gone Tonight

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.82

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Unburied (Cal Lovett Files #2) by Heather Critchlow

21. Unburied (Cal Lovett Files #2)

By: Heather Critchlow

4.25

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The police. They’re digging in the scrapyard.’ Cal Lovett has spent half his life telling other… read more

Similar categories in Heather Critchlow's Unburied (Cal Lovett Files #2) book and Julia Heaberlin's Playing Dead

  • thriller
  • fiction

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