20 must-read thriller books like Northwoods by Amy Pease

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Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w…

"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward kindergartner."

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward kindergartner."

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

If you liked the thriller plot in Northwoods by Amy Pease , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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2. 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

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's Only If You're Lucky book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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3. 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

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's No One Can Know book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

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

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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4. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Resort

By: Sara Ochs

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a ch… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ochs's The Resort book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There isn't a flood that will not subside."

-Sara Ochs, The Resort

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8. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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9. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

Cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

10. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

13. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

14. House of Glass

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.99

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

On the outside they were the golden family with the perfect life. On the inside they built the perf… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's House of Glass book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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16. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Other Mothers

By: Katherine Faulkner

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Faulkner's The Other Mothers book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Middletide by Sarah Crouch

18. Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crouch's Middletide book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

19. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's The Nature of Disappearing book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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20. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

21. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter book and Amy Pease's Northwoods

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

21 must-read fiction books like Northwoods by Amy Pease

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

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19 must-read contemporary books like House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

Transform Your Habits

One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Bad Tourists

Caro Carver

3.69

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