21 Top mystery books like The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman

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The Bones of the Story

By: Carol Goodman

3.68

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A locked-room mystery about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a mur…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Engagement Party

By: Darby Kane

3.29

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby… read more

Similar categories in Darby Kane's The Engagement Party book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The New Couple in 5B

By: Lisa Unger

3.63

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the Ne… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The New Couple in 5B book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn back to our family of origin, aren't we? No matter how much pain they've caused, no matter how far we've run from them."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

"I remember wondering if anything was real, anything was true or if every place, every reality, was just another story you choose to believe."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

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3. The Manor House

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The terrifying story of what can happen after all your dreams come true Be careful what you wish… read more

Similar categories in Gilly Macmillan's The Manor House book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Fiction Writer

By: Jillian Cantor

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rul…"

-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer

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5. The Night It Ended

By: Katie Garner

3.37

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding the truth seems impossible when her own dark past has her seeing lies everywhere she looks…… read more

Similar categories in Katie Garner's The Night It Ended book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why would someone do this to me? Why? I've done nothing wrong to anyone. Lie... I've been a good mom. Lie... A good wife. Lie... A good doctor. Lie."

-Katie Garner, The Night It Ended

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6. 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 Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

3.85

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness t… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Dead of Winter book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Christmas Presents

By: Lisa Unger

3.65

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Instead of presents this Christmas, one true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case…When true cr… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Christmas Presents book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Woods are Waiting

By: Katherine Greene

3.43

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware, Katherine Greene’s debut thriller is a dark descent … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Greene's The Woods are Waiting book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. My Darling Girl

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mot… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's My Darling Girl book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Bones of the Story

By: Carol Goodman

3.68

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A locked-room mystery about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a mur… read more

Similar categories in Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. There Should Have Been Eight

By: Nalini Singh

3.48

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh, a remote estate in N… read more

Similar categories in Nalini Singh's There Should Have Been Eight book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. This Is How We End Things

By: R.J. Jacobs

3.49

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by RJ Jacobs, foll… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Jacobs's This Is How We End Things book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. With a Kiss We Die

By: L.R. Dorn

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to pr… read more

Similar categories in L.R. Dorn's With a Kiss We Die book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ryanna Raines: "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

"I see several officers in riot gear holding shotguns, as though anticipating the second coming of Bonnie and Clyde."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

"Ryanna Raines: And why did you choose "Desire Under the Elms?" Jordan De Carlo: It's ferocious. A full-throttle rage machine. Rage over land, over family, over sexual lust."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

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19. Thicker Than Water

By: Megan Collins

3.43

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jaso… read more

Similar categories in Megan Collins's Thicker Than Water book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Windfall by Wendy Corsi Staub

20. Windfall

By: Wendy Corsi Staub

3.47

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Three friends’ lives terrifyingly unravel when they win a billion-dollar lottery jackpot—and one go… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Corsi Staub's Windfall book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's I Need You to Read This book and Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story

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

21 Best fiction books like The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman

Transform Your Habits

The Engagement Party

Darby Kane

3.29

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Manor House

Gilly Macmillan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Fiction Writer

Jillian Cantor

3.19

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21 Best fiction books like The Manor House by Gilly Macmillan

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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

The Engagement Party

Darby Kane

3.29

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