11 must-read thriller books like The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

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The Lighthouse Witches

By: C.J. Cooke

3.94

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's stil…

"She still doesn’t believe in magic. It’s a technology, she’s decided. Just one that she doesn’t understand yet."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"... the sky like polished silver, the ocean sinewy and muscular, crackling as it reached the stones at the edge of the causeway."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"Most people's pasts can be viewed like cleaved water left in the wake of a boat. Hers? It's a tangled weave of spider webs and nightmares, never to make sense."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"I went outside, taking in the sight of the grey ocean swaying beyond the cliffs, a mackerel sky troubled by seabirds swooping and screaming beneath the clap of the waves."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

If you liked the thriller plot in The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne

1. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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2. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

3. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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4. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Gathering

By: C.J. Tudor

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secret… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Gathering book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • mystery thriller
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • witches
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

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9. A Lullaby for Witches

By: Hester Fox

3.59

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries.… read more

Similar categories in Hester Fox's A Lullaby for Witches book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But what I'm beginning to realize is that I don't need to find myself. I've been here all along."

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

"Here is what I know to be true: we are part of something larger, something more beautiful than we could ever comprehend. During our brief tenure on this earth, we see but only a glimpse of the world …"

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

"Perhaps if my mother had been a witch like me with powers of her own, she would have taken me under her wing and guided me on my singular path. But she did not, and I was left to discover what made m…"

-Hester Fox, A Lullaby for Witches

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10. Hare House

By: Sally Hinchcliffe

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hinchcliffe's Hare House book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We soon fell silent too, and above and around us came the murmur of all the countless branches; a distant sort of a noise, ungraspable yet pervasive, like voices in another room."

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It was then, as I hesitated, that the head stepped in and said, 'We don't want a witch hunt'. I looked from one to another of them, and then back to her. Three very different women but in each of the…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

"It's not a simple matter. You can drain the water or grit the ice, or move the wall. It makes no difference in the end. It's just a bad spot here, and always has been. A crossroads. The place where t…"

-Sally Hinchcliffe, Hare House

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11. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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12. The Whistling

By: Rebecca Netley

3.69

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Alone in the world, Elspeth Swansome has taken the position of nanny to a family on the remote Scot… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Whistling book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of Cackle by Rachel   Harrison

13. Cackle

By: Rachel Harrison

3.72

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a wi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Cackle book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • witches
  • horror
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"My future is my own."

-Rachel Harrison, Cackle

"It's a nice thing to cook for yourself."

-Rachel Harrison, Cackle

"If life gives you any trouble, punch it in the face."

-Rachel Harrison, Cackle

"Any step away from the past is a step in the right direction."

-Rachel Harrison, Cackle

Cover of The Lighthouse Witches by C.J.  Cooke

14. The Lighthouse Witches

By: C.J. Cooke

3.94

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's stil… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • witches
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"She still doesn’t believe in magic. It’s a technology, she’s decided. Just one that she doesn’t understand yet."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"... the sky like polished silver, the ocean sinewy and muscular, crackling as it reached the stones at the edge of the causeway."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"Most people's pasts can be viewed like cleaved water left in the wake of a boat. Hers? It's a tangled weave of spider webs and nightmares, never to make sense."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

"I went outside, taking in the sight of the grey ocean swaying beyond the cliffs, a mackerel sky troubled by seabirds swooping and screaming beneath the clap of the waves."

-C.J. Cooke, The Lighthouse Witches

Cover of Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) by Juno  Dawson

15. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)

By: Juno Dawson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more

Similar categories in Juno Dawson's Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Whispering Muse by Laura  Purcell

16. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
Cover of Fyneshade by Kate   Griffin

17. Fyneshade

By: Kate Griffin

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Many would find much to fear in Fyneshade's dark and crumbling corridors, its unseen master and sil… read more

Similar categories in Kate Griffin's Fyneshade book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
Cover of The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman

18. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

Similar categories in Anya Bergman's The Witches of Vardø book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • witches
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Toll House

By: Carly Reagon

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The past isn't always dead and buried . . . A house with history. That's how the estate agent de… read more

Similar categories in Carly Reagon's The Toll House book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

20. 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 C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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21. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key book and C.J. Cooke's The Lighthouse Witches

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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3.95

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3.92

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