10 must-read mystery books like Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal

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Now You See Us

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu…

If you liked the mystery plot in Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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2. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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3. The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Thrity Umrigar's The Museum of Failures book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

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4. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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5. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.54

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3) book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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7. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Our Best Intentions

By: Vibhuti Jain

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more

Similar categories in Vibhuti Jain's Our Best Intentions book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Maame

By: Jessica George

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

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10. Banyan Moon

By: Thao Thai

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more

Similar categories in Thao Thai's Banyan Moon book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • asia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

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11. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal

12. Now You See Us

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • asia
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • asian literature
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more

Similar categories in Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

Cover of The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) by Sujata Massey

14. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • asia
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Great Reclamation

By: Rachel Heng

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Set against a changing Singapore, a sweeping novel about one boy's unique gifts and the childhood l… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Heng's The Great Reclamation book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • asia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You know. You cannot just–" Ah Boon stopped. *Walk in here and ask me to open myself up all over again*, he thought, but he did not say (Heng 253)."

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"He wished for the noise of the pile driver, the clattering of the conveyor belt. He wished for something to prove that life had changed. But it was as if nothing had changed, nothing would ever chang…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"But as the old body of his father's boat thudded over the dull brown waves, the smell of fish pursuing him always, he saw the city, gleaming and spotless, rising as if dormant from the sea. Sparkling…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

"Now a silent rule had been broken. The possibility of a real conversation loomed—the unspoken envy and resentment that had simmered all these years, the fact that yes, every morning since she had fal…"

-Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

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16. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Jiménez's What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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17. Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tender, humorous, and page-turning debut about a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will d… read more

Similar categories in Mai Nguyen's Sunshine Nails book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Dirty Laundry

By: Disha Bose

3.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is … read more

Similar categories in Disha Bose's Dirty Laundry book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class

By: Vrushali Junnarkar

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2023 Epigram Books Fiction Prize An eclectic group of Indian women living in a con… read more

Similar categories in Vrushali Junnarkar's The Campbell Gardens Ladies’ Swimming Class book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • fiction
Cover of And the Award Goes to Sally Bong! by Sebastian Sim

20. And the Award Goes to Sally Bong!

By: Sebastian Sim

4.08

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Co-Winner of the 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sally Bong is the typical do-gooder. But her … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Sim's And the Award Goes to Sally Bong! book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • fiction
Cover of Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle by Prasanthi Ram

21. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle

By: Prasanthi Ram

4.65

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nine Yard Sarees is a multigenerational portrait of a fictional Tamil Brahmin family. Comprising el… read more

Similar categories in Prasanthi Ram's Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle book and Balli Kaur Jaswal's Now You See Us

  • asian literature

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Yellowface

R.F. Kuang

3.77

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The Museum of Failures

Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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Cristina Henríquez

3.70

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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

Cho Nam-Joo

3.72

Transform Your Habits

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Tania De Rozario

4.18

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Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle

Prasanthi Ram

4.65

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