19 Best suspense books like The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter

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The Photographer

By: Mary Dixie Carter

3.29

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, …

"Some children don't have imaginations because they don't need them."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

"Some children don't have imaginations because they don't need them."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

"I considered that my job- to convey to them that I understood their world."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

"I considered that my job- to convey to them that I understood their world."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

If you liked the suspense plot in The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Every Mother's Nightmare

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

3.00

Format: 432 pages,

In a rural suburb in St. Louis, in 1986, someone murdered Jude Govreau's 15-year-old daughter and M… read more

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2. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Guest

By: B.A. Paris

3.59

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere … read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's The Guest book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...regret is such a waste of emotion. No matter how much we want to, we can't change the past. We need to acknowledge the mistakes we've made but not allow them to cloud every moment of every day." -…"

-B.A. Paris, The Guest

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4. 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 Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • 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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5. The Night Before

By: Wendy Walker

3.67

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

First dates can be murder. Riveting and compulsive, national bestselling author Wendy Walker’s … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Walker's The Night Before book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Shutter

By: Melissa Larsen

2.80

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman agrees to star in a filmmaker's latest project, but soon realizes the movie is not wh… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Larsen's Shutter book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Favor

By: Nora Murphy

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can hap… read more

Similar categories in Nora Murphy's The Favor book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Photographer

By: Mary Dixie Carter

3.29

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, … read more

Similar categories in Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some children don't have imaginations because they don't need them."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

"I considered that my job- to convey to them that I understood their world."

-Mary Dixie Carter, The Photographer

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9. Stay Awake

By: Megan Goldin

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s… read more

Similar categories in Megan Goldin's Stay Awake book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. One Little Secret

By: Cate Holahan

3.55

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has a secret. For some, it's worth dying to protect. For others, it's worth killing. Th… read more

Similar categories in Cate Holahan's One Little Secret book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"His irises seemed to melt into his pupils, two black holes rimmed with dying stars, sucking the light from the room, pulling her into darkness."

-Cate Holahan, One Little Secret

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11. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Guilt Trip

By: Sandie Jones

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they m… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Jones's The Guilt Trip book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Kill All Your Darlings

By: David Bell

3.66

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Conn… read more

Similar categories in David Bell's Kill All Your Darlings book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Half Sister

By: Sandie Jones

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate and Lauren meet for Sunday lunch every week without fail, especially after the loss of their f… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Jones's The Half Sister book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Paper Ghosts

By: Julia Heaberlin

3.63

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Carl Louis Feldman is an old man who was once a celebrated photographer. That was before he was tri… read more

Similar categories in Julia Heaberlin's Paper Ghosts book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Houston stretches out before us, a modern goddess, bruised by not defeated."

-Julia Heaberlin, Paper Ghosts

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16. The Missing Hours

By: Julia Dahl

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram f… read more

Similar categories in Julia Dahl's The Missing Hours book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Six Weeks to Live

By: Catherine McKenzie

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A gripping psychological suspense novel about a woman diagnosed with cancer who sets out to discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine McKenzie's Six Weeks to Live book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Do I Know You?

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Liv Constantine, and Megan Miranda, a lightning-paced psychological thr… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Strohmeyer's Do I Know You? book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Anyone who pledges a new start out of love deserves a second chance."

-Sarah Strohmeyer, Do I Know You?

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19. Last Woman Standing

By: Amy Gentry

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Riveting”— Entertainment Weekly From the author of Good as Gone comes a brilliant and timely Str… read more

Similar categories in Amy Gentry's Last Woman Standing book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
".. I want you to be scared of being alone with strange women like I'm scared of being alone with strange men."

-Amy Gentry, Last Woman Standing

Cover of Nobody Tells Lia Anything (Spooky Matchmakers, #1) by Carol Maloney Scott

20. Nobody Tells Lia Anything (Spooky Matchmakers, #1)

By: Carol Maloney Scott

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Lia needs ANSWERS from beyond, NOT matchmaking! When twenty-something Lia’s grandmother dies, h… read more

Similar categories in Carol Maloney Scott's Nobody Tells Lia Anything (Spooky Matchmakers, #1) book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • fiction
Cover of Charlie (Cultivated, #1) by Elin Peer

21. Charlie (Cultivated, #1)

By: Elin Peer

4.26

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

"Charles, the reserved, mysterious, and unattainable guy I had a major crush on in college, got tan… read more

Similar categories in Elin Peer's Charlie (Cultivated, #1) book and Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook

19 best-selling mystery thriller books like The Photographer by Mary Dixie Carter

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

B.A. Paris

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Night Before

Wendy Walker

3.67

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21 best-selling suspense books like The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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