21 Best suspense books like The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) by Clare Mackintosh

Cover of The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) by Clare Mackintosh

The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.78

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's a party to end all…

"Does it really hurt?' Ffion asked her mam. She'd read the books Elen had bought, had even watched that awful video in school, but she still found it hard to comprehend that -- in a matter of weeks -- there would be an actual baby coming out of her. 'Like, -really-?' Elen stood, kissing her daughter fiercely on the forehead. 'You know the best antidote to pain?' Ffion remembered the woman on the video. 'Is it an epidural?' Elen laughed. 'It's love, Ffion Morgan. Love is the answer to everything."

-Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

"Does it really hurt?' Ffion asked her mam. She'd read the books Elen had bought, had even watched that awful video in school, but she still found it hard to comprehend that -- in a matter of weeks -- there would be an actual baby coming out of her. 'Like, -really-?' Elen stood, kissing her daughter fiercely on the forehead. 'You know the best antidote to pain?' Ffion remembered the woman on the video. 'Is it an epidural?' Elen laughed. 'It's love, Ffion Morgan. Love is the answer to everything."

-Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

"Does it really hurt?' Ffion asked her mam. She'd read the books Elen had bought, had even watched that awful video in school, but she still found it hard to comprehend that -- in a matter of weeks -- there would be an actual baby coming out of her. 'Like, -really-?' Elen stood, kissing her daughter fiercely on the forehead. 'You know the best antidote to pain?' Ffion remembered the woman on the video. 'Is it an epidural?' Elen laughed. 'It's love, Ffion Morgan. Love is the answer to everything."

-Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

If you liked the suspense plot in The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) by Clare Mackintosh , here is a list of 21 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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. Just Another Missing Person

By: Gillian McAllister

3.66

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong T… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Just Another Missing Person book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Parenthood is beautiful, but hard, too. It’s tough to exist in the world when there is someone going about their business who you would die for."

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

"How much I love you. You'll never know it, either. You will only have some idea, if you have a child of your own one day, of the things you will do to protect them, of how deep and pure your love for…"

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

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3. All the Dangerous Things

By: Stacy Willingham

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his c… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's All the Dangerous Things book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People tend to stash their dirtiest secrets in the most common of places."

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

"At the time, it reminded me of the stars: how two can collide and fuse into one—bigger, brighter, stronger than before. But what I didn’t know then was that when they collide too fast, they don’t fus…"

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

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4. 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

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

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. What Lies in the Woods

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.96

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy an… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Nothing good comes from digging up old trouble."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"But why should she be able to leave the woods, when I never had?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"Don't worry. She does this. She likes to go out to the woods to think."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"When it comes to relationships, if you could take it or leave it, leaving is always the right choice"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

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7. 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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8. The Stranger Upstairs

By: Lisa M. Matlin

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A social media influencer with a secret past buys a murder house to renovate, but finds more than s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa M. Matlin's The Stranger Upstairs book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. The Soulmate

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge... … read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

11. 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) by Clare Mackintosh

12. The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.78

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's a party to end all… read more

Similar categories in Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Does it really hurt?' Ffion asked her mam. She'd read the books Elen had bought, had even watched that awful video in school, but she still found it hard to comprehend that -- in a matter of weeks --…"

-Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

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13. The Family Game

By: Catherine Steadman

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds o… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's The Family Game book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Adams's The Last Word book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

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15. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

By: Lisa Unger

3.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

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16. The Only Survivors

By: Megan Miranda

3.55

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tenn… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's The Only Survivors book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Writing Retreat

By: Julia Bartz

3.43

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

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18. 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. She Started It

By: Sian Gilbert

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller ab… read more

Similar categories in Sian Gilbert's She Started It book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2) by Megan Goldin

21. Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2)

By: Megan Goldin

3.84

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators … read more

Similar categories in Megan Goldin's Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2) book and Clare Mackintosh's The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1)

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

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