24 must-read mystery books like Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

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Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North …

"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

If you liked the mystery plot in Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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2. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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4. 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 S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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 S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • 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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6. The Quiet Tenant

By: Clémence Michallon

3.85

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Clémence Michallon's The Quiet Tenant book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I’m sorry,"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

"This is the story I tell myself. No one’s around to tell me it doesn’t make sense. It starts out as a tribute and ends in selfishness. It isn’t about her. Not really. It’s about me and the parts of m…"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

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7. The Drowning Woman

By: Robyn Harding

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Drowning Woman book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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9. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Chain-Gang All-Stars

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4.14

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far… read more

Similar categories in Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's Chain-Gang All-Stars book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They were all humans, and yet they had completely different ideas about what humanity meant."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"My brother-in-law is an alien. I have a bunch of alien friends. I can't be racist," Randy Mac continued."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"An absurd thing for the murderous state to plead for, but, as always, the massive violence of the state was “justice,"

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

"...despite how hard it was, she wasn't afraid with love. She knew how to wield it, how to grow it, and how to receive it."

-Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

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14. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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15. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2) book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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19. Brooklyn

By: Tracy Brown

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to … read more

Similar categories in Tracy Brown's Brooklyn book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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21. Drowning

By: T.J. Newman

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Drowning book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. One of Our Own

By: Lucinda Berry

3.93

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Berry's One of Our Own book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

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

23. 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 S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

25. Blacktop Wasteland

By: S.A. Cosby

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Beauregard "Bug" Montage: husband, father, honest car mechanic. But he was once known - from North … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The truth had a strange way of ending an argument."

-S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland

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26. 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 S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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28. 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 S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) by Danielle Allen

29. Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1)

By: Danielle Allen

4.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoki… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Allen's Curvy Girl Summer (Curve, #1) book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. Brokedown Prophets

By: S.A. Cosby

3.79

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

From Kevin Hart and Charlamagne Tha God’s SBH Productions comes the first full-cast audio productio… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's Brokedown Prophets book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and S.A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland

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

29 best-selling fiction books like Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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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21 best-selling fiction books like The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

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