15 Best mystery books like The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2) by Rene Denfeld

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The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

By: Rene Denfeld

3.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for f…

"What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn’t bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That doesn’t make them lies. Seeded with every myth was the emotional truth."

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

"People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one, Naomi had learned, did evil without believing it was right at the time. Maybe this was why it was nearly impossible to talk them out of it?"

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

If you liked the mystery plot in The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2) by Rene Denfeld , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Breaking Wild

By: Diane Les Becquets

3.71

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In captivating prose, Diane Les Becquets tells the story of one woman missing in the Colorado wilde… read more

Similar categories in Diane Les Becquets's Breaking Wild book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Au Revoir Liverpool

By: Maureen Lee

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Hardcover

Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with pure… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Lee's Au Revoir Liverpool book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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3. Only Ever You

By: Rebecca Drake

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jill Lassiter's three-year-old daughter disappears from a playground only to return after 40 franti… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Drake's Only Ever You book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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

4. Inherit the Bones (Detective Gemma Monroe, #1)

By: Emily Littlejohn

3.94

Format: 336 pages,

Secrets and lies can't stay buried forever in Cedar Valley. In the summer, hikers and campers pack … read more

Similar categories in Emily Littlejohn's Inherit the Bones (Detective Gemma Monroe, #1) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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5. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3) by Lisa Gardner

6. Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3)

By: Lisa Gardner

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner comes a harrowing new thriller: Frankie … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Gardner's Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You're not a killer," I whisper one last time. Then I drop to the ground, twisting as I roll to light up his form with my flashlight. Inside Vaughn's cabin, Aolani pulls the trigger. A single crack. …"

-Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3)

"Honest to God, I'm a complete stranger to you. How hard is it to just walk away? She has me there. So much so I feel profoundly stupid. Even ashamed. During all my years trying to save the world, I n…"

-Lisa Gardner, Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3)

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7. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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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8. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • 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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9. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • 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

Cover of The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2) by Rene Denfeld

11. The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

By: Rene Denfeld

3.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

After captivating readers in The Child Finder, Naomi—the investigator with an uncanny ability for f… read more

Similar categories in Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn’t bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That does…"

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

"People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one,…"

-Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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12. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2) by Ellison Cooper

13. Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2)

By: Ellison Cooper

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In Ellison Cooper's suspense thriller Buried, an FBI neuroscientist is on the trail of a serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Ellison Cooper's Buried (Agent Sayer Altair, #2) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. What Blooms from Dust

By: James Markert

3.96

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, a tornado tears down the pr… read more

Similar categories in James Markert's What Blooms from Dust book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • 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

Cover of Lost Lake (Detective Gemma Monroe, #3) by Emily Littlejohn

16. Lost Lake (Detective Gemma Monroe, #3)

By: Emily Littlejohn

3.70

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling, atmospheric new novel from the author of acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, featuri… read more

Similar categories in Emily Littlejohn's Lost Lake (Detective Gemma Monroe, #3) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. All the Lost Things

By: Michelle Sacks

3.65

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father an… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Sacks's All the Lost Things book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest by Janis Thornton

18. No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest

By: Janis Thornton

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“This engrossing collection of historical Midwest murders reads like a thriller. True crime at its … read more

Similar categories in Janis Thornton's No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • crime
Cover of Drowning Ruth: A Novel by Christina Schwarz

19. Drowning Ruth: A Novel

By: Christina Schwarz

3.66

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

None read more

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Cover of Broken Promise (Beyond #1) by Andrea  Smith

20. Broken Promise (Beyond #1)

By: Andrea Smith

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

What was I thinking that night as I drove over the mountain on the narrow, icy road that seemed to … read more

Similar categories in Andrea Smith's Broken Promise (Beyond #1) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

  • adult
  • suspense
  • audiobook
"I'll go to confession tomorrow if it's my soul you're worried about, Karlie." - Dominic (Broken Promise) "

-Andrea Smith, Broken Promise (Beyond #1)

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21. The Child Finder (Chinese Edition)

By: Rena Denfeld

3.63

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

People's Publishing Pub 2018-08-01 Tianjin People's Publishing House Madison was missing in the sno… read more

Similar categories in Rena Denfeld's The Child Finder (Chinese Edition) book and Rene Denfeld's The Butterfly Girl (Naomi Cottle, #2)

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Transform Your Habits

Breaking Wild

Diane Les Becquets

3.71

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Only Ever You

Rebecca Drake

4.00

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3)

Lisa Gardner

3.99

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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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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Stacy Willingham

3.56

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