25 must-read mystery thriller books like The Playground by Jane Shemilt

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The Playground

By: Jane Shemilt

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s b…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Playground by Jane Shemilt , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Titanic: First Accounts by None, Tim Maltin, Max Ellis

1. Titanic: First Accounts

By: None , Tim Maltin , Max Ellis

3.98

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic--in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art… read more

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2. The Party

By: Robyn Harding

4.25

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this stunning and provocative domestic drama about a sweet sixteen birthday party that goes horr… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Party book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

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

3. Every Other Wednesday

By: Susan Kietzman

4.00

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

Three women, each facing an empty nest, come together to cheer and challenge one another in this in… read more

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4. 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 Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's Only If You're Lucky book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

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6. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. We Love to Entertain

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

3.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, riveting psychological thriller that skewers our modern obsession with home renovatio… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Strohmeyer's We Love to Entertain book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Barker-White's My Name Was Eden book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • 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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10. 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 Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • 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

Cover of Two Dead Wives (DCI Clements, #2) by Adele Parks

11. Two Dead Wives (DCI Clements, #2)

By: Adele Parks

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An overprotective father has lived as a recluse until his adult daughter – Stacie Jones – returns f… read more

Similar categories in Adele Parks's Two Dead Wives (DCI Clements, #2) book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. What the Neighbors Saw

By: Melissa Adelman

3.35

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Adelman's What the Neighbors Saw book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. One of Us Knows

By: Alyssa Cole

3.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's One of Us Knows book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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16. The Playground

By: Michelle Frances

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Looking to escape her old life, Nancy and her ten-year-old daughter Lara move to Ripton. A quiet, p… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Frances's The Playground book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. The Couple in the Photo

By: Helen Cooper

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Downstairs Neighbor and The Other Guest comes a propulsive suspense novel th… read more

Similar categories in Helen Cooper's The Couple in the Photo book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Five Bad Deeds

By: Caz Frear

3.39

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A gripping tale of revenge, loyalty, and the secrets hidden between the walls of the most beautiful… read more

Similar categories in Caz Frear's Five Bad Deeds book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Weekend Retreat

By: Tara Laskowski

3.45

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for. Every year, the illustrious Van Ness sib… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The Weekend Retreat book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • drama
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20. Someone Saw Something

By: Rick Mofina

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

“Mofina expertly weaves together an anguishing story of a family’s trauma with a propulsive, twisty… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mofina's Someone Saw Something book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Playground by Jane Shemilt

21. The Playground

By: Jane Shemilt

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s b… read more

Similar categories in Jane Shemilt's The Playground book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • drama
Cover of I'm Not Done with You Yet by Jesse Q. Sutanto

22. I'm Not Done with You Yet

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.67

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Some friends--and friendships--are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by nationa… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's I'm Not Done with You Yet book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. The Other Mothers

By: Katherine Faulkner

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Faulkner's The Other Mothers book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Friend Group

By: Ty Hutchinson

3.79

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

Rules of the Friend Group Dress accordingly Dine at elegant eateries Haute couture shopping is… read more

Similar categories in Ty Hutchinson's The Friend Group book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
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25. The Paris Widow

By: Kimberly Belle

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in t… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's The Paris Widow book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Head Case by Bonnie Traymore

26. Head Case

By: Bonnie Traymore

3.87

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

A workplace rivalry. An isolated campus. A tragic death. Never make a major life decision in the… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Traymore's Head Case book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Offing by Roz Nay

27. The Offing

By: Roz Nay

3.86

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Two young women are trapped in a deadly chase through the beautiful, dangerous waters around Austra… read more

Similar categories in Roz Nay's The Offing book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Something She's Not Telling Us by Darcey Bell

28. Something She's Not Telling Us

By: Darcey Bell

3.22

Format: 313 pages, Paperback

Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a … read more

Similar categories in Darcey Bell's Something She's Not Telling Us book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder by Alan Townsend

29. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder

By: Alan Townsend

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A compassionate, vulnerable, and transformative exploration of the nurturing and spiritual power of… read more

Similar categories in Alan Townsend's This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • audiobook
Cover of Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland

30. Our Kind of Game

By: Johanna Copeland

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"A rager of a psychological mystery about toxic men, murderous women and the art of constructing f… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Copeland's Our Kind of Game book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Silent Friend

By: Diane Jeffrey

3.91

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Tragedy brought them together. The truth will tear them apart. It’s supposed to be Laura’s dream… read more

Similar categories in Diane Jeffrey's The Silent Friend book and Jane Shemilt's The Playground

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • drama

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3.81

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Only If You're Lucky

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Jeneva Rose

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