17 best-selling mystery books like The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

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The Restless Dark

By: Erica Waters

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast …

"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to be afraid."

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to be afraid."

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commit. We decide for ourselves whether we are good or bad. This is real life, not a fucking Greek Tragedy."

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commit. We decide for ourselves whether we are good or bad. This is real life, not a fucking Greek Tragedy."

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

If you liked the mystery plot in The Restless Dark by Erica Waters , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Otherworldly

By: F.T. Lukens

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old E… read more

Similar categories in F.T. Lukens's Otherworldly book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • fantasy
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • queer
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2. The Dead and the Dark

By: Courtney Gould

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark is about the things that lurk in dark corner… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's The Dead and the Dark book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"After thirteen years, the Dark has finally come home."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"You know, I read an article a while back about people like the daughter,"

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

"Parents weren't suppose to see their children's graves. They weren't suppose to feel darkness under the earth, coiling around their daughter's corpse."

-Courtney Gould, The Dead and the Dark

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3. Where Echoes Die

By: Courtney Gould

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigativ… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Gould's Where Echoes Die book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"I want to feel like I can keep going. Like I know how. I don't want to be afraid to look forward and lose everything behind me."

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"...that pain isn't universal. It's just a part of living in Backravel, tethered to the same chunk of time forever with no escape. At one point, Beck thought it sounded perfect. Now, it sounds like a …"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"For the first time it occurs to Beck that the people of Backravel might not be recognizing her, but her similarities to her mother. An ache pangs deep in Beck's chest, and she wants to press for more…"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

"She can't help picturing what her morning would look like today in a world where [her mother] never died. [...] She didn't like details then because details made time slow down. Lingering in the same…"

-Courtney Gould, Where Echoes Die

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4. The Wicked Unseen

By: Gigi Griffis

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there's a secret Sata… read more

Similar categories in Gigi Griffis's The Wicked Unseen book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"If I had the Taser, Truck Nuts would be Electric Nuts"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

"Fantasma. She didn't alert. That probably means it's animal blood. Or fake, maybe. ENGLISH! Get fucked. How's that?"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

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5. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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6. Have You Seen This Girl

By: Nita Tyndall

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Courtney Summers and Tess Sharpe will devour this standalone YA thriller following a nonbin… read more

Similar categories in Nita Tyndall's Have You Seen This Girl book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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7. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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8. What Stalks Among Us

By: Sarah Hollowell

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously cre… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hollowell's What Stalks Among Us book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
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9. One Last Breath

By: Ginny Myers Sain

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies delivers another chilling supernatur… read more

Similar categories in Ginny Myers Sain's One Last Breath book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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10. The Narrow

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.73

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously terrifying novel about a ghost who uncovers a teen girl's best kept secrets while hau… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's The Narrow book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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11. The Memory Eater

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of g… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Mahoney's The Memory Eater book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
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12. The Restless Dark

By: Erica Waters

3.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The Restless Dark book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Dad said I should be afraid of death because I'll finally have to face judgement for my sins. But he was wrong. These bones tell me there's nothing in death to fear. It's only the living who need to …"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

"There is no such thing as generational curses, no evil carried in our DNA. That's just Pentecostal bullshit, a way to reject responsibility and guilt. We are the choices we make, the actions we commi…"

-Erica Waters, The Restless Dark

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13. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. These Fleeting Shadows

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, ca… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's These Fleeting Shadows book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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15. Wake the Bones

By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has awakened. The woods are shifting, the soil … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Kilcoyne's Wake the Bones book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • horror
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16. Where Darkness Blooms

By: Andrea Hannah

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms is a supernatural thriller about an eerie town where the sunf… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Hannah's Where Darkness Blooms book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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17. A Place for Vanishing

By: Ann Fraistat

3.98

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's… read more

Similar categories in Ann Fraistat's A Place for Vanishing book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. A Guide to the Dark

By: Meriam Metoui

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You can check out of Room 9, but you can never leave. The Haunting of Hill House meets Nina LaCo… read more

Similar categories in Meriam Metoui's A Guide to the Dark book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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19. Bad Graces

By: Kyrie McCauley

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley’s gripping and magical Y… read more

Similar categories in Kyrie McCauley's Bad Graces book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) by Michelle Jabès Corpora

20. Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1)

By: Michelle Jabès Corpora

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Playmate, come and play with me..." A beloved classic reimagined with a dark twist. After he… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Jabès Corpora's Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. Now, Conjurers

By: Freddie Kolsch

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

November 1999. North Dana, Massachusetts. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of… read more

Similar categories in Freddie Kolsch's Now, Conjurers book and Erica Waters's The Restless Dark

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • horror
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer

16 must-read fantasy books like The Restless Dark by Erica Waters

Transform Your Habits

Otherworldly

F.T. Lukens

3.99

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The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould

3.94

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Where Echoes Die

Courtney Gould

3.60

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The Invocations

Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

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Have You Seen This Girl

Nita Tyndall

3.64

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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Kalynn Bayron

3.59

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The Narrow

Kate Alice Marshall

3.73

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