23 must-read mystery thriller books like The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale

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The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e…

"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Fortune Seller by Rachel Kapelke-Dale , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

2. 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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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3. 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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • 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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4. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Mystery Writer book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Main Character book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

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7. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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12. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Beaird's The Divorcées book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

By: Jenny Hollander

3.28

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine ye… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Book of Doors

By: Gareth Brown

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go? In New York City, bookseller Cassie An… read more

Similar categories in Gareth Brown's The Book of Doors book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's not the number of books that matters, is it? It's what one does with them."

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

"One does not look at a dog and assume it is the only animal to exist. ~ Edmund Fox"

-Gareth Brown, The Book of Doors

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18. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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19. 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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

Similar categories in Nell Freudenberger's The Limits book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. One Wrong Word

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning aut… read more

Similar categories in Hank Phillippi Ryan's One Wrong Word book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. 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 Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. The Split

By: Kit Frick

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Jane Connor is resigned to being the “plain Jane” of her family—pragmatic and dependable—so unlike … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's The Split book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

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25. The Astrology House

By: Carinn Jade

3.57

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A group of wealthy Manhattanites escapes to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentment… read more

Similar categories in Carinn Jade's The Astrology House book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Very Bad Company book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers

By: Sarah Tomlinson

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous , a gripping debut about the complicate… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tomlinson's The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Bye, Baby

By: Carola Lovering

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in … read more

Similar categories in Carola Lovering's Bye, Baby book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instantly calming as she suckles by breast. It's a relief for both of us..."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

"Ella is on my nipple like a magnet... my breasts engorged and tingling from the let-down."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

"Ella begins to fuss in her stroller... I feel a wave of love for her as my nipples tingle on instinct - my milk coming down."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

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30. When We Were Silent

By: Fiona McPhillips

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut no… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McPhillips's When We Were Silent book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm not here for prestige. I'm here for revenge."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"In the end, we're the ones who have to live with the stories we tell ourselves."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"That was always the one thing Highfield valued more than grades, more than silverware or celebrity alumni: silence."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

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31. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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