19 must-read mystery books like The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly

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The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hike by Lucy Clarke

2. The Hike

By: Lucy Clarke

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history,… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Clarke's The Hike book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle

3. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

Similar categories in Tom Hindle's Murder on Lake Garda book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Trial by Rob Rinder

4. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Trial book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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5. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett

6. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna   Quinn

7. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

Cover of The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) by Janice Hallett

8. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5) book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death of a Bookseller by Alice   Slater

9. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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10. The Drift

By: C.J. Tudor

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Drift book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1) by Jo  Callaghan

11. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

Similar categories in Jo Callaghan's In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1) book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) by Richard Osman

12. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

Cover of Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent

13. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Strange Sally Diamond book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cloisters by Katy Hays

14. The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

3.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

On the wheel of fortune, who will emerge on top... and who will die? When Ann Stilwell arrives i… read more

Similar categories in Katy Hays's The Cloisters book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Life after parents is like a clean slate. [Rachel Mondray]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"...time made it possible to revisit even the hardest places. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before. [Ann Stilwell]"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

"Era difícil no notar el peso del pasado a nuestro alrededor. Al fin de cuentas, ¿los museos no eran en realidad mausoleos?"

-Katy Hays, The Cloisters

Cover of The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

15. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

Similar categories in Laura Shepherd-Robinson's The Square of Sevens book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

Cover of The Stargazers by Harriet Evans

16. The Stargazers

By: Harriet Evans

3.90

Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition

Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Evans's The Stargazers book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • fiction
Cover of The Murder Game by Tom Hindle

17. The Murder Game

By: Tom Hindle

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, guests ass… read more

Similar categories in Tom Hindle's The Murder Game book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly

18. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1) by Katy  Watson

19. The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

By: Katy Watson

3.77

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of the author who made them fam… read more

Similar categories in Katy Watson's The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1) book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's not for us to say what is motive enough for a person. what might be a minor annoyance to us could mean murder to someone else..."

-Katy Watson, The Three Dahlias (Three Dahlias Mysteries, #1)

Cover of The Puzzle Wood by Rosie Andrews

20. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Puzzle Wood book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of The Midnight Hour by Eve Chase

21. The Midnight Hour

By: Eve Chase

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The new novel from Eve Chase, author of The Glass House and The Birdcage, available to pre-order no… read more

Similar categories in Eve Chase's The Midnight Hour book and Erin Kelly's The Skeleton Key

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

18 Best mystery thriller books like The Skeleton Key by Erin Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Hike

Lucy Clarke

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The Trial

Rob Rinder

4.24

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21 best-selling fiction books like Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

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