8 Best psychological thriller books like Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

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Dream Girl

By: Laura Lippman

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Lau…

"The wheel spins, the ball bounces, bounces, bounces. Where will it land? Will you get the girl? Will your name be read from stages, the recipient of important prizes? Will your name be remembered? How will it be remembered? Will you be remembered at all? Everything is in the before moment. That's where life is richest, in that moment of possibility and anti- say it, the audience screamed at the screen - pation."

-Laura Lippman, Dream Girl

"The wheel spins, the ball bounces, bounces, bounces. Where will it land? Will you get the girl? Will your name be read from stages, the recipient of important prizes? Will your name be remembered? How will it be remembered? Will you be remembered at all? Everything is in the before moment. That's where life is richest, in that moment of possibility and anti- say it, the audience screamed at the screen - pation."

-Laura Lippman, Dream Girl

If you liked the psychological thriller plot in Dream Girl by Laura Lippman , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. To Die For

By: Rachel Bavidge , Alice Clark-Platts

2.79

Format: 35 pages, Audible Audio

1 hr and 9 mins Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of To Die For by… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Bavidge's To Die For book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Harm's Way (Alan Gregory, #4) by Stephen White

2. Harm's Way (Alan Gregory, #4)

By: Stephen White

5.00

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Stephen White's Harm's Way (Alan Gregory, #4) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware

3.65

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clea… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's Zero Days book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The wall around the perimeter was child's play."

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"... they were just one part of a vast dark web of unseen players ... And yes, they could be fought, maybe some individuals might even be arrested, but you might as well try to prosecute cancer. They …"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"If I shut my eyes, I could picture him... The thought gave me a kind of peace, the idea that he could be out there somewhere-just beyond my reach. But it was a dishonest peace, and I knew that as muc…"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

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6. Just Another Missing Person

By: Gillian McAllister

3.66

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong T… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Just Another Missing Person book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood is beautiful, but hard, too. It’s tough to exist in the world when there is someone going about their business who you would die for."

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

"How much I love you. You'll never know it, either. You will only have some idea, if you have a child of your own one day, of the things you will do to protect them, of how deep and pure your love for…"

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

Cover of After That Night (Will Trent, #11) by Karin Slaughter

7. After That Night (Will Trent, #11)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

After that night, nothing was ever the same again Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed … read more

Similar categories in Karin Slaughter's After That Night (Will Trent, #11) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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10. 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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Truth about the Devlins

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's The Truth about the Devlins book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Beware the Woman

By: Megan Abbott

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott, an eerie and prescient novel… read more

Similar categories in Megan Abbott's Beware the Woman book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. What Have We Done

By: Alex Finlay

3.54

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and … read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's What Have We Done book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Woman in the Library

By: Sulari Gentill

3.51

Format: 292 pages, ebook

In every person's story, there is something to hide... The ornate reading room at the Boston Pub… read more

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Woman in the Library book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am a bricklayer without drawings, laying words in sentences, sentences into paragraphs, allowing my walls to twist and turn on whim...no framework...just bricks interlocked...no idea what I'm build…"

-Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library

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18. How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sims's How Can I Help You book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Turnout

By: Megan Abbott

3.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers si… read more

Similar categories in Megan Abbott's The Turnout book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"-Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always c…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

"The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

"The woman's body twitched suddenly, as if remembering something, and she covered her mouth with a stiff mitten. Dara knew what it was. She'd felt it a dozen times that day already. The body rememberi…"

-Megan Abbott, The Turnout

Cover of The Kind Worth Saving (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #2) by Peter  Swanson

20. The Kind Worth Saving (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #2)

By: Peter Swanson

3.69

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson—featuring th… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's The Kind Worth Saving (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #2) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. The Younger Wife

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

THE HUSBAND A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But f… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's The Younger Wife book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She just needed to reframe, that was all. People reframed all the time. People who realized they weren't going to live a long life. People who lost a loved one, suffered an accident, lost use of a li…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

"Being Tully’s sister required a very specific skill set. You had to be an animated conversationalist (Tully was easily bored) but also a calming influence. You had to be fully invested in whatever sh…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

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23. Nine Lives

By: Peter Swanson

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else, just a list of name… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's Nine Lives book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just because my boot was tapping didn't mean I liked the song"

-Peter Swanson, Nine Lives

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24. Find Me (Ellie Hatcher, #6)

By: Alafair Burke

3.59

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Find Me by Carol OConnell . Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,2007 read more

Similar categories in Alafair Burke's Find Me (Ellie Hatcher, #6) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Gone Tonight

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.82

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's Gone Tonight book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

By: Lisa Unger

3.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

27. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

28. Dream Girl

By: Laura Lippman

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following up on her acclaimed and wildly successful New York Times bestseller Lady in the Lake, Lau… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Dream Girl book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The wheel spins, the ball bounces, bounces, bounces. Where will it land? Will you get the girl? Will your name be read from stages, the recipient of important prizes? Will your name be remembered? Ho…"

-Laura Lippman, Dream Girl

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29. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

Cover of The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian

30. The Red Lotus

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Red Lotus book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World by Steven Hawley

31. Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World

By: Steven Hawley

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed.  During the first two decades of the twenty-firs… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hawley's Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World book and Laura Lippman's Dream Girl

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To Die For

Rachel Bavidge , Alice Clark-Platts

2.79

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Harm's Way (Alan Gregory, #4)

Stephen White

5.00

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Good Bad Girl

Alice Feeney

3.66

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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

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Stacy Willingham

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