30 must-read fiction books like Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker

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Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national…

"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole out just enough romantic attention to not get murdered."

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole out just enough romantic attention to not get murdered."

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

If you liked the fiction plot in Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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2. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • true crime
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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3. The Christmas Guest

By: Peter Swanson

3.63

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's The Christmas Guest book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

7. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's What Happened to Nina? book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Rabbit Hole

By: Kate Brody

3.10

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Conspiracy theories from Reddit seduce a disaster-prone woman into an obsession with solving her ol… read more

Similar categories in Kate Brody's Rabbit Hole book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • true crime
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Woman on the Ledge

By: Ruth Mancini

3.93

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

A woman falls to her death from a London bank's twenty-fifth-floor roof terrace. You're arreste… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Mancini's The Woman on the Ledge book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Dixon, Descending

By: Karen Outen

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, heartrending debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibilities to one anot… read more

Similar categories in Karen Outen's Dixon, Descending book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This was the feel at the top of the world. He waited. For something... But the mountain dismissed him like an unwanted suitor. There was nothing here that cared for him. He was king of small purchase…"

-Karen Outen, Dixon, Descending

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12. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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13. The Second Stranger

By: Martin Griffin

3.43

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she l… read more

Similar categories in Martin Griffin's The Second Stranger book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) by Benjamin   Stevenson

14. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the … read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2) book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

16. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • true crime
  • adult
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

17. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Murder in the Family

By: Cara Hunter

3.75

Format: 466 pages, Paperback

A shocking thriller about a cold case, a fictional true crime series, and the family caught in the … read more

Similar categories in Cara Hunter's Murder in the Family book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra

3.86

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The Fallon Spring Reads Book Club Pick A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life an… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Sierra's Nightwatching book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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24. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker

25. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • true crime
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

Cover of Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter

26. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

27. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Colton Gentry's Third Act book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

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28. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

Similar categories in Kellye Garrett's Missing White Woman book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall

29. One of the Good Guys

By: Araminta Hall

3.52

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more

Similar categories in Araminta Hall's One of the Good Guys book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

30. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman

31. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Worst Case Scenario book and Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

23 must-read contemporary books like Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Janice Hallett

3.95

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

Transform Your Habits

One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

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21 Best fiction books like What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Darling Girls

Sally Hepworth

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Sanctuary

Garry Disher

3.99

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