6 Top suspense books like Where They Wait by Scott Carson

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Where They Wait

By: Scott Carson

3.63

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a …

If you liked the suspense plot in Where They Wait by Scott Carson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

2. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

Cover of Road of Bones by Christopher Golden

4. Road of Bones

By: Christopher Golden

3.38

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost sto… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's Road of Bones book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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5. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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6. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

Cover of This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer

7. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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9. Come with Me

By: Ronald Malfi

3.94

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoke… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Come with Me book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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10. The Babysitter Lives

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.62

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

Only on Audio! A new horror novel from the bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Babysitter Lives book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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11. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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12. The Book of Accidents

By: Chuck Wendig

3.73

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's The Book of Accidents book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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13. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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14. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • 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 Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The House of Last Resort

By: Christopher Golden

3.20

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy,… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Golden's The House of Last Resort book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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17. Beneath the Stairs

By: Jennifer Fawcett

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted hous… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Fawcett's Beneath the Stairs book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Next time they're holding auditions for Fast & Furious in my driveway. Let me know. Lol"

-Jennifer Fawcett, Beneath the Stairs

"The other lesson that these past few months have taught me: the antidote to stillness-- and the memories it holds-- is to keep moving."

-Jennifer Fawcett, Beneath the Stairs

"Why is it that some people -- mainly women, my own age-- feel the need to patronize me? It usually happens with the ones who are mothers. It's like my not having kids, not being married and now not h…"

-Jennifer Fawcett, Beneath the Stairs

"I never noticed birds before, but now I see them all the time.It makes it nicer, you know, even if you're just going for a walk, like in a place where you walk all the time, or just sitting and looki…"

-Jennifer Fawcett, Beneath the Stairs

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18. Schrader's Chord

By: Scott Leeds

4.06

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Heart-Shaped Box meets The Haunting of Hill House in Schrader's Chord , Scott Leeds's chilling debu… read more

Similar categories in Scott Leeds's Schrader's Chord book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Also ..." He nodded to the lone restaurant surrounded by trees. "... that looks like the s-sort of place that has pie." "And hot coffee," Ana added, closing her eyes and purring. Raymond smiled. "May…"

-Scott Leeds, Schrader's Chord

Cover of Where They Wait by Scott  Carson

19. Where They Wait

By: Scott Carson

3.63

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a … read more

Similar categories in Scott Carson's Where They Wait book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

20. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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21. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Scott Carson's Where They Wait

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 must-read fiction books like Where They Wait by Scott Carson

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Road of Bones

Christopher Golden

3.38

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20 best-selling fiction books like You Like It Darker by Stephen King

Transform Your Habits

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Eruption

Michael Crichton

3.91

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The House That Horror Built

Christina Henry

3.22

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