25 must-read mystery books like The Cleaner by Brandi Wells

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The Cleaner

By: Brandi Wells

3.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Welcome to the office building at night, an eerie ship helmed by one woman desperate for connectio…

"Imagine thinking you have any say over how someone else lives or works."

-Brandi Wells, The Cleaner

"Imagine thinking you have any say over how someone else lives or works."

-Brandi Wells, The Cleaner

If you liked the mystery plot in The Cleaner by Brandi Wells , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Engagement Party

By: Darby Kane

3.29

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby… read more

Similar categories in Darby Kane's The Engagement Party book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Barker-White's My Name Was Eden book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Guest

By: B.A. Paris

3.59

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere … read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's The Guest book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...regret is such a waste of emotion. No matter how much we want to, we can't change the past. We need to acknowledge the mistakes we've made but not allow them to cloud every moment of every day." -…"

-B.A. Paris, The Guest

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6. 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 Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • 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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7. One of Us Knows

By: Alyssa Cole

3.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's One of Us Knows book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Dead in Long Beach, California

By: Venita Blackburn

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." ―Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth "Y… read more

Similar categories in Venita Blackburn's Dead in Long Beach, California book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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9. The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

By: Alexia Casale

3.70

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A dark comedy about four women coming together to heal the damage their husbands have done––and hid… read more

Similar categories in Alexia Casale's The Best Way to Bury Your Husband book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We’re not fools for wanting love, only for lying to ourselves about whether we’ve found it"

-Alexia Casale, The Best Way to Bury Your Husband

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10. Swiped

By: L.M. Chilton

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The mystifying world of online dating gets a terrifying, clever, and darkly hilarious twist in this… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Chilton's Swiped book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Framed Women of Ardemore House

By: Brandy Schillace

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to fi… read more

Similar categories in Brandy Schillace's The Framed Women of Ardemore House book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidenc… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's Village in the Dark (Cara Kennedy, #2) book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Good Half Gone

By: Tarryn Fisher

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Never Never and The Wives Iris Walsh saw her … read more

Similar categories in Tarryn Fisher's Good Half Gone book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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18. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Not Bad For a Girl

By: Anastasia Ryan

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From hilariously awkward lunch breaks to cringe-worthy Zoom calls, this workplace comedy of errors … read more

Similar categories in Anastasia Ryan's Not Bad For a Girl book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Cleaner

By: Brandi Wells

3.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Welcome to the office building at night, an eerie ship helmed by one woman desperate for connectio… read more

Similar categories in Brandi Wells's The Cleaner book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Imagine thinking you have any say over how someone else lives or works."

-Brandi Wells, The Cleaner

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21. What Grows in the Dark

By: Jaq Evans

3.02

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this chilling contemporary horror novel, a phony spiritualist returns to her hometown to assist … read more

Similar categories in Jaq Evans's What Grows in the Dark book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. 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 Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. 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 Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. 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 Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Clover Hendry's Day Off

By: Beth Morrey

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious and empowering perimenopausal Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, about Clover Hendry, 46, and th… read more

Similar categories in Beth Morrey's Clover Hendry's Day Off book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Love Letters to a Serial Killer

By: Tasha Coryell

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, o… read more

Similar categories in Tasha Coryell's Love Letters to a Serial Killer book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Exit Black

By: Joe Pitkin

3.47

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Die Hard meets The Martian--with a dash of Knives Out--in this action-packed sci-fi thriller. Imper… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pitkin's Exit Black book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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28. 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 Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • 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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29. The Funeral Cryer

By: Wenyan Lu

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s mid-life reawake… read more

Similar categories in Wenyan Lu's The Funeral Cryer book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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31. The Perfect Place

By: Amanda Cassidy

3.84

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Immersive story, sublime storytelling... top-class’ Andrea Mara, author of No One Saw a Thing ‘The… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cassidy's The Perfect Place book and Brandi Wells's The Cleaner

  • thriller

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Darby Kane

3.29

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Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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My Name Was Eden

Eleanor Barker-White

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Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Amy Tintera

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