19 Best suspense books like Her Last Affair by John Searles

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Her Last Affair

By: John Searles

3.33

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a new novel of character-…

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1. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • 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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2. It's One of Us

By: J.T. Ellison

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Everybody lies. Even the ones you think you know best of all . . . Olivia Bender designs exquisite … read more

Similar categories in J.T. Ellison's It's One of Us book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Secrets We Share

By: Edwin Hill

3.90

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing, twisty suspense novel perfect for fans of Mary Kubica and Riley Sager from an acclai… read more

Similar categories in Edwin Hill's The Secrets We Share book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. My Summer Darlings

By: May Cobb

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of … read more

Similar categories in May Cobb's My Summer Darlings book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1)

By: Fiona Barton

3.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and week… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Barton's Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1) book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Favor

By: Nora Murphy

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can hap… read more

Similar categories in Nora Murphy's The Favor book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Second Husband

By: Kate White

3.38

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A woman's seemingly perfect second marriage is rocked by a discovery about the death of her first h… read more

Similar categories in Kate White's The Second Husband book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Emma cocked her head, a little surprised. Are you two thinking about getting back together? Not sure yet. I'm still trying to decide if his shitty behavior last spring qualifies as a go or a gone. Sh…"

-Kate White, The Second Husband

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10. The Next Thing You Know

By: Jessica Strawser

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A musician facing the untimely end of his career. An end-of-life doula with everything, and nothing… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Strawser's The Next Thing You Know book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • 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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12. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • 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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13. The Long Weekend

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three couples. Two bodies. One secret. Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so s… read more

Similar categories in Gilly Macmillan's The Long Weekend book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Personal Assistant

By: Kimberly Belle

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the … read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's The Personal Assistant book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

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16. My Wife is Missing

By: D.J. Palmer

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A family vacation turns into a nightmare for Michael Hart when he discovers his wife and two childr… read more

Similar categories in D.J. Palmer's My Wife is Missing book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Wish You Were Gone

By: Kieran Scott

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Emma Walsh has finally worked up the courage to confront her husband James about his drinking—his a… read more

Similar categories in Kieran Scott's Wish You Were Gone book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. What Happened to the Bennetts

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.80

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

From #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a pulse-pounding new novel. Your family has bee… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's What Happened to the Bennetts book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. I'll Be You

By: Janelle Brown

3.73

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

11 hours, 41 minutes Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until… read more

Similar categories in Janelle Brown's I'll Be You book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Her Last Affair

By: John Searles

3.33

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Help for the Haunted and Strange but True, a new novel of character-… read more

Similar categories in John Searles's Her Last Affair book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Watch Me Disappear

By: Ross Armstrong

3.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A fractured mind and a race against time… Tom Mondrian is watching his life ebb away directing t… read more

Similar categories in Ross Armstrong's Watch Me Disappear book and John Searles's Her Last Affair

  • mystery
  • audiobook

20 best-selling fiction books like Her Last Affair by John Searles

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The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

It's One of Us

J.T. Ellison

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Secrets We Share

Edwin Hill

3.90

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One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

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21 best-selling suspense books like The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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