21 Top mystery books like The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman

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The Sea of Lost Girls

By: Carol Goodman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A story set in a prestigious prep school in which one woman’s carefully hidden past might destroy h…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Sea of Lost Girls by Carol Goodman , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Absence of Mercy

By: John Burley

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A doctor and father in small town Ohio weighs the need to catch a killer against his fears for his … read more

Similar categories in John Burley's The Absence of Mercy book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. Mister Tender's Girl

By: Carter Wilson

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by … read more

Similar categories in Carter Wilson's Mister Tender's Girl book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. Everyone Here Is Lying

By: Shari Lapena

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.William Wooler is a family man, on… read more

Similar categories in Shari Lapena's Everyone Here Is Lying book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's Only If You're Lucky book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

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5. 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 Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • 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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6. The Vacancy in Room 10

By: Seraphina Nova Glass

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Nerd Daily Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2… read more

Similar categories in Seraphina Nova Glass's The Vacancy in Room 10 book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. What the Neighbors Saw

By: Melissa Adelman

3.35

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Adelman's What the Neighbors Saw book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Only Survivors

By: Megan Miranda

3.55

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tenn… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's The Only Survivors book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Sea of Lost Girls

By: Carol Goodman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A story set in a prestigious prep school in which one woman’s carefully hidden past might destroy h… read more

Similar categories in Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. With a Kiss We Die

By: L.R. Dorn

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to pr… read more

Similar categories in L.R. Dorn's With a Kiss We Die book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ryanna Raines: "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

"I see several officers in riot gear holding shotguns, as though anticipating the second coming of Bonnie and Clyde."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

"Ryanna Raines: And why did you choose "Desire Under the Elms?" Jordan De Carlo: It's ferocious. A full-throttle rage machine. Rage over land, over family, over sexual lust."

-L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die

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16. One House Left

By: Vincent Ralph

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

R.L. Stine meets Urban Legend in the next twisty horror novel by New York Times bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's One House Left book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Last Girl Lied To

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3.53

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Something made him angry that night. Something made her cry. Something made Trixie disappear. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's Last Girl Lied To book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"It's hard to separate anything from Trixie. Her friendship altered me, made me change shape in more ways than I ever knew was possible. Her voice is in my head. She's under my skin, a tattoo nobody e…"

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, Last Girl Lied To

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18. The Prized Girl

By: Amy K. Green

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Amy K. Green comes a devastating tale of psychological suspense: a teen pageant q… read more

Similar categories in Amy K. Green's The Prized Girl book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Picnic in the Ruins

By: Todd Robert Petersen

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology… read more

Similar categories in Todd Robert Petersen's Picnic in the Ruins book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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20. A Woman Alone

By: Nina Laurin

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A high-stakes, pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen. A year af… read more

Similar categories in Nina Laurin's A Woman Alone book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Leave the Girls Behind

By: Jacqueline Bublitz

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of the “tour de force” (The New York Times Book Review) Before You Knew My Nam… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Bublitz's Leave the Girls Behind book and Carol Goodman's The Sea of Lost Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult

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The Absence of Mercy

John Burley

3.94

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Carter Wilson

3.82

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Everyone Here Is Lying

Shari Lapena

3.80

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Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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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

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