20 best-selling mystery thriller books like The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

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The Wife Upstairs

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.74

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric dome…

"The stressful part is always making the decision,"

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"If a man wants a woman to basically be a wife, he needs to make her a wife."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"I’ve been dodging men’s hands since I was twelve, so wishing a man would touch me is a novel experience."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"Had I brought this here? This sordidness, this violence? Did it cling to me like some kind of virus, infecting anyone who got close to me?"

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. The Last Mrs. Parrish

By: Liv Constantine

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative wom… read more

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2. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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4. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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6. The Only One Left

By: Riley Sager

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Ho… read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's The Only One Left book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever."

-Riley Sager, The Only One Left

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7. The Teacher

By: Freida McFadden

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a chilling story of twisted secret… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Teacher book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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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10. All the Dangerous Things

By: Stacy Willingham

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his c… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's All the Dangerous Things book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People tend to stash their dirtiest secrets in the most common of places."

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

"At the time, it reminded me of the stars: how two can collide and fuse into one—bigger, brighter, stronger than before. But what I didn’t know then was that when they collide too fast, they don’t fus…"

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

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11. Just the Nicest Couple

By: Mary Kubica

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two couples, two close friends, one missing husband… Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's Just the Nicest Couple book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Wife Upstairs

By: Freida McFadden

4.12

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Wife Upstairs book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Coworker

By: Freida McFadden

3.79

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back Dawn Schif… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Coworker book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Local Woman Missing

By: Mary Kubica

4.14

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

People don’t just disappear without a trace.... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not lon… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's Local Woman Missing book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. You Shouldn't Have Come Here

By: Jeneva Rose

3.34

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbn… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's You Shouldn't Have Come Here book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I knew it was just a dream but it felt real, and sometimes there wasn't a difference between the two."

-Jeneva Rose, You Shouldn't Have Come Here

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16. A Flicker in the Dark

By: Stacy Willingham

3.99

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's A Flicker in the Dark book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The idea of him burying a body before returning home and kissing me goodnight ad meade me want to crawl out of my ski and live somwher relse. Somewhere far away."

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"Inside, a single firefly glows bright, its body pulsing with life. I stare at it for a while, my forehead pressed against my clenched fingers. I watch it radiate up close, flickering in my grasp, thi…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"When people get hurt physically, you can see it in the bruises and the scars, but when they’re hurt emotionally, mentally, it runs deeper than that. You can see every sleepless night in the reflectio…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"More often that not, it's just the thought of them that calms my nerves. I once told a claustrophobic patient to carry a single Xanax in her purse every time she boards a plane, its mere presence str…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

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17. Never Lie

By: Freida McFadden

4.09

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's Never Lie book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead"

-Freida McFadden, Never Lie

"After all, my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead."

-Freida McFadden, Never Lie

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18. Rock Paper Scissors

By: Alice Feeney

3.92

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wrigh… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Rock Paper Scissors book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My fingerprints are all over his heartbreak"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place."

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"Marriage is either a winning lottery ticket or a straitjacket"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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19. The Inmate

By: Freida McFadden

4.06

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-se… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Inmate book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) by Freida McFadden

20. The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3)

By: Freida McFadden

3.90

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

21. The Wife Upstairs

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.74

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric dome… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs book and Rachel Hawkins's The Wife Upstairs

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • retellings
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The stressful part is always making the decision,"

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"If a man wants a woman to basically be a wife, he needs to make her a wife."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"I’ve been dodging men’s hands since I was twelve, so wishing a man would touch me is a novel experience."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

"Had I brought this here? This sordidness, this violence? Did it cling to me like some kind of virus, infecting anyone who got close to me?"

-Rachel Hawkins, The Wife Upstairs

20 best-selling fiction books like The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Here Is Lying

Shari Lapena

3.80

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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20 must-read fiction books like The Inmate by Freida McFadden

Transform Your Habits

Saving Noah

Lucinda Berry

3.56

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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