14 Best suspense books like The Lies They Tell by Gillian French

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The Lies They Tell

By: Gillian French

3.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in Tenney’s Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravag…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Lies They Tell by Gillian French , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. People Like Us

By: Dana Mele

3.52

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself en… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mele's People Like Us book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I don't want to fall back into that wild spinning nothingness again. Because once you're in it, there are no footholds. It takes something extraordinary, a cosmic alignment of divine proportions, to …"

-Dana Mele, People Like Us

2. With Malice

By: Eileen Cook

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

It was the perfect trip...until it wasn't. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital ro… read more

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3. Bring Her Home

By: David Bell

3.96

Format: None pages, Audio CD

"Bell imagines a suburban world where no one really knows what's happening behind all those drawn b… read more

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4. The Safest Lies

By: Megan Miranda

4.24

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Can fear be inherited? Kelsey has lived most of her life in a shadow of fear, raised to see danger … read more

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5. The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident—two g… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"At some time you have to choose to live in the light."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

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6. That Weekend

By: Kara Thomas

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip - what could go wrong? It was supposed to be the… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's That Weekend book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?"

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"I wish you'd killed me, I tried to say with my eyes. Then maybe someone would finally stop you."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Maybe, like me, it's even more than the absence. The silence, maybe - the waiting for the phone call that never comes."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Recently, she dyed her short blond bob a sassy red, a decision my mother and I discussed at length back when my friends weren't missing and we consumed other peoples' tragedies for entertainment."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

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7. The One That Got Away with Murder

By: Trish Lundy

3.77

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Be careful who you fall for... Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count—the killer kind. Han… read more

Similar categories in Trish Lundy's The One That Got Away with Murder book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Until something crashes down around us, and he's screaming. I inhale ash. His burning skin. His burning hair. It suffocates me."

-Trish Lundy, The One That Got Away with Murder

"We write one thing we're going to leave behind in the old season and then we burn it. We start off every year with a clean slate."

-Trish Lundy, The One That Got Away with Murder

"Suddenly, everything around me is on fire. I lurch forward, stumbling because I'm drunk. Sweating because it's hot as hell. The smoke is black as night and I can't see anything. Then I feel his hand,…"

-Trish Lundy, The One That Got Away with Murder

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8. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. Snow & Poison

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Love is stronger than poison in this lush retelling of "Snow White" by #1 New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's Snow & Poison book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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10. I Am Still Alive

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.87

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

After Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the co… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's I Am Still Alive book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Fire is warmth and food and clean water, but it’s hard and time-consuming, and people die because they spend all their time making the fire and no time finding water or building a shelter."

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

"I look at the wall where those first words - SMART, NOT STRONG - have been joined by dozens more. Pay attention to the wind. Steep drop west of the snag. Say something out loud at least once a day. R…"

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

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11. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. I Know You Remember

By: Jennifer Donaldson

3.79

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer Donaldson is back with another twisted thriller perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Donaldson's I Know You Remember book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly

By: Meredith Tate

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When band-geek Ivy and her friends get together, things start with a rousing board game and end wit… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Tate's The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. The Summer We Forgot

By: Caroline George

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the q… read more

Similar categories in Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go"

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

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16. King Nyx

By: Kirsten Bakis

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the contemporary cult classic, Lives of the Monster Dogs , comes a haunting myst… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Bakis's King Nyx book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. All Eyes on Her

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and We Were Liars, All Eyes on Her by L.E. Flynn is a grippi… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's All Eyes on Her book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Everyone says boys will be boys, but girls? Girls will be monsters."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"She's her full height, confidence sweeping behind her like the train of a wedding dress."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"We're girls, Elle. We make one wrong move, and we're villains. There's no in between. We never had it both ways."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

"When you're a girl, you have to scream to get anybody's attention. And even then, all they want you to do is shut up."

-Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, All Eyes on Her

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18. Broken Things

By: Lauren Oliver

3.57

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oliver's Broken Things book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"We made it up, every last bit of it. We were bored, we were deviant, we were in love, we were out of out fucking minds"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

"Just listen, okay?" He grabs my shoulders before I can move past him, and I know, I know that something huge is happening, the kind of thing that takes worlds apart and remakes them. Hurricanes and t…"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

"In books, secret worlds are accessible by doors or keys or other physical objects. But Lovelorn was not such a world, and appeared at whim and only when it felt like it, with a subtle change like the…"

-Lauren Oliver, Broken Things

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19. Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us… read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's Very Bad People book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. Lies You Never Told Me

By: Jennifer Donaldson

3.80

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

"A compulsive page-turner with a shocking twist--get ready to stay up all night!" --Sara Shepard, #… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Donaldson's Lies You Never Told Me book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Confessions of an Innocent Man

By: David R. Dow

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Every person wrongfully convicted of a crime at some point dreams of getting revenge against the s… read more

Similar categories in David R. Dow's Confessions of an Innocent Man book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist."

-David R. Dow, Confessions of an Innocent Man

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22. Draw Down the Moon (Moonstruck, #1)

By: P.C. Cast

3.41

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestsellers P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast return with a new duology set in a dark and m… read more

Similar categories in P.C. Cast's Draw Down the Moon (Moonstruck, #1) book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • fiction
  • young adult
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23. Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

By: Katie Cotugno

3.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fresh new take on Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles , with… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1) book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"There were a lot of different versions of the truth."

-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

"Every day I think about committing a murder just to spice things up."

-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

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24. The Last One to Fall

By: Gabriella Lepore

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Six friends. Five suspects. One murder. Savana Caruso and Jesse Melo have known each other since t… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Lepore's The Last One to Fall book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. The Lies They Tell

By: Gillian French

3.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in Tenney’s Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy. How an unexplained fire ravag… read more

Similar categories in Gillian French's The Lies They Tell book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. Arrowood

By: Laura McHugh

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman's return to her childho… read more

Similar categories in Laura McHugh's Arrowood book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"... nostalgia was once thought to be a mental illness or a physical affliction; for me, it was both."

-Laura McHugh, Arrowood

"I used to play a game where I imagined that someone had abandoned me in a strange place & I had to find my way back home-I thought I could do it blind, the same way a lost dog might trek a thousand m…"

-Laura McHugh, Arrowood

"We all had dreams, regrets, accomplishments, people we'd loved and disappointed, and at some point, for each of us, those earthly concerns would fall away, our lives replaced in an instant by darknes…"

-Laura McHugh, Arrowood

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27. Nobody Knows But You

By: Anica Mrose Rissi

3.31

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Maybe a killer only looks like a killer in the moment just before, during, or after. Maybe a lia… read more

Similar categories in Anica Mrose Rissi's Nobody Knows But You book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"But what even is truth? Because we all have different perceptions and those perceptions shape our truths. And two contradicting things can be true at once."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"Give people a few convincing threads and they'll spin the rest themselves. This story has been woven for us, more tightly than I could have done. I couldn't untangle the knots now if I tried."

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

"I'm the only one who saw your full truth. I still see it. I'm trying to keep holding it tight. But truth can be slippery, hard to look at straight on. It's too open to interpretations and view points…"

-Anica Mrose Rissi, Nobody Knows But You

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28. The Summer We Buried

By: Jody Gehrman

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An unthinkable crime—and the tattered threads of a friendship gone wrong—come roaring back to terri… read more

Similar categories in Jody Gehrman's The Summer We Buried book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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29. Not By Blood

By: Chris Narozny

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

When Tina Evans gets a call from her brother in the middle of the night, she doesn’t think much of … read more

Similar categories in Chris Narozny's Not By Blood book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • suspense
  • audiobook
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30. The Champions

By: Kara Thomas

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybro… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Champions book and Gillian French's The Lies They Tell

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"she's Team Football and not Team Hadley."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"Ms. Martinelli would tell her life story to a baked potato"

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"No matter how many stories I know that have ended the same way, it's still impossible to accept."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

"He delivers the verdict with a gravity that suggests I asked to cook crystal meth in the back office."

-Kara Thomas, The Champions

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