21 Top mystery thriller books like The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

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The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s…

"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Villa by Rachel Hawkins , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Bad Summer People

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Villa

  • 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 Villa

  • 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. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Villa

  • 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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7. 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 Villa

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical 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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8. 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 Villa

  • 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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9. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • 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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10. Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware

3.65

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clea… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's Zero Days book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The wall around the perimeter was child's play."

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"... they were just one part of a vast dark web of unseen players ... And yes, they could be fought, maybe some individuals might even be arrested, but you might as well try to prosecute cancer. They …"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"If I shut my eyes, I could picture him... The thought gave me a kind of peace, the idea that he could be out there somewhere-just beyond my reach. But it was a dishonest peace, and I knew that as muc…"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

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11. 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 Villa

  • 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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12. The Fury

By: Alex Michaelides

3.38

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more

Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Fury book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Character is fate"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

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13. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • 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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14. 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 Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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17. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Soulmate

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge... … read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Rachel Hawkins's The Villa

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

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3.43

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None of This Is True

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Alice Feeney

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Stacy Willingham

3.56

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