10 must-read suspense books like Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1) by Caroline B. Cooney

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Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

By: Caroline B. Cooney

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Her life didn't turn out the way she expected ― so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes …

"The shadows felt fat and occupied."

-Caroline B. Cooney, Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

"The shadows felt fat and occupied."

-Caroline B. Cooney, Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

If you liked the suspense plot in Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1) by Caroline B. Cooney , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old proble… read more

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  • audiobook

2. The Door by the Staircase

By: Kelly Murphy , Katherine Marsh

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mary Hayes can't stand her orphanage for another night. But when an attempted escap… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Murphy's The Door by the Staircase book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of A Brew to a Kill (Coffeehouse Mystery, #11) by Cleo Coyle

3. A Brew to a Kill (Coffeehouse Mystery, #11)

By: Cleo Coyle

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

"Coyle's Coffeehouse books are superb" (Library Journal), and now the national bestselling author o… read more

Similar categories in Cleo Coyle's A Brew to a Kill (Coffeehouse Mystery, #11) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

4. Heading Out to Wonderful

By: Robert Goolrick

3.97

Format: 179 pages,

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, recently back from t… read more

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5. The Girl on the Bus

By: N.M. Brown

2.88

Format: 29 pages,

A retired detective and a young woman are about to face their worst fears. Vicki Reiner is emotiona… read more

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6. Monday Mornings

By: Sanjay Gupta

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Every time surgeons operate, they're betting their skills are better than the brain tumor, the faul… read more

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7. Bookman Dead Style (A Dangerous Type Mystery, #2)

By: Paige Shelton

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

A movie star is typecast as a killer in the second Dangerous Type Mystery from the New York Times b… read more

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8. Inheriting Edith: A Novel

By: Zoe Fishman

4.22

Format: 160 pages,

A poignant breakout novel, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Elin Hilderbrand, about a single mo… read more

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9. 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 Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Long Ago

By: Michael McGarrity

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1960s, Ray Lansdale returns from Vietnam to his Montana home to search for his missing… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Mrs. Plansky's Revenge

By: Spencer Quinn

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Quinn's Mrs. Plansky's Revenge book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. The Truth about the Devlins

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

By: Nita Prose

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover t… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all make mistakes. It’s what we do after that matters."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"Mr. Grimthorpe and I have always maintained that books can rehabilitate anyone."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"You can fight monsters you can see, or you can run away from them. But the invisible ones are inescapable."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"It's a matter of polish," I say. "With most things, especially masterpieces, it's about removing the tarnish to reveal the shine."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

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14. One Puzzling Afternoon

By: Emily Critchley

3.86

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A mystery she can't remember. A friend she can't forget. I kept your secret Lucy. I've kept it f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Critchley's One Puzzling Afternoon book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) by Iona Whishaw

15. Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11)

By: Iona Whishaw

4.39

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Beginning with a bang, the latest mystery in the series Publishers Weekly calls “highly entertainin… read more

Similar categories in Iona Whishaw's Lightning Strikes the Silence (Lane Winslow #11) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. While We Were Burning

By: Sara Koffi

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, exa… read more

Similar categories in Sara Koffi's While We Were Burning book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Secret Lives (Secret Lives #1) by Mark de Castrique

17. Secret Lives (Secret Lives #1)

By: Mark de Castrique

3.70

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. At seventy-five years old, she looks like s… read more

Similar categories in Mark de Castrique's Secret Lives (Secret Lives #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pandora Problem: Facing Narcissism in Leaders & Ourselves by E. James Wilder

18. The Pandora Problem: Facing Narcissism in Leaders & Ourselves

By: E. James Wilder

4.53

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

There is Hope for narcissists. Are you ready to open the box? Most of us are scared to death to li… read more

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19. Little Comfort (Hester Thursby Mystery, #1)

By: Edwin Hill

3.69

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth… read more

Similar categories in Edwin Hill's Little Comfort (Hester Thursby Mystery, #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

By: Caroline B. Cooney

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Her life didn't turn out the way she expected ― so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes … read more

Similar categories in Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The shadows felt fat and occupied."

-Caroline B. Cooney, Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

Cover of Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody (Jane Darrowfield, #1) by Barbara  Ross

21. Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody (Jane Darrowfield, #1)

By: Barbara Ross

3.99

Format: 266 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jane Darrowfield is a year into her retirement, and she’s already traveled and planted a garden. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Ross's Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody (Jane Darrowfield, #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fourth Rule (Riley Wolfe #4) by Jeff Lindsay

22. The Fourth Rule (Riley Wolfe #4)

By: Jeff Lindsay

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE BIGGEST HEIST. THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY. FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. OH, AND EXPLOSION… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Lindsay's The Fourth Rule (Riley Wolfe #4) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. Mother Howl

By: Craig Clevenger

3.75

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a b… read more

Similar categories in Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Crime and Punctuation (Deadly Edits, #1) by Kaitlyn Dunnett

24. Crime and Punctuation (Deadly Edits, #1)

By: Kaitlyn Dunnett

3.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges … read more

Similar categories in Kaitlyn Dunnett's Crime and Punctuation (Deadly Edits, #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Cold to the Touch

By: Kerri Hakoda

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

American Predator meets Harlan Coben in this taut, ticking-clock thriller in which women are being … read more

Similar categories in Kerri Hakoda's Cold to the Touch book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. Watch Her (Hester Thursby Mystery, #3)

By: Edwin Hill

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Quirky characters complement the suspenseful plot. Readers will agree that a failing school makes … read more

Similar categories in Edwin Hill's Watch Her (Hester Thursby Mystery, #3) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Surviving My Birthright by Casey Hammer

27. Surviving My Birthright

By: Casey Hammer

2.90

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

This is a revealing and inspirational memoir by Casey Hammer, sole granddaughter of the American bi… read more

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28. Pickard County Atlas

By: Chris Harding Thornton

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding rural noir about the aftershocks of crime and tr… read more

Similar categories in Chris Harding Thornton's Pickard County Atlas book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Off-Islander (An Andy Roark Mystery #1) by Peter Colt

29. The Off-Islander (An Andy Roark Mystery #1)

By: Peter Colt

3.67

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In Peter Colt's gritty, gripping new series set along the New England coast, a Boston-born Vietnam … read more

Similar categories in Peter Colt's The Off-Islander (An Andy Roark Mystery #1) book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Choice Considered (The Heart of Cheyenne, #2) by Tracie Peterson

30. A Choice Considered (The Heart of Cheyenne, #2)

By: Tracie Peterson

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Melody Doyle has spent years following her father across the country as the transcontinental railro… read more

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Cover of The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age by Annie  Reed

31. The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age

By: Annie Reed

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Before there was Anna Delvey or Elizabeth Holmes, there was Cassie Chadwick. The first woman–using … read more

Similar categories in Annie Reed's The Impostor Heiress: Cassie Chadwick, The Greatest Grifter of the Gilded Age book and Caroline B. Cooney's Before She Was Helen (Clemmie, #1)

  • crime
  • audiobook

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Kelly Murphy , Katherine Marsh

3.95

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Cleo Coyle

3.44

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Good Bad Girl

Alice Feeney

3.66

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Michael McGarrity

3.80

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Laurie R. King

4.41

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Camilla Trinchieri

4.14

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Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Ashley Weaver

4.26

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