20 must-read thriller books like The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart

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The Long Way Back

By: Nicole Baart

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation …

If you liked the thriller plot in The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. A Place at the Table

By: Susan Rebecca White

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A rich, beautiful novel about three unlikely, complex characters who meet in a chic Manhattan cafe … read more

Similar categories in Susan Rebecca White's A Place at the Table book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Before She Finds Me

By: Heather Chavez

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this shocking thriller, two unlikely mothers race to uncover the truth behind a horrific attack—… read more

Similar categories in Heather Chavez's Before She Finds Me book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Don't Forget the Girl

By: Rebecca McKanna

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

We never remember the dead girls. We never forget the killers. Twelve years ago, 18-year-old Uni… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca McKanna's Don't Forget the Girl book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Tragedy is a constant rather than the exception"

-Rebecca McKanna, Don't Forget the Girl

"Here is a girl who finally shares who she is and then is immediately punished by the world. But Jon Allan Blue is not the world. He's one man. And Abby was more than just the way her life ended."

-Rebecca McKanna, Don't Forget the Girl

"Sontag said a photograph was, by its nature, a violation. It allowed the photographer to see people the way they never saw themselves, giving them knowledge the subject couldn't possess. She called i…"

-Rebecca McKanna, Don't Forget the Girl

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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 Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • 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. Just Another Missing Person

By: Gillian McAllister

3.66

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Reese’s Book Club Pick and the New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong T… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Just Another Missing Person book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood is beautiful, but hard, too. It’s tough to exist in the world when there is someone going about their business who you would die for."

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

"How much I love you. You'll never know it, either. You will only have some idea, if you have a child of your own one day, of the things you will do to protect them, of how deep and pure your love for…"

-Gillian McAllister, Just Another Missing Person

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6. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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 Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Night It Ended

By: Katie Garner

3.37

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding the truth seems impossible when her own dark past has her seeing lies everywhere she looks…… read more

Similar categories in Katie Garner's The Night It Ended book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why would someone do this to me? Why? I've done nothing wrong to anyone. Lie... I've been a good mom. Lie... A good wife. Lie... A good doctor. Lie."

-Katie Garner, The Night It Ended

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9. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. I Did It for You

By: Amy Engel

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A twisty thriller from the beloved author of The Familiar Dark, in which a woman returns to the tow… read more

Similar categories in Amy Engel's I Did It for You book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Everybody grieves their own way. He's got his, and I've got mine. ... Personally, I'm a big fan of a bath. I get through my day, do what has to be done, and then at night I draw a hot bath. Sit in th…"

-Amy Engel, I Did It for You

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12. You Can Trust Me

By: Wendy Heard

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her plac… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's You Can Trust Me book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Gone Tonight

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.82

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's Gone Tonight book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Have You Seen Her

By: Catherine McKenzie

3.59

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersect in the pictu… read more

Similar categories in Catherine McKenzie's Have You Seen Her book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Thicker Than Water

By: Megan Collins

3.43

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

Julia and Sienna Larkin are sisters-in-law, connected by Julia's husband and Sienna's brother, Jaso… read more

Similar categories in Megan Collins's Thicker Than Water book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The New Mother

By: Nora Murphy

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling story — a fresh new twist on motherho… read more

Similar categories in Nora Murphy's The New Mother book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart

17. The Long Way Back

By: Nicole Baart

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. No One Needs to Know

By: Lindsay Cameron

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When an anonymous neighborhood forum gets hacked, the darkest secrets of New York’s wealthiest resi… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Cameron's No One Needs to Know book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Paris Widow

By: Kimberly Belle

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in t… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's The Paris Widow book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Only One Survives

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Becoming the star is easier when the rest of your band is dead… All drummer Vienna Taylor ever w… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Mary McKinnon's Only One Survives book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

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

By: Robyn Harding

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Party and The Drowning Woman returns with a twisted tale of fame, obs… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Haters book and Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart

Transform Your Habits

A Place at the Table

Susan Rebecca White

2.67

Transform Your Habits

Before She Finds Me

Heather Chavez

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Don't Forget the Girl

Rebecca McKanna

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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20 must-read contemporary books like If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Long Time Gone

Charlie Donlea

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Transform Your Habits

If Something Happens to Me

Alex Finlay

3.79

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