19 Best suspense books like Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1) by Tessa Wegert

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Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

By: Tessa Wegert

3.67

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believ…

"Only by living the life can guilty people deliver believable accounts."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

"Only by living the life can guilty people deliver believable accounts."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

"Only by living the life can guilty people deliver believable accounts."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

"Humans are hardwired for storytelling and every good story needs drama."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

If you liked the suspense plot in Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1) by Tessa Wegert , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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3. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

By: Jenny Hollander

3.28

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine ye… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Curfew

By: Jayne Cowie

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronic… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Cowie's Curfew book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

By: Lisa Unger

3.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

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12. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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13. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. They All Fall Down

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

2.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sa… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's They All Fall Down book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

By: Tessa Wegert

3.67

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believ… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1) book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Only by living the life can guilty people deliver believable accounts."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

"Humans are hardwired for storytelling and every good story needs drama."

-Tessa Wegert, Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

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16. 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 Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Hollywood Assistant

By: May Cobb

3.73

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman bec… read more

Similar categories in May Cobb's The Hollywood Assistant book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. What We'll Burn Last

By: Heather Chavez

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Before She Finds Me comes a sharp and surprising thriller about two en… read more

Similar categories in Heather Chavez's What We'll Burn Last book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internation… read more

Similar categories in T.J. Newman's Worst Case Scenario book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Rip Tide

By: Colleen McKeegan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Wild One, a heartfelt and suspenseful novel about two sisters returning to t… read more

Similar categories in Colleen McKeegan's Rip Tide book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery thriller
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21. Glass Houses

By: Madeline Ashby

3.50

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-alo… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Ashby's Glass Houses book and Tessa Wegert's Death in the Family (Shana Merchant #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult

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Heather Gudenkauf

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3.79

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Catherine Ryan Howard

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