18 must-read thriller books like They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

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They Drown Our Daughters

By: Katrina Monroe

3.48

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

"The best kind of story―one that will both break your heart and scare the hell out of you." ―Jennif…

If you liked the thriller plot in They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Black Rainbow

By: Barbara Michaels

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Megan O'Neill sees it hanging in the sky above the towers of Grayhaven Manor -- a beautiful yet sin… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Michaels's Black Rainbow book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • mystery
  • fiction
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2. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

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3. Just Like Mother

By: Anne Heltzel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped … read more

Similar categories in Anne Heltzel's Just Like Mother book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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4. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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5. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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6. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • queer
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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7. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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8. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
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9. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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10. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

Similar categories in Johanna van Veen's My Darling Dreadful Thing book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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11. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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12. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

Similar categories in Andy Davidson's The Hollow Kind book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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13. Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

3.80

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invis… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Mary book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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14. Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1)

By: Megan Shepherd

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father… read more

Similar categories in Megan Shepherd's Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1) book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"The moon's soft glow was such a beautiful gift to the night that Pinchy felt compelled to honor it. Though none of his species have ever sung, he raised his small mouth to the sky and summoned a rasp…"

-Megan Shepherd, Malice House (Malice Compendium, #1)

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15. Lute

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.62

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Lute book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
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16. Just Like Home

By: Sarah Gailey

3.35

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's Just Like Home book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Here is something that she controls, here is something that responds to her with the kind of frantic immediacy she always wanted from the world"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Tenderness was a foreign, forgotten thing that she hadn't encountered since before everything went wrong. She did not want it. Not now. Not from him."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"Is one possible without the other? I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them."

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

"I think you have to know someone in order to truly love them, and you have to love someone in order to really hate them. There’s the thin hate we have for strangers. (...) And then there’s the thick,…"

-Sarah Gailey, Just Like Home

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17. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

18. They Drown Our Daughters

By: Katrina Monroe

3.48

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

"The best kind of story―one that will both break your heart and scare the hell out of you." ―Jennif… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
Cover of Do What Godmother Says by L.S. Stratton

19. Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A modern-day writer and a Harlem Renaissance artist are connected by a painting with a deadly secre… read more

Similar categories in L.S. Stratton's Do What Godmother Says book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of Throw Me to the Wolves (Cry Wolf) by Lindy Ryan

20. Throw Me to the Wolves (Cry Wolf)

By: Lindy Ryan

3.62

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Some evil wants to live forever. Ten years ago a witch sacrificed Britta Orchid’s family and turne… read more

Similar categories in Lindy Ryan's Throw Me to the Wolves (Cry Wolf) book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • horror
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21. Vicious Creatures

By: Ashton Noone

3.19

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Ava Montgomery never wanted to return home. She fled Reachwood fourteen years ago after the discove… read more

Similar categories in Ashton Noone's Vicious Creatures book and Katrina Monroe's They Drown Our Daughters

  • gothic
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • queer

20 Best horror books like They Drown Our Daughters by Katrina Monroe

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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Just Like Mother

Anne Heltzel

3.70

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What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

T. Kingfisher

3.89

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Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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One of Us Knows

Alyssa Cole

3.14

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Missing White Woman

Kellye Garrett

3.53

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Daughter of the Merciful Deep

Leslye Penelope

4.01

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What You Leave Behind

Wanda M. Morris

3.90

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