13 Top mystery books like Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

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Our Kind of Cruelty

By: Araminta Hall

3.39

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and…

"She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

"She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

"If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and understand what she meant by it all."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

"If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and understand what she meant by it all."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

If you liked the mystery plot in Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Doll's House (Brennan & Esposito, #5) by Tania Carver

1. The Doll's House (Brennan & Esposito, #5)

By: Tania Carver

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the outside, the house was unremarkable. Just one of many on an ordinary, suburban estate. But… read more

Similar categories in Tania Carver's The Doll's House (Brennan & Esposito, #5) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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2. Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle, #2)

By: Heather Demetrios

3.78

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

A jinni who's lost everything. A master with nothing to lose. A revolutionary with everything… read more

Similar categories in Heather Demetrios's Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle, #2) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • fiction
"He’d play dirty, break the rules—he didn’t care. He wanted to stay in the game and this was the only way he knew how."

-Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle, #2)

"All of the jinn had refused to manifest a mattress for him, but the skag lay on the stone floor as though it were a king’s bed."

-Heather Demetrios, Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle, #2)

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3. In Bitter Chill (DC Connie Childs, #1)

By: Sarah Ward

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In 1978, a small town in Derbyshire, England is traumatised by the kidnapping of two young schoolgi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ward's In Bitter Chill (DC Connie Childs, #1) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery thriller

4. Not That I Could Tell

By: Jessica Strawser

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

When a group of neighborhood women gathers, wine in hand, around a fire pit where their backyards m… read more

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5. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

Similar categories in Michael Parker's The Devil's Trinity book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

6. The English Wife

By: Lauren Willig

4.65

Format: None pages,

From the New York Timesbestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous New York Gilded Age… read more

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7. The Wife

By: Alafair Burke

4.50

Format: None pages,

When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their roman… read more

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8. The Guardians

By: Andrew Pyper

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Andrew Pyper, a gripping novel of psychological suspense about four men haunt… read more

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9. Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)

By: Jeffrey S. Stephens

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As Nick Reagan hunts down the terrorist mastermind, The Handler, he uncovers corruption at the high… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey S. Stephens's Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • contemporary
"Treason is a judgment based wholly on perspective."

-Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)

"If you want to debate the morality of war versus terrorism, let’s start with how these conflicts begin."

-Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)

"He reached into his jacket pocket, as if looking for a guide book, but pulled out an automatic handgun instead. “Don’t do anything stupid,"

-Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)

"He remained quiet, his movements studied. He was still not certain the intruder had gone and, if an attack was coming, he was going to be ready."

-Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us (Nick Reagan, #2)

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10. 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 Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • adult fiction
  • 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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11. 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 Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • 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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12. Before She Knew Him

By: Peter Swanson

3.86

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachu… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's Before She Knew Him book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m saying that they were going to spread unhappiness—that they were going to make life miserable for people. By subtracting them from the world, I’ve added to the world’s happiness."

-Peter Swanson, Before She Knew Him

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13. The Perfect Mother

By: Aimee Molloy

3.53

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connecte… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Molloy's The Perfect Mother book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. A Twisted Love Story

By: Samantha Downing

3.21

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young co… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Downing's A Twisted Love Story book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

15. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Lying in Wait

By: Liz Nugent

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it. On the surface, L… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Lying in Wait book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Suffer the Children (Gardiner and Renner #4) by Lisa Black

17. Suffer the Children (Gardiner and Renner #4)

By: Lisa Black

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Black's Suffer the Children (Gardiner and Renner #4) book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall

18. Our Kind of Cruelty

By: Araminta Hall

3.39

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

This is a love story. Mike’s love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and… read more

Similar categories in Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there."

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

"If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and …"

-Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty

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19. Niekada nesakyk niekada

By: Indrė Vakarė

3.74

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Elena nekenčia Luko, nes jis paliko jos seserį Barborą. Bet iš tikrųjų, slapta jį myli. O Lukas irg… read more

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20. Blood Like Mine

By: Stuart Neville

3.79

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

STAY ON THE MOVE. STAY OUT OF SIGHT. In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray … read more

Similar categories in Stuart Neville's Blood Like Mine book and Araminta Hall's Our Kind of Cruelty

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Ghost Mother

By: Kelly Dwyer

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Ghost Mother is a mesmerizing psychological ghost story that blurs the thin line between reality an… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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