9 Best suspense books like One by One by D.W. Gillespie

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One by One

By: D.W. Gillespie

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought…

If you liked the suspense plot in One by One by D.W. Gillespie , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Between

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a tr… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Between book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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2. The Grip of It

By: Jac Jemc

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more

Similar categories in Jac Jemc's The Grip of It book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

3. The Traveling Vampire Show

By: Richard Laymon

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Though gloomy with clouds, it is a hot, August morning in the summer of 1963. All over the rural to… read more

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4. The Dead House

By: Dawn Kurtagich

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary en… read more

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5. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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6. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

Similar categories in Eric LaRocca's Everything the Darkness Eats book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives

By: Adam Cesare

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

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"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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9. The Nightmare Man

By: J.H. Markert

3.87

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

T. Kingfisher meets Cassandra Khaw in a chilling horror novel that illustrates the fine line betwee… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Scarecrow's scare, That's what they do."

-J.H. Markert, The Nightmare Man

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10. 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 D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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11. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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12. The Ghost Tree

By: Christina Henry

3.83

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith's Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when… read more

Similar categories in Christina Henry's The Ghost Tree book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"She was not a superstitious woman. She was a good Catholic and she knew very well that death did not cling to objects and that if her dreams were troubled she could always pray to the Virgin Mary."

-Christina Henry, The Ghost Tree

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13. One Last Child (Tallman's Valley Detectives, #1)

By: Anni Taylor

4.42

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, Audiofile Earphones Award 2020 - narration by Caroline Lee. Five long-missing children a… read more

Similar categories in Anni Taylor's One Last Child (Tallman's Valley Detectives, #1) book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Harrow Lake

By: Kat Ellis

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The daughter of a horror film director is not afraid of anything--until she gets to Harrow Lake. … read more

Similar categories in Kat Ellis's Harrow Lake book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"They stop looking. Everyone stops looking."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"When you're alone in the dark, impossible things grow bones and flesh."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"It was a very meta way to die — Optimal, even: to become a story while making one."

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

"My mother believed in monsters. At least, I think she did. But what do I know about my mother really?"

-Kat Ellis, Harrow Lake

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15. Tastes Like Candy

By: Ivy Tholen

3.64

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone at Pritchett High wants an invitation to the Senior Scavenge. In 2020, Violet Warren and h… read more

Similar categories in Ivy Tholen's Tastes Like Candy book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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16. Becoming the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

4.13

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale… read more

Similar categories in Richard Chizmar's Becoming the Boogeyman book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Old Country

By: Matt Query

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this terrifyingly twisted thriller, a young couple discovers the horror held within their newly … read more

Similar categories in Matt Query's Old Country book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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18. The Return

By: Rachel Harrison

3.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An edgy and haunting debut novel about a group of friends who reunite after one of them has returne… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's The Return book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"I want to spread this moment on a cracker and eat it’s"

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"It was her coping mechanism - tying ribbons over open wounds."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

"You can't erase your past when there are pieces of it scattered inside other people."

-Rachel Harrison, The Return

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19. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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20. The Night Guest

By: Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Hildur Knutsdottir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík … read more

Similar categories in Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Jonathan Janz

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myl… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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22. Voodoo Heart (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: John Everson

3.83

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

“Voodoo Heart offers a solid blend of supernatural horror and hard-boiled detective fiction, and sh… read more

Similar categories in John Everson's Voodoo Heart (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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23. So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A woman must learn to take life by the throat after a night out leads to irrevocable changes in thi… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's So Thirsty book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
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24. 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 D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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25. Treasure

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite

3.42

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly comic short story of class divide, the lives we invent, and the very real risks of preserv… read more

Similar categories in Oyinkan Braithwaite's Treasure book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Siren and the Specter

By: Jonathan Janz

3.86

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

When David Caine, a celebrated skeptic of the supernatural, is invited by an old friend to spend a … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's The Siren and the Specter book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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27. One by One

By: D.W. Gillespie

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The Easton family has just moved into their new fixer-upper, a beautiful old house that they bought… read more

Similar categories in D.W. Gillespie's One by One book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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28. Those Who Came Before

By: J.H. Moncrieff

4.05

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

People are dying at Strong Lake, and the worst is yet to come. An idyllic weekend camping trip i… read more

Similar categories in J.H. Moncrieff's Those Who Came Before book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • audiobook
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Dust Devils (Fiction Without Frontiers) by Jonathan Janz

29. Dust Devils (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Jonathan Janz

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's Dust Devils (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • audiobook
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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30. The Devil's Replacement

By: Michael D. A. Clarke

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The Devil is ready to retire from ruling Hell. Before settling down with his sex crazed girlfrie… read more

Similar categories in Michael D. A. Clarke's The Devil's Replacement book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • horror
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31. 80s Ghosts

By: V.S. Lawrence

3.84

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 2009, and Chrissy Rodriguez is determined to make her ghost hunting vlog an internet su… read more

Similar categories in V.S. Lawrence's 80s Ghosts book and D.W. Gillespie's One by One

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror

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