30 Top fiction books like Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman

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Something in the Water

By: Catherine Steadman

3.56

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a do…

"We all lose the things we love the most."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"We all lose the things we love the most."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

If you liked the fiction plot in Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. The Lying Game

By: Ruth Ware

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the instant New York Timesbestselling author of blockbuster thrillers In a Dark, Dark Woodand … read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's The Lying Game book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

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

2. The Last Mrs. Parrish

By: Liv Constantine

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mesmerizing debut psychological thriller full of delicious twists about a coolly manipulative wom… read more

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3. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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4. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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6. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Everyone Here Is Lying

By: Shari Lapena

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.William Wooler is a family man, on… read more

Similar categories in Shari Lapena's Everyone Here Is Lying book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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9. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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 Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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. Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware

3.65

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Ruth Ware returns with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race against time to clea… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's Zero Days book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The wall around the perimeter was child's play."

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"... they were just one part of a vast dark web of unseen players ... And yes, they could be fought, maybe some individuals might even be arrested, but you might as well try to prosecute cancer. They …"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

"If I shut my eyes, I could picture him... The thought gave me a kind of peace, the idea that he could be out there somewhere-just beyond my reach. But it was a dishonest peace, and I knew that as muc…"

-Ruth Ware, Zero Days

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12. 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 Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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13. All the Dangerous Things

By: Stacy Willingham

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his c… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's All the Dangerous Things book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People tend to stash their dirtiest secrets in the most common of places."

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

"At the time, it reminded me of the stars: how two can collide and fuse into one—bigger, brighter, stronger than before. But what I didn’t know then was that when they collide too fast, they don’t fus…"

-Stacy Willingham, All the Dangerous Things

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14. 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 Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • 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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15. Just the Nicest Couple

By: Mary Kubica

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two couples, two close friends, one missing husband… Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's Just the Nicest Couple book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Last House Guest

By: Megan Miranda

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The summer after a wealthy young summer guest dies under suspicious circumstances, her best friend … read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's The Last House Guest book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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19. Before We Were Innocent

By: Ella Berman

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more

Similar categories in Ella Berman's Before We Were Innocent book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. We Were Never Here

By: Andrea Bartz

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Bartz's We Were Never Here book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I'd been so focused on running away, I'd almost missed what I was running to."

-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

"The irony: I'd been thrilled when Aaron noticed me, and when, tonight, he called me his girlfriend. But on the street, I tried to creep past any other male gazes, ghostlike. That's womanhood, I suppo…"

-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

"Or even a solo trip - if the yoga teacher was correct, wasn't it my duty as a human being with eyes and legs and a beat-beat-beating heart to experience things, to explore? All the hand-wringing abou…"

-Andrea Bartz, We Were Never Here

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21. 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 Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2)

By: Liv Constantine

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forg… read more

Similar categories in Liv Constantine's The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2) book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Other Woman

By: Sandie Jones

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously disturbing, compulsively readable debut domestic suspense—prepare to meet The Other W… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Jones's The Other Woman book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Whisper Network

By: Chandler Baker

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Whisper Network book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have been programed to work with secrets."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

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26. Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel

3.26

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Still Lives book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

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28. Wrong Place Wrong Time

By: Gillian McAllister

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, a… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. The House in the Pines

By: Ana Reyes

3.11

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death… read more

Similar categories in Ana Reyes's The House in the Pines book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. Something in the Water

By: Catherine Steadman

3.56

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a do… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all lose the things we love the most."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison. Maybe best never to see it."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"But one thought does break through. It has the echo of something familiar. The thought is: I don’t need to come back to this elevator at all, do I? I don’t need to ever come back to this hotel. I cou…"

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

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31. The Club

By: Ellery Lloyd

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062997425. From the author of People Like Her comes a smart … read more

Similar categories in Ellery Lloyd's The Club book and Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the conseque…"

-Ellery Lloyd, The Club

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