12 must-read mystery thriller books like Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger

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Mother Howl

By: Craig Clevenger

3.75

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a b…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The New Black by Tara Laskowski, Nik Korpon, Benjamin Percy, Brian Evenson, Roxane Gay, Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, None, Joe Meno, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Richard   Thomas, Lindsay Hunter, Kyle Minor, Roy Kesey, Craig Davidson, Rebecca Jones-Howe, Vanessa Veselka, Craig Wallwork, Antonia Crane, Micaela Morrissette, Richard Lange

1. The New Black

By: Tara Laskowski , Nik Korpon , Benjamin Percy , Brian Evenson , Roxane Gay , Stephen Graham Jones , Laird Barron , None , Joe Meno , Craig Clevenger , Paul Tremblay , Richard Thomas , Lindsay Hunter , Kyle Minor , Roy Kesey , Craig Davidson , Rebecca Jones-Howe , Vanessa Veselka , Craig Wallwork , Antonia Crane , Micaela Morrissette , Richard Lange

4.13

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently wr… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The New Black book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • horror
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones

2. Mapping the Interior

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

Format: 131 pages, ebook

Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping t… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Mapping the Interior book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
"I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

Cover of Kiss Me, Judas by Will Christopher Baer

3. Kiss Me, Judas

By: Will Christopher Baer

3.80

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine add… read more

Similar categories in Will Christopher Baer's Kiss Me, Judas book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Disappear, she says. I love that word."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

"I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself."

-Will Christopher Baer, Kiss Me, Judas

4. The Night Cyclist

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.88

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose ni… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Night Cyclist book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

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

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 Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

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

Cover of Fever House (Fever House, #1) by Keith Rosson

6. Fever House (Fever House, #1)

By: Keith Rosson

4.03

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose … read more

Similar categories in Keith Rosson's Fever House (Fever House, #1) book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. The Paleontologist

By: Luke Dumas

3.53

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A haunted paleontologist returns to the museum where his sister was abducted years earlier and is f… read more

Similar categories in Luke Dumas's The Paleontologist book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He had understood that, like the site of a nuclear tragedy, the place was uninhabitable for him now."

-Luke Dumas, The Paleontologist

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8. The Unquiet Bones

By: Loreth Anne White

4.21

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A shocking discovery of human bones reopens an almost fifty-year-old cold case—and rips apart the … read more

Similar categories in Loreth Anne White's The Unquiet Bones book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay

9. The Beast You Are: Stories

By: Paul Tremblay

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of  The Pallbearers Club ,  A He… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's The Beast You Are: Stories book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Worst of You

By: Sarah Richards

3.15

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Brace yourself for the latest gripping thriller from Sarah Richards, the bestselling author behind … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Richards's The Worst of You book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Say My Name by Joe Clifford

11. Say My Name

By: Joe Clifford

3.59

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

SAY MY NAME is a true-crime story about a crime that never happened—or did it? On the heels of a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Clifford's Say My Name book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of California Bear by Duane Swierczynski

12. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Islanders by Caroline Mitchell

13. The Islanders

By: Caroline Mitchell

4.05

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

She thinks the island will keep her safe—she is wrong. Traumatised by the death of a child in her … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Mitchell's The Islanders book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Spin a Black Yarn by Josh Malerman

14. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

15. Not Forever, But For Now

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Not Forever, But For Now book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

Cover of Murder by Lamplight (Dr. Julia Lewis, #1) by Patrice McDonough

16. Murder by Lamplight (Dr. Julia Lewis, #1)

By: Patrice McDonough

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the twilight streets of Victorian London, a gruesome series of murders unfolds, and Dr. Julia Le… read more

Similar categories in Patrice McDonough's Murder by Lamplight (Dr. Julia Lewis, #1) book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk

17. The Invention of Sound

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter. A young woman about to engineer the perfe… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's The Invention of Sound book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"My job,"

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"...[T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

Cover of Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger

18. Mother Howl

By: Craig Clevenger

3.75

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

Compelling literary crime that follows the son of a serial murderer who changes his identity in a b… read more

Similar categories in Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda

19. Cold to the Touch

By: Kerri Hakoda

3.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

American Predator meets Harlan Coben in this taut, ticking-clock thriller in which women are being … read more

Similar categories in Kerri Hakoda's Cold to the Touch book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1) by Karen J. Hasley

20. What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1)

By: Karen J. Hasley

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

The inhabitants of New Hope, Nebraska, have done their best to put the Civil War with all its turmo… read more

Similar categories in Karen J. Hasley's What We Carry With Us (New Hope, #1) book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of On A Rainy Friday In October by Christian H McGhee

21. On A Rainy Friday In October

By: Christian H McGhee

3.82

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

Be safe, be smart, be careful with your heart.As a highly paid Sugar Baby this girl followed her ow… read more

Similar categories in Christian H McGhee's On A Rainy Friday In October book and Craig Clevenger's Mother Howl

18 Best fiction books like Mother Howl by Craig Clevenger

Transform Your Habits

Mapping the Interior

Stephen Graham Jones

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Kiss Me, Judas

Will Christopher Baer

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Fever House (Fever House, #1)

Keith Rosson

4.03

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21 Top fiction books like Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

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The Elephant Tree

R.D. Ronald

3.41

Transform Your Habits

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

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

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