18 best-selling crime books like The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh

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The Wolf Wants In

By: Laura McHugh

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a small town ravaged by the opioid crisis, a woman confronts a dark secret about her brother's s…

If you liked the crime plot in The Wolf Wants In by Laura McHugh , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. The Family Plot

By: Cherie Priest

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The author of the enormously successful Boneshaker returns to Tor with her unique take on the class… read more

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2. Frozen Assets (Officer Gunnhilder, #1)

By: Quentin Bates

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or… read more

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3. Imaginary Girls

By: Nova Ren Suma

4.23

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Chloe's older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured or c… read more

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4. The Vessel (Vanessa Michael Munroe #3.5)

By: Taylor Stevens

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Some people were easy to find. Others took hunting and patience. The most difficult was a target wh… read more

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5. Long Time Gone

By: Charlie Donlea

4.21

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

When DNA results reveal a disturbing connection to the mysterious disappearance of a famous baby ne… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Donlea's Long Time Gone book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Procrastination is the devil's way of stealing your time."

-Charlie Donlea, Long Time Gone

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6. One of Us Knows

By: Alyssa Cole

3.14

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's One of Us Knows book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Original Sins (Riley Fisher, #2)

By: Erin Young

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a brilliant and addictive thriller for fans of Tana French and Liz Moore, FBI rookie Riley Fishe… read more

Similar categories in Erin Young's Original Sins (Riley Fisher, #2) book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. A Lovely Lie

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Is it better to believe a lovely lie or know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Lynn Hendricks's A Lovely Lie book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade, #3)

By: Christina Dodd

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

I have three deadly problems: 1. I've seriously offended a maniacal killer. 2. I just had a bulle… read more

Similar categories in Christina Dodd's Strangers She Knows (Cape Charade, #3) book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Knife River

By: Justine Champine

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When Jess was thirteen her mother went for a walk and never returned. Jess and her older sister Liz… read more

Similar categories in Justine Champine's Knife River book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Finding Sophie

By: Imran Mahmood

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two parents, desperate to find their missing daughter, stand accused of murder. How far will they g… read more

Similar categories in Imran Mahmood's Finding Sophie book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Leave No Trace

By: Mindy Mejia

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything… read more

Similar categories in Mindy Mejia's Leave No Trace book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Familiar Dark

By: Amy Engel

3.74

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest f… read more

Similar categories in Amy Engel's The Familiar Dark book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Lo cierto es que no hay forma fácil de ser una mujer en este mundo. Si te expresas, si dices que no, si te mantienes firme, entonces eres una bruja y una arpía y todo lo que te pase es merecido. «Te …"

-Amy Engel, The Familiar Dark

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16. Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1)

By: Paul Howarth

4.04

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Two adolescent brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of po… read more

Similar categories in Paul Howarth's Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride #1) book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Shed No Tears (Cat Kinsella #3)

By: Caz Frear

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed and internationally bestselling crime novelist Caz Frear returns with her third superb no… read more

Similar categories in Caz Frear's Shed No Tears (Cat Kinsella #3) book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Wolf Wants In

By: Laura McHugh

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a small town ravaged by the opioid crisis, a woman confronts a dark secret about her brother's s… read more

Similar categories in Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Who to Believe

By: Edwin Hill

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

In this twisting domestic suspense thriller from the acclaimed author of The Secrets We Share , the… read more

Similar categories in Edwin Hill's Who to Believe book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. When We Were Silent

By: Fiona McPhillips

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An outsider threatens to expose the secrets at an elite private school in this suspenseful debut no… read more

Similar categories in Fiona McPhillips's When We Were Silent book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I'm not here for prestige. I'm here for revenge."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"The body remembers everything the mind wants to forget."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"In the end, we're the ones who have to live with the stories we tell ourselves."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

"That was always the one thing Highfield valued more than grades, more than silverware or celebrity alumni: silence."

-Fiona McPhillips, When We Were Silent

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21. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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22. The Body Lies

By: Jo Baker

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psycholo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"His writing will get inside her and change her leave her different."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"We do have rules here. We have responsibilities towards each other. This is not a free-for-all."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"He flipped on a light and we were in his front room, which was warm and smelt of woodsmoke. Books, lamps, pot plants, books. Books everywhere."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

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23. House of Bone and Rain

By: Gabino Iglesias

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's House of Bone and Rain book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Missing Person

By: Sarah Lotz

3.72

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as "vastly entertaining," a new n… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lotz's Missing Person book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Known to the Victim

By: K.L. Armstrong

4.05

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

From nationally bestselling author K.L. Armstrong comes a new heartstopping, propulsive, race-again… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Armstrong's Known to the Victim book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. What Have You Done?

By: Shari Lapena

3.84

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The new binge-worthy novel from the “queen of the one-sit read,” and New York Times bestselling aut… read more

Similar categories in Shari Lapena's What Have You Done? book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. 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 Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unmothers by Leslie J. Anderson

28. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland

29. Our Kind of Game

By: Johanna Copeland

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"A rager of a psychological mystery about toxic men, murderous women and the art of constructing f… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Copeland's Our Kind of Game book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

30. You Will Never Be Me

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as v… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's You Will Never Be Me book and Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Burn It All by Maggie Auffarth

31. Burn It All

By: Maggie Auffarth

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This propulsive debut psychological thriller set in small-town Georgia explores rage, redemption, a… read more

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

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Charlie Donlea

4.21

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One of Us Knows

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3.14

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Mary Kubica

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