18 Best mystery thriller books like How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott

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How to Kill Your Best Friend

By: Lexie Elliott

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murdere…

"Platitudes, both his words and mine, and we both know it --- the reckoning is yet to come. But in the meantime we're operating on a surface level of civility that's nothing short of excruciating."

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Platitudes, both his words and mine, and we both know it --- the reckoning is yet to come. But in the meantime we're operating on a surface level of civility that's nothing short of excruciating."

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Dunc shudders again. "Even for Lissa, that's completely over the top," he says. "Really? Tell me, Dunc, what is the proportionate response to in- fidelity?" Georgie asks with faux sweetness. "Oh, come on-" Dunc starts. "A slap in the face? Or is that just for kissing? What about a blow job, is that two slaps?"

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Dunc shudders again. "Even for Lissa, that's completely over the top," he says. "Really? Tell me, Dunc, what is the proportionate response to in- fidelity?" Georgie asks with faux sweetness. "Oh, come on-" Dunc starts. "A slap in the face? Or is that just for kissing? What about a blow job, is that two slaps?"

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The Guilty Couple

By: C.L. Taylor

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was wrongfully convicted of plotting to murder her husband. No… read more

Similar categories in C.L. Taylor's The Guilty Couple book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Hike

By: Lucy Clarke

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history,… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Clarke's The Hike book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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4. The Girls Who Disappeared

By: Claire Douglas

3.90

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

A journalist's life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that… read more

Similar categories in Claire Douglas's The Girls Who Disappeared book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's No One Saw a Thing book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Lily book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Favor

By: Nora Murphy

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping debut domestic suspense novel, The Favor explores with compassion and depth what can hap… read more

Similar categories in Nora Murphy's The Favor book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Find Her First

By: Emma Christie

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Where is Stef Campbell? And who can be trusted to bring her home?  Paramedic Andy Campbell has a s… read more

Similar categories in Emma Christie's Find Her First book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery thriller
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9. One Last Secret

By: Adele Parks

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Everyone has secrets, don’t they? One last client A week at a beautiful chateau in the south of… read more

Similar categories in Adele Parks's One Last Secret book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Murder After the Night Before

By: Katy Brent

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Brent's The Murder After the Night Before book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. A Game of Lies (DC Morgan, #2)

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can't trust anything you see. Stranded in… read more

Similar categories in Clare Mackintosh's A Game of Lies (DC Morgan, #2) book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. One of the Girls

By: Lucy Clarke

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The latest twisty psychological thriller from internationally-bestselling author Lucy Clarke, One o… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Clarke's One of the Girls book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. The Herd

By: Emily Edwards

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child. Elizabeth and Bryony are polar … read more

Similar categories in Emily Edwards's The Herd book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Freeze

By: Kate Simants

3.37

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

ON THE TOUGHEST REALITY SHOW ON TELEVISION A KILLER IS HIDING OUT OF SHOT Frozen Out is set to … read more

Similar categories in Kate Simants's Freeze book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. Payday

By: Celia Walden

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Late one night, three women share secrets. They barely know each other, but they all know Jamie … read more

Similar categories in Celia Walden's Payday book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott

17. How to Kill Your Best Friend

By: Lexie Elliott

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

If you suspected your best friend, the person you were closest to in the whole world, was a murdere… read more

Similar categories in Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Platitudes, both his words and mine, and we both know it --- the reckoning is yet to come. But in the meantime we're operating on a surface level of civility that's nothing short of excruciating."

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Dunc shudders again. "Even for Lissa, that's completely over the top," he says. "Really? Tell me, Dunc, what is the proportionate response to in- fidelity?" Georgie asks with faux sweetness. "Oh, com…"

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Which I suppose it should be; if you're going to kill someone, you shouldn't be insulating yourself from the process. That was always my objection to the use of drones: warfare ought to be immediate;…"

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

"Back at the table, Adam has shifted to sit next to Georgie, filling my spot. Their heads are together, and even though one is blond and one dark, there's something remarkably similar in their lean, s…"

-Lexie Elliott, How to Kill Your Best Friend

Cover of The Contest by Karen  Hamilton

18. The Contest

By: Karen Hamilton

3.15

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

The Hunting Party meets Succession, THE CONTEST is a jaw-dropping, read-in-one-sitting thriller fro… read more

Similar categories in Karen Hamilton's The Contest book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Our Holiday

By: Louise Candlish

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our HouseTHERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE… read more

Similar categories in Louise Candlish's Our Holiday book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Tell Me Your Lies

By: Kate Ruby

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You think she wants to help.  You're wrong.  Lily will do anything to protect her picture perfect f… read more

Similar categories in Kate Ruby's Tell Me Your Lies book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"How subtly he made off with all the power, and how easily I gifted it to him. It still gives me a shot of shame, even though intellectually I know I did nothing wrong"."

-Kate Ruby, Tell Me Your Lies

Cover of How to Charm a Nerd (Wicked Sisters, #2) by Katherine Garbera

21. How to Charm a Nerd (Wicked Sisters, #2)

By: Katherine Garbera

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

She’s kind of a witch. He’s definitely a nerd. And this Halloween they’re letting their geek flags … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Garbera's How to Charm a Nerd (Wicked Sisters, #2) book and Lexie Elliott's How to Kill Your Best Friend

  • contemporary

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