8 must-read horror books like The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John

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The Vicious Circle

By: Katherine St. John

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Were Never Here and Nine Perfect Strangers, a twisty, escapist suspense about a myst…

If you liked the horror plot in The Vicious Circle by Katherine St. John , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Beast

By: Alexander Starritt

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Ret… read more

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2. 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 Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 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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3. Stone Cold Fox

By: Rachel Koller Croft

3.67

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • 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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6. What Have We Done

By: Alex Finlay

3.54

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller from Alex Finlay, What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Please Join Us

By: Catherine McKenzie

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

At thirty-nine, Nicole Mueller’s life is on the rocks. Her once brilliant law career is falling apa… read more

Similar categories in Catherine McKenzie's Please Join Us book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. You Can Trust Me

By: Wendy Heard

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Summer and Leo would do anything for each other. Inspired by the way each has had to carve her plac… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Family Game

By: Catherine Steadman

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Personal Assistant

By: Kimberly Belle

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

USA TODAY bestselling author Kimberly Belle returns with a deeply addictive thriller exploring the … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

By: Lisa Unger

3.45

Format: 396 pages, Hardcover

Three couples rent a luxury cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway to die for in this chilling lo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal."

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"From where I stand, hidden, watching them through the glass, they are the picture of the perfect family. But I know better. What people show the world is rarely the whole truth, especially these days…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"...there is nothing certain in life but death. We may labour under the delusion that we know what the day ahead of us holds, what the hour holds. But we do not. We may think our death, our very certa…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

"Privilege. A word that suddenly inspired jealousy, resentment, rage. Some people were born with it, that beautiful ease, that aura of never worrying about making it, surviving. Some stood on the othe…"

-Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six

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13. The Writing Retreat

By: Julia Bartz

3.43

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

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14. The Senator's Wife

By: Liv Constantine

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A D.C. philanthropist suspects that her seemingly perfect employee is secretly plotting to steal he… read more

Similar categories in Liv Constantine's The Senator's Wife book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • 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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17. The Last Housewife

By: Ashley Winstead

3.70

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Last Housewife book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She thrust a pamphlet at me. Suicide Prevention Hotline , it said. Her voice was soaked in reassurance, "No matter what you're feeling, I promise it gets better." I stared at her until she staggered …"

-Ashley Winstead, The Last Housewife

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18. The Chateau

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and mu… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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 Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • 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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20. The Vicious Circle

By: Katherine St. John

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Were Never Here and Nine Perfect Strangers, a twisty, escapist suspense about a myst… read more

Similar categories in Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Ladykiller

By: Katherine Wood

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When an heiress goes missing, her best friend races to unravel the secrets behind her disappearance… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Wood's Ladykiller book and Katherine St. John's The Vicious Circle

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

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The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

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Rachel Koller Croft

3.67

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One Perfect Couple

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3.68

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Stacy Willingham

3.56

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