5 Top psychological thriller books like The Body Lies by Jo Baker

Cover of The Body Lies by Jo Baker

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…

"His writing will get inside her and change her leave her different."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"His writing will get inside her and change her leave her different."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"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

If you liked the psychological thriller plot in The Body Lies by Jo Baker , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Gone to Ground (Will Grayson and Helen Walker, #1)

By: John Harvey

2.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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Similar categories in John Harvey's Gone to Ground (Will Grayson and Helen Walker, #1) book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. Unmasked

By: Turia Pitt

4.05

Format: 144 pages,

Whether via the numerous media reports, 60 Minutesspecials, Women's Weeklycover stories or her firs… read more

Similar categories in Turia Pitt's Unmasked book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • audiobook
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3. The Apartment

By: S.L. Grey

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A high-concept psychological chiller about a troubled married couple on a house swap from hell. An … read more

Similar categories in S.L. Grey's The Apartment book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Fire Dance (Inspector Huss #6)

By: Helene Tursten

3.41

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

In this sixth installment in the critically acclaimed Swedish crime series, the murder of a young b… read more

Similar categories in Helene Tursten's The Fire Dance (Inspector Huss #6) book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

5. The Watcher

By: Ross Armstrong

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

She's watching you, but who's watching her? Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-buil… read more

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6. 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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7. The White Road

By: Sarah Lotz

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge thriller about one man's quest to discover horror lurking at the top of the world. D… read more

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8. The Betrayal

By: Laura Elliot

4.40

Format: 184 pages,

A perfect divorce. A new flame. And a deadly obsession. Nadine and Jake Saunders were married as te… read more

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9. Windmill Hill

By: Lucy Atkins

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Atkins's Windmill Hill book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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10. The Short Straw

By: Holly Seddon

3.36

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Leaving isn't safe... But staying would be deadly. Three sisters find themselves lost in a stor… read more

Similar categories in Holly Seddon's The Short Straw book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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11. I Spy

By: Claire Kendal

3.54

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Someone is watching your every move… Holly Lawrence always wanted to be a spy, but the experienc… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kendal's I Spy book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Imposter: On booze, crippling self-doubt and coming out the other side

By: Matt Chisholm

4.32

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A raw memoir from television host Matt Chisholm on battling booze and depression and finding a way … read more

Similar categories in Matt Chisholm's Imposter: On booze, crippling self-doubt and coming out the other side book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

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14. 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 Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Body Lies by Jo Baker

15. 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

Similar categories in Jo Baker's The Body Lies book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • 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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16. Take Me Apart

By: Sara Sligar

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young archivist's obsession with her subject's mysterious death threatens to destroy her fragile … read more

Similar categories in Sara Sligar's Take Me Apart book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I think I believed him just because he said I was different. Men do that. They separate us from the pack. And we are grateful, because the pack is a dangerous place to be."

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"Men are always better at being crazy. Better at being forgiven. The blood on their hands can be real, not imagined. They can be bought and sold and still no one thinks they are owned."

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"How do you talk to other people, afterward? After the worst, I mean. After your brain swells you up and spits you out, a saliva lump of a human being. How do you communicate with people who spent tha…"

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

"When Kate had been waiting out her winter, everyone told her to get over it, work through it, talk it out. As if prepositions could protect her. As if others knew whatever lay beyond was better. In r…"

-Sara Sligar, Take Me Apart

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17. The Lonely Stories

By: Natalie Eve Garrett

3.73

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Eve Garrett's The Lonely Stories book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • contemporary
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18. I Know Who You Were

By: Nick Curran

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

EVERYONE HAS A PAST. . . YOURS IS COMING TO KILL YOU Alex and Morven have been happily married f… read more

Similar categories in Nick Curran's I Know Who You Were book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • thriller
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19. As Long as We Both Shall Live

By: JoAnn Chaney

3.67

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

What happens when you're really, truly done making your marriage work? You can't be married to some… read more

Similar categories in JoAnn Chaney's As Long as We Both Shall Live book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"And while she might complain about her husband, and sometimes she actually hated him, he was still better than every other man she'd ever dated. And maybe that was love. The body's chemical reaction …"

-JoAnn Chaney, As Long as We Both Shall Live

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20. 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 Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Happy Ever After

By: C.C. MacDonald

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Naomi seems to have everything. A beautiful daughter, a gorgeous house, a perfect life. Behind the … read more

Similar categories in C.C. MacDonald's Happy Ever After book and Jo Baker's The Body Lies

  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

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S.L. Grey

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Garry Disher

4.04

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S.L. Grey

4.07

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Amy Stuart

4.20

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