14 must-read suspense books like The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

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The Last Thing He Told Me

By: Laura Dave

3.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Before Owen Michaels disappears he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. De…

"When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me."

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"...there are certain things we can't erase, certain things that we reveal to the people closest to us despite what we may or may not know we are telling them. [Hannah Hall]"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you. [Hannah Hall]"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

If you liked the suspense plot in The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Then She Was Gone: A Novel

By: Lisa Jewell

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single fathe… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone: A Novel book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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4. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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5. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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6. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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7. Lessons in Chemistry

By: Bonnie Garmus

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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8. Happy Place

By: Emily Henry

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You, you, you."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

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9. Local Woman Missing

By: Mary Kubica

4.14

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

People don’t just disappear without a trace.... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not lon… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's Local Woman Missing book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. A Flicker in the Dark

By: Stacy Willingham

3.99

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's A Flicker in the Dark book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The idea of him burying a body before returning home and kissing me goodnight ad meade me want to crawl out of my ski and live somwher relse. Somewhere far away."

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"Inside, a single firefly glows bright, its body pulsing with life. I stare at it for a while, my forehead pressed against my clenched fingers. I watch it radiate up close, flickering in my grasp, thi…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"When people get hurt physically, you can see it in the bruises and the scars, but when they’re hurt emotionally, mentally, it runs deeper than that. You can see every sleepless night in the reflectio…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"More often that not, it's just the thought of them that calms my nerves. I once told a claustrophobic patient to carry a single Xanax in her purse every time she boards a plane, its mere presence str…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

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11. The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photo… read more

Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Love that doesn't include honest doesn't deserve to be called love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

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12. The Guest List

By: Lucy Foley

3.81

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller rem… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Guest List book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I can't move heaven, then I shall raise hell"

-Lucy Foley, The Guest List

"There's nothing less sexy than a lack of ambition, is there?"

-Lucy Foley, The Guest List

"You don't get this. This isn't your moment. You didn't create it. I created it in spite of you. "

-Lucy Foley, The Guest List

"I can see the lights of the mainland in the distance like a trail of spilled glitter in the blackness"

-Lucy Foley, The Guest List

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13. The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

By: Freida McFadden

4.32

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile polit… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No puedo fiarme de nadie, salvo de mí misma."

-Freida McFadden, The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

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14. Rock Paper Scissors

By: Alice Feeney

3.92

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Think you know the person you married? Think again… Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wrigh… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Rock Paper Scissors book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My fingerprints are all over his heartbreak"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"Sometimes home is more of a memory than a place."

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"Marriage is either a winning lottery ticket or a straitjacket"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

"We are our parents echoes and sometimes they don't like what they hear"

-Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

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15. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

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16. The Perfect Marriage

By: Jeneva Rose

3.97

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress? Sarah Morgan is a succe… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's The Perfect Marriage book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Wrong Place Wrong Time

By: Gillian McAllister

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, a… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. All Good People Here

By: Ashley Flowers

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the case of January Jacobs, who was found dead in a ditc… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Flowers's All Good People Here book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s not safe for you here."

-Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

"What small tragedies their lives had turned out to be."

-Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

"My daughter is dead. Nothing sounds good. Nothing will ever sound good again."

-Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

"She heard a sound - a soft guttural moan - and realized it had come from her own mouth."

-Ashley Flowers, All Good People Here

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19. The Last Thing He Told Me

By: Laura Dave

3.83

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Before Owen Michaels disappears he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. De… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me."

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"...there are certain things we can't erase, certain things that we reveal to the people closest to us despite what we may or may not know we are telling them. [Hannah Hall]"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

"Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, whereve…"

-Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

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20. Malibu Rising

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.04

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And I’ve been really sad,"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"She was pretty sure she did not want to kiss any guy at all"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"Letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

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21. The Paris Apartment

By: Lucy Foley

3.66

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set i… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Paris Apartment book and Laura Dave's The Last Thing He Told Me

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

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Lisa Jewell

3.54

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Kristin Hannah

3.54

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

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Freida McFadden

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