15 Top thriller books like Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo

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Children of Chicago

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This horrifying retelling of the Pied Piper fairytale set in present-day Chicago is an edge of your…

"Chicago was plagued with hundreds and hundreds of unsolved murders and missing persons cases. Lauren knew this was her purgatory, her reason for living to find them and set this right."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

If you liked the thriller plot in Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Forever Endeavor

By: Chuck Wendig

3.75

Format: None pages, ebook

Dale Gilooly has a problem. Well, Dale has a lot of problems. Addiction. Rent. A girlfriend he let … read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's The Forever Endeavor book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
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2. Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.94

Format: 456 pages, ebook

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tat… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's Zero Saints book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The final installment in the most lauded trilogy in the history of horror literature It’s been f… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3) book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I used to be all about the final girl standing on top of a pile of the dead at the end of the movie, her face dripping blood, her chest heaving, her eyes fierce. Now I’m all about holding the door of…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

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4. Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

By: Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

Format: 457 pages, Hardcover

Jade returns to the rural lake town of Proofrock the same day as convicted Indigenous serial killer… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Black River Orchard

By: Chuck Wendig

4.13

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A small town is transformed by dark magic when a strange tree begins bearing magical apples in this… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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6. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

3.53

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife,… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's The Spite House book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's Goddess of Filth book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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9. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

Similar categories in Leopoldo Gout's Piñata book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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10. The Queen of the Cicadas

By: V. Castro

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm i… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Queen of the Cicadas book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Day of the Door

By: Laurel Hightower

4.13

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Once there were four Lasco siblings banded together against a world that failed to protect them. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Laurel Hightower's The Day of the Door book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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13. What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Bran… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's What Kind of Mother book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Benny Rose, the Cannibal King

By: Hailey Piper

3.80

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Blackwood, Vermont has one legend to its name—Benny Rose, the Cannibal King. Every local kid knows … read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's Benny Rose, the Cannibal King book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) by Hailey Piper

15. The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

By: Hailey Piper

3.75

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1) book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She’s part of the nothing now."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

"I think death is what happens when anyone meets a god."

-Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings (The Worm and His Kings, #1)

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16. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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17. Heads Will Roll

By: Josh Winning

3.69

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Heads Will Roll book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. No Gods for Drowning

By: Hailey Piper

3.56

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN WAS PREY. WITHOUT THE GODS, THEY'LL BE PREY AGAIN. The old gods have fl… read more

Similar categories in Hailey Piper's No Gods for Drowning book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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19. Children of Chicago

By: Cynthia Pelayo

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This horrifying retelling of the Pied Piper fairytale set in present-day Chicago is an edge of your… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • fairy tales
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Chicago was plagued with hundreds and hundreds of unsolved murders and missing persons cases. Lauren knew this was her purgatory, her reason for living to find them and set this right."

-Cynthia Pelayo, Children of Chicago

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20. I Was a Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.68

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story wi… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher book and Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Cynthia Pelayo's Children of Chicago

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

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Chuck Wendig

3.75

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Zero Saints

Gabino Iglesias

3.94

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The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.07

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Victor LaValle

3.85

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Maeve Fly

C.J. Leede

3.78

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

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Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

3.94

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