5 best-selling mystery thriller books like The Dance of the Dolls by Lucy Ashe

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The Dance of the Dolls

By: Lucy Ashe

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara M…

"Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?"

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?"

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant."

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant."

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Dance of the Dolls by Lucy Ashe , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world

By: Jane Cholmeley

4.25

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Brit… read more

Similar categories in Jane Cholmeley's A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a group of women set out to change the world book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

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2. The Black Feathers

By: Rebecca Netley

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Where ghosts tread, black feathers fall . . . When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Netley's The Black Feathers book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

Similar categories in Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3) book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The House of Footsteps

By: Mathew West

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

If you loved The Haunting of Hill House, welcome to Thistlecrook… It’s 1923 and at Thistlecr… read more

Similar categories in Mathew West's The House of Footsteps book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
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8. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Vintage Shop of Second Chances book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Illusions

By: Liz Hyder

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At a time of extraordinary change, two women must harness their talents to take control of their ow… read more

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Illusions book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Birdcage Library

By: Freya Berry

3.89

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

The answers to a puzzle lie hidden within an old book. Open The Birdcage Library and let the treasu… read more

Similar categories in Freya Berry's The Birdcage Library book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

By: Alice Robb

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Expertly choreographed and long overdue, this is the nuanced reckoning ballet needs, ballerinas de… read more

Similar categories in Alice Robb's Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Another study, this one by doctors at Imperial College in London, found a neurological anomaly: the area of the cerebellum that receives signals from the 'balance organs" in the inner ear and convert…"

-Alice Robb, Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

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12. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Book of Secrets

By: Anna Mazzola

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Months after the plague ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it t… read more

Similar categories in Anna Mazzola's The Book of Secrets book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • crime
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. First Position

By: Melanie Hamrick

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A dancer’s fall from grace ignites a dark ambition in this propulsive novel about the seductive, cu… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Hamrick's First Position book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Still Point

By: Tammy Greenwood

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Dance Moms meets Little Fires Everywhere in award winning author Tammy Greenwood’s addictive new no… read more

Similar categories in Tammy Greenwood's The Still Point book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Who to Believe

By: Edwin Hill

3.92

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

In this twisting domestic suspense thriller from the acclaimed author of The Secrets We Share , the… read more

Similar categories in Edwin Hill's Who to Believe book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Revels

By: Stacey Thomas

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul t… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Thomas's The Revels book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Welcome to Camp Killer

By: Cynthia Murphy

3.30

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

When an American-style residential camp is set up in the grounds of an English stately home, the te… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Murphy's Welcome to Camp Killer book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Dance of the Dolls by Lucy Ashe

19. The Dance of the Dolls

By: Lucy Ashe

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara M… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?"

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant."

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art."

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

"He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last."

-Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

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20. The Grief Nurse

By: Angie Spoto

3.38

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could be rid of your sadness, your anxiety, your heartache, your fear. Imagine you cou… read more

Similar categories in Angie Spoto's The Grief Nurse book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • historical
  • fiction
  • horror
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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21. The Moonlight Market

By: Joanne Harris

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's The Moonlight Market book and Lucy Ashe's The Dance of the Dolls

  • fiction
  • audiobook
" Love never ends--- but it changes. In some cases, it grows like a tree, stronger and more fruitful. In others, it changes nature, like chrysalis to butterfly. "

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"And, at that, picking up his parcel of books, Spider began to walk purposefully down the road, a river of light at his ragged heels, his spindly shadow beside him."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"He was close to her now, close enough to smell her scent, which was like bluebells in the rain, and the aroma of a forest in spring, and the peppery sweetness of petrichor."

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

"There's daylight names and midnight names. Daylight names are safe enough. A spider brings good luck before midnight, but bad luck after. And you look to me like the kind of young man who needs good …"

-Joanne Harris, The Moonlight Market

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