28 best-selling suspense books like Always the First to Die by R.J. Jacobs

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Always the First to Die

By: R.J. Jacobs

3.36

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

For fans of Riley Sager with a classic slasher twist comes a chilling thriller following a former h…

If you liked the suspense plot in Always the First to Die by R.J. Jacobs , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

1. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

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 R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • 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. Don't You Dare

By: Jessica Hamilton

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When Hannah and Scarlett meet Thomas in college—the chemistry is instantaneous. They grow closer wh… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hamilton's Don't You Dare book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Main Character book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Run Time

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Movie-making can be murder. The project Final Draft, a psychological horror. Promising Young Th… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's Run Time book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had really begun to understand why people overeat. It isn't what they eat, it's why they eat it: because when you feel literally full from food, it's a brief respite from feeling figuratively empty…"

-Catherine Ryan Howard, Run Time

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6. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Resort

By: Sara Ochs

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a ch… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ochs's The Resort book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There isn't a flood that will not subside."

-Sara Ochs, The Resort

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9. 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

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's What Have We Done book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Christmas Presents

By: Lisa Unger

3.65

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Instead of presents this Christmas, one true crime podcaster is opening up a cold case…When true cr… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's Christmas Presents book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Weekend Retreat

By: Tara Laskowski

3.45

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for. Every year, the illustrious Van Ness sib… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The Weekend Retreat book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning

3.38

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse… read more

Similar categories in Josh Winning's Burn the Negative book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's The Family Game book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger

16. 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 R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • 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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17. The Only Survivors

By: Megan Miranda

3.55

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tenn… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's The Only Survivors book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • 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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19. The Swell

By: Allie Reynolds

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangero… read more

Similar categories in Allie Reynolds's The Swell book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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 R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I Didn't Do It by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

22. I Didn't Do It

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

"Brisk, snarky, and delicious." ― People Magazine A murder at a suspense writer convention makes ev… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Lynn Hendricks's I Didn't Do It book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Summer Rental

By: Rektok Ross

3.51

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

MEAN GIRLS meets SCREAM in this heart-pounding psychological thriller about a group of friends stra… read more

Similar categories in Rektok Ross's Summer Rental book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
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24. The Followers

By: Bradeigh Godfrey

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The Girl on the Train meets the world of social media in this psychological thriller about influenc… read more

Similar categories in Bradeigh Godfrey's The Followers book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. 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

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Chateau book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. 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 R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. 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 R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Always the First to Die by R.J. Jacobs

28. Always the First to Die

By: R.J. Jacobs

3.36

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

For fans of Riley Sager with a classic slasher twist comes a chilling thriller following a former h… read more

Similar categories in R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Close Enough to Hurt by Katherine A. Olson

29. Close Enough to Hurt

By: Katherine A. Olson

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Katherine A. Olson’s thrilling debut, perfect for fans of Jeneva Rose and Elle Cosimano, vigilan… read more

Similar categories in Katherine A. Olson's Close Enough to Hurt book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls' Time: A Psychological Thriller (Girls' Trilogy Book 3) by Jason Letts

30. Girls' Time: A Psychological Thriller (Girls' Trilogy Book 3)

By: Jason Letts

3.63

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Fake death. Fake prison sentence. Fake bank. Real danger.The girls' trilogy comes to this starting … read more

Similar categories in Jason Letts's Girls' Time: A Psychological Thriller (Girls' Trilogy Book 3) book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

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31. The Keeper of the Key

By: Nicole Willson

3.65

Format: None pages, ebook

There are a thousand things sixteen-year-old Rachel would rather do than upend her life to move int… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Willson's The Keeper of the Key book and R.J. Jacobs's Always the First to Die

  • fiction
  • horror

29 Top fiction books like Always the First to Die by R.J. Jacobs

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Don't You Dare

Jessica Hamilton

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The Main Character

Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

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21 best-selling suspense books like The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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