13 Top crime books like When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness

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When Only One

By: Meg Gatland-Veness

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘There’s someone in the school. Someone who’s not supposed to be there. This person is walking towa…

If you liked the crime plot in When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) by Garry Disher

1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

By: Garry Disher

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"

-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

2. Whisper

By: Lynette Noni

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

For two and a half years, Subject 684 -- "Jane Doe" -- has been locked underground in a secret gove… read more

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3. Raelia (The Medoran Chronicles, #2)

By: Lynette Noni

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices." Returning for a second year at Akarnae Academy… read more

Similar categories in Lynette Noni's Raelia (The Medoran Chronicles, #2) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

4. Wilder Country (Winter, #2)

By: Mark Smith

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Finn, Kas and Willow have survived the winter of storms. Severe winds and cold have kept the Wilder… read more

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5. Between Us

By: Clare Atkins

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of Nona & Me comes a stunning new novel about two teenagers separated… read more

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6. Jasper Jones

By: Craig Silvey

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more

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7. The Road to Winter (Winter, #1)

By: Mark Smith

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for  Since a deadly virus and the violence that followed wiped out his par… read more

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8. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • fiction
  • crime
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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9. How It Feels to Float

By: Helena Fox

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And sh… read more

Similar categories in Helena Fox's How It Feels to Float book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Truth and truth split in two and walk side by side."

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

"Here I am, in borrowed bones, in makeshift skin, looking out it eyes that are a construct, breathing with lungs that are only a step–a basic rearrangement–away from leaves. How funny, to have a body …"

-Helena Fox, How It Feels to Float

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10. The Playground

By: Michelle Frances

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Looking to escape her old life, Nancy and her ten-year-old daughter Lara move to Ripton. A quiet, p… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Frances's The Playground book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • contemporary
Cover of Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) by Chris Hammer

11. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • fiction
  • crime
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more

Similar categories in Jo Dixon's The House of Now and Then book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
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14. You'd Be Home Now

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.15

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's You'd Be Home Now book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"The air was better then."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

Cover of Land of Fences (Winter #3) by Mark       Smith

15. Land of Fences (Winter #3)

By: Mark Smith

4.23

Format: None pages, ebook

Finn and Kas are surviving on the coast—more than surviving: they’re enjoying the surf, the summer … read more

Similar categories in Mark Smith's Land of Fences (Winter #3) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • family
  • young adult
Cover of Completely Normal (and other lies) by Biffy James

16. Completely Normal (and other lies)

By: Biffy James

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more

Similar categories in Biffy James's Completely Normal (and other lies) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

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17. The Brink

By: Holden Sheppard

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A group of school-leavers: free at last, ready to party, expectations high. A remote island on t… read more

Similar categories in Holden Sheppard's The Brink book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • contemporary
  • crime
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18. I Have Lost My Way

By: Gayle Forman

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A powerful display of empathy and friendship from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of If I … read more

Similar categories in Gayle Forman's I Have Lost My Way book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"They can't explain it. But that doesn't make it any less real."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

"To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

"They may be complete strangers, with different lives and different problems, but there in that examination room they are measuring sadness the same way. They are measuring it in loss."

-Gayle Forman, I Have Lost My Way

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19. Consolation (Hirsch, #3)

By: Garry Disher

4.16

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Winter in Tiverton. Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is steal… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Consolation (Hirsch, #3) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Cult of Romance

By: Sarah Ayoub

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Who needs electricity? The room is enveloped in darkness, but inside it, I'm seeing light."

-Sarah Ayoub, The Cult of Romance

Cover of Peace (Hirsch, #2) by Garry Disher

21. Peace (Hirsch, #2)

By: Garry Disher

4.20

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Constable Paul Hirschhausen runs a one-cop station in the dry farming country south of the Flinders… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Peace (Hirsch, #2) book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Here for the Right Reasons by Jodi McAlister

22. Here for the Right Reasons

By: Jodi McAlister

3.62

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom … read more

Similar categories in Jodi McAlister's Here for the Right Reasons book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. All the Best Liars

By: Amelia Kahaney

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark, modern psychological thriller and coming-of-age about obsession, manipulation, and the inte… read more

Similar categories in Amelia Kahaney's All the Best Liars book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • crime
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24. The Museum of Broken Things

By: Lauren Draper

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Draper's The Museum of Broken Things book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. The Killing Code

By: Ellie Marney

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for f… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Marney's The Killing Code book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • fiction
  • crime
  • young adult
"I am the code you never broke, and I don't play by the rules."

-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code

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26. If You tell Anyone, You're Next

By: Jack Heath

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exclusive group chat. A deadly challenge. How far would you go to join? Jayden Jones is missing.… read more

Similar categories in Jack Heath's If You tell Anyone, You're Next book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • fiction
  • crime
Cover of When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness

27. When Only One

By: Meg Gatland-Veness

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

‘There’s someone in the school. Someone who’s not supposed to be there. This person is walking towa… read more

Similar categories in Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • crime
  • social issues
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28. The Cove

By: Alice Clark-Platts

3.06

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Turtle Cove. A luxury resort surrounded by pristine sea and the dense beauty of the j… read more

Similar categories in Alice Clark-Platts's The Cove book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's just motherhood, not rocket science, she reminds herself. The constant demands, the lack of sleep, the need for a well of patience deeper than the ocean itself. Every last bit of it is entirely …"

-Alice Clark-Platts, The Cove

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29. It Looks Like Us

By: Alison Ames

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The remote terror of THE THING meets the body horror of WILDER GIRLS in this fast-paced Antarctic t… read more

Similar categories in Alison Ames's It Looks Like Us book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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30. Meant to Be

By: Lauren Jackson

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Josie Mayor fled Fern Grove after a scandal that rocked the town, turning her back on her friends a… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Jackson's Meant to Be book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. As Far as the Stars

By: Virginia Macgregor

3.73

Format: 439 pages, Paperback

Praise for Virginia Macgregor: 'I defy you not to fall in love' Clare Mackintosh How do you… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Macgregor's As Far as the Stars book and Meg Gatland-Veness's When Only One

  • romance
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"It’s like you said, Christopher- knowing someone isn’t about time."

-Virginia Macgregor, As Far as the Stars

"Sometimes, it takes time to get to the people we’re really meant to be with."

-Virginia Macgregor, As Far as the Stars

"I wonder whether his whole life has been about that: folding everything up into small, neat little parcels. Not getting in anyone’s way. It’s kind of impressive. But sad too."

-Virginia Macgregor, As Far as the Stars

"(...) and let my brother sort out his own mess for once. He was eighteen, for goodness sake. Four whole years older than me. An adult. Why did I have to go out and find him? But I knew it was my job."

-Virginia Macgregor, As Far as the Stars

20 Top fiction books like When Only One by Meg Gatland-Veness

Transform Your Habits

Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

Garry Disher

4.04

Transform Your Habits

How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Transform Your Habits

How It Feels to Float

Helena Fox

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

Chris Hammer

4.01

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14 Best fiction books like Completely Normal (and other lies) by Biffy James

Transform Your Habits

Neverlanders

Tom Taylor

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

Amy Doak

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Completely Normal (and other lies)

Biffy James

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Royals

Tegan Bennett Daylight

3.35

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