8 Top thriller books like A Small Dark Place by Martin Schenk

Cover of A Small Dark Place by Martin Schenk

A Small Dark Place

By: Martin Schenk

3.50

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

When a little girl falls down an abandoned mine shaft, Peter Wiley and his wife Sandra, facing fina…

If you liked the thriller plot in A Small Dark Place by Martin Schenk , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Breakdown by B.A. Paris

1. The Breakdown

By: B.A. Paris

3.89

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road,… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's The Breakdown book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
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2. NOS4A2

By: Joe Hill

4.08

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New Y… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's NOS4A2 book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Everyone lives in two worlds,"

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."

-Joe Hill, NOS4A2

Cover of Unraveled: A Novel About A Meltdown by Alda Sigmundsdóttir

3. Unraveled: A Novel About A Meltdown

By: Alda Sigmundsdóttir

3.88

Format: 203 pages, Paperback

After a 12-year absence from Iceland, Frida returns home with her husband Damien, a suave and sophi… read more

Similar categories in Alda Sigmundsdóttir's Unraveled: A Novel About A Meltdown book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
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4. The Grip of It

By: Jac Jemc

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

A chilling literary horror novel about a young couple who purchase and live in a haunted house. Jac… read more

Similar categories in Jac Jemc's The Grip of It book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Regulators

By: Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.72

Format: 512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up un… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's The Regulators book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"Brad looked at his wife with that expression of love that is the sole property of people who have been married over ten years."

-Stephen King, The Regulators

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6. My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more

Similar categories in Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction

7. Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4)

By: Tana French

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and quintessential Tana French thriller--a damaged hero, an unspeakable… read more

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8. The Widow

By: Fiona Barton

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Hardcover

When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enable… read more

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9. A Weekend in September

By: John Edward Weems

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The hurricane that swept Galveston Island early in September, 1900, occupies a unique place in the … read more

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10. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman

4.02

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in… read more

Similar categories in Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
  • horror
"Words save our lives, sometimes."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Adults follow paths. Children explore."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

11. Fin & Lady

By: Cathleen Schine

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been … read more

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12. Out

By: Natsuo Kirino , Stephen Snyder

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mothe… read more

Similar categories in Natsuo Kirino's Out book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"...I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you."

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

"I'm desperate for money'. She said. 'And I'm willing to march into hell if I'm following you'. (Yoshie Azuma)"

-Natsuo Kirino, Out

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13. The Air Raid Book Club

By: Annie Lyons

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of he… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lyons's The Air Raid Book Club book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
"Quite. But Hedy has inherited her mother's skills as a seamstress. Very good. Tell her to come and see me. If you can't sew, can you knit? A little. Although I made my father a pair of socks once and…"

-Annie Lyons, The Air Raid Book Club

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14. Off the Deep End

By: Lucinda Berry

3.48

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-stopping psychological thriller about the shades of truth and the power of lies in the wake… read more

Similar categories in Lucinda Berry's Off the Deep End book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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15. The Chicken Sisters

By: K.J. Dell'Antonia

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster. In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken… read more

Similar categories in K.J. Dell'Antonia's The Chicken Sisters book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
"The next morning, when she bent to buckle Ryder into the taxi to go to the airport, he was clutching the chicken tightly to his chest, looking so much like his father that it made Mae catch her breat…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"The restaurants are very different, by asking which you like. The restaurants are very different, Mimi's is pretty simple and BYOB while Frannie's has a bar. Some people go to Mimi's because they rea…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"Mimi's and Frannie's both served fried chicken, yes. And they had the same kind of name. And they had been started by sisters. But from there, the similarities---and any competition---ended. Frannie'…"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

"Good fried chicken was remarkably hard to come by in New York, but this---tender, with just enough crust-only bits protruding, skin peeling easily away from the meat---this was good . The fries were …"

-K.J. Dell'Antonia, The Chicken Sisters

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16. When Women Were Dragons

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.85

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transfo… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Barnhill's When Women Were Dragons book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
"The dragons did not go away."

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"The work of storytelling requires a person to remain in a state of brutal vulnerability and punishing empathy. We feel everything. It tears us apart. We could not do this work without people in our l…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"There's very little we can control in this life. All we can do is accept whatever comes, learn what we can, and hang onto what we love. And that's it. In the end, the only thing you can hope to contr…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

"Instead, they drew dragons. Big dragons, tiny dragons. Dragons destroying skyscrapers and dragons swimming with whales and dragons dancing on the head of a pin and dragons skidding down one arm of th…"

-Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

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17. 56 Days

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

3.75

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

No one knew they'd moved in together. Now one of them is dead. Could this be the perfect murder? … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's 56 Days book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
"Dividing people into good and evil is just lazy."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Secrets are a different thing. They're destructive."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"None of us know what we're capable of, if the circumstances were right. Or wrong."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

"Our robot overlords are coming regardless, but I'm not going to hold the door open for them."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, 56 Days

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18. We Must Be Brave

By: Frances Liardet

3.63

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage. --… read more

Similar categories in Frances Liardet's We Must Be Brave book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
"No hunger or thirst of my youth was as strong as my love for my child. We'd never be apart, not completely. Even after death we'd find each other. Our atoms would be released into the earth, air, wat…"

-Frances Liardet, We Must Be Brave

Cover of American Hippo (River of Teeth, #1-2) by Sarah Gailey

19. American Hippo (River of Teeth, #1-2)

By: Sarah Gailey

3.91

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017 Sarah Gailey made their debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed no… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gailey's American Hippo (River of Teeth, #1-2) book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
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20. Welcome to the Neighborhood

By: Lisa Roe

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming and life-affirming story of family dynamics, mother/daughter relationships, and seco… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Roe's Welcome to the Neighborhood book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • fiction
Cover of A Small Dark Place by Martin Schenk

21. A Small Dark Place

By: Martin Schenk

3.50

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

When a little girl falls down an abandoned mine shaft, Peter Wiley and his wife Sandra, facing fina… read more

Similar categories in Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place book and Martin Schenk's A Small Dark Place

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror

17 must-read fiction books like A Small Dark Place by Martin Schenk

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The Breakdown

B.A. Paris

3.89

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NOS4A2

Joe Hill

4.08

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Unraveled: A Novel About A Meltdown

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

3.88

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The Grip of It

Jac Jemc

3.66

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Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Travis Baldree

4.20

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The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

3.64

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James McBride

4.00

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