23 must-read mystery thriller books like Surrender the Dead by John Burley

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Surrender the Dead

By: John Burley

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

When Erin Reece left Wolf Point fifteen years ago after graduating high school, she’d planned to ne…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Surrender the Dead by John Burley , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. All the Way Home

By: Wendy Corsi Staub

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A quiet little town in upstate New York, Lake Charlotte is the perfect place to raise a family. Or … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Corsi Staub's All the Way Home book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. Look Again

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.88

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a 'Have You Seen This Child?' flyer in the mail, she almost throws… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's Look Again book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"He’s an odd duck but he’s a good kid, with a good heart."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"Here is how a mother's love is different: You may fall out of love with a man. But you will never fall out of love with your child. Even after he is gone."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

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3. The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

By: Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Schaffhausen's The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1) book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt."

-Joanna Schaffhausen, The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

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4. A Tap on the Window

By: Linwood Barclay

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

When Cal Weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled… read more

Similar categories in Linwood Barclay's A Tap on the Window book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. Dead Woman Walking

By: Sharon J. Bolton

3.54

Format: None pages,

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, a man murders a young woman. At the same ti… read more

Similar categories in Sharon J. Bolton's Dead Woman Walking book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Cemetery Girl

By: David Bell

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Four years after Tom and Abby's 12-year-old daughter vanishes, she is found alive but strangely cal… read more

Similar categories in David Bell's Cemetery Girl book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

7. The Midwife's Confession

By: Diane Chamberlain

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Dear Anna, What I have to tell you is difficult to write, but I know it will be far more difficult … read more

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8. The Cypress House

By: Michael Koryta

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A journey to Florida's coast becomes an inescapable nightmare in the newest supernatural thriller f… read more

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9. The Ridge

By: Michael Koryta

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated stretch of eastern Kentucky, on a hilltop known as Blade Ridge, stands a lighthouse … read more

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10. Daddy's Girl

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.69

Format: 47 pages,

The unlikely heroine of this Lisa Scottoline thriller (which follows 2006's Dirty Blonde), mousy Un… read more

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11. Vicious

By: Kevin O'Brien

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Arriving at a remote lake house with her fiance, Allen, and young son, Matthew, Susan Blanchette fe… read more

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12. The Lost Mother

By: Mary McGarry Morris

3.20

Format: 160 pages,

Mary McGarry Morris has achieved new heights with her riveting chronicle of the Talcotts, a family … read more

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13. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Barker-White's My Name Was Eden book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

14. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. A Mother Would Know

By: Amber Garza

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“Do we ever really know our children? Amber Garza invites readers to untangle the web of a family j… read more

Similar categories in Amber Garza's A Mother Would Know book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. The King: The Life of Charles III

By: Christopher Andersen

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet symp… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Andersen's The King: The Life of Charles III book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • audiobook
Cover of Everything She Feared by Rick Mofina

17. Everything She Feared

By: Rick Mofina

3.76

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When a teen falls off a cliff while taking a selfie, the last thing she sees before plummeting to h… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mofina's Everything She Feared book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. You Know What You Did

By: K.T. Nguyen

3.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

EDITORIAL REVIEWS A People Magazine Best Book of April 2024 | “The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction … read more

Similar categories in K.T. Nguyen's You Know What You Did book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. My Sister's Baby

By: Louise Guy

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Your sister once saved your life… Would you repay her with the child she’s always dreamed of? Li… read more

Similar categories in Louise Guy's My Sister's Baby book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • contemporary
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20. Lay Your Body Down

By: Amy Suiter Clarke

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poiso… read more

Similar categories in Amy Suiter Clarke's Lay Your Body Down book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Never Look Back

By: Alison Gaylin

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of the bestsellers of Laura Lippman and Harlan Coben—with a Serial-esque podcast twist—… read more

Similar categories in Alison Gaylin's Never Look Back book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Forget What You Know (Last Seen in Gothic #2)

By: Christina Dodd

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Forget what you know…yet the past remembers. A submerged car is pulled from the bottom of the la… read more

Similar categories in Christina Dodd's Forget What You Know (Last Seen in Gothic #2) book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. The Long Way Back

By: Nicole Baart

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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24. Behind a Closed Door

By: J.D. Barker

4.03

Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition

50 SHADES meets David Fincher's THE GAME. Would you kill a total stranger to save someone you lo… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Barker's Behind a Closed Door book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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25. Never Coming Home

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.64

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn't hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Mary McKinnon's Never Coming Home book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We're all a little evil on the inside."

-Hannah Mary McKinnon, Never Coming Home

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26. No Bad Deed

By: Heather Chavez

3.66

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Driving home one rainy night, Cassie Larkin sees a man and woman fighting on the side of the road. … read more

Similar categories in Heather Chavez's No Bad Deed book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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27. The Murder List

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.59

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Law student Rachel North will tell you, without hesitation, what she knows to be true. She's smart,… read more

Similar categories in Hank Phillippi Ryan's The Murder List book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

Similar categories in Ace Atkins's Don't Let the Devil Ride book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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29. Surrender the Dead

By: John Burley

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

When Erin Reece left Wolf Point fifteen years ago after graduating high school, she’d planned to ne… read more

Similar categories in John Burley's Surrender the Dead book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • relationships
  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Confessions of the Dead by James  Patterson

30. Confessions of the Dead

By: James Patterson

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The dead tell no tales…unless they swam in Cemetery Lake.   Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a pict… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Confessions of the Dead book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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31. The Unmothers

By: Leslie J. Anderson

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this emotionally raw and propulsive folk horror-mystery, a journalist goes to a small town and u… read more

Similar categories in Leslie J. Anderson's The Unmothers book and John Burley's Surrender the Dead

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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Wendy Corsi Staub

3.96

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Look Again

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3.88

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The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

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Linwood Barclay

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Harlan Coben

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John Sandford

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David Baldacci

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