8 Best suspense books like Heaven's a Lie by Wallace Stroby

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Heaven's a Lie

By: Wallace Stroby

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When a young widow witnesses a fatal car accident outside a Jersey Shore motel, she's suddenly thru…

If you liked the suspense plot in Heaven's a Lie by Wallace Stroby , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

By: Frank Bill

4.44

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Frank Bill's Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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2. Last Night at the Lobster

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.59

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn't been making its num… read more

Similar categories in Stewart O'Nan's Last Night at the Lobster book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • fiction
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3. Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more

Similar categories in Carl Hiaasen's Bad Monkey book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

4. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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5. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

Similar categories in Peter Straub's Ghost Story book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

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6. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

Similar categories in Michael Koryta's An Honest Man book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Hogan's Gangland book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Hero

By: Thomas Perry

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels’ latest hero could also mak… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Hero book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Everything she saw was lit by skylights and every fixture conveyed the message, "This is the best, not just the most expensive."

-Thomas Perry, Hero

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10. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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12. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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13. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

By: Annie Lyons

4.31

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late to start living. Infused with the emotional power of Me Before You and the i… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lyons's The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • fiction
"Life is precious and as long as we have a reason to continue, we should follow that path."

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"Why is life so sad sometimes?"..."Perhaps it's the universe's way of making you appreciate the happier times"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

"I always used to think it was silly when people said life was short, but I completely get that now. We're here for such a limited time. The least we can do is try to be kind to the people around us. …"

-Annie Lyons, The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett

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14. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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15. These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they’re referred to as “these women.” … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's These Women book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

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16. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

By: Mark Bowden

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • crime
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17. The Getaway Girls

By: Dee MacDonald

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

One morning, Connie McColl wakes up and decides to swap her ordinary life, for an extraordinary adv… read more

Similar categories in Dee MacDonald's The Getaway Girls book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • fiction
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18. Pink Whales

By: Sara Shukla

3.55

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

Falling in with the cool moms of her preppy New England town might upend one woman’s life, in a spa… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shukla's Pink Whales book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • fiction
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19. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's Devil Is Fine book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • fiction
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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20. Heaven's a Lie

By: Wallace Stroby

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When a young widow witnesses a fatal car accident outside a Jersey Shore motel, she's suddenly thru… read more

Similar categories in Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie book and Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

17 best-selling fiction books like Heaven's a Lie by Wallace Stroby

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Frank Bill

4.44

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Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O'Nan

3.59

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Bad Monkey

Carl Hiaasen

3.75

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Michael Koryta

4.13

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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Max Marshall

3.50

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