14 best-selling mystery books like The Toymaker by Sergio Gomez

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The Toymaker

By: Sergio Gomez

3.84

Format: 564 pages, Paperback

Raymond Gibson has been lonely in his old age, having never married and losing all his friends to t…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Toymaker by Sergio Gomez , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Parasite by Darcy Coates

1. Parasite

By: Darcy Coates

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

They're closer than you think... A guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost. … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Parasite book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Aliens: Bug Hunt by Scott Sigler, Jonathan Maberry, Rachel Caine, Heather    Graham, Larry Correia, David Farland

2. Aliens: Bug Hunt

By: Scott Sigler , Jonathan Maberry , Rachel Caine , Heather Graham , Larry Correia , David Farland

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it's what Corporal Hi… read more

Similar categories in Scott Sigler's Aliens: Bug Hunt book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
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3. Kin

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

4.33

Format: 481 pages,

On a scorching hot summer day in Elkwood, Alabama, Claire Lambert staggers naked, wounded, and half… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's Kin book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
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4. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gran's Come Closer book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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5. Experimental Film

By: Gemma Files

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois … read more

Similar categories in Gemma Files's Experimental Film book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Because stories lie hidden inside other stories, and we always know more about any given thing than we think we do, even if the only thing we think we know is nothing."

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"You could argue—as I have more than enough times, as part of my Film History lecture—that, no matter its actual narrative content, every movie is a ghost story. A film's production forms a time capsu…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"What can I do about the people who adore all that is new, even when it goes against their deepest convictions, or about the insincere, corrupt press, and the inane herd that saw beauty or poetry in s…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

"We're storytelling creatures. Give us a bunch of seemingly random images and we will try to organize them into a linear progression: tree, apple, head, bruise, gravity . . . a man sat under a tree, a…"

-Gemma Files, Experimental Film

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6. The House

By: Bentley Little

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five complete strangers from across America are about to come together and open the door to a place… read more

Similar categories in Bentley Little's The House book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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7. Punish the Sinners

By: John Saul

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Italy 1252. Inquisition. Accusation. Fear. Torture. The guilty and the innocent dying for sins real… read more

Similar categories in John Saul's Punish the Sinners book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural

8. Kill River

By: Cameron Roubique

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1983, thirteen-year-old Cyndi and her three new-found friends Stacy, Zack, and Bra… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Roubique's Kill River book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

9. Transylvania 90210 (Elvira, #1)

By: Elvira

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In her first hairdo-raising adventure, Elvira meets the weirdos next door--a pasty-faced group of c… read more

Similar categories in Elvira's Transylvania 90210 (Elvira, #1) book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

10. Cry for the Strangers

By: John Saul

1.80

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now stranger… read more

Similar categories in John Saul's Cry for the Strangers book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

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11. The Pram

By: Joe Hill

3.77

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a … read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's The Pram book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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12. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

Similar categories in A.M. Shine's The Watchers (The Watchers, #1) book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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13. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives

By: Adam Cesare

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and… read more

Similar categories in Adam Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
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14. The Exorcist's House

By: Nick Roberts

4.02

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1994, psychologist Daniel Hill buys a rustic farmhouse nestled in the rolling hill… read more

Similar categories in Nick Roberts's The Exorcist's House book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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15. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

Similar categories in Clay McLeod Chapman's Ghost Eaters book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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16. Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities

By: Jeff Strand

4.20

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

From the madman who brought you Gleefully Macabre Tales, Dead Clown Barbecue, Everything Has Teeth,… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Strand's Freaky Briefs: 75 Short Absurdities book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Store by Bentley Little

17. The Store

By: Bentley Little

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A malevolent presence has come to a small desert town, and the customers of this superstore may get… read more

Similar categories in Bentley Little's The Store book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
"This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here."

-Bentley Little, The Store

"Human beings' capacity to adjust to almost anything was supposed to be one of their greatest virtues, but it was also one of their greatest weaknesses. It rendered them compliant, allowed them to be …"

-Bentley Little, The Store

"He stared out the window and found himself thinking of that old Randy Newman song, "It's Money That Matters." It was money that mattered, wasn't it? He shook his head. Times had changed. Twenty years…"

-Bentley Little, The Store

Cover of Everything Is Temporary by Jon Cohn

18. Everything Is Temporary

By: Jon Cohn

4.15

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

How well do we really know the people sleeping next to us in bed at night? After a tragedy strik… read more

Similar categories in Jon Cohn's Everything Is Temporary book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Bluejay by Megan Stockton

19. Bluejay

By: Megan Stockton

3.71

Format: None pages, ebook

Noah, Jack, and Phil are three average guys who collect horror memorabilia and have a running compe… read more

Similar categories in Megan Stockton's Bluejay book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Spin a Black Yarn by Josh Malerman

20. Spin a Black Yarn

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Spin a Black Yarn book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • paranormal
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21. The House by the Cemetery

By: John Everson

3.55

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. But rumor… read more

Similar categories in John Everson's The House by the Cemetery book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers) by Jonathan Janz

22. House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers)

By: Jonathan Janz

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Myles Carver is dead. But his estate, Watermere, lives on, waiting for a new Carver to move in. Myl… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Janz's House of Skin (Fiction Without Frontiers) book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
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23. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve by Ronald Kelly

24. The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve

By: Ronald Kelly

4.05

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

When you first enter The Halloween Store, things seem normal. Fun and frightful decorations, ghastl… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Kelly's The Halloween Store, and Other Tales of All Hallows' Eve book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The House on Hanging Hill Lane: Darkness Creeps Closer by Philip Alexander Baker

25. The House on Hanging Hill Lane: Darkness Creeps Closer

By: Philip Alexander Baker

3.58

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

There is more going on at Hanging Hill Lane than simple mass killings. Daphne Locke, eighteen an… read more

Similar categories in Philip Alexander Baker's The House on Hanging Hill Lane: Darkness Creeps Closer book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • horror
Cover of Snowball: A Christmas Horror Story by Andre Gonzalez

26. Snowball: A Christmas Horror Story

By: Andre Gonzalez

3.89

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Be careful what you wish for this holiday season . . . The holidays are a time for magic, cheer, … read more

Similar categories in Andre Gonzalez's Snowball: A Christmas Horror Story book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • horror
Cover of Kill River 2 by Cameron Roubique

27. Kill River 2

By: Cameron Roubique

4.18

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

It’s been a year since Cyndi went into the empty water park with her friends and almost got killed … read more

Similar categories in Cameron Roubique's Kill River 2 book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Toymaker by Sergio   Gomez

28. The Toymaker

By: Sergio Gomez

3.84

Format: 564 pages, Paperback

Raymond Gibson has been lonely in his old age, having never married and losing all his friends to t… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
Cover of Attention, Shoppers (Short Novels of Terror) by Blair Daniels

29. Attention, Shoppers (Short Novels of Terror)

By: Blair Daniels

4.13

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

ATTENTION, Please hide at the back of the store immediately.I'm at a Bluemart, on a diaper run wit… read more

Similar categories in Blair Daniels's Attention, Shoppers (Short Novels of Terror) book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Kill River 3 by Cameron Roubique

30. Kill River 3

By: Cameron Roubique

4.16

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone thought the water park killer was dead. Nearly three months have passed since the massacre… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Roubique's Kill River 3 book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

31. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

Similar categories in Joe Hill's Ushers: A Short Story book and Sergio Gomez's The Toymaker

  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror

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4.33

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Richard Laymon

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Tim Curran

3.69

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Brian Keene

3.66

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