12 Top crime books like Missing Person by Sarah Lotz

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Missing Person

By: Sarah Lotz

3.72

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as "vastly entertaining," a new n…

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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 Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"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)

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2. The Apartment

By: S.L. Grey

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A high-concept psychological chiller about a troubled married couple on a house swap from hell. An … read more

Similar categories in S.L. Grey's The Apartment book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. Still Mine

By: Amy Stuart

4.20

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

The Girl on the Train meetsThe Silent Wife in this taut psychological thriller. WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU… read more

Similar categories in Amy Stuart's Still Mine book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. Signal Loss (Inspector Challis, #7)

By: Garry Disher

3.97

Format: 176 pages,

A small bushfire, but nasty enough for ice cooks to abandon their lab. Fatal, too. But when the bod… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Signal Loss (Inspector Challis, #7) book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

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

5. Desperate Measures (Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best, #3)

By: Jo Bannister

3.93

Format: None pages, ebook

When Gabriel Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled… read more

Similar categories in Jo Bannister's Desperate Measures (Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best, #3) book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime

6. Whispering Death (Inspector Challis, #6)

By: Garry Disher

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited sixth installment in the Inspector Hal Challis series set in Australia, available … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Whispering Death (Inspector Challis, #6) book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

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7. The Drift

By: C.J. Tudor

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Tudor's The Drift book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Under the Cold Bright Lights

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn’t faze him. He does things his own wa… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Under the Cold Bright Lights book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. The Handyman Method

By: Nick Cutter

3.27

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

A chilling domestic story of terror for fans of Black Mirror and The Amityville Horror. When a y… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Handyman Method book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"When prey dies in fear, hunters will say the meat tastes bitter."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"What of happiness, then? May we speak of the taste of joyful meat?"

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

"Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly."

-Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

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10. Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories

By: Andrew Cull

3.95

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Between April and August 2021 eighteen horror writers disappeared. Gathered together for the first … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cull's Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. The Sentence

By: Christina Dalcher

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A law intended to end capital punishment. Prosecutors who seek the death penalty put their lives… read more

Similar categories in Christina Dalcher's The Sentence book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. Day One

By: Abigail Dean

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Marty seems to do no wrong. Trent can’t seem to get things right. When they are thrown together by … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Dean's Day One book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Smithson's The Escape Room book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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14. Seven Years of Darkness

By: You-Jeong Jeong

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The truth always rises to the surface… When a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reserv… read more

Similar categories in You-Jeong Jeong's Seven Years of Darkness book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. The Bright Lands

By: John Fram

3.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's The Bright Lands book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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17. We Have Always Been Here

By: Lena Nguyen

3.52

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

This psychological sci-fi thriller from a debut author follows one doctor who must discover the sou… read more

Similar categories in Lena Nguyen's We Have Always Been Here book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. The Wolf Wants In

By: Laura McHugh

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a small town ravaged by the opioid crisis, a woman confronts a dark secret about her brother's s… read more

Similar categories in Laura McHugh's The Wolf Wants In book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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19. Violet

By: Scott Thomas

3.55

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

In the lineage of Peter Straub's Julia, Scott Thomas’ Violet is the disturbing tale of a woman haun… read more

Similar categories in Scott Thomas's Violet book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Don't be afraid to mess up. You can always drive a new screw or patch a hole. You just have to have the confidence to fix it."

-Scott Thomas, Violet

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20. The Body Lies

By: Jo Baker

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark, thrilling new novel from the best-selling author of Longbourn: a work of riveting psycholo… read more

Similar categories in Jo Baker's The Body Lies book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"His writing will get inside her and change her leave her different."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"We do have rules here. We have responsibilities towards each other. This is not a free-for-all."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

"He flipped on a light and we were in his front room, which was warm and smelt of woodsmoke. Books, lamps, pot plants, books. Books everywhere."

-Jo Baker, The Body Lies

Cover of Missing Person by Sarah Lotz

21. Missing Person

By: Sarah Lotz

3.72

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed thriller writer Sarah Lotz, hailed by Stephen King as "vastly entertaining," a new n… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lotz's Missing Person book and Sarah Lotz's Missing Person

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • amateur sleuth
  • crime

20 must-read fiction books like Missing Person by Sarah Lotz

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Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

Garry Disher

4.04

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The Apartment

S.L. Grey

4.07

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Still Mine

Amy Stuart

4.20

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Signal Loss (Inspector Challis, #7)

Garry Disher

3.97

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21 must-read fiction books like A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

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Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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