8 Best mystery thriller books like The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

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The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse…

"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Briar Club by Kate Quinn , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

1. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

2. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

3. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more

Similar categories in Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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5. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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7. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Barr's The Goddess of Warsaw book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams

10. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

11. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

12. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Night We Lost Him

By: Laura Dave

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dave's The Night We Lost Him book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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16. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

17. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

18. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

19. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • historical mystery
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

Cover of The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

20. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's The Life Impossible book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

Cover of The Booklover's Library by Madeline  Martin

21. The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Martin's The Booklover's Library book and Kate Quinn's The Briar Club

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Katherine Center

4.15

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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