7 Best thriller books like The Underneath by Melanie Finn

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The Underneath

By: Melanie Finn

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Kay is h…

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1. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

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"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

2. Uncle Silas

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu , Victor Sage

4.26

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed tod… read more

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3. Autumn

By: Karl Ove Knausgård , Ingvild Burkey , Vanessa Baird

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the monumental My Struggleseries, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of con… read more

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4. Those Who Lie

By: Diane Jeffrey

3.81

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Emily Klein doesn't know she has killed her husband until the day of his funeral. At first, signs p… read more

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5. Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

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6. The Rule

By: David Jackson

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

'The master of razor-sharp one liners. An absolute belter' - MANDASUE HELLER'Brilliant. This is Bri… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

By: Anne Lamott

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow co… read more

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"Look around and see whom you can serve."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"…[I] know that the movement of grace in our lives so often begins with desperation and blurt."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

"...God's love is not the same as human love. [Our] love...is fraught with conditions, delusion, and judgment."

-Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

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8. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Assistant

By: S.K. Tremayne

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

She’s in your house. She controls your life. Now she’s going to destroy it. A terrifying and tim… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Death and the Conjuror (A Spector Locked-Room Mystery, #1)

By: Tom Mead

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes. In 1930s London, cele… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Improvement

By: Joan Silber

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing… read more

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  • fiction
"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."

-Joan Silber, Improvement

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12. When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Beauty of Impossible Things

By: Rachel Donohue

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Foresight is not always a gift... Natasha Rothwell leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bo… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

By: Katya Apekina

4.08

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Si empujas en una dirección, el péndulo volverá con igual fuerza en la opuesta."

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

"That afternoon was the first time I felt... I don't know how to describe it exactly. My head was in Dad's lap and all the happiness that I'd missed was being compressed into that moment. I looked up …"

-Katya Apekina, The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

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15. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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16. Landscapes

By: Christine Lai

3.78

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mother Doll by Katya Apekina

17. Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic novel about the shadow of trauma in Russian history that follows four generations o… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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20. The Underneath

By: Melanie Finn

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Kay is h… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Finn's The Underneath book and Melanie Finn's The Underneath

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Shred Sisters

By: Betsy Lerner

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry and riveting debut novel about family, mental illness, and a hard-won path between two sister… read more

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  • fiction

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