11 must-read crime books like The Favour by Laura Vaughan

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The Favour

By: Laura Vaughan

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was…

If you liked the crime plot in The Favour by Laura Vaughan , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1) by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

1. The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1)

By: Jon Courtenay Grimwood

3.25

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards. In th… read more

Similar categories in Jon Courtenay Grimwood's The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1) book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
"There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters"

-Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1)

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2. Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)

By: C.J. Skuse

3.90

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

The last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Skuse's Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1) book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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3. After Anna

By: Alex Lake

4.43

Format: None pages,

The real nightmare starts when her daughter is returned... A bone-chilling psychological thriller t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Lake's After Anna book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

4. The Beast

By: Alexander Starritt

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Ret… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Starritt's The Beast book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

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5. Lean Fall Stand

By: Jon McGregor

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more

Similar categories in Jon McGregor's Lean Fall Stand book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Merrily Ever After

By: Cathy Bramley

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

'Heartwarming and uplifting - a gorgeous festive treat.' Sarah Morgan, author of SNOWED IN FOR CHRI… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Bramley's Merrily Ever After book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Black Lake Manor

By: Guy Morpuss

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can turn back time... In the former mining tow… read more

Similar categories in Guy Morpuss's Black Lake Manor book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

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

Similar categories in Joan Silber's Improvement book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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10. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

Similar categories in Kate Collins's A Good House for Children book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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11. The Last Taxi Driver

By: Lee Durkee

3.68

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020 “A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think ab… read more

Similar categories in Lee Durkee's The Last Taxi Driver book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. No Secrets

By: David Jackson

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

THEY ALL BELIEVE HIM THEY BELIEVE HIS LIES. SHE KNOWS THE TRUTH. You can't lie to Izzy Lambert.… read more

Similar categories in David Jackson's No Secrets book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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13. Let Him In

By: William Friend

3.36

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

William Friend’s haunting debut Let Him In is a creeping, gothic psychological suspense about a you… read more

Similar categories in William Friend's Let Him In book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"They say that grief numbs, but I still feel everything and mostly it hurts."

-William Friend, Let Him In

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14. The Way It Is Now

By: Garry Disher

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in a beach-shack town an hour from Melbourne, The Way It Is Now tells the story of a burnt-out … read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's The Way It Is Now book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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15. Sleeping with Friends (Friends and Enemies, #1)

By: Emily Schultz

3.04

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of The Blondes comes a twisted, darkly humorous story about a woman’s attempted mur… read more

Similar categories in Emily Schultz's Sleeping with Friends (Friends and Enemies, #1) book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. Notes on a Murder

By: B.P. Walter

3.07

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone is capable of murder. Are you? It started with an invitation to dinner. An evening of g… read more

Similar categories in B.P. Walter's Notes on a Murder book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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17. I'll Never Tell

By: Philippa East

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Keep your family close, and your secrets closer… To the outside world, the Goodlights are perfec… read more

Similar categories in Philippa East's I'll Never Tell book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • psychological thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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18. The Song of Peterloo

By: Carolyn O'Brien

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Manchester 1819: Prices are high and wages are low, but as the poor become poorer, the rich are ala… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn O'Brien's The Song of Peterloo book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
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19. These Streets

By: Luan Goldie

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more

Similar categories in Luan Goldie's These Streets book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Billy Rags

By: Ted Lewis

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A crime novel in which Billy Cracken's decision to escape from prison brings trouble in the form of… read more

Similar categories in Ted Lewis's Billy Rags book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid

21. The Memory Monster

By: Yishai Sarid

4.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 2020 National Jewish Book Awards Finalist “… read more

Similar categories in Yishai Sarid's The Memory Monster book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Young Women

By: Jessica Moor

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Moor's Young Women book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Legacy

By: Caroline Bond

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A death in the family rarely brings out the best in people - even the deceased. Jonathan Coulter… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Bond's The Legacy book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Throughout his illness she had put his needs first, subsumed her own. Her sole objective had been to make his life as good as possible. She had changed shapre aound him. Reinvented herself to become …"

-Caroline Bond, The Legacy

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24. Every Happy Family

By: Sarah Stovell

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Minnie and Bert are over the moon to have their three grown-up children home for the first time in … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stovell's Every Happy Family book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. You Had It Coming

By: B.M. Carroll

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

WOULD YOU SAVE THE MAN WHO DESTROYED YOUR LIFE? When paramedic Megan Lowe is called to the scen… read more

Similar categories in B.M. Carroll's You Had It Coming book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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26. Christmas At The Palace

By: Jeevani Charika

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A light, funny, royal romance perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Marie Force.Campaigner, feminist… read more

Similar categories in Jeevani Charika's Christmas At The Palace book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Nasty Little Cuts by Tina  Baker

27. Nasty Little Cuts

By: Tina Baker

3.45

Format: 368 pages, ebook

WHEN YOUR MARRIAGE IS THIS BROKEN, YOU MAY NOT MAKE IT OUT ALIVE. A nightmare jolts Debs awake. … read more

Similar categories in Tina Baker's Nasty Little Cuts book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery thriller
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28. The House on Fripp Island

By: Rebecca Kauffman

3.34

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families—one rich, one not—vacation toge… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Kauffman's The House on Fripp Island book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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29. Thea and Denise

By: Caroline Bond

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Thelma and Louise fans, read on... Two women. An open road. The trip of a lifetime. Thea is c… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Bond's Thea and Denise book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • contemporary
Cover of The Favour by Laura Vaughan

30. The Favour

By: Laura Vaughan

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was… read more

Similar categories in Laura Vaughan's The Favour book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • drama
Cover of My Lovely Daughter by R.P. Bolton

31. My Lovely Daughter

By: R.P. Bolton

3.75

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

My precious daughter. You have no idea how dangerous the world is. No idea of the horrors I’ve shie… read more

Similar categories in R.P. Bolton's My Lovely Daughter book and Laura Vaughan's The Favour

  • thriller

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The Fallen Blade (The Assassini, #1)

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

3.25

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Sweetpea (Sweetpea, #1)

C.J. Skuse

3.90

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Alex Lake

4.43

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Lean Fall Stand

Jon McGregor

3.75

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The Mother

T.M. Logan

4.02

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The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

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The Guilty Couple

C.L. Taylor

3.87

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Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

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