11 Best crime books like I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver

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I Shot the Devil

By: Ruth McIver

3.18

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

They went out to the woods to have fun. And two of them didn't return. A dark, twisty thriller of s…

If you liked the crime plot in I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Bad Tourists

By: Caro Carver

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwin… read more

Similar categories in Caro Carver's Bad Tourists book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Her default setting is to say no to any offers of help, that she’s fine, even when she’s not."

-Caro Carver, Bad Tourists

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2. Safe and Sound

By: Laura McHugh

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Six years after their cousin vanished from their home while they were sleeping, two sisters set out… read more

Similar categories in Laura McHugh's Safe and Sound book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. The Reaper Follows (Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest #4)

By: Heather Graham

3.71

Format: 341 pages, ebook

Death comes for everyone. Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in p… read more

Similar categories in Heather Graham's The Reaper Follows (Amy Larson & Hunter Forrest #4) book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

4.06

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

A suicide. A shooting. And a reckoning, decades in the making. The must-read new Detective Kate M… read more

Similar categories in Dinuka McKenzie's Tipping Point (Detective Kate Miles #3) book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • crime
  • suspense
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5. Bodies to Die For

By: Lori Brand

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of You Shouldn't Have Come Here and None of This Is True, Bodies to Die For is a b… read more

Similar categories in Lori Brand's Bodies to Die For book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's I Need You to Read This book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. 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 Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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9. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

Similar categories in Anna Downes's Red River Road book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. What Fire Brings

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

3.51

Format: 375 pages, Kindle Edition

A writer’s search for her missing friend becomes a real-life thriller in a twisting novel of suspen… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's What Fire Brings book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive

By: Craig DiLouie

3.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that see… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. The Cane

By: Maryrose Cuskelly

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ONE MISSING GIRL. NO SUSPECTS. A TOWN ABOUT TO IGNITE. Quala, a North Queensland sugar town, t… read more

Similar categories in Maryrose Cuskelly's The Cane book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. That Night in the Library

By: Eva Jurczyk

2.70

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One night locked in the library. What could go wrong? On the night before graduation, seven stud… read more

Similar categories in Eva Jurczyk's That Night in the Library book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. Only One Survives

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Becoming the star is easier when the rest of your band is dead… All drummer Vienna Taylor ever w… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Mary McKinnon's Only One Survives book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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15. Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, … read more

Similar categories in Asha Elias's Pink Glass Houses book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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16. Some Murders in Berlin

By: Karen Robards

4.12

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war. Trust is a luxury n… read more

Similar categories in Karen Robards's Some Murders in Berlin book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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17. Society of Lies

By: Lauren Ling Brown

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accide… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Ling Brown's Society of Lies book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"That’s the thing about love, isn’t it? When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vis…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

"I would remember her hair first: frozen solid and dark red with blood, matted with twigs and dirt. A bloody gash split her head, and yet her expression was calm and serene, as if she were asleep, her…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

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18. The Perfect Sister

By: Stephanie DeCarolis

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One woman's search for her missing sister on the sandy white beaches of the Hamptons uncovers a wea… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie DeCarolis's The Perfect Sister book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. The Last One at the Wedding

By: Jason Rekulak

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Hidden Pictures comes a breathtaking work of suspense about a father… read more

Similar categories in Jason Rekulak's The Last One at the Wedding book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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20. The Hitchcock Hotel

By: Stephanie Wrobel

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed ho… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wrobel's The Hitchcock Hotel book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. Jack's Boys

By: John Katzenbach

4.11

Format: 540 pages, Hardcover

From #1 internationally bestselling author John Katzenbach Five serial killers … Known only to ea… read more

Similar categories in John Katzenbach's Jack's Boys book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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22. The Reunion Party

By: Penny Batchelor

3.76

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tania's death, five university friends reunite at a luxurious co… read more

Similar categories in Penny Batchelor's The Reunion Party book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • thriller
  • fiction
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23. I Shot the Devil

By: Ruth McIver

3.18

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

They went out to the woods to have fun. And two of them didn't return. A dark, twisty thriller of s… read more

Similar categories in Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. No Road Home

By: John Fram

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A young father must clear his name and protect his queer son when his wealthy new wife’s televangel… read more

Similar categories in John Fram's No Road Home book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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25. Blood Like Mine

By: Stuart Neville

3.79

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

STAY ON THE MOVE. STAY OUT OF SIGHT. In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray … read more

Similar categories in Stuart Neville's Blood Like Mine book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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26. The House on Cold Creek Lane

By: Liz Alterman

3.96

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

An unflinching examination of motherhood and the dark side of domesticity set against a suburban ba… read more

Similar categories in Liz Alterman's The House on Cold Creek Lane book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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27. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Barton's Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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28. No One Will Know

By: Rose Carlyle

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A deliciously twisty and suspenseful novel from #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl i… read more

Similar categories in Rose Carlyle's No One Will Know book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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29. The Last Thing She Saw

By: Nina Laurin

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The latest thrilling and intense psychological suspense from the bestselling author of Girl Last Se… read more

Similar categories in Nina Laurin's The Last Thing She Saw book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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30. The Madness

By: Dawn Kurtagich

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Beware what waits in the shadows… With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy… read more

Similar categories in Dawn Kurtagich's The Madness book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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31. We Came to Welcome You

By: Vincent Tirado

3.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut f… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You book and Ruth McIver's I Shot the Devil

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

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