15 best-selling thriller books like The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning

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The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

By: Kate Brauning

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nothing is more dangerous than a girl with nothing left to lose.Dinah Caldwell has been filling her…

"The way to solve this wasn’t righting the past. It was changing the future."

-Kate Brauning, The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

If you liked the thriller plot in The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. The Darkest Corners

By: Kara Thomas

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Darkest Cornersis a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly tru… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Darkest Corners book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller

2. The Fixer (The Fixer, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars. Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entir… read more

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3. Ten

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Shhhh! Don't spread the word! Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island. You do … read more

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4. The Case for Jamie (Charlotte Holmes #3)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

The hotly anticipated final book in the New York Timesbestselling Charlotte Holmes trilogy, in whic… read more

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5. The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.67

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kep… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1) book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"...If I can't feel the good things anymore, then doing a few bad ones shouldn't hurt a bit. And they are long overdue."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

"I’ve borne it all with patience, the years of small cuts that heal over, my heart a pulpy mass of scars. But it was still beating, at least I could say that, right up until she took Goldie from me. N…"

-Mindy McGinnis, The Initial Insult (The Initial Insult, #1)

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6. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

By: Talia Dutton

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more

Similar categories in Talia Dutton's M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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7. The Lake House

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s j… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Lake House book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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8. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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9. A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

By: Brittany Cavallaro

3.97

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series! Charlotte Holmes and … read more

Similar categories in Brittany Cavallaro's A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4) book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"Life is emphatically disappointing to those who expect it to be otherwise."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"I was excited, I supposed. In a way in which I wanted to throw up from nerves."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"And then that smile Leander had, something like a wolf after eating a fat peasant child."

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

"Did you know that only older forests grow the sort of fungi that feeds the variety of orchid called Goodyera pubescens —"

-Brittany Cavallaro, A Question of Holmes (Charlotte Holmes, #4)

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10. Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

By: Lizzie Johnson

4.34

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire--the nation's deadliest wildfire in a ce… read more

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"Then, on a blustery evening in October 2017, the worst wildfires in modern state history ignited. They ripped across Northern California, pushed by the Diablo Winds. The infernos killed 44 people and…"

-Lizzie Johnson, Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

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11. The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2)

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the dark and stunning sequel to The Initial Insult, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis conclude… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2) book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"Tress nods, unsurprised. Her life has taken so many turns for the worse I guess at some point you just don't expect the road signs to offer you anything better."

-Mindy McGinnis, The Last Laugh (The Initial Insult, #2)

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12. The Truth About Keeping Secrets

By: Savannah Brown

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sydney's dad is the only psychiatrist for miles around their small Ohio town. He is also unexpec… read more

Similar categories in Savannah Brown's The Truth About Keeping Secrets book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"And ahead of me, June moved like her body had a whole world in it."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"Fuck domino effects. Fuck everything happens for a reason. Fuck it, fuck it, absolutely fuck all of it to hell."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"I'd shut myself out for so long that I had forgotten how wonderful it felt to be included, to be seen, to be heard."

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

"Eventually, 'Dad is dead' turned into 'I will die', which was my introduction to the fear. The fear of gone. The fear of nothing at all, of what happens to me, of I am the main character and the stor…"

-Savannah Brown, The Truth About Keeping Secrets

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13. Keep This to Yourself

By: Tom Ryan

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's been a year since the Catalog Killer terrorized the sleepy seaside town of Camera Cove, killin… read more

Similar categories in Tom Ryan's Keep This to Yourself book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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14. Little Creeping Things

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. At least,… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Little Creeping Things book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
"I stand helpless, a familiar desire seeping into my veins. That desire to watch something burn."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"I let those little creeping things embed themselves inside my brain, inside my very core, until they ate away at who I was."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"I've spent the past ten years trying to erase this image. Fire Girl. Trying to convince everyone - trying to convince myself - I'm not a killer."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

"Cold sweat breaks out over my forehead. I zero in on the photo and the caption beneath it. Just one line that makes my skin prickle and my heart lunge. "I'm so glad we're in this together."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

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15. Little Monsters

By: Kara Thomas

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Little Monsters book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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16. I'm the Girl

By: Courtney Summers

3.39

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The new groundbreaking queer thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar-award Winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's I'm the Girl book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
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17. The River Has Teeth

By: Erica Waters

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Natasha’s sister is missing. Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve … read more

Similar categories in Erica Waters's The River Has Teeth book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"Seemed like it was always the greed of men that undid a successful woman."

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

"There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men wh…"

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

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18. It Ends in Fire

By: Andrew Shvarts

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

ALKA CHELRAZI IS ON A MISSION: 1. Infiltrate Blackwater Academy 2. Win the Great Game 3. Burn … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Shvarts's It Ends in Fire book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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19. I Will Never Leave You

By: Kara A. Kennedy

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This emotional debut thriller follows a teen girl being haunted by the ghost of her toxic ex-girlfr… read more

Similar categories in Kara A. Kennedy's I Will Never Leave You book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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20. Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch

By: Codie Crowley

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murdered bad girl Annie Lane is back from the grave and hellbent on revenge . . . she just has to f… read more

Similar categories in Codie Crowley's Here Lies a Vengeful Bitch book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
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21. The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

By: Kate Brauning

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nothing is more dangerous than a girl with nothing left to lose.Dinah Caldwell has been filling her… read more

Similar categories in Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell book and Kate Brauning's The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • polyamory
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"The way to solve this wasn’t righting the past. It was changing the future."

-Kate Brauning, The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell

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Kara Thomas

3.93

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3.67

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Talia Dutton

3.97

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Sarah Beth Durst

3.40

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Caleb Roehrig

3.73

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Shaun David Hutchinson

2.62

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Caleb Roehrig

3.87

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Bill Konigsberg

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