9 must-read mystery books like Dead for Life: A Novel by Ethan Black

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Dead for Life: A Novel

By: Ethan Black

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ethan Black delivers another lightning-paced, darkly compelling novel of suspense featuring NYPD de…

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1. The Woman in Cabin 10

By: Ruth Ware

3.73

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of … read more

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  • mystery
  • suspense
"Tiger fallen immer auf die Füße"

-Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

"This place felt like a tomb. Maybe it was mine."

-Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

"For a travel journalist I’m worryingly bad at geography."

-Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

"But I did feel violated. My little flat felt ruined–soiled and unsafe. Even describing it to the police had felt like an ordeal…"

-Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10

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2. Then She Was Gone: A Novel

By: Lisa Jewell

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single fathe… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone: A Novel book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense
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3. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

By: Gary Chapman

4.53

Format: 122 pages,

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is so… read more

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4. Kiss

By: Ted Dekker , Erin Healy

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Let me tell you all I know for sure. My name. Shauna. I woke up in a hospital bed missing six month… read more

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  • mystery
  • suspense

5. Adam

By: Ted Dekker

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It takes an obsessive mind to know one. And Daniel Clark knows the elusive killer he's been stalkin… read more

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6. A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)

By: Judy I. Lin

3.83

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was t… read more

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"In the morning, Lian and I tuck into a breakfast of fluffy baozi, fresh from the bamboo steamers of Small Wu’s kitchen m. We pull the dough apart to reveal the filling within — ground pork mixed with…"

-Judy I. Lin, A Magic Steeped in Poison (The Book of Tea, #1)

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7. One by One

By: Freida McFadden

3.93

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

One by one, they will get what they deserve... A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's One by One book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense
"For the last week, Emma has crawled into our queen-sized bed every single night to sleep. Fortunately, Noah and I sleep with a gap the size of the Atlantic Ocean between us."

-Freida McFadden, One by One

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8. A Flicker in the Dark

By: Stacy Willingham

3.99

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end… read more

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  • mystery
  • suspense
"The idea of him burying a body before returning home and kissing me goodnight ad meade me want to crawl out of my ski and live somwher relse. Somewhere far away."

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"Inside, a single firefly glows bright, its body pulsing with life. I stare at it for a while, my forehead pressed against my clenched fingers. I watch it radiate up close, flickering in my grasp, thi…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"When people get hurt physically, you can see it in the bruises and the scars, but when they’re hurt emotionally, mentally, it runs deeper than that. You can see every sleepless night in the reflectio…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

"More often that not, it's just the thought of them that calms my nerves. I once told a claustrophobic patient to carry a single Xanax in her purse every time she boards a plane, its mere presence str…"

-Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

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9. The Woman in the Window

By: A.J. Finn

3.95

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends he… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's The Woman in the Window book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense
"No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo’shit. Remember that."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"Something I’ve noticed: In the absence of others, I swear more often and more loudly. Ed would be appalled. I’m appalled."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"Sometimes I’ve got too many thoughts at once. It’s like there’s a four-way intersection in my brain where everyone’s trying to go at the same time."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"The definition of insanity, Fox, Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different result."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

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10. Dark Escapes (McGowan Mafia #1)

By: Effie Campbell

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

I’m supposed to marry the man who killed my mother, but I’ll do anything to escape my fate.When I f… read more

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11. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Island book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense
"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."

-Adrian McKinty, The Island

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12. The Quarry Girls

By: Jess Lourey

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming partie… read more

Similar categories in Jess Lourey's The Quarry Girls book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense
"The law might not recognize it, but fifteen‘s a girl and sixteen a woman, and you get no map from one land to the next. They air-drop you in, booting a bag of Kissing Potion lip gloss and off-the-sho…"

-Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

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13. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

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"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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14. Throne of the Fallen (Prince of Sin, #1)

By: Kerri Maniscalco

4.07

Format: 628 pages, Kindle Edition

Sinner. Villain. Wicked. The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic… read more

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"...some scars shaped the future."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Prince of Sin, #1)

"Sweet dreams, my filthy little darling."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Prince of Sin, #1)

"Said the wolf pretending to be a sheep."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Prince of Sin, #1)

"Doing things one shouldn't is often so freeing."

-Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Prince of Sin, #1)

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15. Dead for Life: A Novel

By: Ethan Black

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ethan Black delivers another lightning-paced, darkly compelling novel of suspense featuring NYPD de… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel book and Ethan Black's Dead for Life: A Novel

  • mystery
  • suspense

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