23 must-read thriller books like When the Corn is Waist High by Jeremy Scott

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When the Corn is Waist High

By: Jeremy Scott

3.66

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

In the early 1980’s, a tiny, rural Indiana farm town experiences a series of confounding and violen…

If you liked the thriller plot in When the Corn is Waist High by Jeremy Scott , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Perfect Timing

By: Brenda Jackson

4.67

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Childhood friends Maxie Chandler and Mya Rivers, estranged for years and brought together by a clas… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Jackson's Perfect Timing book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • fiction
  • audiobook

2. Thyme of Death (China Bayles, #1)

By: Susan Wittig Albert

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Susan Wittig Albert's novels featuring ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles have won acc… read more

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3. Malice Aforethought

By: Francis Iles

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annua… read more

Similar categories in Francis Iles's Malice Aforethought book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that.…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

"Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an e…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

4. The Ghost Line

By: Andrew Neil Gray , J.S. Herbison

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The Ghost Line is a haunting science fiction story about the Titanicof the stars by debut authors A… read more

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5. Mister Lullaby

By: J.H. Markert

3.60

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

From J. H. Markert, the author Peter Farris calls the "clear heir to Stephen King," Mister Lullaby … read more

Similar categories in J.H. Markert's Mister Lullaby book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Souls of Lost Lake

By: Jaime Jo Wright

4.27

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a y… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Jo Wright's The Souls of Lost Lake book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Noah Pritchard ws cultured. Maybe not rich, but he spoke fine. She was an orphaned child from the woods and had all the etiquette of a groundhog at an evening ball."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Souls of Lost Lake

"It's holding each other accountable, yes, but it's also not creating our own narrative and forcing others' stories into it. Finding the truth which is nonnegotiable. That is our purpose."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Souls of Lost Lake

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7. The Fall Girl

By: Marcia Clark

3.71

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Lives and lies are inextricably linked by a high-profile murder trial in The Fall Girl, the latest … read more

Similar categories in Marcia Clark's The Fall Girl book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Still Waters

By: Matt Goldman

3.77

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

If you’re reading this email, I am dead. I know this will sound strange, but someone has been tryin… read more

Similar categories in Matt Goldman's Still Waters book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice

By: Rebecca Connolly

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia—the one ship and her legendary captain who answ… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Connolly's A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Take Your Breath Away

By: Linwood Barclay

4.04

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping ps… read more

Similar categories in Linwood Barclay's Take Your Breath Away book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Tell Me What I Am

By: Una Mannion

3.92

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Two women wrenched apart by a family member’s disappearance must find a way back to each other in t… read more

Similar categories in Una Mannion's Tell Me What I Am book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. More Better Deals

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.77

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Edgar award-winning author Joe Lansdale returns with the hard-boiled story of a no-nonsense used ca… read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's More Better Deals book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. An Imperfect Plan

By: Addison McKnight

4.09

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

All it takes is one lie for the best-laid plans to go awry. After decades of pushing away trauma… read more

Similar categories in Addison McKnight's An Imperfect Plan book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

By: Andrew Van Wey

4.26

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

On the Lost Coast, some things should never be found. When tragedy shatters thirteen-year-old Ze… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Van Wey's By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1) book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • audiobook
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
"But maybe that’s all adults really were, just big kids with more responsibility and a lot of practice covering it up."

-Andrew Van Wey, By the Light of Dead Stars (Beyond the Lost Coast, #1)

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18. Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6)

By: Walter Mosley

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill is back -- and investigating crimes against society's most dow… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Trouble Is What I Do (Leonid McGill #6) book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Eynhallow

By: Tim McGregor

4.29

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 – Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island… read more

Similar categories in Tim McGregor's Eynhallow book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Never Coming Home

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.64

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

First comes love. Then comes murder. Lucas Forester didn't hate his wife. Michelle was brilliant, s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Mary McKinnon's Never Coming Home book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We're all a little evil on the inside."

-Hannah Mary McKinnon, Never Coming Home

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21. Final Act

By: Sarah Bailey

3.32

Format: 8 pages, Audible Audio

Listening length: 7 hours and 2 minutes Pauly Johnson is a successful surgeon at Melbourne hospi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Bailey's Final Act book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. The Cuckoo's Cry

By: Caroline Overington

3.50

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Overington's The Cuckoo's Cry book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) by Samantha Jayne Allen

23. Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1)

By: Samantha Jayne Allen

3.36

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private inv… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Jayne Allen's Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Little Red House

By: Liv Andersson

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty years isn’t enough to erase the sins of the past—but the future is even more terrifying in t… read more

Similar categories in Liv Andersson's Little Red House book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) by Michelle Jabès Corpora

25. Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1)

By: Michelle Jabès Corpora

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Playmate, come and play with me..." A beloved classic reimagined with a dark twist. After he… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Jabès Corpora's Holly Horror (Holly Horror, #1) book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • horror
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26. Anatomy of 55 More Songs

By: Marc Myers

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Following his 2016 smash hit Anatomy of a Song, acclaimed music journalist Marc Myers collects fift… read more

Similar categories in Marc Myers's Anatomy of 55 More Songs book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • audiobook
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27. Lies in Bone

By: Natalie Symons

4.09

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Told by a tart-tongued young woman with a love of Bruce Springsteen, Lies in Bone is at once a myst… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Symons's Lies in Bone book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Lakeview House

By: Helen Phifer

3.89

Format: 483 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published in 2020 as What Lies Below Icy water laps against the wooden jetty. But the… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phifer's Lakeview House book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist by Jane Rosenberg

29. Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist

By: Jane Rosenberg

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A penetrating, compulsively readable memoir about the four-decade career of America's top courtroom… read more

Similar categories in Jane Rosenberg's Drawn Testimony: My Four Decades as a Courtroom Sketch Artist book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. When the Corn is Waist High

By: Jeremy Scott

3.66

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

In the early 1980’s, a tiny, rural Indiana farm town experiences a series of confounding and violen… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Blood Room

By: Christina Hoag

3.34

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

"Well written, engaging, fast paced." "Highly recommended." "The story is pacey and drew me in from… read more

Similar categories in Christina Hoag's The Blood Room book and Jeremy Scott's When the Corn is Waist High

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook

26 Best fiction books like When the Corn is Waist High by Jeremy Scott

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Perfect Timing

Brenda Jackson

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Malice Aforethought

Francis Iles

3.93

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Mister Lullaby

J.H. Markert

3.60

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The Souls of Lost Lake

Jaime Jo Wright

4.27

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Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

3.86

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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Gwendolyn Kiste

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