15 must-read thriller books like Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis

Cover of Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis

Speak Softly, She Can Hear

By: Pam Lewis

3.63

Format: 143 pages,

New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose thei…

If you liked the thriller plot in Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Geek Love

By: Katherine Dunn

3.95

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out ― wi… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • fiction
  • horror
"You must have wished a million times to be normal."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

"[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark."

-Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

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2. The Weight of Silence

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.95

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Masterfully written and beautifully told, Heather Gudenkauf's debut is a stunning novel of family d… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's The Weight of Silence book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away."

-Heather Gudenkauf, The Weight of Silence

"But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't"

-Heather Gudenkauf, The Weight of Silence

"When fairies dance upon the air, reach out gently and catch one, fair. Make a wish and hold it tight, then softly toss your pixie back to summer's night."

-Heather Gudenkauf, The Weight of Silence

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3. I Am Charlotte Simmons

By: Tom Wolfe

3.45

Format: 738 pages, Paperback

Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporar… read more

Similar categories in Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • fiction
"They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts."

-Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

"Can't nobody make us do a thang once we git hard against it. And if anybody don't like that, you don't have to explain a thang to'm. All you got to say is, 'I'm Charlotte Simmons, and I don't hold wi…"

-Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

"Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouri…"

-Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

"What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a pr…"

-Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

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4. Look Again

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.88

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a 'Have You Seen This Child?' flyer in the mail, she almost throws… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's Look Again book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"He’s an odd duck but he’s a good kid, with a good heart."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

"Here is how a mother's love is different: You may fall out of love with a man. But you will never fall out of love with your child. Even after he is gone."

-Lisa Scottoline, Look Again

Cover of Guilty Wives by James  Patterson, David Ellis

5. Guilty Wives

By: James Patterson , David Ellis

3.89

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

No husbands allowed Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a privat… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Guilty Wives book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Your integrity, your dignity, your honor - they aren't for sale. Not ever. Not to anyone."

-James Patterson, Guilty Wives

"Something like this changes you, it breaks you into pieces and puts you back together, but the sum total is different."

-James Patterson, Guilty Wives

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6. Luckiest Girl Alive

By: Jessica Knoll

3.54

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE. As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Luckiest Girl Alive book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"That would be the most surprising lesson I'd learn... You only scream when you're finally safe."

-Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

"(Mr. Friedman) was always kind of dopey." "Actually, Bob is very smart. Too smart to be a teacher. It's why he doesn't connect with the stuxents."

-Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

"Sometimes, a momentary truce in girlhood is much more precious than a guy you really like asking you out, sticking around even after getting the milk for free."

-Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

"Luke had been all set to go with me this weekend, but a few weeks ago he'd found out his friend John, who's been feeding orphans in India or some shit that makes me feel like a plastic bitch for what…"

-Jessica Knoll, Luckiest Girl Alive

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7. Save Me

By: Lisa Scottoline

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Save Me will have readers wondering just how far they would go to save the ones they love. Lisa Sco… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's Save Me book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
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8. The Outcast

By: Sadie Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing portrait of 1950s hypocrisy and unexpected love, from a powerful new voice. A mesmeri… read more

Similar categories in Sadie Jones's The Outcast book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • fiction
Cover of Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1) by Linda  Castillo

9. Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1)

By: Linda Castillo

3.97

Format: 570 pages, Hardcover

When a serial killer strikes bucolic Painters Mill, Ohio, the killer's signature ---Roman numerals … read more

Similar categories in Linda Castillo's Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder, #1) book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. 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 Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

11. What Happened to Goodbye

By: Sarah Dessen

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Who is the real McLean? Since her parents' bitter divorce, McLean and her dad, a restaurant consul… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dessen's What Happened to Goodbye book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • fiction
Cover of Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis

12. Speak Softly, She Can Hear

By: Pam Lewis

3.63

Format: 143 pages,

New York City, 1965: Two Manhattan prep school students, Carole and Naomi, make a pact to lose thei… read more

Similar categories in Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Running Scared by Lisa Jackson

13. Running Scared

By: Lisa Jackson

3.83

Format: None pages,

Previously published as "Wishes" No Matter How Fast You Run. . . The newborn baby boy is beautiful,… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jackson's Running Scared book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

14. The Strain (The Strain Trilogy, #1)

By: Guillermo del Toro , Chuck Hogan

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All w… read more

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15. The Kindness of Strangers

By: Katrina Kittle

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a s… read more

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16. From the Corner of His Eye

By: Dean Koontz

3.76

Format: None pages,

His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy. He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams. Hi… read more

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17. Caught

By: Harlan Coben

3.66

Format: None pages,

17 year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of th… read more

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18. The Returned

By: Jason Mott

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Jacob was time out of sync, time more perfect than it had been. He was life the way it was supposed… read more

Similar categories in Jason Mott's The Returned book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

19. Tangerine

By: Edward Bloor , None

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he's no… read more

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20. Good as Gone

By: Amy Gentry

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witness… read more

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21. The Girl in the Red Coat

By: Kate Hamer

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Librarian note: An alternative cover for this edition can be found  She is the missing girl. But s… read more

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22. The Obsession

By: Nora Roberts

4.22

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot… read more

Similar categories in Nora Roberts's The Obsession book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want."

-Nora Roberts, The Obsession

"You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one."

-Nora Roberts, The Obsession

23. All Is Not Forgotten

By: Wendy Walker

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut everything seems picture perfect. Until one ni… read more

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24. Full Brutal

By: Kristopher Triana

4.04

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Kim White is a very popular cheerleader. She’s pretty, healthy, and comes from a well-off family. S… read more

Similar categories in Kristopher Triana's Full Brutal book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Under Currents by Nora Roberts

25. Under Currents

By: Nora Roberts

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've… read more

Similar categories in Nora Roberts's Under Currents book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
"Czasami zły człowiek nie potrzebuje powodu, wystarcza mu okazja."

-Nora Roberts, Under Currents

"Liczy się nie tylko to, z jakiej rodziny pochodzisz, kto cię wychowuje (…) – liczy się to, co z tym robisz."

-Nora Roberts, Under Currents

"It shows who we are. We’re making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we’re okay. They couldn’t take who we are away from us. We’re who we are despite them."

-Nora Roberts, Under Currents

Cover of Wish You Were Gone by Kieran Scott

26. Wish You Were Gone

By: Kieran Scott

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Emma Walsh has finally worked up the courage to confront her husband James about his drinking—his a… read more

Similar categories in Kieran Scott's Wish You Were Gone book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Instinct (Instinct #1) by James  Patterson

27. Instinct (Instinct #1)

By: James Patterson

4.01

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

The life Dr. Dylan Reinhart saves may be his own Dr. Dylan Reinhart wrote the book on criminal b… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Instinct (Instinct #1) book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns."

-James Patterson, Instinct (Instinct #1)

"Le secret pour rester en vie? Ne jamais cesser de respirer."

-James Patterson, Instinct (Instinct #1)

Cover of Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22) by David Rosenfelt

28. Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22)

By: David Rosenfelt

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Lawyer Andy Carpenter can finally take a breath; he’s back on dry land after a family Caribbean cru… read more

Similar categories in David Rosenfelt's Silent Bite (Andy Carpenter, #22) book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood

29. The Reckless Oath We Made

By: Bryn Greenwood

4.00

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Zee is nobody's fairy tale princess. Almost six-foot, with a redhead's temper and a shattered hip, … read more

Similar categories in Bryn Greenwood's The Reckless Oath We Made book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • fiction
Cover of The Secret Order of the Orchid by Randle Crews

30. The Secret Order of the Orchid

By: Randle Crews

2.79

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In eighteenth-century France, the mysterious death of one of the clergies is soon followed by the d… read more

Similar categories in Randle Crews's The Secret Order of the Orchid book and Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias

31. 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 Pam Lewis's Speak Softly, She Can Hear

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction

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Look Again

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