21 Top mystery books like For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing

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For Your Own Good

By: Samantha Downing

3.79

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the esteemed Belmont Academy, home to the best and br…

"Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"The feeling was so much worse than regret, which was just a nagging thought in the brain. Remorse was having your insides replaced by worms."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

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1. For Your Own Good

By: Samantha Downing

3.79

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the esteemed Belmont Academy, home to the best and br… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Being loved is one thing, being hated is another, but there's nothing worse than being ignored."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"The feeling was so much worse than regret, which was just a nagging thought in the brain. Remorse was having your insides replaced by worms."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

"Guilt doesn't go away. It stays with a person. burrowing itself deep into the soul, where it starts to grow. Almost like love, except it feels horrible instead of good."

-Samantha Downing, For Your Own Good

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2. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Everyone Here Is Lying

By: Shari Lapena

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.William Wooler is a family man, on… read more

Similar categories in Shari Lapena's Everyone Here Is Lying book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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7. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's Only If You're Lucky book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

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8. The Drowning Woman

By: Robyn Harding

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Drowning Woman book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Guest

By: B.A. Paris

3.59

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere … read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's The Guest book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...regret is such a waste of emotion. No matter how much we want to, we can't change the past. We need to acknowledge the mistakes we've made but not allow them to cloud every moment of every day." -…"

-B.A. Paris, The Guest

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10. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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13. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

By: Ashley Winstead

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the dark. You might like what you find... Ruth Collier has always felt like an outside… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's Midnight Is the Darkest Hour book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nature doesn't know good or evil. All nature knows is survival."

-Ashley Winstead, Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

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15. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Family Game

By: Catherine Steadman

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds o… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's The Family Game book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Adams's The Last Word book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

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18. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Housewife

By: Ashley Winstead

3.70

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the acclaimed In My Dreams I Hold a Knife comes a pitch-black thriller about a w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's The Last Housewife book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She thrust a pamphlet at me. Suicide Prevention Hotline , it said. Her voice was soaked in reassurance, "No matter what you're feeling, I promise it gets better." I stared at her until she staggered …"

-Ashley Winstead, The Last Housewife

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20. Daisy Darker

By: Alice Feeney

3.77

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder. … read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Daisy Darker book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Don’t spend all of your ambition on other people’s dreams."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"Sometimes people don't know they're in love until they're not."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"A mother's least favourite child always knows that's what they are."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

"People are not the same but different, they are different but the same."

-Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

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21. In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

By: Ashley Winstead

3.83

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Six friends. One college reunion. One unsolved murder. A college reunion turns dark and de… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's In My Dreams I Hold a Knife book and Samantha Downing's For Your Own Good

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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