15 best-selling mystery thriller books like The Invited by Jennifer McMahon

Cover of The Invited by Jennifer  McMahon

The Invited

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.81

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People ret…

"It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun"

-Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

"It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun"

-Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Invited by Jennifer McMahon , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Broken Girls

By: Simone St. James

4.21

Format: 256 pages,

Vermont, 1950.There's a place for the girls whom no one wants---the troublemakers, the illegitimate… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's The Broken Girls book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

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2. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

Similar categories in Craig DiLouie's Episode Thirteen book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of The Only One Left by Riley Sager

3. The Only One Left

By: Riley Sager

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Ho… read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's The Only One Left book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever."

-Riley Sager, The Only One Left

Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

4. 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 Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon

5. The Quiet Tenant

By: Clémence Michallon

3.85

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Clémence Michallon's The Quiet Tenant book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m sorry,"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

"This is the story I tell myself. No one’s around to tell me it doesn’t make sense. It starts out as a tribute and ends in selfishness. It isn’t about her. Not really. It’s about me and the parts of m…"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

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6. 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 Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

3.86

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more

Similar categories in Nat Cassidy's Nestlings book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."

-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings

Cover of The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

8. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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9. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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10. The September House

By: Carissa Orlando

3.92

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this c… read more

Similar categories in Carissa Orlando's The September House book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"the stars shone in the sky, reminding me there were calm constants everywhere"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

"Hal was familiar with anger. He preferred it. It was like a warm blanket to him. Something soft, and smelling of home"

-Carissa Orlando, The September House

Cover of Black Sheep by Rachel   Harrison

11. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

Cover of How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

12. How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

3.68

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more

Similar categories in Grady Hendrix's How to Sell a Haunted House book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"

-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

Cover of The Invited by Jennifer  McMahon

13. The Invited

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.81

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People ret… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's The Invited book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"It's not the gun you should be scared of—it's the crazy man with the gun"

-Jennifer McMahon, The Invited

Cover of Silence for the Dead by Simone St. James

14. Silence for the Dead

By: Simone St. James

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Silence for the Dead book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • paranormal
Cover of The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

15. The Sun Down Motel

By: Simone St. James

4.02

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The secrets lurking in a rundown roadside motel ensnare a young woman, just as they did her aunt th… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's The Sun Down Motel book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates

16. Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

3.85

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness t… read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's Dead of Winter book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James

17. The Haunting of Maddy Clare

By: Simone St. James

3.86

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting … read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's The Haunting of Maddy Clare book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • ghosts
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take…"

-Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare

"I was struck again by the deep quiet of the countryside, the absence of any human sounds; my mind still expected the clamor of cars, voices, all the clatter of nonstop human movement. Here was only t…"

-Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare

Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

18. 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 Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • ghosts
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

19. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
Cover of Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

20. 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 Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

21. Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled f… read more

Similar categories in Josh Malerman's Incidents Around the House book and Jennifer McMahon's The Invited

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook

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