21 must-read suspense books like The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor

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The Fiction Writer

By: Jillian Cantor

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo…

"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rules and their own timelines. They offered their own answers."

-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer

"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rules and their own timelines. They offered their own answers."

-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer

If you liked the suspense plot in The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Engagement Party by Darby Kane

1. The Engagement Party

By: Darby Kane

3.29

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets I Know What You Did Last Summer in #1 international bestseller Darby… read more

Similar categories in Darby Kane's The Engagement Party book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Is Watching by Heather Gudenkauf

2. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gudenkauf's Everyone Is Watching book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

3. The New Couple in 5B

By: Lisa Unger

3.63

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the Ne… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The New Couple in 5B book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn back to our family of origin, aren't we? No matter how much pain they've caused, no matter how far we've run from them."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

"I remember wondering if anything was real, anything was true or if every place, every reality, was just another story you choose to believe."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

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4. The Manor House

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The terrifying story of what can happen after all your dreams come true Be careful what you wish… read more

Similar categories in Gilly Macmillan's The Manor House book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Mystery Writer book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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6. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Main Character book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor

7. The Fiction Writer

By: Jillian Cantor

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rul…"

-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer

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8. 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 Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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10. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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11. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead

By: Jenny Hollander

3.28

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine ye… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Hollander's Everyone Who Can Forgive Me Is Dead book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski

13. The Weekend Retreat

By: Tara Laskowski

3.45

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Three couples. Three days. A family getaway to die for. Every year, the illustrious Van Ness sib… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The Weekend Retreat book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Clinic

By: Cate Quinn

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the critically acclaimed author of Black Widows comes a thriller set in a remote rehab clinic … read more

Similar categories in Cate Quinn's The Clinic book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Nossett's The Professor book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

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18. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

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19. The Favorites

By: Rosemary Hennigan

3.28

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

An edgy, feminist campus novel about justice, gender, and power, following a woman who enrolls in l… read more

Similar categories in Rosemary Hennigan's The Favorites book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What Waits in the Woods by Terri Parlato

20. What Waits in the Woods

By: Terri Parlato

3.61

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting thriller from a new master of suspense, a young dancer’s homecoming is marred by a… read more

Similar categories in Terri Parlato's What Waits in the Woods book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Haters

By: Robyn Harding

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Party and The Drowning Woman returns with a twisted tale of fame, obs… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Haters book and Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook

21 Best fiction books like The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor

Transform Your Habits

The Engagement Party

Darby Kane

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Manor House

Gilly Macmillan

3.71

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21 best-selling suspense books like The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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