14 must-read suspense books like The Lake by Natasha Preston

Cover of The Lake by Natasha Preston

The Lake

By: Natasha Preston

3.42

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Hot on the heels of The Twin, the undisputed queen of YA thrillers is back with a scary and suspens…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Lake by Natasha Preston , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin

1. If He Had Been with Me

By: Laura Nowlin

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August ni… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If He Had Been with Me book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

2. This Is Where It Ends

By: Marieke Nijkamp

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity High School finishes her speech, welcoming the entire studen… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's This Is Where It Ends book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

3. 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 Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lake by Natasha Preston

4. The Lake

By: Natasha Preston

3.42

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Hot on the heels of The Twin, the undisputed queen of YA thrillers is back with a scary and suspens… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Lake book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards

5. Seven Dirty Secrets

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.66

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of Five Total Strangers a… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Seven Dirty Secrets book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

By: Laura Nowlin

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If only I’d told her that I loved her years ago, then I wouldn’t be here now. Finn has always lo… read more

Similar categories in Laura Nowlin's If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'll love her even if she turns out to be cruel. That's my curse."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Why did you have to leave me like that?" is what comes out . "I was tired. You were reading." "No." I'm not holding back. I say it. "After we turned thirteen. Why did you leave me like that?"

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

"Like, fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him. You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him."

-Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2)

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7. Six Months Later

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.78

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of teen suspense books, Natalie D. Richards, comes a psychological thri… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Six Months Later book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. 14 Ways to Die

By: Vincent Ralph

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ten years ago, Jess's mother was murdered by the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims bu… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's 14 Ways to Die book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
"In the middle of your grief, when it’s too raw for most people to handle, they disappear, slowly stepping back until you turn round one day and they’re gone."

-Vincent Ralph, 14 Ways to Die

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9. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Five Total Strangers

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.31

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

A hitched ride home in a snow storm turns sinister when one of the passengers is plotting for the … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Five Total Strangers book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"For every moment she's held together, there's another where she's fallen to pieces."

-Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

"If this girl starts proffessing her love of Japanese horror films, Josh is sitting in the middle."

-Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

"Sometimes it is easier to force strength for others than to allow ourselves to feel weak and hurt."

-Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

"One girl seems to be falling to pieces. And the other has the whole world held tightly in her fist."

-Natalie D. Richards, Five Total Strangers

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11. Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

4.08

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a r… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Five Survive book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
"That's what she said -Simon"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"His whole life has been a war, that does something to your head, I think. It's done something to my head."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"Trapped. Shut in. Only thirty-one feet to share between them, that extra foot important enough not to round down."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

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12. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) by Freida McFadden

13. The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3)

By: Freida McFadden

3.90

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Secrets Never Die

By: Vincent Ralph

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special. Every ye… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's Secrets Never Die book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • audiobook
"Was he okay with you staying over? Wasnt worried about you two bumping uglies in the night?" Haran is dicking around. He knows that my uglies and Elisha's have never officially met."

-Vincent Ralph, Secrets Never Die

Cover of Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets by Chelsea Ichaso

15. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gripping new psychological thriller from the author of Little Creeping Things—can a grieving girl… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I was gonna come back for you', I lied."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"No coffee? Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"This is going to be so much worse than that', I saw like an archvillian."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

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16. The Murder Game

By: Carrie Doyle

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What if your best friend and roommate killed a teacher at your prep school? Or what if he didn’t do… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Doyle's The Murder Game book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
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17. She's Gone

By: David Bell

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

A new page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell. When a girl disappears… read more

Similar categories in David Bell's She's Gone book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards

18. Gone Too Far

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From Natalie D. Richards, the New York Times bestselling author of mystery books for teens, comes a… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Gone Too Far book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Malum Non Vide: See No Evil"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

"My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

"My phone buzzes and I fish it from my pocket, expecting Tacey or maybe my parents checking in to make sure I’m okay. But it’s an unfamiliar number. Do you blame yourself? I read the words once. Twice…"

-Natalie D. Richards, Gone Too Far

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19. Lock the Doors

By: Vincent Ralph

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Tom's family has moved into their dream home. But pretty soon he starts to notice that something is… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Ralph's Lock the Doors book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto

20. The Obsession

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.73

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

A classic sort of love story... except somebody might wind up dead. Nobody knows Delilah like Lo… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's The Obsession book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Erotomania"

-Jesse Q. Sutanto, The Obsession

Cover of That's Not My Name by Megan Lally

21. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Lally's That's Not My Name book and Natasha Preston's The Lake

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

21 Best fiction books like The Lake by Natasha Preston

Transform Your Habits

If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin

3.31

Transform Your Habits

This Is Where It Ends

Marieke Nijkamp

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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The Lake

Natasha Preston

3.42

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21 best-selling fiction books like If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me #2) by Laura Nowlin

Transform Your Habits

A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)

Tillie Cole

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Way I Used to Be

Amber Smith

3.00

Transform Your Habits

The Teacher

Freida McFadden

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Do-Over

Lynn Painter

3.94

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