16 Best mystery books like Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

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Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her …

"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

If you liked the mystery plot in Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Deep

By: Nick Cutter

3.42

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—which Stephen King raved “scared the hell out of me and I co… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cutter's The Deep book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What are you so afraid of? said that same voice inside Luke’s head. Everything, another voice answered."

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"Well, time works differently down here, boss. Sometimes I feel like I've lived a thousand lifetimes ... it's funny. The pain is constant. Sometimes it's so much that I can't stand it. I bite at mysel…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

"The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, wa…"

-Nick Cutter, The Deep

2. Contagion

By: Erin Bowman

4.25

Format: None pages, ebook

IT GOT IN US After receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew … read more

Similar categories in Erin Bowman's Contagion book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

3. Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1)

By: Mira Grant

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" b… read more

Similar categories in Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep #1) book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

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4. 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 S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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5. 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 S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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

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6. The Hollow Places

By: T. Kingfisher

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's The Hollow Places book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

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7. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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8. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1) book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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9. 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 S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • 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 A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

10. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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11. This Wretched Valley

By: Jenny Kiefer

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Four ambitious climbers hike into the Kentucky wilderness. Seven months later, three mangled bodies… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Kiefer's This Wretched Valley book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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12. The Luminous Dead

By: Caitlin Starling

3.66

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Starling's The Luminous Dead book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

13. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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14. The Scourge Between Stars

By: Ness Brown

3.59

Format: 165 pages, Paperback

Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a … read more

Similar categories in Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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15. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

Similar categories in Darcy Coates's From Below book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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16. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Paradise-1

By: David Wellington

3.83

Format: 681 pages, Paperback

When Special Agent Petrov and Dr. Lei Zhang are woken up from cryogenic sleep, dragged freezing and… read more

Similar categories in David Wellington's Paradise-1 book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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18. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Dead Space book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

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19. Salvation Day

By: Kali Wallace

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship in this incredibly fast-paced, claustrophobic th… read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Salvation Day book and S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • space
  • audiobook
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20. 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 S.A. Barnes's Dead Silence

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.42

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Craig DiLouie

3.53

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Nat Cassidy

3.86

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4.00

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Martha Wells

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