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Marissa Stapley · 2021 · Canada · thriller
★ 3.58 Goodreads · 82,291 ratings

Lucky Armstrong, raised by her con-man father, is alone after a job goes wrong when she finds she is holding a winning lottery ticket she can't cash, because the name she is living under is stolen.

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12 books for readers of Lucky

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston · 2024 · US 96% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 882,583 ratings
shares: con artist, dual timeline, suspenseful · easy read, plain prose

Evie Porter has the perfect boyfriend and a pleasant life in a small Louisiana town, but Evie Porter is not her real name, and when a woman shows up using the name she was born with, the job she was sent to do starts to unravel.

Life or Death

Michael Robotham · 2014 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 13,738 ratings
shares: fugitive, redemption, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Audie Palmer has served ten years in a Texas prison for an armoured-van robbery in which seven million dollars disappeared. The day before he is due to be released, he escapes.

Mine

Robert McCammon · 1990 · US 94% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 11,744 ratings
shares: fugitive, road trip · easy read, earnest

Mary Terrell, once a member of a violent 1960s radical group and now living on the margins, steals a newborn from a hospital as a gift for the group's long-vanished leader, and the baby's mother, Laura Clayborne, goes after her.

Absolute Power

David Baldacci · 1996 · US 94% match ★ 4.21 Goodreads · 117,119 ratings
shares: fugitive, father daughter · suspenseful, easy read

Luther Whitney, an ageing master burglar, is hiding in the vault of a billionaire's Virginia mansion when he watches the President of the United States and his Secret Service agents take part in a woman's death, and then finds himself hunted for what he saw.

Five Survive

Holly Jackson · 2022 · UK 94% match ★ 4.07 Goodreads · 322,068 ratings
shares: road trip · easy read, earnest

Six friends on a spring-break road trip in an RV break down in the middle of nowhere, and a sniper in the dark tells them that one of them has a secret worth killing for, and they have until dawn to give it up.

Tell No One

Harlan Coben · 2001 · US 94% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 201,862 ratings
shares: fugitive, suspenseful · easy read, fast-paced

Eight years after his wife Elizabeth was abducted and murdered at their childhood lake, paediatrician David Beck receives an anonymous email containing a phrase only she knew, and a link to a street camera in which a woman who looks like her stares back.

Galveston

Nic Pizzolatto · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 3.83 Goodreads · 20,879 ratings
shares: crime, road trip · earnest, easy read

A New Orleans enforcer told he has lung cancer drives a runaway teenage girl to Galveston, and the Gulf Coast holds them for the few days before the men who want him dead arrive.

Dodgers

Bill Beverly · 2016 · US 94% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 6,611 ratings
shares: crime, road trip · earnest, easy read

East, fifteen, a lookout for a drug house in Los Angeles, is sent with his volatile younger brother and two other boys on a drive halfway across the country to Wisconsin to kill a witness.

The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda · 2019 · US 94% match ★ 3.60 Goodreads · 162,714 ratings
shares: dual timeline, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

In Littleport, a Maine resort town, Avery Greer, a local who manages the rental houses of the wealthy Loman family, is left under suspicion after their daughter Sadie, her best friend, is found dead the night of the end-of-summer party.

Something in the Water

Catherine Steadman · 2018 · UK 94% match ★ 3.54 Goodreads · 248,365 ratings
shares: crime, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Erin, a documentary maker, and Mark, a banker who has just lost his job, are diving on their honeymoon in Bora Bora when they find a bag floating in the sea, full of cash and diamonds.

The Lying Game

Ruth Ware · 2017 · UK 93% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 223,722 ratings
shares: dual timeline, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Isa Wilde, a young mother in London, gets a three-word text from Kate, one of her three closest friends from boarding school, and goes back to the Sussex coast where a bone has been found on the shore.

The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 2017 · US 93% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 497,494 ratings
shares: con artist · easy read, earnest

Amber Patterson, a con artist tired of being overlooked, sets her sights on the life of Daphne Parrish, the wife of a rich property developer in Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, and sets out to become her best friend.