Books like My Lovely Wife
A suburban couple with two children keep their marriage exciting with a secret game of choosing women to kill, until a body turns up that changes the rules.
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The Quiet Tenant
A small-town widower who has kept a woman chained in his shed for five years moves his daughter and his prisoner into a new house together, and the prisoner starts to look for a way out.
Big Little Lies
Three women in a wealthy Australian seaside community become entangled in a death at a school trivia night, and the investigation reveals the lies underneath their perfect lives.
Dear Debbie
Debbie Mullen, a New England advice columnist with a genius IQ and little patience, loses her job on the same bad day that her daughter is dropped from the soccer team and her neighbour accuses her of sabotage, and she decides the people who have wronged her should pay.
The Silent Patient
Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and never speaks again, and years later Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist, takes a job at her secure unit, determined to make her talk.
Red Dragon
A former FBI profiler is drawn out of retirement to catch a serial killer who murders entire families by moonlight, and the investigation requires him to think like a monster.
None of This Is True
A podcaster interviews a woman she met at a restaurant who claims to share her birthday, and the stranger begins, piece by piece, to occupy her life.
The Girl on the Train
Three women's lives intersect around a commuter train route and a missing person, each narrator unreliable in her own devastating way.
You Will Know Me
Devon Knox, fifteen, is a gymnastics prodigy whose family has given everything to her Olympic dream, and when a young man connected to her gym dies in a hit-and-run, her mother, Katie, begins to see how little she knows about any of them.
The Couple Next Door
Anne and Marco leave their baby asleep at home while they attend a dinner party next door, checking on her every half hour, and when they walk home after one in the morning the crib is empty.
Gone Girl
A wife disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, and the investigation reveals that both partners are capable of monstrous deception.
You
A Manhattan bookseller narrates, to the woman he is stalking, his entirely reasonable reasons for becoming the worst thing that will ever happen to her.
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
A broke single mother and struggling novelist is overheard discussing the plot of her next book in a Panera and mistaken for a contract killer, and the offer is too much money to turn down outright.