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Freida McFadden · 2022 · US · thriller
★ 4.07 Goodreads · 1,800,622 ratings

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are house-hunting when a snowstorm traps them in the remote home of a psychiatrist who vanished without a trace, and Tricia finds recordings of the doctor's patient sessions hidden in the house.

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12 books for readers of Never Lie

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden · 2022 · US 98% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 4,031,457 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Housemaid
shares: short chapters, psychological, domestic thriller · fast-paced, suspenseful

Millie, fresh out of prison and desperate for work, takes a live-in job cleaning for the wealthy Winchesters on Long Island, whose lady of the house is impossible to please, and is told that her room in the attic locks from the outside.

Dear Debbie

Freida McFadden · 2026 · US 97% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 675,706 ratings
shares: short chapters, psychological, marriage, domestic thriller · fast-paced, easy read

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 Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena · 2016 · Canada 96% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 750,116 ratings
shares: short chapters, psychological, marriage, domestic thriller · fast-paced, suspenseful

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.

Rock Paper Scissors

Alice Feeney · 2021 · UK 96% match ★ 3.80 Hardcover · 556 ratings
shares: isolated, winter, marriage, domestic thriller · suspenseful, easy read

Adam and Amelia Wright, whose marriage is in trouble, win a weekend away at a converted chapel in the Scottish Highlands, and as a snowstorm closes in it becomes clear that someone doesn't want them to leave.

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 611,355 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Family Upstairs
shares: sinister, mansion, psychological · suspenseful, easy read

On her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones learns she has inherited a mansion in Chelsea, the house where, as a ten-month-old, she was found in her cot with three bodies downstairs and the other children who had lived there gone.

The Turn of the Key

Ruth Ware · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 3.73 Hardcover · 358 ratings
shares: mansion, isolated, domestic thriller · suspenseful, easy read

Rowan Caine writes from prison to a lawyer, explaining how she took a nanny's job at Heatherbrae House, a smart home in the Scottish Highlands, and how one of the children came to die.

The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.87 Hardcover · 724 ratings
shares: mansion, isolated · easy read, earnest

In 1983 Kit McDeere, a disgraced caregiver, is sent to Hope's End, a crumbling cliffside mansion in Maine, to look after Lenora Hope, who as a girl in 1929 was said to have killed her family and now can only communicate through a typewriter.

Behind Closed Doors

B. A. Paris · 2016 · UK 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 807,290 ratings
shares: sinister, psychological, marriage, domestic thriller · fast-paced, suspenseful

Everyone envies Jack and Grace, the charming lawyer and his elegant wife, but Grace is never seen alone, never answers the phone and never meets friends for coffee, and the windows of their beautiful house have bars on them.

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley · 2019 · UK 94% match ★ 3.59 Goodreads · 385,175 ratings
shares: storm, isolated, winter · easy read, cold

A group of old Oxford friends spends New Year at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, and when a blizzard cuts them off, one of them is murdered.

Burnt Offerings

Robert Marasco · 1973 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 10,529 ratings
shares: sinister, mansion, isolated · intimate, suspenseful

Ben and Marian Rolfe and their son rent a grand old country house for the summer at an absurdly low price, on one condition: that they look after the owners' elderly mother, who never leaves her room.

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson · 2011 · UK 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 377,346 ratings
shares: psychological, marriage, twist ending · suspenseful, easy read

Every morning Christine Lucas wakes up with no memory of the last twenty years, and the man beside her has to explain that he is her husband, until she finds a journal she has been keeping in secret.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · 2016 · UK 94% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 821,787 ratings
shares: isolated, psychological · easy read, earnest

Travel journalist Lo Blacklock, shaken by a break-in at home, joins the maiden voyage of a small luxury cruise ship in the North Sea, and in the night she hears a woman go overboard from the cabin next door, though no one is missing.