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Marisha Pessl · 2013 · US · thriller · mystery
★ 3.78 Goodreads · 97,791 ratings

When the daughter of Stanislas Cordova, a reclusive director of cult horror films, is found dead in a Manhattan warehouse, Scott McGrath, a journalist whose career Cordova once wrecked, starts digging into the family and the legends around their estate.

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The Cloisters

Katy Hays · 2022 · US 96% match ★ 3.38 Goodreads · 75,934 ratings
shares: occult, mysterious, obsessive · earnest, intimate

Ann Stilwell, fresh from a small college in Washington State, takes a summer job at The Cloisters, the Met's museum of medieval art in New York, where a curator and his assistant are researching the history of tarot.

The Poet

Michael Connelly · 1996 · US 94% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 113,425 ratings
shares: journalist, investigative, suspenseful, journalism · suspenseful, intricate plot

Jack McEvoy, a crime reporter in Denver, sets out to write about the apparent suicide of his twin brother, a homicide detective, and finds other police deaths across the country that look the same.

A Dark Matter

Peter Straub · 2010 · US 94% match ★ 2.97 Goodreads · 5,230 ratings
shares: cult, occult, mysterious · intricate plot, dark

In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris · 2021 · US 94% match ★ 3.35 Goodreads · 84,727 ratings
shares: unsettling, New York, suspenseful · suspenseful, easy read

Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at a Manhattan publishing house, is thrilled when Hazel joins the office, until anonymous notes start appearing on her desk telling her to leave.

The Club Dumas

Arturo Pérez-Reverte · 1993 · Spain 94% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 46,341 ratings
shares: occult, investigative, mysterious · suspenseful, cold

Lucas Corso, a mercenary book hunter in Madrid, is hired to authenticate a manuscript chapter of The Three Musketeers and to compare the last copies of a seventeenth-century book said to summon the Devil, a job that takes him to Toledo, Sintra and Paris.

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 2006 · US 93% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 1,288,264 ratings
shares: journalist, unsettling, suspenseful · suspenseful, dark

Camille Preaker, a troubled reporter, is sent back to her small Missouri hometown to cover the murders of two girls, and has to stay in her mother's house to do it.

You Will Know Me

Megan Abbott · 2016 · US 93% match ★ 3.43 Goodreads · 45,796 ratings
shares: unsettling, obsessive, suspenseful · suspenseful, intimate

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 Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada · 1981 · Japan 92% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 14,360 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Detective Mitarai
shares: occult, investigative, mystery · intricate plot, suspenseful

In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · 2016 · UK 92% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 821,787 ratings
shares: journalist, suspenseful · suspenseful, easy read

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.

Relic

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child · 1995 · US 91% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 118,575 ratings
Book 1 of 22 in Pendergast
shares: investigative, New York, suspenseful · suspenseful, intricate plot

Days before a blockbuster exhibition opens at New York's Museum of Natural History, visitors and guards are found savagely killed in its halls, and a graduate student, a city detective and an unusual FBI agent from New Orleans come to suspect something is living in the basement.

The House in the Pines

Ana Reyes · 2023 · US 90% match ★ 3.09 Goodreads · 207,636 ratings
shares: mysterious, suspenseful · suspenseful, easy read

Seven years after her best friend died suddenly in front of a strange young man named Frank, Maya, now in Boston and quietly going through withdrawal, sees a video online of another woman collapsing in Frank's company.

The Final Girls

Riley Sager · 2017 · US 90% match ★ 3.47 Hardcover · 359 ratings
shares: New York, suspenseful · suspenseful, easy read

Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.