Books like Pieces of Her
On her thirty-first birthday, Andrea Oliver watches her mother Laura, a calm small-town speech therapist, stop a gunman in a Georgia diner with cold precision, and the video that spreads online sends Andrea across the country to learn who her mother used to be.
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Fool Me Once
Two weeks after burying her husband Joe, shot in front of her in Central Park, former Army helicopter pilot Maya Stern checks the nanny cam she hid to watch her daughter's sitter and sees Joe playing with their little girl.
The Chain
Rachel, a single mother on the Massachusetts coast, gets a call telling her that her daughter has been kidnapped, and that to free her she must pay a ransom and then kidnap another family's child, because that is how the Chain works.
The Family Upstairs
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.
Tell No One
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.
The Last Thing He Told Me
The morning her husband Owen vanishes, Hannah Hall receives a note from him that says only 'Protect her', meaning his sixteen-year-old daughter Bailey, who wants nothing to do with her, as federal agents descend on his tech company.
The Terminal List
Navy SEAL commander James Reece comes home from an ambush that wiped out his team in Afghanistan, then loses his wife and daughter the same night, and with a tumor in his head and nothing left to lose he works through a list of the people responsible.
The Man from Beijing
After nineteen people are massacred in a remote Swedish village, a judge related to one of the victims follows the trail back to nineteenth-century railroad labour in America and forward to modern China.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A disgraced journalist and a young hacker investigate the disappearance of a woman from a wealthy Swedish family, uncovering decades of violence hidden behind respectability.
Absolute Power
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.
The Only One Left
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.
Sundial
Rob, a mother in the suburbs who fears what her older daughter Callie is becoming, drives her out to Sundial, the remote desert house where Rob grew up, and begins telling her the family's story.
Then She Was Gone
Ten years after her fifteen-year-old daughter Ellie walked out of the house towards the library and never came back, Laurel Mack meets a charming man in a café, and is startled by how much his young daughter looks like Ellie.