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Catherine Steadman · 2018 · UK · thriller
★ 3.54 Goodreads · 248,365 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of Something in the Water

Fool Me Once

Harlan Coben · 2016 · US 96% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 145,557 ratings
shares: twisty, wealth, propulsive, domestic thriller · easy read, fast-paced

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 Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 497,494 ratings
shares: twisty, wealth, propulsive, domestic thriller · easy read, cold

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.

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 3,656,794 ratings
shares: propulsive, London, suspenseful · easy read, plain prose

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.

Rock Paper Scissors

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

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.

Tell No One

Harlan Coben · 2001 · US 96% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 201,862 ratings
shares: twisty, propulsive, 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.

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 2017 · UK 95% match ★ 3.67 Hardcover · 497 ratings
shares: twisty, London, domestic thriller · easy read, plain prose

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.

The Love of My Life

Rosie Walsh · 2022 · UK 95% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 103,403 ratings
shares: twisty, London, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Leo, an obituary writer in London, sets out to write the obituary of his wife Emma, a marine biologist who has cancer, and finds that almost nothing she has told him about her past is true.

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell · 2023 · UK 95% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,230,570 ratings
shares: propulsive, London, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

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

Paula Hawkins · 2015 · UK 95% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 3,401,455 ratings
shares: propulsive, suspenseful, domestic thriller · easy read, cold

Three women's lives intersect around a commuter train route and a missing person, each narrator unreliable in her own devastating way.

Who Is Maud Dixon?

Alexandra Andrews · 2021 · US 95% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 43,111 ratings
shares: travel, twisty, suspenseful · easy read, cold

Florence Darrow, a young publishing assistant desperate to be a writer, lands a job working for Maud Dixon, the anonymous author of a bestselling debut, and follows her to Morocco to research the next novel, where things go badly wrong.

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena · 2016 · Canada 94% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 750,116 ratings
shares: twisty, propulsive, marriage, domestic thriller · easy read, fast-paced

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

Gillian Flynn · 2012 · US 94% match ★ 4.15 Goodreads · 3,570,673 ratings
shares: propulsive, suspenseful, marriage, domestic thriller · suspenseful, easy read

A wife disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, and the investigation reveals that both partners are capable of monstrous deception.