Books like 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.
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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.
Survive the Night
In 1991, Charlie Jordan, a college student whose best friend was murdered by a campus killer, takes a ride home to Ohio from a stranger off the ride board, and begins to suspect he is the killer.
Along Came a Spider
Washington detective and psychologist Alex Cross is pulled off the murders he is working in his own Southeast DC neighbourhood to hunt Gary Soneji, a mild-mannered maths teacher who has kidnapped two children from an elite private school and wants the whole country watching.
The Woman in the Window
An agoraphobic Manhattan psychologist watches her new neighbours across the street through a camera lens and is certain she just saw the wife being murdered.
The Poet
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.
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 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.
Misery
A bestselling novelist is rescued from a car wreck by his self-proclaimed biggest fan, who imprisons him and demands he write the book she wants.
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.
Darker Than Night
Frank Quinn, a New York homicide detective whose career was ended by a frame-up, is offered a way back when a killer the papers call the Night Prowler starts slipping into couples' homes.
The Surgeon
A killer is breaking into Boston apartments and operating on women in their beds, and detectives Thomas Moore and Jane Rizzoli see that his methods mirror an attack in Savannah two years earlier, whose survivor, Dr. Catherine Cordell, now works as a trauma surgeon in their city.
The Housemaid
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.