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Books like The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn · 2018 · US · thriller · mystery
★ 3.93 Goodreads · 919,764 ratings

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.

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12 books for readers of The Woman in the Window

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2019 · UK 97% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 3,656,794 ratings
shares: commercial, suspenseful, twist, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · 2016 · UK 96% match ★ 3.71 Goodreads · 821,787 ratings
shares: claustrophobic, suspenseful, unreliable narrator, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

The Quiet Tenant

Clémence Michallon · 2023 · US 96% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 160,779 ratings
shares: commercial, claustrophobic, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

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.

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell · 2023 · UK 96% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,230,570 ratings
shares: commercial, suspenseful, unreliable narrator, psychological · 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 Kind Worth Killing

Peter Swanson · 2015 · US 96% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 258,555 ratings
shares: Hitchcockian, psychological · easy read, intimate

Stuck in a bar at Heathrow, Ted Severson drunkenly tells a beautiful stranger named Lily that his wife is cheating on him and that he would like to kill her, and Lily, quite calmly, offers to help.

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · 2015 · UK 94% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 3,401,455 ratings
shares: alcoholism, suspenseful, unreliable narrator · easy read, intimate

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

The Final Girls

Riley Sager · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 3.47 Hardcover · 359 ratings
shares: New York, suspenseful, twist, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

Before I Go to Sleep

S. J. Watson · 2011 · UK 94% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 377,346 ratings
shares: claustrophobic, unreliable narrator, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · 2019 · US 94% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 174,844 ratings
shares: commercial, suspenseful, twist · easy read, intimate

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.

The Housemaid

Freida McFadden · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 4,031,457 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Housemaid
shares: twist, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

The House in the Pines

Ana Reyes · 2023 · US 93% match ★ 3.09 Goodreads · 207,636 ratings
shares: suspenseful, psychological · easy read, intimate

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.

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2020 · US 93% match ★ 3.22 Goodreads · 59,865 ratings
shares: claustrophobic, isolation, unreliable narrator, psychological · intimate, easy read

Vesta Gul, a widow in her seventies, finds a note in the woods near her cabin saying that a woman named Magda is dead and nobody will ever know who killed her, and with no body to be found, she begins to imagine who Magda was.