Books like The Turn of the Key
If you liked The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Only One Left
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, gothic.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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Before I Go to Sleep
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Christine wakes each day with no memory, and her secret journal reveals her husband lies.
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Into the Water
Because shares tags: thriller, psychological thriller, mystery.
A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.
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Verity
Because shares tags: thriller, psychological thriller, suspense.
Colleen Hoover's Verity explained: Lowen, injured Verity Crawford, the hidden autobiography, and the letter that flips everything.
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The Silent Patient
Because shares tags: thriller, psychological thriller, mystery.
Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient retold: Alicia's silence, Theo's obsession, the Alcestis clue, and the final flip.
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The Girl on the Train
Because shares tags: thriller, psychological thriller, mystery.
Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train retold: Rachel's commute, Jess and Jason, Megan missing, and what really happened that night.
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Gone Girl
Because shares tags: mystery, psychological thriller, suspense.
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl fully retold: Nick and Amy Dunne, the diary, Desi, the treasure hunt, and why the ending stays ugly.
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
Because also by Ruth Ware; shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Because also by Ruth Ware; shares tags: thriller, mystery, psychological thriller.
Journalist Lo sees a body thrown from a luxury cabin, then learns no passenger is missing.
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The Wife Upstairs
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
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The Hunting Party
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.
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The House Across the Lake
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
