Five readalikes for five popular books over five days
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
An expertly planned celebrity wedding between a rising television star and an ambitious magazine publisher is thrown into turmoil by petty jealousies, a college drinking game, the bride’s ruined dress and an untimely murder.
Genre: Thrillers and suspense
Storyline: Intricately plotted
Tone: Atmospheric; Creepy; Menacing
Creepy thriller and suspense readalikes:
Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz
At twenty-two, Bibi’s doctors tell her that she’s dying. Two days later, she’s impossibly cured. She becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone named Ashley Bell. Searching for Ashley Bell, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that become more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn.
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Midnight Voices by John Saul
Cheryl Evans is a recently widowed mother of two. Things seem to have fallen into place when she meets Anthony Fleming and they are quickly married. She and her two children move into Fleming’s luxury apartment on Central Park West despite her son’s misgivings about the building and the people who dwell there. The building is home to a monstrously evil secret.
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The Bone Keeper by Luca Veste
Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find the supposed home of the Bone Keeper. Only three returned. Now, a woman is found wandering the streets, horrifically injured, claiming to have fled the evil urban myth.
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The Sleep Room by F. R. Tallis
Young psychiatrist James Richardson is tasked with managing charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland’s pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. Soon Richardson begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patients. Maitland is unwilling to discuss their past lives and the trainee nurse is on edge when she spends nights alone with them. In this atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story, Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind, as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of The Sleep Room . . .
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Go to My Grave by Catriona McPherson
A group of cousins staying at a refurbished bed and breakfast in Galloway realize they had stayed there decades ago for a birthday party that started with schnapps and ended with a girl walking into the sea to her death.
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