Books like Home Before Dark
If you liked Home Before Dark by Riley Sager, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Lock Every Door
Because also by Riley Sager; shares tags: thriller, mystery, horror.
Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.
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The Outsider
Because shares tags: horror, mystery, thriller.
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
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Hidden Pictures
Because shares tags: horror, thriller, mystery.
Nanny Mallory sees Teddy drawings predict a murder in New Jersey.
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The House Across the Lake
Because also by Riley Sager; shares tags: thriller, mystery.
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
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The Only One Left
Because also by Riley Sager; shares tags: thriller, mystery.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Because shares tags: horror, mystery.
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Because shares tags: horror, mystery.
A masked Erik haunts the Paris Opera, coaching Christine Daae while rivaling Raoul for her. Chandelier crash, cellar lake, and unmasking…
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The Dry
Because shares tags: mystery, thriller.
Falk returns to drought-hit Kiewarra for Luke's murder-suicide, and an old secret about Ellie's drowning resurfaces to change the case.
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The Dead Zone
Because shares tags: horror, thriller.
Coma waker Johnny sees futures in touch and faces demagogue Stillson.
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Sometimes I Lie
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery.
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
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Postmortem
Because shares tags: mystery, thriller.
Four Richmond stranglings pull chief examiner Scarpetta into forensics, leaks, and sabotage from inside.
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One of Us Is Next
Because shares tags: mystery, thriller.
A year after Simon's death, a copycat texter drags Maeve, Knox and Phoebe into a cruel Truth or Dare game in Bayview.
