Books like The Girl on the Train
If you liked The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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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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Gone Girl
Because shares tags: crime, mystery, psychological thriller.
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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Into the Water
Because also by Paula Hawkins; shares tags: thriller, psychological thriller, mystery.
A drowning pool, eleven narrators, and sisters divided in Hawkins's murky second thriller.
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The Only One Left
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
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The Maidens
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder.
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The Locked Door
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, suspense.
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
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The Coworker
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and…
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Mr. Mercedes
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.
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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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1st to Die
Because shares tags: thriller, crime, mystery.
Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.
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The Family Upstairs
Because shares tags: thriller, mystery, suspense.
Libby Jones inherits a Chelsea mansion and a past tied to a cult house, two runaways, and a baby left waiting.
