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12 books with a reading profile close to I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh. Practical and escapist; an easy read.

  1. 1 Family of Liars

    Family of Liars

    by E. Lockhart

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Carrie Sinclair is the eldest daughter of a wealthy, prestigious family that spent every summer on Beechwood Island.

  2. 2 The Mother-in-Law

    The Mother-in-Law

    by Sally Hepworth

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Lucy has always struggled to bridge the cold emotional distance between herself and her mother-in-law, Diana.

  3. 3 I Found You

    I Found You

    by Lisa Jewell

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Alice Fane, a single mother living in an English seaside town, discovers a man sitting on the beach during a rainstorm with no memory of his identity.

  4. 4 None of This Is True

    None of This Is True

    by Lisa Jewell

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Alix Summer is a popular podcaster celebrating her forty-fifth birthday when she encounters Josie Fair, a woman born on the same day in the same hospital.

  5. 5 Little Secrets

    Little Secrets

    by Jennifer Hillier

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Marin Machado’s life collapses during a crowded Christmas market when her four-year-old son, Sebastian, vanishes while she is distracted by a phone call.

  6. 6 The Fury

    The Fury

    by Alex Michaelides

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Lana Farrar, a retired movie star, invites a small group of friends to her private Greek island, Aura, to escape the London damp.

  7. 7 All the Missing Girls

    All the Missing Girls

    by Megan Miranda

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    When Nicolette Farrell returns to her rural North Carolina hometown to care for her ailing father, she is forced to confront the disappearance of her friend Corinne a decade prior.

  8. 8 Everyone Here Is Lying

    Everyone Here Is Lying

    by Shari Lapena

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    In the affluent neighborhood of Stanhope, nine-year-old Avery Wooler goes missing shortly after her father, William, returns home in a rage following the end of his extramarital affair.

  9. 9 Not a Happy Family

    Not a Happy Family

    by Shari Lapena

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Fred and Sheila Merton are found brutally murdered in their upscale Brecken Hill home the night after a tense Easter dinner with their three adult children.

  10. 10 Daisy Darker

    Daisy Darker

    by Alice Feeney

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    The Darker family gathers at Seaglass, a crumbling Victorian estate on a tidal island in Cornwall, to celebrate the eightieth birthday of leur matriarch, Nana.

  11. 11 The Turn of the Key

    The Turn of the Key

    by Ruth Ware

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Rowan Caine accepts a high-paying live-in nanny position at Heatherbrae House, a remote Scottish Highlands estate owned by the Elincourt family.

  12. 12 All Good People Here

    All Good People Here

    by Ashley Flowers

    Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment

    Journalist Margot Davies returns to her small hometown of Wakarusa, Indiana, to care for her ailing uncle, but she quickly becomes preoccupied with a cold case from her childhood.

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