Books like The Fury
12 books with a reading profile close to The Fury by Alex Michaelides. Practical and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Watching You
by Lisa Jewell
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Joey Mullen becomes obsessed with her neighbor, Tom Fitzwilliam, a headmaster whose charisma masks a history of boundary-crossing with his students.
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2
Little Secrets
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.
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3
All the Missing Girls
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.
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4
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.
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5
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.
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6
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Belding Price disappeared sixteen years ago from a roadside car while her infant daughter, Annabel, sat in the backseat.
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7
MY HUSBAND'S WIFE
by Alice Feeney
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
In a decaying manor overlooking a grey seaside town, three people inhabit a space defined by half-truths and historical grudges.
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8
All Good People Here
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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9
The Couple at No. 9
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Saffron Cutler and her partner Tom move into a family cottage in the Cotswolds, gifted by her grandmother, Enid.
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10
A Simple Favor
by Darcey Bell
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Stephanie, a lonely widowed mother and suburban mommy blogger, strikes up an intense friendship with Emily, a glamorous public relations executive.
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11
Jar of Hearts
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
When high school student Angela Wong disappeared in 1994, her best friend Georgina Shaw carried a secret that eventually sent her to prison fourteen years later.
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12
The Lying Game
by Ruth Ware
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
The plot follows four former boarding school friends—Isa, Fatima, Thea, and Kate—who reunite at a coastal reach in Salten after a human bone surfaces in the tidal marshes.
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