Books like The Turn of the Key
12 books with a reading profile close to The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. Practical and escapist; an easy read.
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The Woman in the Window
by A.J. Finn
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Anna Fox is a child psychologist confined to her Harlem townhouse by severe agoraphobia.
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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.
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The Girl on the Train
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Rachel Watson lives a fractured life, commuting daily past the suburban house where her ex-husband lives with his new wife.
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4
Invisible Girl
by Lisa Jewell
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
The narrative centers on Owen Pick, a thirty-year-old virgin living with his aunt who becomes a prime suspect after a local teenage girl, Saffyre Maddox, disappears on Valentine’s Night.
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5
Sometimes I Lie
by Alice Feeney
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Amber Reynolds is in a coma, unable to move or speak but capable of hearing everything happening around her.
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Darling Girls
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Jessica, Norah, and Alicia grew up as foster sisters under the volatile supervision of Miss Crane at Wildwood, a farm in the Australian countryside.
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7
The Mother-in-Law
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Lucy has always struggled to bridge the cold emotional distance between herself and her mother-in-law, Diana.
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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.
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9
I Let You Go
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
After a hit-and-run accident kills her young son in a rain-slicked Bristol street, Jenna Gray flees to a remote Welsh coastal village to escape her grief.
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10
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.
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11
The Whisper Man
by Alex North
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Tom Kennedy and his young son, Jake, move to the village of Featherbank seeking a fresh start after the death of Tom’s wife.
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12
Final Girls
by Riley Sager
Also practical and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Ten years ago, Quincy Carpenter survived a mass slaying at Pine Cottage, earning her the media label of Final Girl alongside two other women, Sam and Lisa, who survived similar horror-movie scenarios.
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