Never Lie
Freida McFadden
Newlyweds snowed in at a remote manor find tapes from a missing psychiatrist's patients, in a fast thriller by the same author.
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The Housemaid follows a young live-in housekeeper in a wealthy couple's beautiful home, where nothing is quite as perfect as it looks. These seven books bring more domestic secrets, tense households and quick, twisty reading.
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The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
A divorced woman is fixated on her ex-husband's new fiancée, in a twisty novel that rewards reading closely.
The Wife Upstairs
Rachel Hawkins
A broke dog-walker in a gated Alabama community falls for a mysterious widower whose wife drowned, in a Southern twist on Jane Eyre.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Before her husband disappears he passes her a note telling her to protect his teenage daughter, who wants nothing to do with her, in a mystery with plenty of heart.
Behind Closed Doors
B.A. Paris
A charming lawyer and his gracious wife seem to have a perfect marriage, though she is never seen alone, in a harrowing thriller.
Verity
Colleen Hoover
A writer takes a job finishing an injured novelist's series and uncovers pages she was never meant to read, in a dark thriller that includes explicit sex.
The Maid
Nita Prose
A hotel maid who lives by her late gran's rules finds a guest dead and becomes the prime suspect, in a murder mystery with a quirky narrator.
How to choose
Pick by what hooked you about The Housemaid: a household where something is wrong. Never Lie is by the same author. The Wife Between Us and The Wife Upstairs bring more tangled marriages and wealthy secrets, and The Wife Upstairs is a Southern twist on Jane Eyre. Behind Closed Doors and Verity are dark and disturbing, The Last Thing He Told Me has plenty of heart, and The Maid is a murder mystery with a quirky narrator. Content runs heavy. Several of these hinge on dark reveals and include abuse and violence, and Verity has explicit sex, so check content notes before you start. To avoid spoilers, stick to the jacket copy.
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