Paula Hawkins‘ psychological thriller The Girl on the Train is a twisting journey with chilling consequences to curiosity. Soon to be a major motion picture, the #1 New York Times Bestseller and USA Today Book of the Year captivated readers and had them begging for more. If you’re ready for more harrowing twists and turns, try these books to read if you like The Girl on the Train.
Books to Read if You Like The Girl on the Train
Kiss of the Sun
R.K. Jackson
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Martha Covington has earned a reputation as a psychic on a small island off the Georgia coast. Her interest in healing roots and a schizophrenia diagnosis don’t help rid her of that designation she hates. But when an elderly couple from Atlanta seeks her out for help finding their missing grandson, Martha can’t say no. The missing boy leads Martha on a journey where she will discover how thin the line between intuition and insanity is.
Buy on AmazonBuy Nook BookThe Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison
Release Date: June 1, 2016
FBI Agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with the most stomach-churning case of their careers when the Butterfly Garden is discovered. For years The Gardener, a brutal, twisted man captured and preserved “butterflies” in his mansion’s garden — young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Now a survivor, Maya, is brought in for questioning and her story sheds light on just how gruesome the garden was.
Buy on AmazonThe Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Detective Rasbach arrvies at a suburban dinner party where a terrible crime has been committed. The homeowners, Anne and Marco Conti, are a seemingly perfect couple — a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and a beautiful baby Cora — but Detective Rasbach suspects otherwise. As the unsettling account of what actually happens unfolds, secrets that have been kept for years come tumbling out for everyone to see.
Buy on AmazonBuy Nook BookBuy iBookInterference
Release Date: September 1, 2016
When Gabriel’s picture-perfect life is torn apart by the drowning of his wife, Chloé, he joins a bereavement group to help him move on from her mysterious death. There he meets photographer Emma whom he grows closer to despite feeling his wife’s presence everywhere he goes. As he slowly uncovers the circumstances of his wife’s death, he starts questioning whether Emma is all that different from Chloé.
Buy on AmazonThe Off Season
Colleen Thompson
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Recently widowed emergency room physician Dr. Christina Paxton has returned to the Jersey Shore, house-sitting a beachside Victorian home. One night, her two-year-old daughter calls her by a name tat makes Christina’s blood run cold and sends her thoughts spiraling back thirty years. Deeply unnerved, she flees with her child into the cold night only to come face-to-face with Chief Harris Bowers, a former classmate with whom Christina has a complicated history with. As threats emerge, Christina and her daughter find themselves in grave danger, will anyone be able to help them?
Buy on AmazonThe Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Lo Blacklock is a journalist who has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. At first, the trip is everything it’s supposed to be — the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But when the weather gets choppy things get darker onboard and Lo witnesses a woman being thrown overboard in the middle of a storm. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for and so the ship sails on as if nothing happened despite Lo’s pleas that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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