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Best Thriller Books Like Freida McFadden (Unputdownable Psychological Thrillers)
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items I’ve personally curated the highest-rated psychological thrillers on Goodreads that feature dark secrets, domestic drama, and endings you’ll never see coming. Especially for anyone who can’t get enough of Freida McFadden’s jaw-dropping twists! 📚 🙌
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.17/5
✨ The Vibe: A famous painter shoots her husband five times in the face and never speaks another word. This medical thriller follows a criminal psychotherapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
🤍 Pro Tip: Read this if you want a masterclass in the "unreliable narrator." The final reveal is one of the most discussed twists in modern thriller history!
1. The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.15/5
✨ The Vibe: Two women celebrate their 45th birthdays at the same pub and cross paths again, leading to a dark, obsessive podcast collaboration that goes horribly wrong.
🤍 Pro Tip: If you're a true crime podcast junkie, ...
2. None of This Is True | Lisa Jewell
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.13/5
✨ The Vibe: Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Angel—handsome, wealthy, and perfect. But why does Angel never answer the phone, and why are there bars on the guest room windows?
🤍 Pro Tip: This is the ultimate "one-s...
3. Behind Closed Doors | B.A Paris
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.26/5
✨ The Vibe: Evie Porter has the perfect life, but "Evie Porter" doesn't exist. She’s a professional con artist on a dangerous job where the lines between her fake life and reality start to blur.
🤍 Pro Tip: Perfect for f...
4. First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.07/5
✨ The Vibe: Lucy Chase was found covered in her best friend’s blood, but she can’t remember a thing. Years later, a hit podcast returns to her hometown to find out if she’s actually a killer.
🤍 Pro Tip: This book has a ...
5. Listen for the Lie | Amy Tintera
📖 Goodreads Rating: 3.85/5
✨ The Vibe: A couple wins a weekend getaway to a remote Scottish chapel to save their marriage. Little do they know, someone is lying and they aren't there by accident.
🤍 Pro Tip: Alice Feeney is the queen of the "hidde...
6. Rock Paper Scissors | Alice Feeney
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.02/5
✨ The Vibe: Eleven years after a mother and daughter vanished from a quiet suburb, the girl suddenly reappears. But where has she been, and what happened to her mother?
🤍 Pro Tip: A haunting suburban thriller that handl...
7. Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.01/5
✨ The Vibe: A home-health aide goes to work for Lenora Hope, the only survivor of a 1929 family massacre. Lenora can’t speak, but she’s ready to type out the truth.
🤍 Pro Tip: This is a Gothic-leaning thriller with a "j...
8. The Only One Left | Riley Sager
📖 Goodreads Rating: 3.93/5
✨ The Vibe: Sarah is a top criminal defense attorney who has to defend the one person she never expected: her own husband, who has been accused of murdering his mistress.
🤍 Pro Tip: This is a fast-paced, "popcorn" thril...
9. The Perfect Marriage | Jeneva Rose
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.16/5
✨ The Vibe: A woman in recovery starts a new job as a nanny for a sweet 5-year-old boy. When his cute drawings turn into dark, supernatural-looking sketches of a murder, things get terrifying.
🤍 Pro Tip: The physical bo...
10. Hidden Pictures | Jason Rekulak
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.01/5
✨ The Vibe: Amber Patterson is tired of being a "nobody." She sets her sights on the glamorous Daphne Parrish and her wealthy husband, plotting to replace her. But Amber isn’t the only one with a plan..
🤍 Pro Tip: If yo...
11. The Last Mrs. Parrish | Liv Constantine
📖 Goodreads Rating: 3.82/5
✨ The Vibe: A couple goes to a dinner party next door and leaves their baby home, checking on her every six months. When they return to find the front door open and the baby gone, the finger-pointing begins.
🤍 Pro Tip: ...
12. The Couple Next Door | Shari Lapena
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.00/5
✨ The Vibe: A school scandal, a missing girl, and a husband-wife teaching duo with a lot to hide. It’s a twisty tale of obsession and revenge set in a high school.
🤍 Pro Tip: Since your followers love Freida, this 2024 ...
13. The Teacher | Freida McFadden
📖 Goodreads Rating: 3.86/5
✨ The Vibe: A glamorous wedding on an isolated island off the coast of Ireland turns deadly. As the storm rolls in, the resentment among the "perfect" wedding party starts to show.
🤍 Pro Tip: Great for fans of "locked-r...
14. The Guest List | Lucy Foley
📖 Goodreads Rating: 4.28/5
✨ The Vibe: A struggling writer is hired to finish a bestselling author’s series after an accident. While staying at their house, she finds a chilling, secret autobiography that should have stayed hidden.
🤍 Pro Tip: Thi...
15. Verity | Colleen Hoover