Books like “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone”

What to read after “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn · 2018
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
Child psychologist Anna Fox lives alone, unable to leave her home, and spends her days watching her neighbours through a camera. When she sees something in the house across the street, no one believes her, and she is left to work out whether the danger is real or in her mind.
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The Inheritance Games
Jennifer Lynn Barnes · 2020
Similar plot moves: “Forced Proximity” and “Twist Ending”
- Forced Proximity
- Twist Ending
Avery Grambs, a sharp high-schooler sleeping in her car, learns that a billionaire she never met has left her almost his entire fortune. To claim it she must move into the family mansion, where four disinherited grandsons and a house full of puzzles await.
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The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · 2022
Shared in the plot: rules, family
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
A woman with no money and a criminal record takes a live-in job cleaning for a wealthy family. The wife is cruel, the husband is kind, and a locked door upstairs keeps drawing her attention as the household's rules grow stranger.
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A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham · 2022
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
As a child she helped put her father away for killing girls. Twenty years later she is a therapist about to marry, when young women in her town begin to disappear again and the old case follows her into the present.
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The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
Rachel rides the same commuter train every day and invents stories about a couple she sees from the window, until she learns the woman has vanished. Her memory of the night in question is full of gaps, and she cannot tell how much of what she believes is real.
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Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
Each morning Christine wakes with no memory of her life, and each day her husband explains who she is. When she starts a diary at a doctor's suggestion, she finds entries in her own hand that contradict what he tells her, and that suggest her past holds a crime.
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The Last Mrs. Parrish
Liv Constantine · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
An ambitious woman works her way into the life of a rich, seemingly perfect couple, planning to take the wife's place. The household she longs to join has secrets of its own, and neither woman is quite what she pretends to be.
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The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena · 2016
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
A couple leave their sleeping baby at home while they attend a dinner party next door, checking on her every half hour. They return to an empty crib. The police suspect the parents, and both of them start learning what the other has been hiding.
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Sometimes I Lie
Alice Feeney · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
Amber Reynolds is in a coma, though she can hear the people around her and cannot move or speak. In her mind she sifts through the days before the accident and the diary entries from years earlier that do not quite match the life she thought she had.
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The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson · 2015
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
On a night flight from London to Boston, Ted tells a stranger that he wishes his cheating wife were dead. Lily calmly offers to help him plan it. As their murder scheme takes shape in Boston, each of the narrators hides a past the others know nothing about.
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy Dunne disappears from a rented house and her husband Nick becomes the prime suspect. Two narrators tell very different versions of the same marriage.
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The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides · 2019
Similar plot moves: “Unreliable Narrator” and “Twist Ending”
- Unreliable Narrator
- Twist Ending
Alicia Berenson shot her husband five times and then never spoke again. Six years later, psychotherapist Theo Faber takes a job at the secure unit where she is held, determined to make her talk. As he digs into her diary and her past, his own reasons for being there come into question.