Books like “The Silent Sister”

What to read after “The Silent Sister” by Diane Chamberlain: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Dark Places
Gillian Flynn · 2009
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
Years after her mother and sisters were killed and her teenage brother was convicted, Libby Day is approached by a group of true-crime enthusiasts who believe he is innocent. Short of money, she agrees to ask questions, and the answers force her to revisit what she remembers of that night.
2
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham · 2022
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
- 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.
3
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
Abandoned by her family as a child, Kya grows up alone in a North Carolina marsh, shunned by the nearby town as the Marsh Girl. She teaches herself to survive on the land and inches toward love, until a local man is found dead and she becomes the chief suspect.
4
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty · 2014
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
Three mothers at a coastal school become friends while a death at a school event draws nearer. Their polished lives hide abusive marriages, old grudges and rumour, and the night of the fundraiser forces the truth into the open.
5
The Dry
Jane Harper · 2016
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
A federal agent returns to the drought-stricken town he left twenty years ago, for the funeral of a childhood friend believed to have killed his family. Old questions about the death that drove him away surface again while he helps the local police look into a new one.
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The Little Friend
Donna Tartt · 2002
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
Years after a boy was found hanged in the family garden, his younger sister sets out to learn who killed him. Her amateur sleuthing among the town's odd characters pulls her from her grieving family into a dangerous, half-understood world.
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson · 2019
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
For a school project, Pip reopens the closed case of Andie Bell, a local girl murdered five years ago, and her boyfriend Sal, who confessed and then died. As she records interviews with the people involved, the tidy story everyone accepted begins to come apart.
8
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz · 2016
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
Editor Susan Ryeland receives the manuscript of the ninth Alan Conway mystery, but the last chapters are missing and the author is dead. As she reads the country-house puzzle inside the book, the writer's real quarrels and the missing pages draw her into a case of her own.
9
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
When a girl is found dead in a wood outside Dublin, detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox take the case. For Rob the woods hold an old horror: as a child he was found there after two friends vanished, and he has never told anyone the full truth.
10
The Three Coffins
John Dickson Carr · 1935
Similar plot moves: “Faked Death” and “Twist Ending”
- Faked Death
- Twist Ending
On a foggy London evening a professor is shot dead inside a room locked from within, with fresh snow outside showing no footprints. Dr. Gideon Fell investigates the impossible killing and, along the way, explains how a locked-room murder can be done.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · 1926
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
In the village of King's Abbot, the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is stabbed hours after learning a secret. Hercule Poirot, retired nearby to grow marrows, is drawn into the case, where everyone, including the narrator, seems to be telling less than the whole truth.
12
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn · 2006
Similar setting: “Small Town Secrets”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two girls. She must face her mother and half-sister, and her own memories, while the pressure of the assignment pushes her back toward the habits she has tried to leave behind.