Thrilling Books to Read Next if You Love Alice Feeney

A propulsive thriller suffused with wicked humor, Amy Tintera’s Listen for the Lie is “an addictive page-turner that will keep you guessing until the end” (Alice Feeney). Ben Owens, the charming host of the hit true crime podcast Listen for the Lie, has selected the unsolved murder of a young woman named Savvy for his second season — and the news draws Lucy, Savvy’s best friend, back into the nightmare she’s tried to put behind her. You see, Lucy can’t remember what happened on the night of her best friend’s murder. All she knows is that they were together at one point, and then she was found wandering the streets covered in Savvy’s blood. Now, with Owens and his crew about to reopen the case, Lucy must return to her small hometown and uncover the truth, even if the truth is that she’s guilty. 

Marisa Kashino brings a dark wit to the ruthless world of real estate in the acclaimed Best Offer Wins. Margo Miyake is ready for the next phase of her life and tired of losing bidding wars. She’s got plans, and to stay on track, she needs the perfect house. When she gets tipped off that a new dream listing is about to hit the market, she’s determined to secure it, no matter what it takes. After all, with the housing market as brutal as it is, you have to play to win. What’s a bit of stalking in the grand scheme of house-hunting, right? Propulsive, darkly funny, and featuring a flawed anti-hero you’ll root for through each shocking twist, Best Offer Wins hits just right for thriller fans.

An instant New York Times bestseller, Alex Michaelides’ acclaimed psychological thriller The Silent Patient is “dark, edgy, and compulsively readable” (Library Journal). Artist Alicia Berenson and her fashion photographer husband Gabriel seem to live the perfect life — until the night Alicia shoots Gabriel five times in the face. Sequestered in a secure forensic unit, Alicia hasn’t spoken a single word since the shocking act of violence, which only fans the flames of the scandal and causes the value of her artwork to climb. Enter, criminal psychotherapist Theo Faber. Eager to break Alicia’s silence, Theo throws himself into the work. But his obsession with making her talk threatens to pull him down a twisted path into his own darkness.

Propulsive, eerie, and with a cast of suspicious characters, B.A. Paris’s The Guest is sure to satisfy Feeney fans. Iris and Gabriel return from a trip to find an unexpected guest in their home — their close friend Laure has let herself into their house, after leaving her husband in the wake of a confessed affair and secret child. While Iris and Gabriel want to be there for their friend, Laure’s behavior becomes increasingly inappropriate, as she makes herself far too comfortable in their house. Another couple in town offers Iris and Gabriel a much-needed reprieve, but their attendant gardener has a checkered history. Tensions rise, suspense deepens, and as more secrets spill out, sordid pieces of the past are revealed. 

From acclaimed thriller author Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied is “breathtaking — brightly written, scalpel-sharp, and altogether inspired” (A. J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window). It’s been 15 years since Emma and her friends played their last game of Two Truths and a Lie in their cabin at Camp Nightingale. Fifteen years since Emma watched her friends sneak out into the night. Fifteen years since they disappeared without a trace. Now a successful artist who transforms the darkness of her past into celebrated paintings, Emma is invited back to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor. Though the haunting setting is hard to revisit, Emma is determined to push through her fear and anxiety and finally find closure. Her search for the truth, though, might uncover something far darker and more dangerous than she’d anticipated.

Lucey Foley’s drama-steeped twists in The Guest List are sure to delight Feeney readers. On a private island off the Irish coast, guests gather for the picture-perfect wedding of an up-and-coming actor and a successful magazine publisher. The glamorous gathering, meticulously planned, is far from the mainland and any decent cell service. But as the party begins and alcohol starts to flow, tensions intensify, long-simmering resentments boil over, and then a guest turns up dead. This whodunit wedding will certainly be one to remember.

A classic work of crime fiction, A Judgement in Stone by legendary author Ruth Rendell has captivated readers since its publication in 1977. Eunice Parchman keeps house for the Coverdale family. Then, on Valentine’s Day, she shoots all four of them in their home. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch investigates the slaying, he discovers a shocking case of closely guarded secrets and shame. “Rendell writes with such elegance and restraint, with such literary voice and an insightful mind, that she transcends the mystery genre and achieves something almost sublime” (Los Angeles Times).

The night his wife was taken has haunted Dr. David Beck for eight years. While everyone around him encourages him to move on, David can’t do it. And then he receives a cryptic message on his computer — a phrase shared only between him and his wife. The possibility of making peace with her loss vanishes entirely, buried beneath the chance that she might still be alive somewhere. Her killer was prosecuted years ago, but now David’s not sure what’s true — and he’s been warned: Tell no one. The taut mystery by celebrated thriller author Harlan Coben is expertly plotted and utterly compelling.

After years spent working abroad, newly married Joey Mullen returns to her idyllic English hometown with her husband in tow. They’re staying in her brother’s spare room for now, and when Joey meets the next-door neighbor — a handsome school teacher who’s twice Joey’s age — she develops something of a crush. So she watches him. But she’s not the only one nursing an obsession — and she’s certainly not the only one watching. Packed with suspenseful plot twists, Watching You by Lisa Jewell is “tricky, clever, unexpected” (New York Times Book Review).

“Pacey and sinister” (Karin Slaughter), All the Dangerous Things is the perfect gripping thriller for Feeney fans. Isabelle Drake can’t sleep: Ever since her toddler son was stolen from their home in the middle of the night, she’s hardly managed more than a catnap. With the case gone cold, Isabelle agrees to appear on a true-crime podcast, hoping to uncover new information. But the interviewer’s prying questions only uncover uncomfortable memories from Isabelle’s childhood, and as she spirals deeper into exhaustion, she begins to question whom she can trust and second-guesses her own recollections. What really happened the night her son disappeared?