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What to read next if you love Harlan Coben
A missing child, a murder, a hidden past, an unreliable narrator: Harlan Coben fans are familiar with the author’s talent for turning these classic crime fiction tropes on their heads with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the very last page. If you’re looking for authors with similar styles, check out the titles below.
Books for fans of Harlan Coben
One By One by Ruth Ware
One by One by Ruth Ware
If there’s one thing worse than being snowed in at a company retreat with your colleagues, it’s being snowed in at a company retreat with your colleagues and knowing that one of them is a murderer. Paying homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, Ruth Ware’s 2020 book is a masterpiece of a mystery with an eerie setting and a long list of untrustworthy characters.
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
A decade after her daughter went missing, Laurel may finally be ready to move on with her new boyfriend. But when she meets his daughter, who reminds her so much of the child she lost, Laurel is pulled into a web of lies that may bring her to the truth about what happened all those years ago.
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
After going missing 11 years ago, a young woman returns to her hometown — and brings with her a tangle of unanswered questions. In this riveting novel, Mary Kubica shows off her talent for creating suspense that Harlan Coben fans will love. Kubica weaves a disturbing tale and leads you to an ending you won’t see coming.
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Following the success of her wildly popular novel The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins will have you turning the pages of this mystery about a man’s murder – and the three women who may have committed it ¬– until the very end. Prepare yourself for clever plot twists that any avid Harlan Coben reader will appreciate.
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Chloe is the potential target of a dangerous killer. She’s also a diagnosed psychopath, plotting a murder of her own. In this gripping debut novel, Vera Kurian asks her readers to see the world from the point of view of a questionable narrator – one who is both in danger and a danger to others, all while being a university student.
The Search Party by Simon Lelic
The Search Party by Simon Lelic
Published in 2020, The Search Party features many of the elements you may see in a Harlan Coben novel: shifting points of views, suspense, a determined investigator, and characters masking the truth. When a 16-year-old girl goes missing, her five friends set out to find her — but those friends are also suspects, and they won’t all make it home.
Memory Man by David Baldacci
Memory Man by David Baldacci
Harlan Coben readers are extremely familiar with the character type at the centre of David Baldacci’s Memory Man: a protagonist hellbent on finding the truth about who killed his family, and why. In this introduction to his well-known character Amos Decker, Baldacci expertly crafts a thriller that will have crime fiction fans reaching for another one of his books in no time.
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