The Last Thing He Told Me Read-alikes

Are you looking for a good read while you wait for your turn to read The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave? Or maybe you loved that book and are looking for me like that one? We have some suggestions.


The Push by Ashley Audrain
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared. Also available as both an eBook and a downloadable audiobook in Overdrive.


Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon
A woman’s desperate search for her missing twin is complicated by their mother’s recent death, police indifference, her relationship with her twin’s boyfriend and a growing obsession that tests the limits of her sanity.


The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
A popular true-crime podcaster finds an unsettling note on her windshield begging for help before she uncovers dark community secrets from the past and present, including one involving the disappearance of her own sister.
Also available as an downloadable audiobook on Hoopla and an eBook on Overdrive.


Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find. Also available in a large print edition and as a downloadable audiobook from Hoopla.


The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer
When the abandoned girl she adopted years earlier is locked in a decaying psychiatric hospital amid murder allegations, Grace embarks on a desperate search for the origins of her daughter’s multiple-personality disorder.


The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Also available as a downloadable audiobook on Overdrive.

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