Auckland Council Libraries: Like Liane Moriarty? Then try these…

Like Liane Moriarty? Then try these…

Liane Moriarty’s novels give readers fascinating suspense stories with tantalizing characters and dark and twisted plots. This collection of authors will give readers a similar taste to enjoy.

Into the water

Paula Hawkins

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A mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river. Earlier in the summer, a teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

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Little fires everywhere

Celeste Ng

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A novel which explores the weight of long-held secrets and the ferocious pull of motherhood - and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster or heartbreak.

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The woman in cabin 10

Ruth Ware

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In this story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read.

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Behind closed doors

B. A. Paris

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Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. B. A. Paris brings a gripping thriller and international phenomenon in this read.

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All the missing girls

Megan Miranda

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Nicolette Farrell left her hometown ten years ago after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared without a trace. Back again to care for her sick father, Nic is plunged into a drama that reawakens the case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched.

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Black-eyed susans

Julia Heaberlin

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Shocking and intense this dazzling psychological thriller seamlessly weaves past and present. In a searing tale, a young woman's harrowing memories remain in a field of flowers, as a killer makes a chilling return to his garden.

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Pretty girls

Karin Slaughter

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The vanishing of a teenage girl and the killing of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? An extraordinary novel of love and loss, redemption and revenge.

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Trail of broken wings

Sejal Badani

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When her father falls into a coma, Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she'd fled years before. Buried secrets rise to the surface. Told with forceful honesty, this book reveals the liberating power of speaking and owning truth.

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The sound of glass

Karen (Karen S.) White

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It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news of an inherited house. Soon Merritt is forced into unravelling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears.

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Small great things

Jodi Picoult

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A young couple that are admitted to a hospital to have a baby, request their nurse be reassigned - they don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. This riveting drama promises a thought-provoking tale on the dangers of prejudice.

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