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Domestic thriller reccomendations

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purplerainpurplerain · 02/10/2019 19:50

Can anyone recommend any good domestic thriller type books? Bought myself a kindle earlier this year and want to get back into reading. The last books I read which I enjoyed were; the other woman, the perfect girlfriend and after I've gone.

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MissKittyBeaudelais · 20/11/2019 19:22

Andrea Newman, Bouquet of Barbed Wire.

BarbaraofSeville · 16/10/2019 22:26

I really enjoyed The Mother in Law by Sally Hepworth and it's only £1.99

She has never approved of you. But it's when her body is found the secrets really start to come out ...

From the moment Lucy met her husband's mother, Diana, she was kept at arm's length. Diana was exquisitely polite, and perfectly friendly, but Lucy knew that she was not what Diana envisioned. Even so, Lucy wanted so much to please her new mother-in-law.

That was five years ago.

Now, Diana has been found dead, a suicide note near her body. Diana claims that she no longer wanted to live because of a battle with cancer.

But the autopsy finds no cancer.
The autopsy does find traces of poison and suffocation.

Everyone in the family is hiding something. But what? And where will the secrets stop?

slipperyeel · 16/10/2019 13:03

Totally agree with @commanderdalgliesh - Nicci French is the absolute best at this type of thing.
Also Barbara Vine.

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AtiaoftheJulii · 14/10/2019 10:29

I just read Platform Seven by Louise Doughty (of Apple Tree Yard fame), which was very different, and I thought it was excellent.

rosegoldwatcher · 14/10/2019 10:21

I think The Magpies is the first of his books, the first one that I read anyway. It is good - very creepy.
Hope you enjoy it!

TheCanterburyWhales · 14/10/2019 09:36

I sent a Mark Edwards back to Unlimited in a humph yesterday because Goodreads had the "A" between the Mark and the Edwards...then I went to Amazon and it's not, it's the real, good one! So I redownloaded.
What a nightmare (for the Magpie Mark Edwards!)

Rupertpenrysmistress · 13/10/2019 22:37

Mark Edwards is brilliant also Katerina diamond.

Chattercino · 13/10/2019 22:14

Behind Closed Doors- couldn't put it down!

morrisseysquif · 13/10/2019 22:11

Checking out Mark Edwards. Heck even more free samples tempting me! Too easy to download the whole book, although sometimes I manage to borrow them from the library.

morrisseysquif · 13/10/2019 22:07

I enjoyed this

what you did

Witchofzog · 12/10/2019 22:44

Camilla Way has never written a bad book. Ditto Lisa Jewell. You won't be disappointed

ChristmasFluff · 12/10/2019 22:42

Secret Smile by Nicci French was my first thought

64sNewName · 07/10/2019 22:16

The good Mark Edwards must be so bloody irritated by the existence of the rubbish Mark Edwards.

just2comment · 07/10/2019 22:12

Into the darkest corner, Elizabeth Haynes, chilling!

Onemorefortheroad · 07/10/2019 22:07

You can sign up for 'Kind of Book' email - daily email with cheap kindle books and can specify thriller genre!

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purplerainpurplerain · 07/10/2019 22:05

Thanks all will check them out

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commanderdalgliesh · 07/10/2019 21:39

Nicci French. There's a new one out.

EauDeChlorine · 07/10/2019 21:34

Blood orange by H Tyce
Tideline by P Hancock - mixed reviews but I enjoyed this one.

tobee · 04/10/2019 21:43

Was intrigued by @rosegoldwatcher comment re the two Mark Edwards. So I did some research. The one to avoid is called Mark A Edwards!! Confused

Deecaff · 04/10/2019 18:13

Our House by Louise Candlish
Exposure by Helen Dunmore - set in the 1950s / cold war but I'd still class it as a domestic thriller

rosegoldwatcher · 04/10/2019 17:54

@TheCanterburyWhales - re Mark Edwards; OP and all should be aware that there are two authors called Mark Edwards writing domestic thrillers. The one to buy is he who wrote Magpies, Here To Stay, In Her Shadow etc. (He also writes good stuff with Louise Voss.)
There is another Mark Edwards whose writing is abysmal! His reviews tend to be 1 Star with comments like, "Never read such drivel."

TheCanterburyWhales · 04/10/2019 13:30

Mark Edwards is good. Some of Teresa Driscoll not bad. Most of Mark Edwards' books were on Kindle Unlimited last month so you can read them for free.
Also check out the 99p daily offers, though a lot of them are a bit rubbish. The "psycho neighbour/best friend from hell who turns out to be in cahoots with your sister/husband" genre is spawning as much crap as the "chick lit" genre did 20 years ago.
Avoid like the plague any of the "couldn't put it down it was so terrifying and I never saw the twist coming" reviews on Amazon, most of them are awful- I sent Shari Lapiena back for my 99p refund it was so awful.

ChessieFL · 04/10/2019 13:26

Clare Mackintosh also good (although not the he latest which is a completely different type of book).

Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant

rosegoldwatcher · 04/10/2019 09:34

Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris is one of the most frightening but enjoyable domestic thrillers I have read in the last few years. (It is £2.99 on Kindle atm.)

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