If I like Lisa Jewell and Louise Candlish...

[BetsyBobbins]

What could you recommend me please?

I like their books (Jewell more than Candlish) and I'm trying to find similar books. I read Nicci French the other day and I really didn't like it, I thought it was badly written and predictable.

I like my murder mysteries and thrillers like The Girl on the Train and the above, what can you recommend me please? Thanks

Hope you enjoy..I just started her new book a game of lies which is the second in the DCI Morgan series

Another vote for Cara Hunter

I like Lisa Jewell too- currently on another Paula Hawkins one-

Mind you I like Nicci French too

I love a psychological thriller and current writers I like are Sabine Durant, Erin Kelly and Nicki French (but NOT the Frida Kline series - shit and all the characters are annoying and not in a good way)

I would however definitely recommend Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine (same person!). She is the queen of psychological thrillers and so much better than some of the authors mentioned on this thread - whose books I have read and enjoyed but they are like going to Nando’s vs a fabulous meal you never forget. Erin Kelly is very open that she is heavily influenced by Ruth Rendell btw.

Everything in her books unfolds in slow motion and you almost want to “look away” as the story unravels. Not all of RR/BV as good but I would recommend:

A Dark Adapted Eye (Barbara Vine)
Going Wrong (Ruth Rendell)
A judgement in stone (RR)
A Fatal Inversion (BV)
The lake of Darkness (RR)

Honestly once you have read these you will realise what a load of shite there is out there masquerading as psychological thriller fiction. I am looking at you BA Paris

You can’t bear Clare Mckintosh, that one you have but also the other two ‘early’ ones which were published - ‘let me lie’ and ‘I let you go’ are brilliant for the twists.

on a similar vein - ‘into the darkest corner’ by Elizabeth Haynes has stuck with me a long time.

Ooh I like Lisa Jewell!

I recommend K L Slater (Blink is very good!)

Also Diane Chamberlain (Dream daughter and the Silent Sister are so good have read both twice in the past year)

Alice Hunter- the serial killers wife (though this is the only book of hers I've read so far but I loved it)

Have a look at Claire Allan, not her early chicklit stuff but her last 5/6 psychological books I found really good.

Sophie Hannah books might fit the bill

Glad I opened this thread as I've got a few suggestions now.

@Tootingbec I'm glad you agree the Frieda Klein series has got annoying characters, I didn't care about any of them. Maybe I'll try another book of theirs and see how it goes.

Ruth Rendell, this is someone I need to get reacquainted with. I read one book of hers ages ago and I need to catch up with the other ones. Not to be nostalgic, but sometimes I re read an Agatha Christie and think, "Who would be writing like that these days?", and the answer is no one, sadly. PD James, Christie, Rendell, who can be their successor(s)?

I think my problem is that I read one too many crime books and watched a lot of Scandi drama, so there's very little in terms of plot that I don't see it coming miles ahead.

I don't really think Jewell and Candlish are exceptional writers but I think they're good enough. Candlish is enjoyable because she's got a thing for making middle class people suffer (I'm not a classist, I swear!).

What do you all think of Val McDermid's Karen Pirie series?

I've watched Wolf (BBC IPlayer) last week and I loved it! It got me interested in the books of Mo Hayder but I saw that nearly all of them have a paedophilia (sub)plot going on and it is obvious you'd have to space them out a bit otherwise it'd be too heavy I think

I loved wolf too so was thinking of trying some mo hayder.

I really enjoy many of Lisa Jewell's books too. I would recommend Diane Chamberlain as another of my current favourites.

Mo Haydee books are good but DARK. Ruth Rendell v good. You'd like Ruth Ware I think.

I also don't think Nicci French is up to much 😂

*Hayder

I'm making my way through Lisa Jewell books on my kindle . They are so enjoyable to read and you can pick them up and put them down like a magazine that is always there .

I'm going to read through this thread but add Heidi Perks . She has a new one out called the last resort I'm going to read next .

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty is a good one. Out of the writers mentioned, I rate Claire Mackintosh-I’ve read lots of the others as 99p deals on Kindle and think that they’re worth that. Rachel Abbott and Mark Edwards are prolific on Kindle and pretty decent.Early Harlan Coben is very good-try Tell No One. Lots of his books have been adapted as TV. I liked Alys Always by Harriet Lane-more interesting g than the usual. And do read Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller if you haven’t already-a classic for a reason.

Erin Kelly. The Burning Air has one of the best twists ever.

I liked “everyone here is lying “ or similar

I agree with every word of this post!

I finished I See You by Clare Mckintosh

What did you think? I just finished game of lies....its part of a series but I didn't enjoy it as the first one.

I have just ordered an Erin Kelly off the back of this thread..and am going to try some barbara vine/ruth rendall

Hit send before finish typing, ugh!
So, I finished I See You by Clare Mackintosh (correct sp). It was going well until the end, which I thought it dragged on a bit and was slightly of the "mmm, really?" variety. (I said I was fussy).

I bought Ruth Rendell's A Demon in my View for £0.99 on Apple Books, will start asap

I love Lisa Jewell and I don’t care what anyone else thinks about that 😂 Have recently read Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent and thought it was brilliant.

Hi @Helpmefly see my post above.

Erin Kelly is next on my list 👍🏼

Well I am firmly of the view there are no "good" books...just books you like or dislike!

Whilst I await my books I've ordered I have a choice between the third of a jojo moyes series or a some japenese books in translation .....