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If you loved a missing person nobody believes in
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware
Why Matchbook recommends it: A journalist on a luxury cruise sees a woman thrown overboard — but no one is missing.
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Books Like The Paris Apartment
The Paris Apartment sends Jess to her brother's elegant Paris building only to find him missing — and every resident, from the concierge to the wealthy family upstairs, hiding something. Readers looking for books like The Paris Apartment want atmospheric locked-building suspense, a cast of neighbours who are all suspects, shifting narrators and twists that reframe what you thought you knew.
Our picks
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If you loved a house full of secrets
The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell
Why Matchbook recommends it: A woman inherits a London mansion where a cult-like tragedy once took place.
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If you loved a building with a dark history
The Girl Before
JP Delaney
Why Matchbook recommends it: A woman moves into a minimalist house with strict rules and learns about the previous tenant's death.
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If you loved a secretive, elite world
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides
Why Matchbook recommends it: A therapist investigates murders at Cambridge University centred on a mysterious secret society.
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If you loved a stylish European setting and twists
The Chalet
Catherine Cooper
Why Matchbook recommends it: A French Alps ski chalet, a death twenty years earlier and guests who are not who they seem.
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If you loved watching the neighbours
The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn
Why Matchbook recommends it: A reclusive woman spying on the family across the street believes she has witnessed a crime — the same unreliable, claustrophobic building-bound suspense.
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If you loved neighbours hiding the truth
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica
Why Matchbook recommends it: A missing woman returns years later in a suburban neighbourhood where everyone has kept secrets.
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