If You Love Sharp Objects, You'll Be Obsessed With These 8 Thrillers

Gillian Flynn is the queen of the psychological thriller, and we'll fight anyone who says otherwise. However, Gone Girl is so three years ago — now we're all about Sharp Objects, Flynn's equally haunting debut novel. Sharp Objects tells the story of a crime journalist who returns to her hometown of Wind Gap, MI, to investigate the mysterious murder of a young girl. HBO's adaptation is sure to be fire (hello, Amy Adams!), but if you're looking for more Sharp Objects realness, these eight thrillers will be right up your alley.

Don't blame us if you have nightmares after reading — that just means these books are seriously creepy reads.

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The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones
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The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

In Holly Goddard Jones's debut novel, The Next Time You See, Ronnie Eastman vanishes after leaving a late-night bar in a small Kentucky town, and the search for Ronnie connects her sister, Susanne, with a former baseball star turned detective, an awkward teen, and a local factory worker, their four narratives working together to solve the mystery of what happened to Ronnie.

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Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach
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Dead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach

In Dead Letters, Caite Dolan-Leach tells the story of Ava, who is forced to fly home from her new life in Paris to her parents' failing vineyard in upstate New York when she learns of the death of her twin sister, Zelda. However, given Zelda's penchant for tricks, Ava can't help but suspect Zelda is still alive — especially once she starts to receive a cryptic trail of clues.

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The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel
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The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

In Amy Engel's The Roanoke Girls, Lane Roanoke learns that her cousin, Allegra, has gone missing, and she returns to her grandparents' estate in rural Kansas to help out with the search, hoping to assuage her guilt for abandoning Allegra 11 years before when she learned the dark truth about their family.

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The Secrets You Keep by Kate White
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The Secrets You Keep by Kate White

In Kate White's The Secrets You Keep a self-help author, Bryn Harper, is already troubled by recurring nightmares of her devastating car accident when she encounters a new issue: her husband, Guy, seems to be hiding something. When a woman hired to cater their dinner party is brutally murdered, Bryn must turn to her dreams to unlock the truth and reveal the murderer.

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The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell
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The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell's The Girls in the Garden tells the story of Pip and Grace, two sisters displaced to their mother's home in an idyllic London community after their father suffers a psychiatric break. Though the community seems safe, Pip discovers Grace unconscious and gravely injured in the garden during a neighborhood party, causing the community members to question how well they really know one another.

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Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia
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Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia

Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia tells the story of Hattie Hoffman, an 18-year-old aspiring actress who is found brutally stabbed in an abandoned barn in her rural Minnesota community. When Sheriff Del Goodman starts to investigate the high school senior's final days, he discovers her dangerous online relationship, and he's forced to question whether Hattie was a victim or a master manipulator — or perhaps both.

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Bonfire by Krysten Ritter
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Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

In Krysten Ritter's Bonfire, a Chicago environmental lawyer, Abby Williams, must return to her hometown of Barrens, IN, to investigate the town's most high-profile company, and when she unwillingly immerses herself in the life she left behind, Abby discovers strange connections between a decade-old scandal and the economic heart of the community.

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The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
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The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James tells the story of journalist Fiona Sheridan, who is haunted by the death of her older sister 20 years earlier. Though her sister's old boyfriend was tried and convicted of murder when her body was found near the ruins of Idlewild Hall, Fiona still feels that something in the case isn't right, and she decides to investigate the mysterious Idlewild Hall.