The Girl on a Train Read-Alikes

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is probably this year’s most talked about novel. The story of a woman who becomes emotionally entangled in a murder investigation because of something she witnesses on her daily commute is a thrilling tale of a marriage gone wrong. Psychological suspense and shocking plot twists entice readers of The Girl on the Train as well as these novels available to borrow from the Lititz Public Library.

The End of Everything : A NovelThe End of Everything by Megan Abbott
The last person to see a missing teenage girl is her best friend, a thirteen-year-old who decides to pursue clues she believes the police have missed.

Oblivion by Peter Abrahams
When a private investigator ends up in the hospital with a two-week gap in his memory, he begins a search for what’s missing with scary results.

Just What Kind of Mother Are You? By Paula Daly
A harried mother is blamed when a teen turns up missing.

Gone Girl : A NovelGone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A husband is immediately suspected when his wife disappears on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary.

Tuesday’s Gone by Nicci French
A psychotherapist takes on a case involving the murder of a conman who was found in the apartment of a mentally disturbed woman.

Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey
An elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared.

The Girl Who Disappeared TwiceThe Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane
A team of renegade investigators are hired to find a missing girl.

The Burning Air by Erin Kelly
When a private school headmaster and his family gather at their weekend home for the first time since his wife’s death, a mysterious figure from their past is in their midst.

Man and Wife by Andrew Klavan
A psychiatrist’s perfect life and marriage is turned upside down when he takes on a new patient, a nineteen-year-old whose violent rampage could hold the key to his wife’s hidden past.

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Spending the summers on her family’s private island with her cousins, a teenager struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Told that her younger sister’s death is the result of suicide, a sister sets out to prove murder.

The Killer Next DoorThe Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood
When one of the renters goes missing, residents of a rundown rooming house are pushed into an uneasy alliance not realizing that one of them is a killer.

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
The mother of an academic overachiever, who supposedly jumped to her death at her exclusive private school, gets an anonymous text claiming it wasn’t suicide.

Keeper of the Keys by Perri O’Shaughnessy
When a brilliant architect investigates the disappearance of his wife he uncovers dark secrets in his own past.

What Alice ForgotWhat Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
After a fall, a twenty-nine-year-old woman awakes to discover she’s actually thirty-nine and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce.

Suspect by Michael Robotham
A psychologist faced with a recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a former girlfriend.

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J.Watson
An amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and doctor.

May 1, 2015