Twins in Fiction

Enter the often-perplexing world of twins in these novels available to borrow from the Lititz Public Library.

Dead Letters : A NovelDead Letters by Caite Dolan-Leach
A missing woman leads her twin sister on a scavenger hunt of twisted clues about her disappearance.

Beside Myself by Ann Morgan
Six-year-old twins switch identities for a day, but when one refuses to change back, the other loses her self-confidence and identity, leading to a spiral of behavioral problems and mental illness.

The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath
To honor the vow he made to his dying brother, a man pretends to be his now-dead twin until his sister-in-law gives birth to an heir.

Eleanor : A NovelEleanor by Jason Gurley
When one of a pair of inseparable identical twins dies in a terrible accident, her sister’s life begins to unravel in strange ways.

Mischling by Affinity Konar
In 1944, twin sisters are part of the experimental population of twins at Auschwitz where they experience privileges and horrors unknown to others.

The Sisters by Claire Douglas
After the tragic death of her twin sister leads to a personal breakdown, a woman tries to make a fresh start, but can’t stop looking for her sister’s face in crowds.

The Damned by Andrew Pyper
A man, who has been haunted and terrorized by his dead twin sister for twenty years, decides to silence her for the last time.

Deadlight Hall by Sarah Rayne
Asked by a colleague to investigate a reputedly haunted house, a man seizes the opportunity to investigate the disappearance of twins who vanished near the end of WWII.

The Ice Twins : A NovelThe Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne
Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters died in an accident, a couple is shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and she is actually the twin they believe dead.

The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O’Neill
The twin daughter of a famous French Canadian singer, who grew up with few rules or parental attention, struggles to escape her dysfunctional childhood as well as her brother’s erratic influence.

Identical by Scott Turow
A mayoral candidate’s twin brother is released from prison twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.

The Tin Horse by Janice Steinbert
More than sixty years after her twin sister ran away, cutting off contact with her family forever, a woman is stunned to find a possible hint of her sister’s whereabouts.

Mistaken Identity by Lisa Scottoline
At the trial of a woman accused of killing her policeman boyfriend, a lawyer comes to suspect her client is the victim of a conspiracy and that the judge is in on it.

The Night StrangersThe Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian
After moving to northern New Hampshire, a mother finds herself wondering about the peculiar women in their sparsely populated village and their interest in her fifth-grade twin daughters.

The Stormchasers by Jenna Blum
Twenty years after her bipolar twin brother’s fondness for chasing tornadoes leads to deadly consequences, a woman discovers he has escaped from a psychiatric ward, prompting her to join a band of professional storm chasers in hope of finding him.

The Last Child by John Hart
Years after his family is shattered by the disappearance of his twin sister, a thirteen-year-old boy risks everything in a final, desperate search through the dark side of his hometown.

August 25, 2017