50 Books like A Keeper

The Midnight Hour

by Eve Chase • 2024

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

4.00

12k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery

The Midnight Hour 93%

A Notting Hill garden excavation threatens to expose the body a novelist buried at seventeen.

by Eve Chase 2024

4.00

12k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💀 Skeleton Discovery

Dying to Meet You

by Sarina Bowen • 2025

A single mother restoring a Gothic mansion finds her ex murdered outside. The building knows why.

3.80

8k+

🏚️ Gothic Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👩‍👧 Single Mother Protagonist

Dying to Meet You 93%

A single mother restoring a Gothic mansion finds her ex murdered outside. The building knows why.

by Sarina Bowen 2025

3.80

8k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👩‍👧 Single Mother Protagonist

The Chambermaid's Key

by Genevieve Graham • 2026

Toronto's Dominion Hotel. A chambermaid finds a mob ledger. Then murder pins it on her.

4.21

1k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Narrative ☘️ Irish Diaspora 🌿 Generational Healing

The Chambermaid's Key 93%

Toronto's Dominion Hotel. A chambermaid finds a mob ledger. Then murder pins it on her.

by Genevieve Graham 2026

4.21

1k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Narrative ☘️ Irish Diaspora 🌿 Generational Healing

The Forgotten Midwife

by Laura Anthony • 2026

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

4.43

2k+

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life

The Forgotten Midwife 93%

A hidden birth certificate pulls a bride-to-be toward Ireland and a family she never knew existed.

by Laura Anthony 2026

4.43

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Magdalene Laundries ⏳ Dual Timeline Saga ⛪ Forced Convent Life

The Mountains Wild

by Sarah Stewart Taylor • 2020

A Long Island detective returns to Ireland when her vanished cousin's scarf turns up with remains.

3.83

5k+

🔎 Cold Case Investigation 🔐 Family Secrets ⏳ Dual Timelines

The Mountains Wild 93%

A Long Island detective returns to Ireland when her vanished cousin's scarf turns up with remains.

by Sarah Stewart Taylor 2020

3.83

5k+ ratings

🔎 Cold Case Investigation 🔐 Family Secrets ⏳ Dual Timelines

The Women on Platform Two

by Laura Anthony • 2025

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

4.41

32k+

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity

The Women on Platform Two 93%

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

by Laura Anthony 2025

4.41

32k+ ratings

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity

The Seven Sisters

by Lucinda Riley • 2014

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

4.20

199k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery

The Seven Sisters 93%

A stone and coordinates send a woman to Rio, where a 1920s affair reveals her origin.

by Lucinda Riley 2014

4.20

199k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Saga 🔍 Adoption Mystery

Number Thirty-Two

by Cassie Steward • 2023

A hoarding widow forced to sell her crumbling house unearths the secrets that destroyed her family.

4.06

8k+

🏡 Family Saga ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Intergenerational Trauma

Number Thirty-Two 93%

A hoarding widow forced to sell her crumbling house unearths the secrets that destroyed her family.

by Cassie Steward 2023

4.06

8k+ ratings

🏡 Family Saga ⏳ Dual Timeline 💔 Intergenerational Trauma

The House We Grew Up In

by Lisa Jewell • 2013

Four siblings, a hoarded house, and the Easter tragedy that broke them.

3.78

126k+

🏡 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 👩‍👧 Complicated Mothers

The House We Grew Up In 93%

Four siblings, a hoarded house, and the Easter tragedy that broke them.

by Lisa Jewell 2013

3.78

126k+ ratings

🏡 Family Saga 🤫 Family Secrets 👩‍👧 Complicated Mothers

The Heiress

by Rachel Hawkins • 2024

He inherited the estate of a mother who married four times and buried every husband.

3.83

185k+

🏚️ Gothic Family Saga 🔍 Domestic Suspense 🕷️ Deadly Matriarch

The Heiress 93%

He inherited the estate of a mother who married four times and buried every husband.

by Rachel Hawkins 2024

3.83

185k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Family Saga 🔍 Domestic Suspense 🕷️ Deadly Matriarch

Beneath the Stairs

by Jennifer Fawcett • 2022

She returns to a haunted house after a friend's suicide attempt to face the basement they buried.

3.55

5k+

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma

Beneath the Stairs 93%

She returns to a haunted house after a friend's suicide attempt to face the basement they buried.

by Jennifer Fawcett 2022

3.55

5k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

4.31

25k+

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters

The Lost Letters of Aisling 93%

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2024

4.31

25k+ ratings

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters

A Secret Kept

by Tatiana de Rosnay • 2009

Revisiting their childhood island, siblings uncover the forbidden love behind their mother's death.

3.37

29k+

🔍 Family Mystery 🏳️‍🌈 Hidden Queer Past 🧠 Repressed Memory

A Secret Kept 93%

Revisiting their childhood island, siblings uncover the forbidden love behind their mother's death.

by Tatiana de Rosnay 2009

3.37

29k+ ratings

🔍 Family Mystery 🏳️‍🌈 Hidden Queer Past 🧠 Repressed Memory

The Daughters of Block Island

by Christa Carmen • 2023

A lawyer discovers a dead sister and a gothic mansion's secrets on a rain-lashed island.

3.79

7k+

🌊 Coastal Gothic 🧩 Hidden Sibling 💔 Estranged Sisters

The Daughters of Block Island 93%

A lawyer discovers a dead sister and a gothic mansion's secrets on a rain-lashed island.

by Christa Carmen 2023

3.79

7k+ ratings

🌊 Coastal Gothic 🧩 Hidden Sibling 💔 Estranged Sisters

Where I End

by Sophie White • 2022

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

3.83

6k+

🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror

Where I End 92%

Bound to her decaying mother on a bleak island, she craves the visiting artist and her newborn.

by Sophie White 2022

3.83

6k+ ratings

🌊 Irish Gothic 🦴 Body Horror ✒️ Literary Horror

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield • 2006

A dying author summons a biographer to her decaying estate for one last story: the truth.

3.98

328k+

🏚️ Modern Gothic 📖 Metafiction 👯 Twin Sisters

The Thirteenth Tale 92%

A dying author summons a biographer to her decaying estate for one last story: the truth.

by Diane Setterfield 2006

3.98

328k+ ratings

🏚️ Modern Gothic 📖 Metafiction 👯 Twin Sisters

The Forgotten Garden

by Kate Morton • 2008

A foundling's fairy tale book leads to a Cornish garden and a family's buried secret.

4.16

243k+

🏡 Multigenerational Saga 🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👑 Secret Lineage

The Forgotten Garden 92%

A foundling's fairy tale book leads to a Cornish garden and a family's buried secret.

by Kate Morton 2008

4.16

243k+ ratings

🏡 Multigenerational Saga 🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 👑 Secret Lineage

The Christie Affair

by Nina de Gramont • 2022

Agatha Christie disappears, and only her husband's mistress knows the secret an Irish convent holds.

3.71

100k+

💔 The Other Woman ⛪ Magdalene Laundries 👶 Stolen Child

The Christie Affair 92%

Agatha Christie disappears, and only her husband's mistress knows the secret an Irish convent holds.

by Nina de Gramont 2022

3.71

100k+ ratings

💔 The Other Woman ⛪ Magdalene Laundries 👶 Stolen Child

When We Believed in Mermaids

by Barbara O'Neal • 2019

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

4.17

247k+

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline

When We Believed in Mermaids 92%

An ER doctor spots her dead sister on TV and chases the truth to New Zealand.

by Barbara O'Neal 2019

4.17

247k+ ratings

👯 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Hidden Identity ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Family Upstairs

by Lisa Jewell • 2019

At twenty-five, Libby inherits a mansion: three bodies, missing siblings, a stranger still inside.

3.95

577k+

🔍 Domestic Suspense 🕯️ Cult Household 🏛️ Inherited Mansion

The Family Upstairs 92%

At twenty-five, Libby inherits a mansion: three bodies, missing siblings, a stranger still inside.

by Lisa Jewell 2019

3.95

577k+ ratings

🔍 Domestic Suspense 🕯️ Cult Household 🏛️ Inherited Mansion

The Night I Died

by Anne Frasier • 2023

To clear a childhood friend of murder, a PI confronts the Kansas town she cannot remember.

3.96

7k+

🏚️ Small Town Gothic 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

The Night I Died 92%

To clear a childhood friend of murder, a PI confronts the Kansas town she cannot remember.

by Anne Frasier 2023

3.96

7k+ ratings

🏚️ Small Town Gothic 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔗 Generational Trauma

Tell Me What I Am

by Una Mannion • 2023

Her mother disappeared. Her father raised her on a remote island. Now the hidden letters surface.

3.92

3k+

🖋️ Literary Thriller 🏠 Domestic Suspense 💔 Absent Mother

Tell Me What I Am 92%

Her mother disappeared. Her father raised her on a remote island. Now the hidden letters surface.

by Una Mannion 2023

3.92

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Thriller 🏠 Domestic Suspense 💔 Absent Mother

Gone Tonight

by Sarah Pekkanen • 2023

A nurse discovers her mother's early dementia hides a stolen identity and a killer closing in.

3.82

37k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏠 Domestic Suspense 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Gone Tonight 92%

A nurse discovers her mother's early dementia hides a stolen identity and a killer closing in.

by Sarah Pekkanen 2023

3.82

37k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🏠 Domestic Suspense 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

Drowning in Paper Flowers

by E.L. Westbury • 2024

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

4.15

33k+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets

Drowning in Paper Flowers 92%

Her husband's mistress came from the Southern town she fled, bringing the past into her kitchen.

by E.L. Westbury 2024

4.15

33k+ ratings

🥀 Southern Gothic 🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔒 Family Secrets

Hide and Seek

by Andrea Mara • 2022

A mother moves into a house where a child vanished at hide and seek. Neighbors know why.

4.05

11k+

🔍 Psychological Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👧 Missing Child

Hide and Seek 92%

A mother moves into a house where a child vanished at hide and seek. Neighbors know why.

by Andrea Mara 2022

4.05

11k+ ratings

🔍 Psychological Suspense 🏠 Domestic Thriller 👧 Missing Child

The Turnglass

by Gareth Rubin • 2023

A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.

3.46

7k+

🔀 Dual Timeline Mystery 🕯️ Literary Gothic 🔐 Generational Secrets

The Turnglass 92%

A doctor uncovers a woman sealed behind glass whose silence guards a family's darkest crimes.

by Gareth Rubin 2023

3.46

7k+ ratings

🔀 Dual Timeline Mystery 🕯️ Literary Gothic 🔐 Generational Secrets

The Story She Left Behind

by Patti Callahan Henry • 2025

An American illustrator hunts her vanished mother's dictionary in a London paralyzed by deadly smog.

4.02

34k+

📜 Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother

The Story She Left Behind 92%

An American illustrator hunts her vanished mother's dictionary in a London paralyzed by deadly smog.

by Patti Callahan Henry 2025

4.02

34k+ ratings

📜 Dual Timeline Mystery 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother

The Lost Heiress

by Elizabeth Klehfoth • 2025

A storm unearths bones at a seaside estate, reopening the cold case of a vanished heiress.

4.18

11k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔍 Cold Case Mystery

The Lost Heiress 92%

A storm unearths bones at a seaside estate, reopening the cold case of a vanished heiress.

by Elizabeth Klehfoth 2025

4.18

11k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🏚️ Modern Gothic 🔍 Cold Case Mystery

The Minotaur

by Barbara Vine • 2005

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

3.65

3k+

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense

The Minotaur 92%

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

by Barbara Vine 2005

3.65

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense

What the Wind Knows

by Amy Harmon • 2019

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

4.36

114k+

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

What the Wind Knows 92%

A writer tumbles into 1921 Ireland, mistaken for her ancestor, and falls for a rebel doctor.

by Amy Harmon 2019

4.36

114k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Slip Romance 🇮🇪 Irish Independence 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family

The Girls Before

by Kate Alice Marshall • 2026

A search expert chasing a missing girl uncovers a hidden bunker and a family's buried crimes.

3.65

9k+

🖤 Modern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🗣️ Dual Narrative

The Girls Before 92%

A search expert chasing a missing girl uncovers a hidden bunker and a family's buried crimes.

by Kate Alice Marshall 2026

3.65

9k+ ratings

🖤 Modern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Secrets 🗣️ Dual Narrative

The Villa

by Rachel Hawkins • 2023

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

3.62

158k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry

The Villa 92%

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

by Rachel Hawkins 2023

3.62

158k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry

The Letter

by Kathryn Hughes • 2013

A woman in a violent marriage finds a 1939 love letter and vows to deliver it.

4.06

67k+

🕰️ Dual Timelines ✉️ Lost Letter 💔 Domestic Abuse

The Letter 92%

A woman in a violent marriage finds a 1939 love letter and vows to deliver it.

by Kathryn Hughes 2013

4.06

67k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timelines ✉️ Lost Letter 💔 Domestic Abuse

The Invited

by Jennifer McMahon • 2019

A house built from a witch's curse. A girl digging for treasure. A bog that never forgets.

3.80

45k+

🖤 Rural Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🔍 Missing Mother

The Invited 92%

A house built from a witch's curse. A girl digging for treasure. A bog that never forgets.

by Jennifer McMahon 2019

3.80

45k+ ratings

🖤 Rural Gothic 👻 Haunted House 🔍 Missing Mother

Like Mother, Like Mother

by Susan Rieger • 2024

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

3.77

19k+

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets

Like Mother, Like Mother 92%

A trailblazing editor's death leaves her daughter to find the grandmother who walked away.

by Susan Rieger 2024

3.77

19k+ ratings

🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 👻 Absent Mother 🤫 Family Secrets

In the Woods

by Tana French • 2007

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

3.78

443k+

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense

In the Woods 92%

Returning to the woods where his friends vanished, a Dublin detective probes a child's murder.

by Tana French 2007

3.78

443k+ ratings

👮 Police Procedural 📚 Literary Crime 🧠 Psychological Suspense

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

by Lars Mytting • 2014

A carved coffin from Shetland sends a Norwegian farmer into a family mystery from the Somme.

4.09

12k+

🏠 Family Saga 🔍 Historical Mystery 💔 Generational Trauma

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme 92%

A carved coffin from Shetland sends a Norwegian farmer into a family mystery from the Somme.

by Lars Mytting 2014

4.09

12k+ ratings

🏠 Family Saga 🔍 Historical Mystery 💔 Generational Trauma

Like Mother, Like Daughter

by Kimberly McCreight • 2024

Her mother disappeared from their Brooklyn brownstone. The blood was just the beginning.

3.65

36k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔍 Missing Persons 🔐 Family Secrets

Like Mother, Like Daughter 92%

Her mother disappeared from their Brooklyn brownstone. The blood was just the beginning.

by Kimberly McCreight 2024

3.65

36k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔍 Missing Persons 🔐 Family Secrets

Horrid

by Katrina Leno • 2020

A girl moves into the family's crumbling manor, where a dead sister watches from the mirrors.

3.54

16k+

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 👻 Secret Sister

Horrid 92%

A girl moves into the family's crumbling manor, where a dead sister watches from the mirrors.

by Katrina Leno 2020

3.54

16k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 👻 Secret Sister

Saoirse

by Charleen Hurtubise • 2026

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

3.96

5k+

📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family

Saoirse 92%

An American mother in Donegal has a stolen name. Her past is painted into every canvas.

by Charleen Hurtubise 2026

3.96

5k+ ratings

📖 Trauma Narrative 🎭 Stolen Identity 🫂 Found Family

Elizabeth Is Missing

by Emma Healey • 2014

Her friend is gone. Her memory is failing. But the real mystery was buried decades ago.

3.71

72k+

🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 📖 Literary Mystery

Elizabeth Is Missing 92%

Her friend is gone. Her memory is failing. But the real mystery was buried decades ago.

by Emma Healey 2014

3.71

72k+ ratings

🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 📖 Literary Mystery

The Witch Elm

by Tana French • 2018

An assault fractures his memory. A skull in his uncle's garden. The prime suspect: himself.

3.58

111k+

🖋️ Literary Crime 🔍 Psychological Suspense 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Witch Elm 92%

An assault fractures his memory. A skull in his uncle's garden. The prime suspect: himself.

by Tana French 2018

3.58

111k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Crime 🔍 Psychological Suspense 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Secret

by Kathryn Hughes • 2016

Beth's son needs a kidney. A hidden letter names the father she never knew existed.

4.16

17k+

🔄 Dual Timeline Drama 👶 Abandoned Baby 🔐 Family Secrets

The Secret 92%

Beth's son needs a kidney. A hidden letter names the father she never knew existed.

by Kathryn Hughes 2016

4.16

17k+ ratings

🔄 Dual Timeline Drama 👶 Abandoned Baby 🔐 Family Secrets

The Truth Is a Lie

by CherAnn Wright • 2025

When her daughter talks to a dead twin's ghost, a woman's buried childhood secret claws free.

4.22

235

🩸 Generational Trauma 🌑 Cursed Bloodline 👥 Surviving Twin Guilt

The Truth Is a Lie 92%

When her daughter talks to a dead twin's ghost, a woman's buried childhood secret claws free.

by CherAnn Wright 2025

4.22

235 ratings

🩸 Generational Trauma 🌑 Cursed Bloodline 👥 Surviving Twin Guilt

Little Cruelties

by Liz Nugent • 2020

Two brothers bury the third, each knowing the other could have saved him.

3.76

17k+

🍀 Irish Family Drama 💔 Sibling Rivalry 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator

Little Cruelties 92%

Two brothers bury the third, each knowing the other could have saved him.

by Liz Nugent 2020

3.76

17k+ ratings

🍀 Irish Family Drama 💔 Sibling Rivalry 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator

The Forgotten Locket

by Kathryn Hughes • 2019

Summoned to a London vault, a woman finds a monk's letter: her mother, lost forty years, may live.

4.24

9k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother

The Forgotten Locket 92%

Summoned to a London vault, a woman finds a monk's letter: her mother, lost forty years, may live.

by Kathryn Hughes 2019

4.24

9k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Saga 🔐 Family Secrets 💔 Missing Mother

That Green Eyed Girl

by Julie Owen Moylan • 2022

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

3.87

2k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love

That Green Eyed Girl 91%

Decades-old letters pull a teen into the forbidden romance that shattered in her New York apartment.

by Julie Owen Moylan 2022

3.87

2k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Sapphic Historical 💔 Forbidden Love

The Unmaking of June Farrow

by Adrienne Young • 2023

The last Farrow woman crosses a door into 1951, a life she's forgotten, a family she can't leave.

4.11

198k+

💞 Time Travel Romance 🏚️ Generational Saga 🔍 Small Town Secrets

The Unmaking of June Farrow 91%

The last Farrow woman crosses a door into 1951, a life she's forgotten, a family she can't leave.

by Adrienne Young 2023

4.11

198k+ ratings

💞 Time Travel Romance 🏚️ Generational Saga 🔍 Small Town Secrets

Sharp Objects

by Gillian Flynn • 2006

A journalist covering two child murders returns to the hometown and the mother who broke her.

4.00

1.2M+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Mystery 💔 Mother Wound

Sharp Objects 91%

A journalist covering two child murders returns to the hometown and the mother who broke her.

by Gillian Flynn 2006

4.00

1.2M+ ratings

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🏘️ Small-Town Mystery 💔 Mother Wound

Home of the American Circus

by Allison Larkin • 2025

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

4.06

16k+

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family

Home of the American Circus 91%

A bar worker inherits a decaying house and a niece who needs saving from their broken family.

by Allison Larkin 2025

4.06

16k+ ratings

🎭 Family Drama 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family

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