Books Like Reckless Girls

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Barrie Kreinik narrates *Reckless Girls* with a measured cool that suits a story running entirely on concealment — she doesn't editorialize, which means the moments when the facade cracks land harder than they would with a more emotive read. At eight hours, it moves fast enough to keep you off-balance without rushing past the dread. Nearly every recommendation here is also by Kreinik, and they all clock in around that same lean runtime — so if it was her particular restraint and a plot that refuses to let you settle that made this one work, you'll find that same combination running through this list.

10 books for fans of Reckless Girls

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    The Storm

    by Rachel Hawkins

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    Hurricane-prone St. Medard's Bay harbors the unsolved 1984 murder of Landon Fitzroy—until a true crime writer arrives at the storm-weathered Rosalie Inn.

    3.75 Goodreads (20.4K ratings)
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    Code Dead: An International FBI Thriller (Ingrid Skyberg Book 9)

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thrillers • Book 9

    by Eva Hudson

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    A computer virus threatens worldwide digital infrastructure in three days, and only one missing programmer can stop it. Hudson's ninth Skyberg thriller examines how technological dependence creates new vulnerabilities.

    4.55 Goodreads (324 ratings)
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    Flight Risk

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller • Book 7

    by Eva Hudson

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    Ready to abandon her FBI career, Ingrid Skyberg gets arrested for murdering a stranger she's never heard of. Hudson traps her protagonist between unreliable memory and mounting evidence of guilt.

    4.49 Goodreads (334 ratings)
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    Shoot First

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller • Book 4

    by Eva Hudson

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    Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg has 48 hours to locate a missing teenage witness whose testimony will convict a brutal Chicago murderer.

    4.30 Goodreads (401 ratings)
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    The Soulmate

    by Sally Hepworth

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    Gabe and Pippa's clifftop cottage comes with a dark side—people use it as a suicide spot, and Gabe talks them down. But when someone jumps anyway, secrets about their marriage surface in this twisty psychological thriller.

    3.78 Goodreads (188.7K ratings)
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    The Younger Wife

    by Sally Hepworth

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    Stephen Aston's plan to divorce his speechless wife and marry his much younger fiancée horrifies his adult daughters, but everyone in this family harbors secrets that could destroy them all—domestic suspense at its most twisted.

    3.78 Goodreads (121.8K ratings)
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    Deep Hurt: An International FBI Thriller (Ingrid Skyberg Book 3)

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller • Book 3

    by Eva Hudson

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    Eighteen years hunting her best friend's abductor culminates when he kills his daughter and takes his son. Hudson's FBI thriller explores how childhood trauma shapes career choices and the dangerous obsession with cases that hit too close to home.

    4.14 Goodreads (707 ratings)
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    Below Zero: An International FBI Thriller (Ingrid Skyberg Book 5)

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller • Book 5

    by Eva Hudson

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    Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg hits Stockholm during a bombing crisis, carrying out a mission so classified the FBI itself doesn't officially know about it.

    4.10 Goodreads (731 ratings)
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    Kill Plan

    Ingrid Skyberg FBI Thriller • Book 2

    by Eva Hudson

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    FBI agent Ingrid Skyberg becomes a target when seemingly unrelated deaths—a London banker and a tattooed body in the Thames—reveal a serial killer's transatlantic pattern.

    4.07 Goodreads (780 ratings)
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    The Mother’s Secret

    by Kathryn Croft

    3.92 Goodreads (2.1K ratings)