Books Like The It Girl

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Imogen Church narrates Ruth Ware's Oxford murder mystery with the controlled distress of a woman who can't stop pulling at a thread she knows will unravel everything — her voice holds the guilt and the grief together across 17 hours of slow revelation. The recommendations lean into the same psychological suspense rhythm, with several highly rated picks for readers who want the same quality of female protagonist navigating secrets she was complicit in keeping.

10 books for fans of The It Girl

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    Portrait in Death cover

    Portrait in Death

    In Death • Book 16

    by J.D. Robb

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    When a news station receives professional photos of a murder victim taken after her death, Eve Dallas realizes she's hunting a killer who believes photography captures the soul.

    4.39 Goodreads (42.3K ratings)
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    Celebrity in Death cover

    Celebrity in Death

    In Death • Book 34

    by J.D. Robb

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    Robb explores the strange intersection of reality and fiction as Dallas investigates a murder at a party celebrating a movie based on her own cases—where the victim was playing her.

    4.33 Goodreads (30.2K ratings)
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    Security Hounds Investigations Books 1-3/Tracking The Truth/Fugitive Search/Hunted On The Trail

    Security Hounds Investigations • Book 1

    by Dana Mentink

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    Search-and-rescue dogs drive these romantic mysteries, tracking missing persons through wilderness settings. Mentink combines realistic canine training details with faith-based romantic suspense across three connected cases.

    5.00 Goodreads (2 ratings)
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    Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

    by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor

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    Twenty-five years of The Strand Magazine's finest short fiction distills masters like Jo Nesbø's Nordic noir and Ray Bradbury's imagination into bite-sized revelations. Each story represents a different flavor of literary excellence.

    4.67 Goodreads (3 ratings)
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    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright cover

    Nora Roberts Collection 5: Midnight Bayou, Chesapeake Blue, and Birthright

    by Nora Roberts, Sandra Burr, James Daniels, Bernadette Quigley

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    Declan Fitzgerald impulsively buys a crumbling New Orleans mansion, beginning renovations that awaken both supernatural mysteries and unexpected romance in the bayou.

    4.51 Goodreads (1.3K ratings)
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    Payback in Death

    In Death • Book 57

    by J.D. Robb

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    A retired Internal Affairs captain's staged suicide exposes decades of police corruption as Dallas investigates enemies within her own department's history.

    4.46 Goodreads (26.0K ratings)
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    Black Mirror: A Cait Reagan Novel (Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit Book 2)

    Boston Preternatural Investigations Unit • Book 2

    by Aoibh Wood

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    Seemingly cured of her vampire curse, Detective Cait Reagan faces new supernatural threats while caring for her brain-damaged mother.

    4.43 Goodreads (394 ratings)
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    Encore in Death

    In Death • Book 56

    by J.D. Robb

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    Broadway and Hollywood power couple's charity gala turns fatal when the host dies from cyanide poisoning, exposing decades of entertainment industry rivalries.

    4.40 Goodreads (25.9K ratings)
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    Leverage in Death

    In Death • Book 47

    by J.D. Robb

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    Eve Dallas hunts the mastermind behind a suicide bombing that killed twelve—but the bomber was just another victim in a twisted financial revenge scheme.

    4.39 Goodreads (24.2K ratings)
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    Kindred in Death

    In Death • Book 29

    by J.D. Robb

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    Eve Dallas confronts every parent's nightmare when a NYPSD captain and his wife return from vacation to find their sixteen-year-old daughter brutally murdered in her bedroom.

    4.37 Goodreads (27.9K ratings)