Top 23 Books Like Crave Updated 04 /2024

The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1) by Lisa Jewell

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When Libby Jones gets home from work one day after her twenty-fifth birthday, she finds the letter she's been hoping for her entire life. One thought drives her as she tears it open: I am finally going to find out who I am.

She soon discovers that she is the sole heir to her birth parents' abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, which is worth millions of dollars. In the near future, everything in Libby's life will undergo significant transformations. It's impossible for her to know that others have been anticipating this moment as well, and she's headed straight for them.

At 16 Cheyne Walk, police received a call about a crying baby 25 years ago. Ten-month-old baby girl was happily cooing in her crib when they arrived. Near a hastily scrawled note were three dead bodies found in the kitchen, all dressed in black. Cheyne Walk's four other reported residents, meanwhile, had vanished.

Story of three families living in a house with the darkest of secrets that you can't look away from.

The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay

A quiet lakeside cabin in New Hampshire is the setting for a family vacation for Eric and Andrew and their seven-year-old daughter, Wen. It's more than two miles away from their nearest neighbors on a rocky dirt road.

One afternoon, as Wen is out in the front yard catching grasshoppers, a stranger pulls into the driveway without warning. Wen has never seen a man Leonard's size before, but he's charming, young, and easy to like, so she falls for him right away. Until Leonard suddenly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what is going to happen is your fault," Leonard and Wen play together. The cabin is then invaded by three more strangers, all of whom are carrying menacing objects of unknown origin. Leonard yells as Wen dashes inside to warn her parents: "Let us in, Wen, but your dads won't want us there. They have to, however. In order to save the world, we require your assistance."

Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson

Is it possible to start anew? What about every two weekends?

For a while, Adam Moynihan's life was pretty great. Straight A's, close friends, and a home life that could have come straight out of a 1950s television show. Then his eldest brother died. When he was a child, he had a fun-loving mother who cried all the time, a younger brother who couldn't talk without fighting, and a father he admired who left when they needed him most.

Unlike the movies she enjoys, Jolene Timber's life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. She should know, since she's been imagining her life as a movie since she was a child, and she's an aspiring director. No amount of mental re-editing will bring her the love she craves when her divorced parents are fighting and using her as a pawn.

The boy who thinks forgiveness makes him weak and the girl who thinks love is for fools begin an unlikely friendship when they are forced to spend every other weekend in the same apartment building. Their once-dreaded and eventually-enjoyed weekends were transformed into some of their fondest memories. As their lives begin to heal, they realize that falling in love while surrounded by its demise means nothing is ever guaranteed.

End of Watch (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #3) by Stephen King

Finally, after Mr. Mercedes (Edgar Award winner) and Finders Keepers (New York Times bestseller), comes the spectacular conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy. If Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop the demonic "Mercedes Killer" in End of Watch, they'll become his next victims.

Something is stirring in Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic. Something sinister is afoot. In a vegetative state, Brady Hartsfield, the killer of eight people and injuring many more, has spent the last five years in the hospital. A full recovery is highly unlikely, according to his doctors. Even though Brady appears to be dozed off, he's awake and wielding deadly new powers that allow him to wreak havoc in his hospital room.

Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers' unlikely hero Bill Hodges is now running an investigation agency with Holly Gibney, the woman who delivered the blow to Hartsfield's head that put him on the brain injury ward. On a suicide call, Bill and Holly find themselves drawn into their most dangerous case yet: one that threatens the lives of Bill's heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teen sister, Barbara, as well as their own lives. Resurrected Brady Hartsfield intends to exact vengeance not only upon Hodges and his comrades, but also upon the city itself.

To wrap up Stephen King's Hodges trilogy, End of Watch combines Mr. Mercedes-style detective fiction with heart-pounding, supernatural suspense that has made his books a best-seller. There is a chilling sense of unease as a result of seeing how vulnerable humans are. King is the only one who can pull it off.

The Other Wife by Claire McGowan

The two of us have never met before. But she's aware of your identity...

Suzi committed a heinous act. She's paying the price now, pregnant, terrified, and living in a remote cottage with her jealous husband, Nick, who is envious of her.

Suzi is delighted to have a neighbor when Nora moves into the only house in the neighborhood. So much so that she's on the verge of telling Nora her dreadful secret. Even though she appears normal, there is more to Nora than meets the eye. Surely, she doesn't already know what Suzi did—impossible. it's

Elle, on the other hand, spends her days in her immaculate home, obsessively maintaining her image. As a result, a long-hidden secret from her childhood comes to light. She's willing to commit murder if it means keeping him close. She's done it before...

Amidst their own lies and secrets, these strangers will discover that they share more than they ever thought possible. It will be the turning point in their lives when a shocking event brings them together for the first time.

Shades of Wicked (Night Rebel, #1) by Jeaniene Frost

Ian, the seductive and ruthless vampire from Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series, finally meets his match in this thrilling new Night Rebel series!

The One Who Disobeys...

A master of the undead, Ian is utterly unrepentant, shameless, and depraved. Dagon, a demon who has claimed his soul for two centuries, is just one of many enemies he's had to deal with in his long and varied life. Ian's only hope of escaping Dagon is to team up with a Law Guardian, but Ian has never been one to stick to the rules.

The Legislator

For criminals like Ian, Veritas' normal role is that of police officer, judge, and jury. That being said, she has a personal vendetta against Dagon, so if she can use Ian as a pawn, so be it. In their quest to find the perfect location for their trap, Veritas quickly learns that Ian's devil-may-care roguish persona is actually concealing something far more sinister. And Veritas has some shocking secrets of her own that Ian discovers. In the face of such intense attraction, only one of these two outcomes is possible: love or justice. Each, however, will have disastrous outcomes.

Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2) by Stephen King

Genius, wake up and smell the coffee.

The genius is John Rothstein, a renowned author who hasn't published a book in decades, but whose character, Jimmy Gold, is a household name. Besides the fact that Rothstein has stopped providing books, Morris Bellamy is enraged by the fact that Jimmy Gold, the nonconformist, has sold out to pursue a career in advertising. There is a cache of Gold novels in Morris's murder of Rothstein and looting of Rothstein's safe, but the real prize is the cache of notebooks that Morris leaves behind.

Immediately after hiding the money and the notebooks, Morris gets locked up for another offense. When Pete Saubers, a young boy, discovers the treasure decades later, Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson are tasked with saving Pete and his family from the wrath of Morris, who has been released from prison after 35 years.

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