Books like The House in the Pines
The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes reads as suspenseful, unsettling. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What The House in the Pines is like to read
A woman's buried trauma is dragged back into the present by a viral video, and the book unspools as a tense, twisty reckoning with memory and guilt. Best for: readers who want a psychological thriller built around a friend's death and suppressed memory.
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware · 2016
A claustrophobic locked-ship thriller built on the gaslighting nightmare of witnessing a murder no one believes happened.
The Guest List
Lucy Foley · 2020
A tightly wound murder mystery anchored by claustrophobic island setting and interweaving suspect perspectives, where a wedding's veneer of glamour masks old resentments and class tensions that turn lethal.
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave · 2021
A breakneck domestic thriller in which a new wife and reluctant stepdaughter chase the truth of a vanished husband — propulsive twists layered over an unexpected family bond forming under pressure.
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena · 2016
A twist-driven domestic suspense that trades on marital secrets and a missing baby, hurtling through short chapters and shifting suspicions.
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
A queasy, booze-blurred spiral through three women's overlapping obsessions, told in short first-person chapters that keep flipping the ground under you.
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell · 2017
A domestic suspense that unspools a decade-old disappearance through short, alternating chapters, tightening into dread as a new romance edges too close to the missing daughter's ghost.
THE DIVORCE
Freida McFadden · 2025
A fast, twisty domestic thriller built for one-sitting bingeing — short chapters, an unreliable confiding narrator, and a late-stage rug-pull are McFadden's signature.
Lock Every Door
Todd Ritter · 2019
A broke, grieving heroine takes a too-good-to-be-true gig in a Gothic Manhattan building and finds its glamour hiding something predatory — a claustrophobic, page-turning contemporary thriller built on mounting dread.
Count My Lies
Sophie Stava · 2025
Both explore obsession & secrets
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney · 2021
A twisty domestic thriller built on marital secrets and a husband who literally can't recognize his own wife — short chapters, alternating POVs, and a cascade of reveals engineered for weekend-binge propulsion.
The Breakdown
B.A. Paris · 2017
A tense first-person spiral into self-doubt and paranoia, as the protagonist's crumbling memory and mounting guilt make every domestic detail feel threatening.
Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough · 2017
A slippery domestic thriller built around a marriage that feels wrong from page one, with alternating perspectives feeding a twist the marketing openly dares you to guess.
About The House in the Pines — what the genome says
Is The House in the Pines a complete story or a cliffhanger?
The main arc resolves, with wider series threads left open.
How scary is The House in the Pines?
Creepy and atmospheric rather than gory or traumatizing.
Who is The House in the Pines for?
readers who want a psychological thriller built around a friend's death and suppressed memory
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