Books like The Lying Game
The Lying Game by Sara Shepard reads as mysterious, suspenseful. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What The Lying Game is like to read
A twin steps into her murdered sister's life and has to fake every relationship while the killer watches — a soapy, secret-heavy YA mystery built on constant close calls and reveals. Best for: YA readers who loved Pretty Little Liars and want twisty identity-swap suspense.
One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus · 2017
A Breakfast-Club-meets-whodunit told in rotating teen POVs with short, cliffhangery chapters that keep the pages flying.
Pretty Little Liars
Sara Shepard · 2006
A glossy, gossipy suburban thriller that rotates through four privileged teens as an anonymous blackmailer picks at their secrets — propulsive, soapy, and built on short chapters that end on stings.
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2014
Fragmentary, lyrical first-person from an amnesiac narrator whose gaps ache as much as her memories — a fast, twist-driven summer mystery that lands like a gut-punch.
The daffodil murder
Edgar Wallace · 1921
A classic London murder-mystery premise: a businessman dismisses an employee and is soon found shot dead in Hyde Park, setting up an investigation.
The case of the velvet claws
Erle Stanley Gardner · 1933
A brisk, twisty debut-era Perry Mason case built on shifting alliances and a client who lies as easily as she breathes — dialogue-driven pulp with a hard-nosed lawyer working every angle.
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.
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 Hound of Death and Other Stories [12 stories]
Agatha Christie · 1933
A collection of short, uncanny puzzle-tales that mix Christie's usual clarity with genuine unease — each story delivers a quick jolt of the eerie or unexplained rather than sustained dread.
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.
None of This Is True
Lisa Jewell · 2023
A creeping domestic-thriller premise in which a chance meeting curdles into obsession and invasion; the podcast frame promises a twist-cascade structure with layered POVs and reveals.
The Light of Day
Eric Ambler · 1962
Shares the unreliable + heist thread
The Wife Between Us
Greer Hendricks · 2018
A twisty domestic thriller built on misdirection, inviting readers to assume the wrong story before pulling the rug out; centered on marriage, obsession, and buried truths.
About The Lying Game — what the genome says
Is The Lying Game a complete story or a cliffhanger?
It ends on a cliffhanger — plan on reading the next book.
How scary is The Lying Game?
Creepy and atmospheric rather than gory or traumatizing.
Who is The Lying Game for?
It's young adult — teen protagonists with crossover appeal.
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