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Ruth Ware's One by One is Trending at the Library
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If you enjoyed it, or if you're waiting for it, try one of these great read-alikes!
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The escape room
by Megan Goldin
Ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, four ruthless Wall Street high-flyers struggle to put aside rivalries shaped by workplace intimidation, deception and sexual harassment.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Force of nature
by Jane Harper
When one member of a five-woman team of co-workers goes missing during a corporate retreat, federal police agent Aaron Falk uncovers dark secrets in his search for the woman, a whistleblower and major contributor to his latest case.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The hunting party : a novel
by Lucy Foley
A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The cuckoo's calling
by Robert Galbraith
Working as a private investigator, veteran Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, Audiobook CD, and in print
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Since we fell
by Dennis Lehane
Retreating from the world in the aftermath of a traumatizing reporting assignment, Rachel finds happiness with a businessman before witnessing activities surrounding a conspiracy that tests the limits of her fragile psyche.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, Audiobook CD, and in print
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The French girl
by Lexie Elliott
Sharing an idyllic week in a French farmhouse, six university students find their deep bond tested by the arrival of a beautiful woman who undermines their loyalties and ignites tensions before an explosive event that places one of the students under suspicion for the woman's death a decade later. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The kingdom
by Jo Nesbø
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
Available on Overdrive and eReadIllinois
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Something in the water : a novel
by Catherine Steadman
A shocking discovery while on their honeymoon in Bora Bora forces Mark and Erin to make a dangerous choice between speaking out or protecting their secret.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Reputation : a novel
by Sara Shepard
Told in multiple points of view, a story of intrigue, sabotage and secrets follows a tight-knit college community as it is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people’s emails onto an easily searchable database, which results in murder.
Available on Overdrive
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... or try another one of Ruth Ware's psychological crime thrillers:
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The turn of the key
by Ruth Ware
When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unravelling events that led to her incarceration
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The death of Mrs. Westaway
by Ruth Ware
After erroneously receiving a mysterious letter about a large inheritance, Hal attends the deceased's funeral and realizes that something is very, very wrong.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The lying game
by Ruth Ware
In the wake of a woman's horrifying discovery of human remains along a scenic tidal estuary, the members of a once-inseparable clique from a second-rate boarding school near the English Channel reflect on their participation in a dangerous game of deception that contributed to the death of a teacher. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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The woman in cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Assigned to review a luxury cruise, travel journalist Lo Blacklock witnesses a woman being thrown overboard and is baffled when all passengers remain accounted for, a nightmare that unravels as Lo struggles to convince everyone that what she saw was real.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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In a dark, dark wood : a novel
by Ruth Ware
After accepting a friend's invitation to spend a weekend in the English countryside, reclusive Leonora awakens in a hospital badly injured, unable to recall what happened and confronting a growing certainty that someone has died.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, Audiobook CD, and in print
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