{"id":55902,"date":"2025-03-17T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=55902"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:17:33","slug":"readalikes-for-the-crash-by-freida-mcfadden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/readalikes-for-the-crash-by-freida-mcfadden\/","title":{"rendered":"Readalikes for The Crash by Freida McFadden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you’ve been online lately, you may have noticed Freida McFadden gaining popularity amongst psychological thriller readers. A common theme I have noticed in her books is that just when you think you know the end, she adds a twist that surprises us all. Her latest book, The Crash<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, was released in January 2025. Interested in what this book is about? Check out the description below.<\/p>\n

Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with her brother until she can figure out her next move. But she doesn’t realize she’s heading straight into a blizzard.<\/em><\/p>\n

She never arrives at her destination.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stranded in rural Maine with a dead car and broken ankle, Tegan worries she’s made a terrible mistake. Then a miracle occurs: she is rescued by a couple who offers her a room in their warm cabin until the snow clears.<\/em><\/p>\n

But something isn’t right. Tegan believed she was waiting out the storm, but as time ticks by, she comes to realize she is in grave danger. This safe haven isn’t what she thought it was, and staying here may have been her most deadly mistake yet.<\/em><\/p>\n

And now she must do whatever it takes to save herself\u2014and her unborn child.<\/em> – Sourcebooks<\/p>\n

If you’re anxiously waiting for a copy of McFadden’s latest book,\u00a0The Crash<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, we’ve curated a list of books by other authors that are similar to tide you over. These books have been published between 2025 and 2023.<\/p>\n

All books listed below are owned by the Davenport Public Library at the time of this writing. Descriptions are provided by the publishers.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Blue Hour<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Paula Hawkins<\/p>\n

Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.<\/em><\/p>\n

But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.<\/em><\/p>\n

And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge….<\/em> – Mariner Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Business Trip<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jessie Garcia<\/p>\n

IT WAS THEIR CHANCE TO GET AWAY, NOT GO AWAY . . . FOREVER.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stephanie and Jasmine have nothing and everything in common. The two women don\u2019t know each other but have boarded the same plane. Stephanie is on a business trip and Jasmine is fleeing an abusive relationship.<\/em><\/p>\n

After a few days, they text their friends the same exact messages about the same man\u2014soon, the messages become stranger and more erratic. And then the two women vanish. The texts go silent, red flags go up, and panic sets in.<\/em><\/p>\n

When Stephanie and Jasmine are each declared missing and in danger, it begs the question: Who is Trent McCarthy? What did he do to these women\u2014or what did they do to him?<\/em><\/p>\n

Twist upon twist, layer upon layer, nothing is as it seems. The Business Trip takes you on a descent into the depths of a mastermind manipulator. But who is playing whom?<\/em> – St. Martin’s Press<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Daughter of Mine<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Megan Miranda<\/p>\n

Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface\u2026and changing everything. <\/em><\/p>\n

When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake\u2019s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she\u2019s warily drawn back to the town\u2014and people\u2014she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel\u2019s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge\u2026including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother\u2019s disappearance.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster \/ Marysue Rucci Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Nicci French<\/p>\n

On the day of Alec Salter\u2019s fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children\u2014especially fifteen-year-old Etty\u2014grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn\u2019t return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan\u2019s father\u2014and the Salters\u2019 neighbor\u2014 Duncan Ackerley, floating in the river. The police conclude that Duncan and Charlotte were having an affair before he killed her and committed suicide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thirty years later, Morgan Ackerley returns to Glensted with his older brother to make a podcast based on their shared tragedy with the Salters. Alec, stricken with dementia, is entering an elder care facility while Etty helps put his affairs in order. But when the Ackerleys ask to interview the Salters, the entire town gets caught up in the unresolved cases.<\/em><\/p>\n

Allegations fly, secrets come to light, and a suspicious fire leads to a murder. With the podcast making national news, London sends Detective Inspector Maud O\u2019Connor to Glensted to take over the investigation. She will stop at nothing to uncover the truth as a new and terrifying picture of what really happened to Charlotte Salter and Duncan Ackerley emerges.<\/em> – William Morrow Paperbacks<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Killing Cold<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kate Alice Marshall<\/p>\n

A whirlwind romance.<\/em>
\nWhen Theodora Scott met Connor\u2014wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family\u2014she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he\u2019s brought her to Idlewood, his family\u2019s isolated winter retreat, to win over his skeptical relatives.<\/em><\/p>\n

Stay away from Connor Dalton.<\/em>
\nTheo has tried to ignore the threatening messages on her phone, but she can\u2019t ignore the footprints in the snow outside the cabin window or the strange sense of familiarity she has about this place. Then, in a disused cabin, Theo finds something impossible: a photo of herself as a child. A photo taken at Idlewood.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been here before.<\/em>
\nTheo has almost no recollection of her earliest years, but now she begins to piece together the fragments of her memories. Someone here has a shocking secret that they will do anything to keep hidden, and Theo is in terrible danger. Because the Daltons do not lose, and discovering what happened at Idlewood may cost Theo everything. <\/em>– Flatiron Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Last Days of Kira Mullan<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Nicci French<\/p>\n

Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced her to move out of her comfortable flat, she\u2019ll do anything to get back to normal. She and her partner Felix\u2014who has been a saint through her recent troubles\u2014move into a new flat for a fresh start.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy is taking her pills, seeing her therapist, and avoiding unnecessary stress. She\u2019s doing absolutely everything right, but something is still very, very wrong. On the first day in the new flat, she hears them again; the mysterious voices that triggered her first episode. It could just be the unfamiliar sounds of water in the pipes, or the screaming baby across the hall, but deep down she knows something more sinister is going on. Her fears are confirmed when the young woman in the downstairs flat, Kira, is found dead. Felix, her neighbors, and even the police insist it\u2019s a tragic suicide, but the pieces aren\u2019t adding up for Nancy. Can she trust her own instincts, or is it all in her head?<\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Maud O\u2019Connor has misgivings about her colleagues\u2019 investigation of Kira\u2019s death. The boys club at the top seems intent on closing the case as quickly as possible, especially since the only person who thinks it could be anything other than suicide is known to be unreliable. But Maud knows what it\u2019s like to be dismissed as an overemotional woman and isn\u2019t so quick to discount Nancy\u2019s claims. As tensions reach an explosive breaking point, the line between fact and delusion becomes dangerously blurred, but Maud will stop at nothing to ensure that the truth comes to light.<\/em> – William Morrow Paperbacks<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Listen for the Lie<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Amy Tintera<\/p>\n

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn’t matter?<\/em><\/p>\n

After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy\u2019s blood, everyone thinks she is a murderer. Lucy and Savvy were the golden girls of their small Texas town: pretty, smart, and enviable. Lucy married a dream guy with a big ring and an even bigger new home. Savvy was the social butterfly loved by all, and if you believe the rumors, especially popular with the men in town. It\u2019s been years since that horrible night, a night Lucy can\u2019t remember anything about, and she has since moved to LA and started a new life.<\/em><\/p>\n

But now the phenomenally huge hit true crime podcast “Listen for the Lie,” and its too-good looking host Ben Owens, have decided to investigate Savvy\u2019s murder for the show\u2019s second season. Lucy is forced to return to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend\u2019s murder, even if she is the one that did it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The truth is out there, if we just listen.<\/em> – Celadon Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>No One Can Know<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by Kate Alice Marshall<\/p>\n

Fourteen years ago, the Palmer sisters\u2014Emma, Juliette, and Daphne\u2014left their home in Arden Hills and never returned. But when Emma discovers she\u2019s pregnant and her husband loses his job, she has no option but to return to the house that she and her estranged sisters still own . . . and where their parents were murdered.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emma has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect. But her presence in the house threatens to uncover secrets that have stayed hidden for years, and the sisters are drawn together once again. As they face their memories of the past, rivalries restart, connections are forged, and, for the first time, Emma starts to ask questions about what really happened that night.<\/em><\/p>\n

The more Emma learns, the more riddles emerge. And Emma begins to wonder just what her siblings will do to keep the past buried, and whether she did the right thing staying quiet about what was whispered that night: \u201cNo one can know.\u201d –\u00a0<\/em>Flatiron Books<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Very Bad Thing<\/a><\/strong> <\/em>by JT Ellison<\/p>\n

A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder.<\/em><\/p>\n

With twenty hit titles, and a highly anticipated movie tie-in, celebrated novelist Columbia Jones is at the top of her game. Fans around the world adore her. But on the final night of her latest book tour, one face in the crowd makes the author collapse. And by the next morning, she\u2019s lying dead in a pool of blood.<\/em><\/p>\n

Columbia\u2019s death shocks the world and leaves Darian, her daughter and publicist, reeling. The police have nothing to go on\u2014at first. But then details emerge, pointing to the author\u2019s illicit past. Turns out many people had motive to kill Columbia. And with a hungry reporter and frustrated cop on the trail, her secrets won\u2019t stay buried long. But how many lives will they shatter as the truth comes out?<\/em> – Thomas & Mercer<\/p>\n

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