Books like The death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

Walter Hartright, a drawing master, becomes entangled with Laura Fairlie, Sir Percival Glyde, and the scheming Count Fosco as questions of identity and madness intertwine in 19th‑century England.

Prince Prospero and his noble guests hide from the Red Death in a lavish abbey, hosting a colorful masquerade that ends with a mysterious figure revealing the plague’s lethal inevitability.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

A family saga that traces the shifting ownership of a house from a wealthy couple to a newly rich businessman and his children, exploring themes of inheritance, sibling rivalry, poverty, and stepmother dynamics.

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Jonathan Franzen’s *Purity: A Novel* explores layered family dynamics and adolescent identity against a backdrop of personal and governmental intrigue.

In London, Judge Fiona Maye faces a heart‑wrenching case when a Jehovah’s Witness family rejects a life‑saving blood transfusion for their seventeen‑year‑old son, while a crumbling marriage tests her resolve.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

A mother's nightmare returns as she discovers her children are missing in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and must confront the shadowy figure who murdered her first children.

When violence returns to Pikeville, the Quinn family’s buried secrets surface, forcing lawyer Charlie Quinn to confront a 28‑year‑old tragedy that could shatter her life and the town she loves.

Turtle Alveston, a fourteen‑year‑old survivor of a painful home life, finds hope when she meets Jacob, a wholesome high‑school boy who invites her into a world beyond the wilderness and her abusive father.

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A young Cornelius takes his black father’s silent‑film job in New York, later becomes Professor John Woman and spreads his father's wisdom in a southwestern university, while hidden forces seek to shape his story.

During a weekend retreat in a secluded English countryside estate, a dark secret unravels, turning an anticipated escape into a chilling murder investigation that tests friendships, loyalties, and the layers of psychological intrigue."

Gail Sinclair was young, attractive and intelligent. She led a well-ordered and enjoyable life in London. But an innocently granted favour plunges her into a totally different world. It started with Anita Stratton, a seemingly charming and modest writer. Gail obligingly agreed to drive her from Bordeaux to a remote Basque village. But even before Gail left England on the car-ferry to France, she began to regret her generosity. The writer's breezy, eccentric sister-in-law and Julian Meredith, the latter's man-about-town godson, entered forcibly into her life. There seemed an odd hostility between the two ladies, though on the surface there was no sign of this hidden friction. And then, in the wilds of Southern France, a stunning revelation caps a series of vaguely sinister events. The friction generates into high-voltage and Gail relises that an old score is about to be paid - with the ultimate price. Also published as The Stratton Story