Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s newest collaborative mystery novel came out early last month and still has a long line of readers excited to check out this new title! Here are some similar titles to keep you occupied while you wait for a copy of Mad Honey to make its way to you: featuring intricate plots, murder trials, and family secrets.
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Haunted by her role in a covered-up prank gone wrong decades earlier, Allie returns to her childhood home and resolves to uncover the truth, before making a shattering discovery.
These books are suspenseful, compelling, and intricately plotted, and they have the theme “home again”; the genres “mysteries” and “thrillers and suspense”; and the subjects “family secrets,” “high school students,” and “secrets.”
Unnerved by her husband’s inheritance of a decrepit coastal property and the presence of a disturbed relative, community newcomer Sadie uncovers harrowing facts about her family’s possible role in a neighbor’s murder.
This book is like Mad Honey because they are both suspenseful and intricately plotted, and they have the subjects “family secrets,” “murder,” and “secrets.”
The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager
Recently widowed actress Casey Fletcher retreats to her family’s lake house in Vermont where she passes the time watching the glamorous couple across the lake until the wife disappears and she discovers that the most shocking of secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
These books are both suspenseful, compelling, and intricately plotted, and they share the subject of “secrets.”
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
A dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened.
A murder (Mad Honey) and an explosion (Miracle Creek) kick off these compelling and intricately plotted courtroom dramas exploring themes of justice, family, and identity.
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Decades after a shattering confrontation that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her Atlanta hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting.
Like Mad Honey, The Good Daughter is disturbing, compelling, and intricately plotted with the subjects of “family secrets” and “sisters.”
The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds out what it really takes to join the 1% in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water.
Both of these novels are compelling and intricately plotted with subjects of “murder” and “family secrets.”
Defending Jacob by William Landay
Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next. His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student.
Defending Jacob and Mad Honey are both compelling and suspenseful with shared subjects of “family secrets” and “murder trials.”
The Bad Daughter by Joy Fielding
Estranged from her family because of her difficulties getting along with her stepmother, Robin returns home in the aftermath of a brutal home invasion, hoping to mend fences, only to uncover horrible family secrets that may have led to the attack.
Both of these novels are intricately plotted, compelling, and suspenseful with the shared subject of “family secrets.”
A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
A legal thriller told in three acts follows the trial of a 17-year-old girl from an upstanding family who has been implicated in the murder of a shady businessman, testing the limits of her father’s faith and mother’s ethics.
Teenagers with fraught relationships with their fathers are caught in murder trials full of twists in these novels with complex characters. A Nearly Normal Family is set in Sweden; Mad Honey, in America.
When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff
When her brother, a junior at Princeton, is arrested for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Cassie Quinn, as reporters converge on her family’s Upper East Side landmark building, vows to prove his innocence, which means exposing her own darkest secrets to the world.
Readers seeking courtroom dramas touching on hot-button issues will appreciate these stories of people trying to exonerate their teenage family members from accusations of rape (Bright and Beautiful) and murder (Mad Honey), leading to the spilling of big secrets.
