If what gripped you in The Better Sister was Chloe relentlessly probing Nicky’s past and Adam’s private life, you’ll love how Beatrice refuses to accept the official story of her sister Tess’s death in Sister. The book’s intimate, emotionally charged search—complete with buried family history, fraught loyalty, and a woman who won’t stop asking dangerous questions—hits the same nerve as Chloe sifting through Adam’s phone, office, and friendships to protect Ethan and unearth the truth.

Like how Adam’s murder implodes Chloe and Nicky’s already volatile orbit and puts Ethan under a microscope, A Nearly Normal Family traps you inside a home where a teenager is accused of murder and every parent-child memory becomes potential evidence. You’ll feel the same claustrophobic pull as secrets are revealed in kitchens, courtrooms, and quiet late-night talks—echoing the way Burke kept the lens tight on the family while the legal pressure built.

If Ethan being dragged into suspicion compelled you—the forensic details, the courtroom stakes, and Chloe’s scramble to separate truth from panic—Defending Jacob will hit home. Assistant DA Andy Barber finds his son accused of killing a classmate and launches his own off-the-books investigation, mirroring the way Chloe digs into Adam’s world to protect Ethan while the legal machine grinds forward.

Loved how The Better Sister kept shifting your understanding of Chloe, Nicky, and Adam—who knew what, who lied, and why—right up to the courtroom showdown? The Wife Between Us serves that same thrill. As with Burke’s late-game reversals around the sisters and Adam’s secrets, this novel keeps flipping the narrative so that every assumption you made about the marriage at its center becomes a trap door.

If you were fascinated by the way Burke lets ambition, jealousy, and buried resentments blur the moral lines—especially in Chloe and Nicky’s choices around Adam’s life and death—The Kind Worth Killing will scratch that itch. Lily and Ted’s cat-and-mouse pact thrives on razor-edged rationalizations and shifting power, echoing the ethically murky calculations that make The Better Sister so addictive.