Last Girl Ghosted: A Riveting Mystery Thriller of Ghosting

A predatory man, vanished women, and a mother's decade-long search — same slow-burn dread and devastating romantic betrayal as Last Girl Ghosted.

If you're looking for books like Last Girl Ghosted that hit the same nerve of romantic manipulation leading to something far darker, Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell is the closest companion on shelves. Both novels center on women whose disappearances are tied to a calculated, charming predator, and both use a present-day protagonist falling for a new man as a way to excavate a buried truth. Jewell's novel follows a mother still haunted by her teenage daughter's vanishing a decade earlier, whose life is upended when she meets an eerily familiar man. The dual-timeline structure, the slow reveal of how thoroughly a predator can deceive people who love him, and the themes of violence against women and maternal grief all rhyme strongly with Unger's novel. An ideal next read for anyone asking "what to read after Last Girl Ghosted."

A woman dismantling her husband's hidden identity under threat — same premise of a trusted partner harboring dangerous secrets, with propulsive pacing.

Fans of Last Girl Ghosted who loved the central tension of a woman realizing the man she trusted was never who he claimed to be will find The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave an immediate fit. Hannah discovers her husband has vanished the same day federal marshals arrive at her door, and the novel becomes a race to decode who he really was before the danger catches up to her. Like Wren Greenwood's pursuit of Adam Harper, Hannah's investigation uncovers a trail of women and lives discarded in a man's wake. Laura Dave keeps the pacing tighter and the thriller mechanics more conventional, which also makes this a great pick for readers who want the same romantic-betrayal core with a slightly more plot-forward engine. A reliable answer to any "if you liked Last Girl Ghosted, try…" search.

A new wife uncovering her husband's first marriage — predatory romantic history, hidden-identity dread, and a woman systematically deceived by a charming man.

The Wife Before by Shanora Williams speaks directly to readers drawn to Last Girl Ghosted's core fear: that the appealing stranger you're falling for has left a trail of women behind him. Williams's protagonist moves into her new husband's home and begins discovering unsettling traces of his first wife, whose death may not have been accidental. The novel shares Last Girl Ghosted's preoccupation with how predatory men construct romantic personas designed to disarm, and how dangerous it can be to trust too quickly. The domestic thriller setting and the slow escalation of threat — punctuated by alternating timelines — will feel familiar and satisfying to Unger fans. If you've been Googling "psychological thrillers like Last Girl Ghosted about dangerous husbands," this is an on-catalogue answer worth adding to your list immediately.