1989s The War of the Roses took cinephiles by storm with it’s dark comedy/romance/thriller starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Based on the novel by Warren Adler, it only became more of a cult classic as time went on inspiring so many other movies after it. Now, in 2025, another adaptation of the story of the Roses is coming to theaters starring Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch. If you’re looking for a dark comedy about the downfall of a marriage, you don’t want to miss this movie or any of these domestic suspense novels perfect to binge once the credits roll!

The War of the Roses by Warren Adler

After a blissful eighteen years of marriage begins to fall apart, Barbara and Jonathan Rose’s divorce becomes intense, as material items such as their beautiful home become the catalyst in a shocking battle between husband and wife.

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The Woman Inside by E.G. Scott

Rebecca and Paul thought they found their happily ever after when they found each other. Now, twenty years later, the secrets of the past two decades are threatening to ruin their marriage and Paul’s mistress begins to stalk the couple. Meanwhile, Rebecca’s opiate addiction doesn’t hold her back from coming up with a plan to stop Paul from leaving her once she finds his intentions are to build a new life without her.

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Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson

Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over two decades, live in a beautiful home, and have a grown son. You would think this couple has it all, but Wendy wants to murder her husband. Her desire to kill Thom is all connected to their past. Told in reverse moving back in time through all the major events that led Wendy to how she presently feels, one act plotted many years ago is about to come back to haunt them both.

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A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing

Wes and Ivy are in a tumultuous relationship. When things are good, they are the picture-perfect couple but when things are bad, all hell breaks loose. While Wes and Ivy are used to this rollercoaster of breakups to makeups, things need to end soon when the arrival of a detective threatens to pop their bubble. No matter how good or bad things get, Wes and Ivy have never discussed what happened the night that they had their biggest fight that resulted in someone dead.

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The Other Mistress by Shanora Williams

Adira is a self-made millionaire who has only the best for her and her husband, Gabriel. The only thing that Adira doesn’t have is Gabriel’s undivided attention as Gabriel is cheating on Adira with not one, but two women. When one of the women, Jocelyn, contacts Adira to get revenge, Adira is more than curious. The plan is for Adira to befriend the other woman, Julianna, under a false identity and sabotage her relationship with Gabriel. As the plan sets in, things go awry when Julianna finds out who Adira really is and Jocelyn is pressuring Adira to even more extreme measures.

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Finding Tessa by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

Jace Montgomery is really down on his luck. After returning from a business meeting he finds that his wife Tessa is missing, and the cops have him as their prime suspect after finding her blood and clumps of her hair in the house. When a coworker he is accused of having an affair with also goes missing, the police really narrow in on Jace. Meanwhile, Tessa is safe and sound after setting up her husband. With a friend helping her with her new life and Tessa running from her past, it’s only a matter of time before both Jace and Tessa’s secrets and lies catch up with them.

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It Takes Monsters by Mandy McHugh

The time has come for Victoria Tate to kill her controlling husband, Warren. Victoria runs into an issue with her plan when the biggest social event of the year falls on the same date she planned for Warren to take his last breath. Then, Warren turns up dead and not by Victoria’s plan. Now, Victoria is in the center of a murder investigation in which she’s actually innocent. Now, with a killer harassing her and the town against her, Victoria must find out who really killed Warren as she digs into the secrets he’s been keeping from everyone.

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Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon

Oliver used to be an addict living in Indiana and now he lives inWashington DC and is married to a successful doctor, Nathan. When Nathan goes out of town, Oliver finds himself visiting a gay bathhouse out of curiosity. Oliver’s night erupts in violence when he is attacked inside and out of fear, lies about what happened. From the moment that first lie slips, Oliver finds himself in a deadly game.

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Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney

Grady Green is an author who encounters both the best and worst day of his life when he calls his wife, Abby, to tell her good news he just received. On the phone, he hears Abby slam on her car brakes and get out of the car. When he finds her car, Abby has vanished. A year later, Grady travels to a small Scottish island to deal with his ever-present grief only to find a woman who looks exactly like Abby.

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As Long as We Both Shall Live by Joann Chaney

Matt is frantic when he tells park rangers his wife, Marie, has fallen off a cliff into the river below while the two were hiking. Declared a tragic accident, everyone knows Marie could never survive that fall. When a body is pulled out of the river, there are a lot of questions for Matt when it comes to light that his first wife also died under suspicious circumstances.

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