It is hard to predict what novels another person will enjoy.
My favorite novelist is one of Wilkie Collins' contemporaries and fellow best-seller writers, Anthony Trollope. Here is how Trollope, in his autobiography, distinguished himself from Collins:
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I am realistic. My friend Wilkie Collins is generally supposed to be sensational. The readers who prefer the one are supposed to take delight in the elucidation of the character. Those who hold by the other are charmed by the construction and gradual development of a plot. All this is, I think, a mistake,--which mistake arises from the inability of the imperfect artist to be at the same time realistic and sensational. A good novel should be both,--and both in the highest degree.
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Others in the same circle of acquaintances included the Brontės, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens. Dickens may be most similar to Collins, also being in the less realistic/more sensational camp. But taste is so personal and various that there is no way to tell without your trying the lot of them.