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Goldy Moldavsky
One of Us Is Lying meets Lord of the Flies meets Fyre Fest in this wickedly addictive and funny YA thriller.
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Melissa de la Cruz
One of Us Is Lying meets Big Little Lies in Melissa de la Cruz’s first compulsive YA thriller.
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Josh Silver
Squid Game meets They Both Die at the End in this thought-provoking LGBTQ+ thriller
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Katie Zhao
During her freshman year at college, Anna Xu investigates the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter, as she and an old rival have to team up to look into…
Nick Brooks
Jason Reynolds meets Karen McManus in this commercial blockbuster YA mystery thriller that follows three boys of colour at a Washington DC charter school who are forced to investigate their…
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Holly Jackson
The brand new, explosive crime thriller from Holly Jackson, best-selling, award-winning author of the Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy.
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M.L. Rio
The latest craze in the bookish world of TikTok, If We Were Villains explores the magical and dangerous boundary between art and life.
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Laura Pohl
While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they…
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Cold cases get hot in this unputdownable mystery from Jennifer Lynn Barnes, no.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inheritance Games series. Perfect for fans of A Good Girl's…
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Ellie Marney
A young codebreaker at Arlington Hall - the secret WWII Signals Intelligence unit in Washington DC - joins forces with other female codebreakers to hunt a murderer who is killing…
Adam Silvera
In this prequel to the No. 1 International bestselling phenomenon of TIKTOK fame, They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast…
From the bestselling author of History is All You Left Me comes another unforgettable story of life, loss and making each day count
Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.
Jane Godwin
A gripping and suspenseful rite-of-passage novel about five teenagers and one night that will change them all, from award-winning author Jane Godwin.
Amelia Kahaney
Told in alternating voices, childhood friends Syd, Rain, and Brie’s final weeks of high school ends tragically when one dies in a fire, another goes missing, and the third is…
Find out where it all began for Pip in this prequel novella to the bestselling, award-winning A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.
Karen M. McManus
From the bestselling author of One of Us is Lying comes another page-turning thriller from the Queen of Crime.
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Mike Lucas
Witches only exist in stories. Everyone knows that. But what if the stories are real?
E. Lockhart
The page-turning must-read thriller prequel to We Were Liars - #1 New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation - takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation…
Kathleen Glasgow,Liz Lawson
It’s the biggest mystery of the summer. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and Riverdale won’t want to miss this YA thriller by international bestseller Kathleen Glasgow and Liz…
The #1 New York Times bestseller and TikTok sensation - featuring bonus material from the author including notes and sketches, poems, a reader’s guide, and more. The story of one…
Ginny Myers Sain
A intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson and Karen McManus.
Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan’s elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found…
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Deb Caletti
Charlotte’s dream of a summer writing workshop in Venice with her favorite author brings the chance to investigate the mysterious poet in her family’s past, meet fascinating new people, and…
From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new pulse-pounding thriller. Three former friends ditch school for old time’s sake - with horrible and deadly consequences.
Danielle Valentine
Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder meets Cynthia Murphy's Win Lose Kill Die in this explosive YA thriller from Danielle Valentine.
Elisa Chenoweth
Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchange gone hilariously, criminally wrong.
Natasha Preston
After sixteen-year-old Ivy’s twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life–and may be responsible…
Anthony Horowitz
The explosive thirteenth adventure in the internationally bestselling Alex Rider series.
Ibi Zoboi,Yusef Salaam
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated…
Eighteen-year-olds Emma Lewis and Travis Bell, recruited by the FBI to interview juvenile serial killers, must turn to a notorious teenage sociopath to help track down a new murderer.
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
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Maureen Johnson
After solving the case of Truly Devious, Stevie Bell investigates her first mystery outside of Ellingham Academy in this spine-chilling and hilarious stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author…
Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.
Welcome back to Bayview High…It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of Truth or Dare.
From international bestseller, Karen McManus, comes the explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series.
Lygia Day Penaflor
When Long Island teens Miri, Soleil, Penny, and Jonah befriend a bestselling YA novelist, they find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next novel, with devastating consequences…
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Jess Rothenberg
A half-android, half-human girl is accused of murder in this tautly-paced YA thriller told through fragmented flashbacks and court testimony, set in a futuristic fantasy theme park.
Megan Miranda
From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a captivating psychological thriller about a girl who must face her darkest fears-but…
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for a notorious murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may…
Lili Wilkinson
What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? How much do you have to…
Ambelin Kwaymullina,Ezekiel Kwaymullina
Winner of the Prize for Young Adult Writing at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. Told in two unforgettable voices, this gripping novel interweaves themes of grief, colonial history, violence…
The first in a series by the New York Times -bestselling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes featuring a sharp, funny young detective who begins school at an elite, yet…
In the second novel in New York Times -bestselling author Johnson’s series, there are more twists and turns than young detective Stevie Bell can imagine as he races to discover…
After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
Anna Morgan
All That Impossible Space is a coming of age novel exploring toxic friendships and the balance of power between teacher and student, perfect for fans of Cath Crowley and Fiona…
Fleur Ferris
They’ve been waiting. They want revenge. And now they’re here.
Penny Joelson
Jemma knows who did the murder. She knows because he told her. And she can’t tell anyone.
