Did you LOVE season 1 of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder? Are you impatiently tapping your foot until season 2 comes out? Don’t worry, we have more than enough books for you to read in between your streams! Check out some of these YA Mysteries and Thrillers with all of the high-stakes drama, twists, and compelling characters you loved about the show!

Popular Fairview High School senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. Five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer? Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project. She discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent. But someone in Fairview doesn’t want Pip digging around for answers, and her own life might be in danger.

One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students, all four become suspects. It’s up to them to solve the case.

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Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder’s wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.

These Deadly Games by Diana Urban

Soon after receiving an anonymous message stating that she has twenty-four hours to play a game by the sender’s rules or he will kill her sister, sixteen-year-old Crystal Donovan realizes that cooperating will destroy her friends’ lives and she must figure out a way to beat the kidnapper at his own game before she loses everything.

Wealthy, popular Webber Academy senior, Caroline, permits her new friend and classmate Waverly, an autistic, gay, scholarship student, to attend the annual Masquerade Ball disguised as her; but the evening becomes a nightmare when there is a global blackout, and Waverly and her friends discover what the school’s dean and top donors really have planned.

We’ll Never Tell by Wendy Heard

While investigating an infamous Hollywood murder mystery for their final YouTube episode, four teenagers visit the scene of the crime, but one does not come out alive, leaving the others to solve crimes old and new–or die trying.

Girl Forgotten by April Henry

When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany Jackson

Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They’ve always been inseparable, and when Monday doesn’t show up for school for two weeks, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and her sister April is even less help. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

Queen of the Tiles by Hannah Alkaf

Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Spending the summers on her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.

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