Whether you love a high school setting, feel nostalgic with the characters, or just enjoy something a little more fast paced, YA thrillers will constantly deliver. This spring, 2024 has some amazing young adult thrillers coming out and you don’t want to miss these chilling stories!
One Last Breath by Ginny Myers Sain (3/5)
Mount Orange, Florida is known for two things: the freshwater springs that attract drivers and gators as well as the cold case murder of two best friends that happened twenty years ago. Tru has always lived in the shadows of the cold case murders of Bailey and Celeste, but now she is on her way to FSU with her boyfriend. With a promising future on the horizon, things take a turn when a girl named Rio arrives in town and she is determined more than anyone to solve the cold case murders of Bailey and Celeste…and now Tru can’t deny involving herself in the investigation as well as her attraction to Rio.
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Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (3/19)
After being homeschooled her entire life, Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. After her first night, Sade’s roommate, Elizabeth, disappears and people are questioning if Sade had something to do with it. When Sade gets the attention of a group of girls known as the Unholy Trinity, they befriend Sade. When a student is found dead, Sade is left with no choice but to team up with Elizebeth’s best friend to find out exactly what is going on at the school and who could be responsible.
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Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis (3/26)
Temple Baker’s father was a serial killer called the North Point Killer who was convicted of murdering twenty people, marking each one with a brand. Although rumors were rampant, Temple never believed her father murdered her mother, until he confesses on death row. Now, Temple has returned to his hunting grounds where she finds that her old home has been turned into a campground for a group of queer, horror-obsessed girls. When a girl is found dead in the woods, Temple fears that if she doesn’t uncover the truth soon, more people could die.
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Not Like Other Girls by Meredith Adamo (4/30)
Jo-Lynn Kirby has been an outcast since her nude photos leaked and everyone said she deserved it. When her former best friend, the pretty and popular Maddie Price comes to Jo-Lynn for help, she assumes it’s a prank. But then, Maddie vanishes, and everyone thinks she’s a runaway but Jo-Lynn thinks that’s not the case. Jo-Lynn goes to her old fling, Hudson for help and Hudson comes up with a fake dating scheme to get Jo-Lynn back into their clique so she can find out what really happened to Maddie.
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Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy R. X. He (5/7)
When the popular and well-hated Ella Moore is murdered at her own party, the police have one person in mind: Dawn Foster. Dawn was the last person to hand Ella a drink and all of Ella’s friends who have motives themselves are more than happy to throw Dawn under the bus. Meanwhile, Dawn is determined to prove her innocence and in her own investigation, she finds that she and Ella had many common enemies, and someone is willing to do anything for revenge.
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The Djinn’s Apple by Djamila Morani (5/7)
When a group of angry men storm her house searching for something, Nardeen is the only one who escapes. With the rest of her family left behind and murdered, Nardeen will stop at nothing to get justice for whoever is responsible.
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The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe (5/14)
Nora O’Malley should be enjoying her summer now that high school is over but it’s not so easy to when her murderous stepdad, Raymond, is now free. To try and enjoy the time she has and get away, Nora plans a ten-day backpacking trip with her friends Iris and Wes. Now, Wes’s girlfriend Amanda is tagging along, which isn’t a big deal until Amanda borrows Nora’s flannel and is taken. With Raymond holding Amanda hostage and Nora’s guilt settling in that she was the main target, Nora, Iris, and Wes have to do whatever it takes to get Amanda back even if some of them are lying and keeping secrets.
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