An unhinged and chaotic thriller is one that is guaranteed to keep you from letting go. Whether it’s an unreliable narrator, relentless twists and turns, or a story that goes from zero to one-hundred unexpectedly, here are some of the best chaotic thrillers that will have you cancelling plans and staying up all night to binge read!

Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

When their mother passes away, siblings Beth, Nicole, and Michael reunite. Taking a trip down memory lane is seemingly fine when they revisit happier memories through a collection of home videos. When the siblings discover a VHS tape showing their father covered in blood and their parents making a pact to dispose of a dead body, they are forced to decide between keeping their secret or uncovering a dark mystery.

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They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Scarlett Clark is a brilliant English professor … and a murderer. Every year, Scarlett kills whoever she believes to be the worst man on campus, and so far, this has all been practice for her biggest takedown yet. When the campus officials begin to investigate the school’s questionably high body count, Scarlett gets as close as she can to the woman in charge. Carly Schiller is a freshman at the same college Scarlett works at and finds herself entangled in an intense friendship with her new roommate, Allison. When Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, it appears that Scarlett may not be the only one who has an obsession with ridding the campus of horrible men, which becomes clear as Carly begins to plot her own style of revenge.

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The Last Party by A.R. Torre

When you look at Perla Wultz, you’d think she has the perfect life with her husband and daughter in a gated Pasadena community. But if you look closer, Perla has an obsession with a decades old crime that is consuming her. Over twenty years ago, Leewood Folcrum confessed to murdering two young girls during a birthday party. Although time has passed and Leewood is serving a life sentence, a doctoral student has been interviewing him and trying to get answers to what happened on the night of the murders.

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If You Tell a Lie by Lucinda Berry

Blakely, Grace, Meg, and Thera had been friends for years attending Camp Pendleton. Their senior summer took a turn when the handsome tennis coach was found murdered after a lie the girls were responsible for. They haven’t spoken with each other in twenty years and now, a mysterious note claiming to know what they did has forced the four friends to reunite.

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Cross My Heart by Megan Collins

Rosie Lachlan wants to find true love. It’s been a year since Rosie was left at the altar and after receiving a life-saving heart transplant, she’s been messaging local celebrity author Morgan Thorne anonymously through DonorConnect. Rosie believes that the heart transplant she received was from Morgan’s wife, Daphne. Now, Rosie feels that if she has Daphne’s heart, then she and Morgan belong together. As the two continue their communication, Rosie begins to wonder if Morgan had something to do with Daphne’s death.

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The Arrangement by Robyn Harding

Natalie is a young art student who is financially struggling and ends up looking into a friend’s suggestion to find a “sugar daddy”—a rich older man who will give her a monthly allowance to be the beautiful woman on his arm—sexual favors optional. Natalie then meets Gabe and the two quickly fall into an arrangement and Natalie falls in love. But Gabe has no intention of leaving his family and ends things abruptly, leaving Natalie heartbroken. As Natalie spirals into obsession, things take a wild turn when a body is found near Gabe’s home.

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Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Chloe is far from your average college freshman. Not only is she a psychopath who is part of an unusual clinical study with other anonymous psychopath students, but she’s arrived at the university with one goal – kill Will Bachman. When one of the other students in the study is found murdered, the game of cat and mouse begins. As Chloe gets closer and closer to the day she can finally kill Will, she must also outsmart a murderer who has their eyes set on Chloe and the other students in the study.

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Look What You Made Me Do by Elaine Murphy

Carrie Lawrence and her sister Becca Lawrence couldn’t be more different. Carrie dreams of the day she can lead a boring life and not be summoned to the woods at odd hours of the night to help Becca hide another dead body. Becca has been getting away with murder for over a decade and has no anxiety whatsoever—because in her mind, every single person she’s killed had it coming to them. When thirteen bodies are discovered by the police and the people suspect a serial killer may be living in their small town, Becca and Carrie are both terrified of what’s to come. The problem? Becca swears the bodies aren’t hers and now the sisters realize that Becca isn’t the only serial killer in town.

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#FashionVictim by Amina Akhtar

Fashion Editor Anya St. Clair would appear to have it all. She has a wardrobe that’s to die for, a social media following, and it’s all thanks to the bodies she’s left behind. While she’s worked hard, she still wants more, including the promotion that she and another colleague, Sarah Taft, are competing for. Sarah is wealthy and gorgeous and perfect, so Anya decides she must befriend the enemy in order to win the promotion….or else.

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Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

Angela, Georgina and Kaiser were best friends in high school, until Angela disappeared. Now, almost fifteen years later, Angela’s remains are found in the woods behind Georgina’s childhood home, and Kaiser—now a detective—finally learns that Angela was another victim of serial killer Calvin James. To the world, Calvin James is a monster; but to Georgina, he was her first love when she was in high school.

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