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For fans of: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

by Sophie Green

Enjoyed reading A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson? Take a look at our suggested books, filled with murderous drama and perfect for teens and young adults! All of these books and more are free to borrow with your Suffolk Libraries card.

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One of Us is Lying, by Karen M. McManus

Five students walk into detention. Only four come out alive.

Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.

And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again.

He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it's no accident. All of them are suspects.

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them.

Borrow a copy of One of Us is Lying from our catalogue.

Truly Devious: A Mystery, by Maureen Johnson

Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.”

Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.

True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. That is, she will solve the case when she gets a grip on her demanding new school life and her housemates: the inventor, the novelist, the actor, the artist, and the jokester.

But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.

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Good Girls Die First, by Kathryn Foxfield

How far would you go to survive the night? Blackmail lures sixteen-year-old Ava to the derelict carnival on Portgrave Pier. She is one of ten teenagers, all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost. When fog and magic swallow the pier, the group find themselves cut off from the real world and from their morals. As the teenagers turn on each other, Ava will have to face up to the secret that brought her to the pier and decide how far she's willing to go to survive.

Borrow a copy of Good Girls Die First from our catalogue.

The Inheritance Games, by Jennifer Barnes

She came from nothing. They had everything. How far will they go to keep their fortune? Avery only has one plan: keep her head down, win a scholarship and work for a better future. Until an eccentric billionaire dies, and leaves her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why. Suddenly she must move into the secret passage filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the billionaire's love of puzzles, riddles and codes. On top of that, Avery must share the mansion with all his surviving relatives - a family hellbent on discovering how she got 'their' money.

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And Don't Look Back, by Rebecca Barrow

Harlow and her mum, Cora, have been on the run her entire life. She has no idea why or what they're running from, but in every place they stop, they create new names and stories, and they never stay for long. Then, one night, while attempting to skip town, Cora is killed, leaving Harlow alone and with a million questions.

But her mum's secrets live on. And when a key to a hidden safety deposit box leads Harlow to Crescent Ridge - Cora's hometown - she discovers a trail of buried secrets and lies. Harlow was hoping to find something that would help her understand her mum better. But what she finds instead will change everything she knows about her mum - and herself - forever.

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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight, by Kalynn Bayron

Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the 'final girl' at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But in the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need to figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

Borrow a copy of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight from our catalogue.