Title: Four Good Liars Author: Sarah Wishart Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Contemporary Publisher: HarperCollins Source: Publisher Format: Paperback Release Date: February 6, 2024 Rating: ★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: The unputdownable, explosive new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder, perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Cynthia Murphy and Holly Jackson. Layla. Kai. Liam. Fliss. Terrified big sister. Troubled surfer. Insecure genius. Pampered princess. They have nothing in common, except they were all on the sc ..read more

Title: Not Like Other Girls Author: Meredith Adamo Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller Publisher: Bloomsbury Books Source: Publisher Format: Paperback arc Release Date: April 30, 2024 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma, girlhood, and what we deserve. When Jo-Lynn Kirby’s former best friend—pretty, nice Maddie Price—comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it’s some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked—and ..read more

Title: Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #2) Author: Holly Jackson Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: Delacorte Press Source: Purchased Format: Paperback Release Date: March 2, 2021 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reyno ..read more

Title: A Friend in the Dark Author: Samantha M. Bailey Genre: Thriller, Contemporary Publisher: Thomas and Mercer Source: Firefly Books Distributed Lines Format: Paperback Release Date: March 1, 2024 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: A digital romance turns deadly… Eden Miller’s world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her with divorce, and her daughter barely speaks to her. In an impulsive decision to escape her present and revisit the past, she sends a friend request to her college crush, Justin Ward. One night twenty-three years ago changed the course of he ..read more

Title: Five Survive Author: Holly Jackson Genre: Young Adult, Thriller Publisher: Electric Monkey Source: Purchased Format: Hardcover Release Date: November 29, 2022 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere. There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise tha ..read more

Title: The Revenge Game Author: Jordyn Taylor Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller Publisher: Delacorte Press Source: Publisher via NetGalley Format: Ebook Release Date: November 7, 2023 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: A wickedly comic feminist mystery about the dark side of a hopeless romantic’s seemingly perfect love story—for readers of Jessica Goodman and Kara Thomas. Alyson is a romantic, and sometimes it gets her into trouble. Like last summer, she thought her co-worker was into her, when in reality he found her flirting pathetic. Then she meets Br ..read more

Title: Don’t Breathe a Word Author: Jordyn Taylor Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Publisher: HarperTeen Source: Purchased Format: Hardcover/audiobook Release Date: May 18, 2021 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: Present Day: Eva has never felt like she belonged… not in her own family or with her friends in New York City, and certainly not at a fancy boarding school like Hardwick Preparatory Academy. So when she is invited to join the Fives, an elite secret society, she jumps at the opportunity to finally be a part of something. But what ..read more

Title: The Reunion Author: Kit Frick Genre: Young Adult, Thriller, Contemporary Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Source: Publisher Format: Paperback arc Release Date: August 29, 2023 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous secrets culminate in murder. Eleven Mayweathers went on vacation. Ten came home. It’s been years since the fragmented Mayweath ..read more

Title: The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games #4) Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Source: Purchased Format: Hardcover Release Date: August 29, 2023 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #1 bestselling Inheritance Games trilogy, and the stakes have never been higher.     Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught fro ..read more

Title: Their Vicious Games Author: Joelle Wellington Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller Publisher: Simon and Schuster Canada Source: Publisher Format: Paperback arc Release Date: July 25, 2023 Rating: ★★★★ Goodreads Synopsis: A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren’t just high, they’re deadly, in this searing thriller that’s Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a sprinkling of The Bachelor . You must work twice as hard to get half as much. Adina Walker has known this the entir ..read more