22 YA Mystery Books Like &039One of Us Is Lying&039

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Check out these *exciting* mystery books below, with one of the main ones being lying vibes. From creepy atmospheric settings to rumours, lies, secrets and more, no one is safe which makes it even more fun. what book are you reading next? you can keep it a secret if you want, but we’ll probably find out eventually.

22 mystery books like ‘one of us lies’

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1. all these bodies by kendare blake

sixteen bodies without blood. two teenagers an impossible explanation. In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find.

Summer 1958. A gruesome killer ravages the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bloodied bodies.

Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the town sheriff, never imagined that bloodless murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in his home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, was discovered at the scene, covered in blood. she is the only suspect in custody.

Michael didn’t think he’d be part of the investigation, but he’s drawn in when Marie decides he’s the only one she’s going to confess to. As Marie tells his side of the story, it’s up to Michael to find the truth: what really happened the night the Carlsons were killed? And how did a girl end up in the middle of all these bodies?

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2. clique bait by ann valett

Chloe Whittaker is out for revenge.

Last year, her best friend Monica’s life was unceremoniously ruined by the most popular students at her high school, so this year, Chloe plans to take down each and every one of them. She swapped her jeans and t-shirts for the latest designer clothes, deleted anything on social media linking her to Monica (and blowing her cover), and carefully figured out how she’ll befriend the members of the cabal, uncovering their deepest secrets. and dark, and reveal them to the world.

Chloe has the perfect plan. . . but there’s one thing she didn’t prepare for. and that is falling in love with someone she is determined to destroy. The closer she gets to discovering the secrets the crowd is determined to hide, the more she realizes that she will have to choose between betraying her oldest friend or the boy who captured her heart. p>

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3. grown by tiffany d. jackson

Award-winning author Tiffany D. Jackson delivers another riveting, ripped-from-the-headlines mystery that exposes horrific secrets hiding behind the limelight and embraces the power of a young woman’s voice.

When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields sees a delighted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer come true. until she is delighted she wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memories of the night before. who killed the fields of korey?

Before there was a corpse, haunted dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey’s charm and star power was a controlling dark side. now he’s dead, the police are at the door and all signs point to haunted.

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4. the initial insult of mindy mcginnis

In the first book of a suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship . . . forevermore. Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying and Truly Devious!

tressmontor’s family used to mean something, until she had no family anymore. When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, she tress lost everything. the whole town avoids her now that she lives with her drunk, one-eyed grandfather in what the locals call the “white trash zoo.”

Felicity Turnado has it all: looks, money and a secret. One misstep could drop her from the top of the social ladder, and she’s worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the montors the night they disappeared. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she can’t even remember what it is. . . only she can’t look at the hair without feeling shame and guilt.

but tress has a plan. A Halloween costume party in an abandoned house provides the ideal setting for Tress to pry the truth out of Felicity, brick by brick, as she slowly seals her ex-best friend in a coal hopper. Tress will have the answers from her, or she will settle for revenge.

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5. all your twisted secrets by diana urban

What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill…or else everyone dies.

Amber Prescott is determined to get herself and her classmates out of the room alive, but that’s easier said than done. no one knows how they are all connected or who would want them dead.

As they review the events of the past year that could have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that they are all hiding something.

And as time ticks away, confusion turns to fear, and fear turns to panic as they race to answer the most important question: who will they choose to die?

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6. sadie de courtney summers

Sadie hasn’t had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.

but when mattie turns up dead, sadie’s whole world comes crashing down. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice, and she sets out on a few clues to find him.

When west mccray, a radio personality working on a segment about America’s small, forgotten towns, hears sadie’s story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. She starts her own podcast as she follows Sadie’s journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it’s too late.

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7. nobody knows except you by anica mrose rissi

Kayla is still holding on to Lainie’s secrets.

after all, lainie is kayla’s best friend. And despite Lainie’s painful obsession with her on-and-off boyfriend, and the ways he has tried to come between them, her friends don’t reveal each other’s secrets. they do not betray the other’s trust.

The murder at the end of the summer doesn’t change all that.

also, kayla knows that the truth is not the whole story.

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8. all this is true by lygia day peñaflor

Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to hear the author, Fatima Ro, they concocted a plan to get close to her.

soleil johnston wanted to be a writer one day. When she and her friends started dating her favorite author, Fatima Ro, she couldn’t believe her luck, especially when Jonah Nicholls started dating them too.

penny panzarella was more than the materialistic party girl everyone at graham school thought she was, and she was willing to share all her secrets with fatima ro to prove it.

jonah nicholls had more to hide than any of them. and now that the next book of fatima is in the world, he is the one paying the price…

Perfect for fans of One of Us Is Lying, and told as a series of interviews, diary entries, and even book pages within the book, this gripping tale of a fictional scandal will have you on the edge of your seat from the start. finally.

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9. a good girl’s guide to murder by holly jackson

The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by murder, Pippa Fitz-amobi isn’t so sure. when she chooses the case as the topic for her senior project, she begins to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to keep hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

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10. monday doesn’t come because of tiffany d. jackson

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried.

when he doesn’t show up the second day or the second week, claudia knows something is wrong. her on Monday she would not leave her alone to endure trials and bullies. not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades at stake. Claudia now needs her best and only friend more than ever. But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less helpful.

As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time she saw her on Monday. How can a teenage girl disappear without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

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11. broken things by lauren oliver

It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.

everyone thinks mia and brynn killed their best friend. that, driven by their obsession with a novel called the road to falling in love, the three girls had imagined themselves in the magical world where their fantasies turned twisted, even deadly.

The only thing is that they didn’t.

On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and brings Mia and Brynn back together. But as the lines between past and present and fiction and reality begin to blur, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago, no matter how monstrous.

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12. they wish they were us by jessica goodman

In Gold Coast, Long Island, everything from the expensive downtown shops to the manicured beaches, to the pressed uniforms of Jill Newman and her friends, looks perfect. But as Jill found out three years ago, nothing is as it seems.

Jill’s best friend from freshman year, the brilliant and stunning Shaila Arnold, was murdered by her boyfriend. After that dark night on the beach, Graham confessed, the case was closed, and Jill tried to move on.

Now, it’s Jill’s senior year and she’s determined to do her best. After all, she’s a senior and a gamer, a member of Gold Coast Prep’s exclusive and not-so-secret secret society. the older players have the best games, the highest grades and the admiration of the whole school. this is going to be the year of jill. she’s sure of it.

But when Jill starts receiving texts proclaiming Graham’s innocence, her dreams of the perfect senior year begin to unravel. If Graham didn’t kill Shaila, who did? Jill vows to find out, but digging deeper could mean jeopardizing her friendships and his future.

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13. claire eliza bartlett’s good girls

The troublemaker. The overachiever. The cheer captain. The dead girl. Like every high school in America, Jefferson-Lorne High contains all of the above.

After the shocking murder of Emma Baines, three of her classmates top the list of suspects: Claude, the notorious party animal; Avery, the head cheerleader; and gwen, the aspiring valedictorian.

but appearances are never what they seem. And the truth behind what really happened to Emma may be out in the open. As long-buried secrets come to light, time is ticking to find Emma’s killer, before another good girl falls.

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14. even if we part ways with marieke nijkamp

FIVE friends go to a cabin. FOUR of them are hiding secrets. THREE years of history bind them. TWO are doomed from the start. ONE person wants to end this. NO ONE IS SAFE.

Are you ready to play?

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15. i killed zoe spanos for kit frick

What happened to Zoe won’t stay buried…

When Anna Cicconi arrives in the small town of Herron Mills in the Hamptons for a summer babysitting job, she has high hopes of a fresh start. Instead, what she finds is a community on edge after the disappearance of Zoe Spanos, a local girl who has been missing since New Year’s Eve. Anna bears an eerie resemblance to Zoe, and her mere presence in town stirs still raw feelings about the cold case. As Anna digs deeper into the mystery, getting deeper and deeper into Zoe’s life, she becomes more and more convinced that she and Zoe are connected and that she knows what happened to her.

Two months later, Zoe’s body is found in a nearby lake and Anna is charged with involuntary manslaughter. But Anna’s confession is riddled with loopholes, and Martina Green, teen host of the Missing Zoe podcast, isn’t satisfied. did anna really kill zoe? And if not, can Martina’s podcast uncover the truth?

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16. little white lies by jennifer lynn barnes

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother’s “society” might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father’s identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn’t expect to find is friendship, but as she’s drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn’t the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother’s glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer’s search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.

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17. in the hallway with diana peterfreund’s knife

When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students—including Beth “Peacock” Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam “Mustard” Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry—are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, his body is found in the conservatory and it’s very clear his death was no accident. With this group of students who are all hiding something, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a motive for murder. Fans of the CLUE board game and cult classic film will delight in Diana Peterfreund’s modern reimagining of the brand, its characters, and the dark, magnificent old mansion with secrets hidden within its walls.

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18. the kara thomas cheerleaders

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook.

first was the car accident: two girls disappeared after hitting a tree on a rainy night. not long after, the murders occurred. those two girls were killed by the man next door. the police shot him, so no one will ever know why he did it. Monica’s sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheerleading squad. no one wanted to be reminded of the girls he lost.

That was five years ago. Now the faculty and students of Sunnybrook High School want to remember the lost cheerleaders. But for Monica, it’s not that easy. she just wants to forget only that monica’s world is starting to fall apart. there are the letters on her stepdad’s desk, a cell phone dug up from years ago, a strange new friend at school. . . . what happened five years ago is not over. some people in the city know more than they say. And somehow Monica is at the center of it all.

There are no cheerleaders in sunnybrook anymore, but that doesn’t mean anyone else is safe.

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19. when you look like us by pamela n. harris

When you look like us—brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades—everyone else thinks you’re trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must’ve brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend—a drug dealer—and his friends. But she’s been gone too long. Nic, where are you?

If I hadn’t hung up on him that night, he’d be at our house, spending time with Grandma.

If I were a better brother, she’d be finishing senior instead of being another name on a missing persons list.

It’s time to step up, to do what the Newport News Police Department won’t do.

Take her home.

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20. we were liars for e. lockhart

A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth.

We Were Liars is a sophisticated modern thriller from the new york times best-selling author, national book award finalist and printz e award honoree. lockhart.

read it.

and if someone asks you how it ends, lie.

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21. two can keep a secret by karen m. mcmanus

Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery’s never been there, but she’s heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.

The city is perfect, but it hides secrets. And before classes begin for Ellery, someone declared Homecoming season open, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. then, almost as if to prove it, another girl disappears.

ellery knows all about secrets. his mother has them; his grandmother too. And the longer he is at echo ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone is hiding something. The thing is, secrets are dangerous and most people aren’t good at keeping them. That’s why at echo ridge, it’s safer to keep your secrets to yourself.

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22. Five Total Strangers By Natalie D. richard

When Mira flies home to spend Christmas with her mother in Pittsburgh, a record-breaking blizzard results in a cancelled layover. Desperate to get to her grief-ridden mother in the wake of a family death, Mira hitches a ride with a group of friendly college kids who were on her initial flight.

As the journey progresses and the weather conditions become more treacherous, Mira realizes that the four other passengers she’s stuck with in the car don’t really know each other.

Soon, not only will they have to deal with heavy snowfall and icy roads, but the fact that someone will stop at nothing to ensure their journey ends in deadly disaster.

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