17 must-read fiction books like The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3) by Maureen Johnson

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The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

By: Maureen Johnson

4.14

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone w…

"It’s good to be home,"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"It’s good to be home,"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"Let her have her moose."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"Let her have her moose."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

If you liked the fiction plot in The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3) by Maureen Johnson , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

1. Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.81

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassie Hobbes has been working with the FBI since she was a teenager. Now twenty-three years old, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Even when wounds healed, the scars remained. - Cassie"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"Celine smiles sweetly. “Why would I be interested in boys"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"Behavior. Personality. Enviroment. The BPEs are reliable when nothing an no one else is. They are constant."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

"As much as i knew about the ins and outs of the human mind, i couldn’t help wanting my own to work differently."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Twelve (The Naturals, #4.5)

Cover of Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2. Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New victims. New betrayals. New secrets. When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI’s Naturals program, s… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
"Home is the people who love you."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

"In the interest of ultimate honesty,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

"She might quite be the devil herself."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

"When you're hurting, you hurt yourself."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

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3. Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.92

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a spot … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

4. All In (The Naturals, #3)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days. After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobb… read more

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5. The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she… read more

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6. The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

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7. The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.12

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. … read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Beauty was expected,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"I moved on from Emily,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"You hated the idea of me."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

"It was never just the idea of you, Avery."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

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8. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Heiress"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Then why haven’t you noticed I’m not your only tail?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Nash." The gleam in Jamie's eyes was downright wicked, "I dare you to eat your hat."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

Cover of The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

9. The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.20

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

Intrigue, riches, and romance abound in this thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling The… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The coin landed. “Tails,"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

"Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

"I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

"Est unus ex nobis. Nos defendat eius." She is one of us. We protect her."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

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10. Nothing More to Tell

By: Karen M. McManus

3.90

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teach… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Because you can make a real difference with every story, and give a voice to people who don’t have one."

-Karen M. McManus, Nothing More to Tell

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11. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Cover of One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3) by Karen M. McManus

12. One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

By: Karen M. McManus

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive third and final thrilling instalment in the acclaimed One of Us... series. Ever since… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What is Bayview best known for? Revenge."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"There has to be a whole other level of pain when your soul gets ripped in half."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

"It's unreal how fast the inner voice you thought was gone can jump back into your head to tell you how much you suck."

-Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3)

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13. Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

By: Holly Jackson

3.78

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Find out where it all started for Pip in this prequel novella to the A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Smallpox,' ' Zach read aloud when the page was passed to him. 'It was eradicated by the nineteen eighties,' Pip said. 'Oi, no time travel.' Jamie whacked her on the head with his master booklet."

-Holly Jackson, Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)

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14. Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

4.08

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Six friends. One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a r… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"That's what she said -Simon"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"She wasn’t fine but she was alive and, really, how was that much different from the rest of her life?"

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"His whole life has been a war, that does something to your head, I think. It's done something to my head."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

"Trapped. Shut in. Only thirty-one feet to share between them, that extra foot important enough not to round down."

-Holly Jackson, Five Survive

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15. The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

By: Maureen Johnson

4.14

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone w… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"It’s good to be home,"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"Let her have her moose."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"The universe paid me in moose"

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

"She was exactly who she wanted to be."

-Maureen Johnson, The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

Cover of Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) by Holly  Jackson

16. Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

By: Holly Jackson

4.29

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast a… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"That's worth the risk. It's too important."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"Time is in charge here, not me, and that's terrifying"

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"MY DAD ISNT A KILLER!!!" he yelled. -paragraph- "cant relate," Cara shrugged."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

"It was done, it was gone. There was no going back now. This was her, and it was OK."

-Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

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17. As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

By: Holly Jackson

4.21

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

The finale to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Not then and there. Here and now."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Machines didn’t lie, only people did."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"Well,’ Pip smiled, ‘I’m still me.’ She hoped that was true."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

"The game had changed.Her against them.Save herself to save herself."

-Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)

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18. Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League-by way of Skull and Bones?" Reluctant debutant… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2) book and Maureen Johnson's The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

19. Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.85

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But." Eightee… read more

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  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus

20. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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