19 must-read fiction books like I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

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I Killed Zoe Spanos

By: Kit Frick

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses …

"It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

If you liked the fiction plot in I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. People Like Us

By: Dana Mele

3.52

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself en… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I don't want to fall back into that wild spinning nothingness again. Because once you're in it, there are no footholds. It takes something extraordinary, a cosmic alignment of divine proportions, to …"

-Dana Mele, People Like Us

2. Untitled

By: Courtney Summers

4.27

Format: 224 pages,

It's a road trip novel. It will hurt A Lot. Prepare yourself now. read more

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3. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Lying in the Deep

By: Diana Urban

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A juicy mystery of jealousy, love, and betrayal set on a Semester at Sea-inspired cruise ship, with… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. The Other Lola

By: Ripley Jones

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least? In the mo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident—two g… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders book and Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"At some time you have to choose to live in the light."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

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7. That Weekend

By: Kara Thomas

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Three best friends, a lake house, a secret trip - what could go wrong? It was supposed to be the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"How am I supposed to accept that the worst thing to ever happen to me has no meaning?"

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"I wish you'd killed me, I tried to say with my eyes. Then maybe someone would finally stop you."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Maybe, like me, it's even more than the absence. The silence, maybe - the waiting for the phone call that never comes."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

"Recently, she dyed her short blond bob a sassy red, a decision my mother and I discussed at length back when my friends weren't missing and we consumed other peoples' tragedies for entertainment."

-Kara Thomas, That Weekend

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8. 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

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

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9. The Summer She Went Missing

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige R… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. They'll Never Catch Us

By: Jessica Goodman

3.72

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A thriller about two sisters vying for the top spot on their cross-country team--the only way out o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Raven has always been nice in the same way vanilla is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough."

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

"Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough."

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

"The spiral continues until I remember something Mom once said: Everyone hates themselves a little. If you get over that, you survive. Sure, she said it when she was drunk and I was five. But I think …"

-Jessica Goodman, They'll Never Catch Us

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11. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Ivies

By: Alexa Donne

3.69

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Enroll in this boarding school thriller about a group of prep school elites who would kill to get i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Pretty Dead Queens

By: Alexa Donne

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. The Night in Question (The Agathas #2)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master—Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.93

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Last summer, Alice Ogilvie’s basketball-star boyfriend Steve dumped her. Then she disappeared for f… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"She basically just told kindness to fuck off."

-Kathleen Glasgow, The Agathas (The Agathas #1)

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17. All Your Twisted Secrets

By: Diana Urban

3.51

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classic… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

18. I Killed Zoe Spanos

By: Kit Frick

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos book and Kit Frick's I Killed Zoe Spanos

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"It was an accident, but... I killed Zoe Spanos."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"There are no parents, no lawyers. The girl’s father is unreachable, has been unreachable for years."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"In that moment, his expression changes, geniality sliding away into something between awe and dread. “Zoe?"

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

"But there are some secrets—my secrets—that Windermere will hold forever, trapped beneath the ash like spilled blood."

-Kit Frick, I Killed Zoe Spanos

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19. They Wish They Were Us

By: Jessica Goodman

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set against the backdrop of an exclusive prep school on Long Island. In Gold Co… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What do we do now?" I asked, trying to silence the screams in my head. "We go on" Adam said. "We keep going". I nodded but I did not ask my next question. How?"

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"Sometimes it's hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"You're just like me", she said softly in a maternal voice. "Scared. Young". My stomach sank. Those didn't sound like good things. "You'll survive, though", she continued. "We're the strong ones"."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

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20. Death at Morning House

By: Maureen Johnson

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. L'estate del mistero (Italian Edition)

By: Kathleen Glasgow

3.95

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

LA RAGAZZA PIÙ POPOLARE DELLA SCUOLA È SCOMPARSA E TUTTI PUNTANO IL DITO CONTRO STEVE BENVENUTI NEL… read more

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  • mystery

19 must-read contemporary books like I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick

Transform Your Habits

People Like Us

Dana Mele

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Lying in the Deep

Diana Urban

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Other Lola

Ripley Jones

3.59

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21 must-read fiction books like Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Legacies

Jessica Goodman

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Lying in the Deep

Diana Urban

3.61

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The Other Lola

Ripley Jones

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