21 best-selling thriller books like The Headmaster's List by Melissa de la Cruz

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The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Headmaster's List by Melissa de la Cruz , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. 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

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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3. The Legacies

By: Jessica Goodman

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Legacies book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

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

Similar categories in Diana Urban's Lying in the Deep book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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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7. 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

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's The Summer She Went Missing book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's One of Us Is Back (One of Us Is Lying, #3) book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • 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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9. Suddenly a Murder

By: Lauren Muñoz

3.65

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. On… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Muñoz's Suddenly a Murder book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"He’s a Darcy in the streets but a Wickham in the sheets."

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

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10. 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

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Girl Forgotten

By: April Henry

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case.  Seventeen … read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Girl Forgotten book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's Pretty Dead Queens book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) by Kathleen Glasgow

13. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Night in Question (The Agathas #2) book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Someone Is Always Watching

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blythe and her friends—Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya—have always been a tight … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Someone Is Always Watching book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. Tell Me What Really Happened

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. N… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's Tell Me What Really Happened book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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16. They're Watching You

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a secret society has you in their sights, it can lead to power, privilege... or death. It's… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's They're Watching You book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Headmaster's List by Melissa de la Cruz

17. The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) by Jessie Weaver

18. Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You)

By: Jessie Weaver

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds hide the darkest—and bloodiest—secrets.Social media influen… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Weaver's Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1) by Katie Cotugno

19. Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

By: Katie Cotugno

3.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A fresh new take on Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery The Mysterious Affair at Styles , with… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1) book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There were a lot of different versions of the truth."

-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

"Every day I think about committing a murder just to spice things up."

-Katie Cotugno, Liar's Beach (Liar's Beach, #1)

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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

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Two Sides to Every Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who retur… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's Two Sides to Every Murder book and Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Even strong people need to fall apart."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

"You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

21 Best fiction books like The Headmaster's List by Melissa de la Cruz

Transform Your Habits

How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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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21 Top fiction books like They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

Transform Your Habits

How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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

View all the books

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