20 must-read mystery thriller books like Very Bad People by Kit Frick

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Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Very Bad People by Kit Frick , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. Rumor Game

By: Dhonielle Clayton , Sona Charaipotra

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Disney has bought Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton's Rumor Game, a contemporary YA that follo… read more

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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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's The Other Lola book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Two Truths and a Lie

By: April Henry

3.36

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

A group of teens are trapped in an old motel with a murderer in this chilling YA mystery by New Yor… read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Two Truths and a Lie book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I'm not just ignoring you, I'm waiting to see if you'll put in the effort to talk to me."

-April Henry, Two Truths and a Lie

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6. These Deadly Games

By: Diana Urban

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the po… read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's These Deadly Games book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. A Long Stretch of Bad Days

By: Mindy McGinnis

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lydia Chass doesn’t mind living in a small town; she just doesn’t want to die in one. A lifetime of… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's A Long Stretch of Bad Days book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The action is wrong. But the person committing it is a breathing, thinking, living, feeling human being. And I can tell you that most of the time where there's violence, there's fear- and it's not on…"

-Mindy McGinnis, A Long Stretch of Bad Days

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8. The Counselors

By: Jessica Goodman

3.54

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. She's always had a special co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Counselors book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's The Ivies book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • boarding school
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Agathas (The Agathas #1) by Kathleen Glasgow

13. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Agathas (The Agathas #1) book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

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

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

Cover of Tell Me What Really Happened by Chelsea Sedoti

14. 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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

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

15. 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 Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Dig Two Graves

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.45

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

I did my part, BFF. Now it’s your turn. Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's Dig Two Graves book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Very Bad People by Kit Frick

17. Very Bad People

By: Kit Frick

3.38

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us… read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's Very Bad People book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers

18. I'm the Girl

By: Courtney Summers

3.39

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The new groundbreaking queer thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar-award Winning autho… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Summers's I'm the Girl book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. And Don't Look Back

By: Rebecca Barrow

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

After her mother’s death, a teen pieces together the truth of her family’s past and what her mom wa… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Barrow's And Don't Look Back book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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20. Dead End Girls

By: Wendy Heard

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. After years of … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's Dead End Girls book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. 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

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and Kit Frick's Very Bad People

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

19 best-selling fiction books like Very Bad People by Kit Frick

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

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The Legacies

Jessica Goodman

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Other Lola

Ripley Jones

3.59

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Two Truths and a Lie

April Henry

3.36

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21 must-read fiction books like Tell Me What Really Happened by Chelsea Sedoti

Transform Your Habits

How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

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The Legacies

Jessica Goodman

3.57

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Lying in the Deep

Diana Urban

3.61

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