9 best-selling mystery thriller books like Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) by Linda Cheng

Cover of Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) by Linda Cheng

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

By: Linda Cheng

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced t…

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) by Linda Cheng , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok

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 Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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2. The Invocations

By: Krystal Sutherland

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose . . . Zara Jones believes in magic because the… read more

Similar categories in Krystal Sutherland's The Invocations book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"What if Savannah had found whatever it was she sold a piece of her soul to go looking for."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women."

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"What about trans women?" Zara asks, writing the question in her document. "How does that work?" "Of course I have written invocations for trans women," Emer says. "Demons do not care about bodies. Th…"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

"They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going …"

-Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

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3. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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4. A Magical Girl Retires

By: Park Seolyeon

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more

Similar categories in Park Seolyeon's A Magical Girl Retires book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • contemporary
  • queer
  • fiction
  • lgbt
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."

-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

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5. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Albert's The Bad Ones book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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6. Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

4.05

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie ― a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé's Where Sleeping Girls Lie book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
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7. Thirsty

By: Jas Hammonds

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer before college and eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner and her girlfriend, Ella, have o… read more

Similar categories in Jas Hammonds's Thirsty book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Beholder by Ryan La Sala

8. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's Beholder book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • queer
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

Cover of Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) by Linda Cheng

9. Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

By: Linda Cheng

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this debut speculative thriller that follows a disgraced t… read more

Similar categories in Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1) book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

10. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • queer
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Cover of The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

11. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of Out of Body by Nia  Davenport

12. Out of Body

By: Nia Davenport

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of frien… read more

Similar categories in Nia Davenport's Out of Body book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis

13. Dead Girls Walking

By: Sami Ellis

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A shocking, spine-chilling YA horror slasher about a girl searching for her dead mother’s body at t… read more

Similar categories in Sami Ellis's Dead Girls Walking book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
"Too bad you're getting sacrificed with your hoe ass."

-Sami Ellis, Dead Girls Walking

Cover of Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros

14. Wrath Becomes Her

By: Aden Polydoros

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Vera was made for vengeance. Lithuania, 1943. A father drowns in the all-consuming grief of a da… read more

Similar categories in Aden Polydoros's Wrath Becomes Her book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • horror
"There is a mark on your brow,' I murmured, leaning forward to rest my forehead against his. 'And it means truth."

-Aden Polydoros, Wrath Becomes Her

"The thing about losing someone, it's like...You see something, and you think 'oh, they'll love this once I tell them' or 'I can't wait to share this with them,' but you can't. Because they're dead. S…"

-Aden Polydoros, Wrath Becomes Her

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15. Monstrous

By: Jessica Lewis

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hid… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Lewis's Monstrous book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • queer
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16. Flawless Girls

By: Anna-Marie McLemore

3.17

Format: 283 pages, Hardcover

The Soler sisters are infamous in polite society—brazen, rebellious, and raised by their fashionabl… read more

Similar categories in Anna-Marie McLemore's Flawless Girls book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of The Changing Man by Tomi Oyemakinde

17. The Changing Man

By: Tomi Oyemakinde

3.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old … read more

Similar categories in Tomi Oyemakinde's The Changing Man book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

18. Wish You Weren't Here

By: Erin Baldwin

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juliette doesn’t hate Priya Pendley. At least, not in the way teen movies say she should hate th… read more

Similar categories in Erin Baldwin's Wish You Weren't Here book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
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19. The Blonde Dies First

By: Joelle Wellington

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A group of friends fight to choose their own fates in this trope-savvy, self-referential young adul… read more

Similar categories in Joelle Wellington's The Blonde Dies First book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of So Witches We Became by Jill Baguchinsky

20. So Witches We Became

By: Jill Baguchinsky

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more

Similar categories in Jill Baguchinsky's So Witches We Became book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of A Bánh Mì for Two by Trinity  Nguyen

21. A Bánh Mì for Two

By: Trinity Nguyen

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vi… read more

Similar categories in Trinity Nguyen's A Bánh Mì for Two book and Linda Cheng's Gorgeous Gruesome Faces (Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, #1)

  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer

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Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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Krystal Sutherland

4.11

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Dear Wendy

Ann Zhao

4.01

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Park Seolyeon

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Signed Sealed Dead

Cynthia Murphy

3.93

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Trish Lundy

3.77

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Benjamin Dean

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Ginny Myers Sain

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