13 Top thriller books like In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3) by Diana Peterfreund

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In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

By: Diana Peterfreund

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board…

"No. She was not going to fall for it again. She'd seen behind Oliver's mask of kindness and charm. He said all the right things, because he knew she would fall for them. And then he used her vulnerability to do one of two things: try to get into her pants or drive the stake further into her heart."

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

"No. She was not going to fall for it again. She'd seen behind Oliver's mask of kindness and charm. He said all the right things, because he knew she would fall for them. And then he used her vulnerability to do one of two things: try to get into her pants or drive the stake further into her heart."

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

If you liked the thriller plot in In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3) by Diana Peterfreund , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Missing

By: Kelley Armstrong

2.96

Format: 63 pages, ebook

The only thing Winter Crane likes about Reeve's End is that soon she'll leave it. Like her best fri… read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Missing book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

2. The First Days (As the World Dies, #1)

By: Rhiannon Frater

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her.… read more

Similar categories in Rhiannon Frater's The First Days (As the World Dies, #1) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

3. I Am Her Revenge

By: Meredith Moore

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She can be anyone you want her to be. Vivian was raised with one purpose in life: to exact revenge … read more

Similar categories in Meredith Moore's I Am Her Revenge book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

4. The Cresswell Plot

By: Eliza Wass

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The woods were insane in the dark, terrifying and magical at the same time. But best of all were th… read more

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5. Nine Liars (Truly Devious, #5)

By: Maureen Johnson

3.81

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn’t going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studyin… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Nine Liars (Truly Devious, #5) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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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7. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

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

-Lauren Muñoz, Suddenly a Murder

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9. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • mystery
  • thriller
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10. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
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12. 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 Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • murder mystery
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. Not Dead Enough

By: Tyffany D. Neiheiser

3.74

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything change… read more

Similar categories in Tyffany D. Neiheiser's Not Dead Enough book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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14. A Crown So Cursed (Nightmare-Verse, #3)

By: L.L. McKinney

4.12

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In the third book in L.L. McKinney's Nightmare-Verse trilogy, Alice gets one last chance to save Wo… read more

Similar categories in L.L. McKinney's A Crown So Cursed (Nightmare-Verse, #3) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3) by Diana Peterfreund

15. In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

By: Diana Peterfreund

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board… read more

Similar categories in Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • retellings
  • teen
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • murder mystery
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • mystery
"No. She was not going to fall for it again. She'd seen behind Oliver's mask of kindness and charm. He said all the right things, because he knew she would fall for them. And then he used her vulnerab…"

-Diana Peterfreund, In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

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16. The Killing Code

By: Ellie Marney

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A historical mystery about a girl who risks everything to track down a vicious serial killer, for f… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Marney's The Killing Code book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I am the code you never broke, and I don't play by the rules."

-Ellie Marney, The Killing Code

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17. How to Book a Murder (Starlit Bookshop Mystery #1)

By: Cynthia Kuhn

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle, in award-winning author Cynthia Kuhn’s series … read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Kuhn's How to Book a Murder (Starlit Bookshop Mystery #1) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura

By: Waka T. Brown

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this magical and chilling Coraline-esque retelling of the Japanese folktale “The Melon Princess… read more

Similar categories in Waka T. Brown's The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • retellings
  • fiction
  • young adult
Cover of Lost Roads (Broken Lands, #2) by Jonathan Maberry

19. Lost Roads (Broken Lands, #2)

By: Jonathan Maberry

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Simon & Schuster has bought Jonathan Maberry's Rot & Ruin: Broken Lands, which will push reset on h… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Maberry's Lost Roads (Broken Lands, #2) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • lgbt
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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

Similar categories in Maureen Johnson's Death at Morning House book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death (Baker Street Mystery, #3) by Valerie Burns

21. A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death (Baker Street Mystery, #3)

By: Valerie Burns

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the shores of Lake Michigan, influencer Maddy Montgomery has turned the bakery she inherited fro… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Burns's A Cup of Flour, A Pinch of Death (Baker Street Mystery, #3) book and Diana Peterfreund's In the Ballroom with the Candlestick (Clue Mystery, #3)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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2.96

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3.81

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April Henry

3.36

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Four Found Dead

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3.45

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3.90

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Liselle Sambury

3.90

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Bethany Baptiste

3.75

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Kosoko Jackson

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