16 Top suspense books like The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller by Joanna Margaret

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The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

By: Joanna Margaret

2.97

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Named a "Most Anticipated" October Thriller by Bustle, PopSugar, & CrimeReads  After her profes…

If you liked the suspense plot in The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller by Joanna Margaret , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. A Haunting on the Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hand's A Haunting on the Hill book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

3.42

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A literary thriller about an aspiring writer who meets and falls in love with her literary idol—onl… read more

Similar categories in Sulari Gentill's The Mystery Writer book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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3. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Main Character book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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4. The Fiction Writer

By: Jillian Cantor

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family histo… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Cantor's The Fiction Writer book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"That's what writing fiction was, wasn't it? Processing your own life, answering all those questions in any way you wanted to, since fictional worlds operated with their own language and their own rul…"

-Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer

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5. End of Story

By: A.J. Finn

3.10

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.” So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's End of Story book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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6. The St. Ambrose School for Girls

By: Jessica Ward

3.28

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Heathers meets The Secret History in this thrilling coming-of-age novel set in a boarding school wh… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Murder by Degrees

By: Ritu Mukerji

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering… read more

Similar categories in Ritu Mukerji's Murder by Degrees book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

By: Charlotte Vassell

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You know how they live. This is how they die... Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Vassell's The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1) book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one used the phrase "force of nature" in a positive way. It's meant for floods, and volcanoes, and hurricanes. I'm a woman, not a geographical phenomenon."

-Charlotte Vassell, The Other Half (DI Caius Beauchamp, #1)

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9. The Bones of the Story

By: Carol Goodman

3.68

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

A locked-room mystery about a group of former classmates trapped on their college campus—with a mur… read more

Similar categories in Carol Goodman's The Bones of the Story book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. West Heart Kill

By: Dann McDorman

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more

Similar categories in Dann McDorman's West Heart Kill book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're a private detective."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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11. The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

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12. The Last Note of Warning (Nightingale Mysteries #3)

By: Katharine Schellman

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Last Note of Warning is the third in the luscious, mysterious, and queer Nightingale mystery se… read more

Similar categories in Katharine Schellman's The Last Note of Warning (Nightingale Mysteries #3) book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

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14. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Nossett's The Professor book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

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15. The Chateau

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and mu… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Chateau book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

By: Joanna Margaret

2.97

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Named a "Most Anticipated" October Thriller by Bustle, PopSugar, & CrimeReads  After her profes… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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17. All Dressed Up

By: Jilly Gagnon

3.08

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The weekend getaway at the gorgeous manor hotel should have been perfect. But Becca is freshly smar… read more

Similar categories in Jilly Gagnon's All Dressed Up book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Wordhunter

By: Stella Sands

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more

Similar categories in Stella Sands's Wordhunter book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Return to Wyldcliffe Heights

By: Carol Goodman

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Jane Eyre meets  The Thirteenth Tale  in this new modern gothic mystery from two-time Mary Higgins … read more

Similar categories in Carol Goodman's Return to Wyldcliffe Heights book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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20. Then Things Went Dark

By: Bea Fitzgerald

3.34

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are suit… read more

Similar categories in Bea Fitzgerald's Then Things Went Dark book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Favorites

By: Rosemary Hennigan

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An outsider graduate student forges her way into an exclusive Law and Literature cohort and plots a… read more

Similar categories in Rosemary Hennigan's The Favorites book and Joanna Margaret's The Bequest: A Dark Academia Thriller

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.35

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3.42

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Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

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Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

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3.63

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