13 Best mystery books like Sugaring Off by Gillian French

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Sugaring Off

By: Gillian French

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Min…

If you liked the mystery plot in Sugaring Off by Gillian French , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Under This Red Rock

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in h… read more

Similar categories in Mindy McGinnis's Under This Red Rock book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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2. Plan A

By: Deb Caletti

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

A sixteen-year-old girl’s road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative … read more

Similar categories in Deb Caletti's Plan A book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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3. The Space Between Here & Now

By: Sarah Suk

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Suk's The Space Between Here & Now book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Brighter Than the Sun

By: Daniel Aleman

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This timely and thought-provoking story about a teen girl shouldering impossibly large responsibili… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aleman's Brighter Than the Sun book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • fiction
  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. 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 Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • 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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6. Only She Came Back

By: Margot Harrison

3.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A chilling thriller about an unlikely friendship between a true-crime fan and a former high school … read more

Similar categories in Margot Harrison's Only She Came Back book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. The Lamplighter

By: Crystal J. Bell

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It’s an honor to bring light to the dark. The nineteenth-century whaling village of Warbler is famo… read more

Similar categories in Crystal J. Bell's The Lamplighter book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
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8. Camp Scare

By: Delilah S. Dawson

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, twisty ghost story about twelve-year-old Parker, who only wanted a summer of fun and new … read more

Similar categories in Delilah S. Dawson's Camp Scare book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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 Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. After Dark with Roxie Clark

By: Brooke Lauren Davis

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Hollow Inside comes a twisty, thought-provoking YA thriller about grief, fam… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lauren Davis's After Dark with Roxie Clark book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. The Brightwood Code

By: Monica Hesse

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seven months ago Edda was on the World War I front lines as one of two hundred “Hello Girls,” femal… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's The Brightwood Code book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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12. We Are All So Good at Smiling

By: Amber McBride

3.88

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse … read more

Similar categories in Amber McBride's We Are All So Good at Smiling book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Sorrow is no one's fault."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"The only way out is through."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"Let's write our story, so no one can take it away."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

"It starts in the middle not the beginning or the end- stories start in the middle."

-Amber McBride, We Are All So Good at Smiling

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13. Friends Like These

By: Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twisted secrets that will have readers guessing with every flip of the page. Perfect for fans of GO… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Alvarez's Friends Like These book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Unholy Terrors

By: Lyndall Clipstone

3.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bloodstained tale of a girl torn between her vows and her heart, where falling in love may be the… read more

Similar categories in Lyndall Clipstone's Unholy Terrors book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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15. Six of Sorrow

By: Amanda Linsmeier

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day—and now, on their birthday, one of them is m… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Linsmeier's Six of Sorrow book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. My Flawless Life

By: Yvonne Woon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A narrator grapples with the secrets of her private school classmates as well as her own life. … read more

Similar categories in Yvonne Woon's My Flawless Life book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. For Lamb

By: Lesa Cline-Ransome

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful histori… read more

Similar categories in Lesa Cline-Ransome's For Lamb book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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18. Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything

By: Justine Pucella Winans

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Murder most fowl? In this sardonic and campy YA thriller, an anxious, introverted nonbinary teen bi… read more

Similar categories in Justine Pucella Winans's Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) by Jeff  Bishop

19. A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1)

By: Jeff Bishop

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

You’ve Reached Sam meets John Hughes in a funny and heartfelt debut about a boy’s delirious summert… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Bishop's A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy (A Heavy Dose of Allison Tandy, #1) book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • young adult contemporary
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. The Meadows

By: Stephanie Oakes

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"A story of pain, injustice, love, resistance, and hope, this glorious book will lodge inside you a… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Oakes's The Meadows book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"There is something so good about rage."

-Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

"Maybe for the ones who get good at pretending, it won't come out for years and years...Or they'll, quite without warning, walk into the ocean until their life disappears. And everyone will be stunned…"

-Stephanie Oakes, The Meadows

Cover of Sugaring Off by Gillian French

21. Sugaring Off

By: Gillian French

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Min… read more

Similar categories in Gillian French's Sugaring Off book and Gillian French's Sugaring Off

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult contemporary
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • disability
  • audiobook

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Under This Red Rock

Mindy McGinnis

3.94

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3.25

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Girl Forgotten

April Henry

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Darkroom

K.R. Alexander

4.17

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Thirteens (Thirteens, #1)

Kate Alice Marshall

3.97

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Jennifer L. Holm

4.23

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Lindsay Currie

4.03

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