13 must-read thriller books like Payback (Vale Hall, #3) by Kristen Simmons

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Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

By: Kristen Simmons

4.16

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The unpredictable truth will be revealed in Payback, the stunning conclusion to Kristen Simmons’ Ed…

If you liked the thriller plot in Payback (Vale Hall, #3) by Kristen Simmons , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Map of Fates (The Conspiracy of Us, #2) by Maggie  Hall

1. Map of Fates (The Conspiracy of Us, #2)

By: Maggie Hall

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two weeks. That's how long it took for Avery West's ordinary life to change forever: In two weeks, … read more

Similar categories in Maggie Hall's Map of Fates (The Conspiracy of Us, #2) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

2. The Fixer (The Fixer, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars. Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entir… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Fixer (The Fixer, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

3. Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy, #3)

By: Sally Green

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is the final battle. The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen… read more

Similar categories in Sally Green's Half Lost (The Half Bad Trilogy, #3) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

4. Also Known As (Also Known As, #1)

By: Robin Benway

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Which is more dangerous: being an international spy... or surviving high school? Maggie Silver has … read more

Similar categories in Robin Benway's Also Known As (Also Known As, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

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5. The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Congratulations, by the way," he called after Nash. "On the babies."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows how to look for tricks."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

"Beside Avery, Jameson was looking at her like she was the sun and the moon and the stars and eternity, all rolled into one."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game (The Grandest Game, #1)

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6. Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

By: Vanessa Len

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

It should have been the perfect summer. Sent to stay with her late mother’s eccentric family in Lon… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Len's Only a Monster (Monsters, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
"What am I?"

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"Don't look at them. Look at me." -Aaron Oliver"

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"A Hunt and an Oliver together? How very Romeo and Juliet."

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

"You're a hero and I'm a monster. There's only one way that story ever ends."

-Vanessa Len, Only a Monster (Monsters, #1)

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7. The Summer She Went Missing

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige R… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's The Summer She Went Missing book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1) by Kayvion Lewis

8. Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1)

By: Kayvion Lewis

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat compe… read more

Similar categories in Kayvion Lewis's Thieves' Gambit (Thieves' Gambit, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. Never a Hero (Monsters, #2)

By: Vanessa Len

4.06

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

This sequel to the contemporary fantasy Only a Monster will take Joan deeper into the monster world… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Len's Never a Hero (Monsters, #2) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
"You were a hero,"

-Vanessa Len, Never a Hero (Monsters, #2)

Cover of Killing November (Killing November, #1) by Adriana Mather

10. Killing November (Killing November, #1)

By: Adriana Mather

4.15

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

It’s a school completely off the grid, hidden by dense forest and surrounded by traps. There’s no e… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Mather's Killing November (Killing November, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"You never know how much time you have, so screw it— I'm going to live in every way I can. And the one thing I’ll never agree with is how you guys seem to push each other away. I don’t know what my li…"

-Adriana Mather, Killing November (Killing November, #1)

"The framing of history impacts its credibility as much as the facts. Just like a portrait painter who hides his subjects’ flaws changes our impression of them. Peeling away those layers to find the t…"

-Adriana Mather, Killing November (Killing November, #1)

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11. Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Think of the White Gloves like the Junior League-by way of Skull and Bones?" Reluctant debutant… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.85

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But." Eightee… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) by Rochelle Hassan

13. The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

By: Rochelle Hassan

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary fantasy YA debut from Rochelle Hassan about monsters, magic, and wicked fae, perfect… read more

Similar categories in Rochelle Hassan's The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It was like every emotion he'd had to suppress in order to survive the last year and a half was now crashing into him all at once. Every vulnerability he'd locked away so that he could command the ho…"

-Rochelle Hassan, The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound, #1)

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14. Love & Other Great Expectations

By: Becky Dean

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An American girl embarks on a competitive scavenger hunt in England—and along the way, meets up wit… read more

Similar categories in Becky Dean's Love & Other Great Expectations book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Want to be a knight, Al?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Would you rather eat poison ivy or a handful of bumblebees?"

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Maybe I just wanted to spend time with a pretty, crazy American."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

"Books are like adventures. They take you to new places and let you be new people. The best ones teach you about life or inspire you."

-Becky Dean, Love & Other Great Expectations

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15. They Wish They Were Us

By: Jessica Goodman

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A murder mystery set against the backdrop of an exclusive prep school on Long Island. In Gold Co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's They Wish They Were Us book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"What do we do now?" I asked, trying to silence the screams in my head. "We go on" Adam said. "We keep going". I nodded but I did not ask my next question. How?"

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"Sometimes it's hard to know which qualities really define you, and which ones have been affixed to you by others so many times that you actually begin to believe them and claim them as your own."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

"You're just like me", she said softly in a maternal voice. "Scared. Young". My stomach sank. Those didn't sound like good things. "You'll survive, though", she continued. "We're the strong ones"."

-Jessica Goodman, They Wish They Were Us

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16. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
Cover of Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2) by Marie Lu

17. Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)

By: Marie Lu

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New sparks. Old flames. And a mission that's playing with fire. A year has passed since supersta… read more

Similar categories in Marie Lu's Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Loyalty to a secret."

-Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)

"Let me stay." "Keep me in your songs."

-Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)

"Maybe love was not knowing and going ahead anyway."

-Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)

"Grief is love. It's the price we pay for the gift of someone meaningful in our lives."

-Marie Lu, Icon and Inferno (Stars and Smoke, #2)

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18. Thin Air

By: Kellie M. Parker

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of tee… read more

Similar categories in Kellie M. Parker's Thin Air book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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19. Such Charming Liars

By: Karen M. McManus

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The newest mystery from the author One of Us Is Lying, the Queen of thrillers, Karen M. McManus! Wh… read more

Similar categories in Karen M. McManus's Such Charming Liars book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Payback (Vale Hall, #3) by Kristen Simmons

20. Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

By: Kristen Simmons

4.16

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The unpredictable truth will be revealed in Payback, the stunning conclusion to Kristen Simmons’ Ed… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3) book and Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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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 Kristen Simmons's Payback (Vale Hall, #3)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

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