13 must-read contemporary books like The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay

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The Assassin Game

By: Kirsty McKay

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Who will be left after lights out? Tag, you're it... It's 4:00 a.m. when they come for me. I am alr…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of You Don't Know My Name (The Black Angel Chronicles #1) by Kristen Orlando

1. You Don't Know My Name (The Black Angel Chronicles #1)

By: Kristen Orlando

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Fighter. Faker. Student. Spy. Seventeen-year-old Reagan Elizabeth Hillis is used to changing ide… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Orlando's You Don't Know My Name (The Black Angel Chronicles #1) book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. The Escape

By: Hannah Jayne

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

When two boys walk into the woods, and one comes out covered in blood, what would you believe? Flet… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Jayne's The Escape book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay

3. The Assassin Game

By: Kirsty McKay

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Who will be left after lights out? Tag, you're it... It's 4:00 a.m. when they come for me. I am alr… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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4. #MURDERTRENDING

By: Gretchen McNeil

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

WELCOME TO THE NEAR FUTURE, where good and honest 8/18 citizens can enjoy watching the executions o… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's #MURDERTRENDING book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller

5. Plague Land

By: Alex Scarrow

3.68

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Leon and his younger sister Grace have just moved to London from New York when news of an unidentif… read more

Similar categories in Alex Scarrow's Plague Land book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

6. The Cabin

By: Natasha Preston

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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7. No Way Home

By: Jody Feldman

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

How can you save your parents when you are an ocean away? A propulsive international thriller from … read more

Similar categories in Jody Feldman's No Way Home book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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8. The Dare

By: Natasha Preston

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

I triple dog dare you . . . As senior year comes to an end, senior pranks are just beginning. It… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Dare book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. 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 Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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10. The Lost

By: Natasha Preston

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In the small town of Aurora, teens go missing all the time. But when one of Piper and Hazel's class… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Lost book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
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11. The Haunting

By: Natasha Preston

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Natasha Preston is back with another pulse-pound… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Haunting book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Island by Natasha Preston

12. The Island

By: Natasha Preston

3.47

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Hot on the heels of the New York Times bestsellers The Twin and The Lake, another pulse-pounding re… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Island book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks) by Maren Stoffels

13. Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks)

By: Maren Stoffels

3.28

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

There's no escape from this room. Full of menace and suspense, it's an unputdownable thriller--and … read more

Similar categories in Maren Stoffels's Escape Room (Underlined Paperbacks) book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine

14. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The Murder Game by Carrie Doyle

15. The Murder Game

By: Carrie Doyle

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What if your best friend and roommate killed a teacher at your prep school? Or what if he didn’t do… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Doyle's The Murder Game book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The Twin by Natasha Preston

16. The Twin

By: Natasha Preston

3.34

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

Ivy and Iris haven't lived together for years - when their mother and father divorced, each parent … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Preston's The Twin book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of They're Watching You by Chelsea Ichaso

17. They're Watching You

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a secret society has you in their sights, it can lead to power, privilege... or death. It's… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's They're Watching You book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
Cover of The Headmaster's List by Melissa de la Cruz

18. The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are by Kathryn Foxfield

19. Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are

By: Kathryn Foxfield

3.55

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the reality game show that'll scare you to death! Have you got what it takes to last the… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Foxfield's Come Out, Come Out, Whatever You Are book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

20. Even If We Break

By: Marieke Nijkamp

2.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijkamp comes a shocking new thriller about a gro… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's Even If We Break book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
"Finn never told me how reassuring physical pain can be. It sends a thrill through me. A restless trembling that leaves me breathless—a hunger."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

"Here, everything is possible. And that is the biggest lie of all. I don't just want to make the game good for them; I want to stay here and never go back."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

"It's hard, isn't it? Trusting others with the whole of you?" She smiles bitterly and shakes her head. "It's so much easier to lie. You know that. You lie too."

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

" My friends are hurting. It's my job to protect them. It's my job to keep them safe." "No, your job is to love hard enough to counterbalance the hatred. That's enough. "

-Marieke Nijkamp, Even If We Break

Cover of #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2) by Gretchen McNeil

21. #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)

By: Gretchen McNeil

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

WELCOME TO WHO WANTS TO BE A PANIAC?, the latest reality TV show on the hunt for the next big-hit s… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen McNeil's #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2) book and Kirsty McKay's The Assassin Game

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Griselda rotated her finger in a circle whoop-de-do-style, signaling her impatience. ‘Yeah, yeah. We all have daddy issues. Get to the part where you justify Javier not shooting you."

-Gretchen McNeil, #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)

"As she stared down at Stef's coffin, all she could picture was the scene at the Marquette cemetery, Stef's head in Becca's lap, her skin turning a sickly shade of grayish brown, her eyes open but uns…"

-Gretchen McNeil, #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)

"Coop floored the accelerator and bounced the bus out of the parking lot onto one of the internal streets that crisscrossed the lot. Becca gripped a stripper pole with both hands as he careened around…"

-Gretchen McNeil, #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)

"Stef returned her smile. She was so beautiful. So wounded and tough and beautiful on the inside too, and Becca wanted to hold her like that forever until they were both old and wrinkly and lived in a…"

-Gretchen McNeil, #Murderfunding (MurderTrending, #2)

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Kristen Orlando

3.68

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The Escape

Hannah Jayne

4.18

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The Assassin Game

Kirsty McKay

3.47

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#MURDERTRENDING

Gretchen McNeil

4.88

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How to Find a Missing Girl

Victoria Wlosok

3.65

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Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

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The Legacies

Jessica Goodman

3.57

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Diana Urban

3.61

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