18 Top mystery books like Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1) by Kara Thomas, Kara Taylor

Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

By: Kara Thomas , Kara Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

In this breathtaking debut that reads like Gossip Girl crossed with Twin Peaks, a Queen Bee at a bl…

If you liked the mystery plot in Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1) by Kara Thomas, Kara Taylor , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas, Abby McDonald

1. Dangerous Girls

By: Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other … read more

Similar categories in Abigail Haas's Dangerous Girls book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I win."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"The night is still just getting started."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"Do you love me? You know I do. How much? Miles and miles."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

"After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle. We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart. We're wrong."

-Abigail Haas, Dangerous Girls

Cover of Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2. Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bayport High operates like any other high school--jocks at the top, outsiders at the bottom, and ev… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1) book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'd sold my soul to get out of detention."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

"Actively hating your newfound popularity with a fiery passion can really take a lot out off you"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

"Tara hadn't managed to pick his pockets, and Chloe had only halfway seduced him, but Lucy's open adoration and obvious cheerfulness weren't running up against any barriers at all."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

"He just seems really happy, you know?" "You're one to talk," I said. "You're Miss Happy." "But it's like he doesn't even have to try. I mean, he almost got thumped at lunch, and he was grinning like …"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

Cover of The Darkest Corners by Kara Thomas

3. The Darkest Corners

By: Kara Thomas

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Darkest Cornersis a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly tru… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Darkest Corners book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

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

4. Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

By: Kara Thomas , Kara Taylor

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

In this breathtaking debut that reads like Gossip Girl crossed with Twin Peaks, a Queen Bee at a bl… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1) book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

5. Going Rogue (Also Known As, #2)

By: Robin Benway

3.66

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Being permanently based in a local New York City high school as an undercover operative has its mom… read more

Similar categories in Robin Benway's Going Rogue (Also Known As, #2) book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery
  • young adult
  • contemporary

6. With Malice

By: Eileen Cook

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

It was the perfect trip...until it wasn't. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital ro… read more

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7. 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

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8. 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

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Cover of How to Find a Missing Girl by Victoria Wlosok

9. How to Find a Missing Girl

By: Victoria Wlosok

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and Veronica Mars, this whip-smart thriller follows a sap… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Wlosok's How to Find a Missing Girl book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones

10. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Legacies by Jessica  Goodman

11. The Legacies

By: Jessica Goodman

3.57

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Legacies book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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12. The Cheerleaders

By: Kara Thomas

3.75

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident—two g… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"At some time you have to choose to live in the light."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"A migraine coming on. She got them when she was stressed."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"It shouldn't be this easy. Grief isn't supposed to be easy."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

"My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body."

-Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

Cover of The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly  Jackson

13. The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By: Holly Jackson

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth abou… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's The Reappearance of Rachel Price book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Family first", Bel said. Not a threat, but a promise."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"They hadn't had time to say one word to each other, which was fine, because it was hard to be rude to someone with just one word."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

"A little insensitive", she whispered, loud enough that Bel and Carter could hear. "Giving the man with dementia a book called The Memory Thief."

-Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

Cover of The Summer She Went Missing by Chelsea Ichaso

14. 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 Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne

15. 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 Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Hunting November (Killing November, #2) by Adriana Mather

16. Hunting November (Killing November, #2)

By: Adriana Mather

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Surviving a few weeks at the world's most lethal boarding school was one thing. But now comes the r… read more

Similar categories in Adriana Mather's Hunting November (Killing November, #2) book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"I shake my head. My nightmare was her amusement. "You have to be the only person in the world who thinks chaos is an ideal state of being," I say."

-Adriana Mather, Hunting November (Killing November, #2)

"I was a little peeved, you know, that you and Ash would go to London to take on Jag in a fit of epic stupidity and not even thing to invite me." She gives me a look. "So I invited myself."

-Adriana Mather, Hunting November (Killing November, #2)

"You're perrrrfect. Do you really think that's fair to the rest of us? I'm pretty sure I'm going to marry you. Not now. Don't be crazy. But you should just tell your Family that whatever ideas they ha…"

-Adriana Mather, Hunting November (Killing November, #2)

"You lean into life. Even now, even when you're being hunted by the Lions, you gape at the streets of Edinburgh, light up over the sight of a Christmas tree in a hotel lobby, ask five thousand questio…"

-Adriana Mather, Hunting November (Killing November, #2)

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

17. 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 Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • boarding school
  • young adult
  • 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)

Cover of Deadly Little Scandals (Debutantes, #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

18. 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 Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

19. All Your Twisted Secrets

By: Diana Urban

3.51

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

A thrilling debut, reminiscent of new fan favorites like One of Us Is Lying and the beloved classic… read more

Similar categories in Diana Urban's All Your Twisted Secrets book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

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

20. 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 Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Little Monsters by Kara Thomas

21. Little Monsters

By: Kara Thomas

3.92

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-… read more

Similar categories in Kara Thomas's Little Monsters book and Kara Thomas's Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1)

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

18 Best contemporary books like Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential, #1) by Kara Thomas, Kara Taylor

Transform Your Habits

Dangerous Girls

Abigail Haas , Abby McDonald

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Darkest Corners

Kara Thomas

3.93

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Kara Thomas , Kara Taylor

3.76

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14 must-read mystery books like Hunting November (Killing November, #2) by Adriana Mather

Transform Your Habits

Perfect Cover (The Squad, #1)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Killer Spirit (The Squad, #2)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.99

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Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.37

Deadly Little Sins (Prep School Confidential, #3)

Kara Thomas , Kara Taylor

4.19

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