19 must-read mystery books like The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward

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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…

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Cover of Mine (The Lair of the Wolven, #3) by J.R. Ward

1. Mine (The Lair of the Wolven, #3)

By: J.R. Ward

4.28

Format: 478 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this gripping finale of The Lair of the Wolven series, destiny and desire are at war in the Blac… read more

Similar categories in J.R. Ward's Mine (The Lair of the Wolven, #3) book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22) by J.R. Ward

2. The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22)

By: J.R. Ward

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Zsadist. His daughter. Her true love... what could POSSIBLY go wrong? The daughter of a legend f… read more

Similar categories in J.R. Ward's The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22) book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Here Is Lying by Shari Lapena

4. Everyone Here Is Lying

By: Shari Lapena

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.William Wooler is a family man, on… read more

Similar categories in Shari Lapena's Everyone Here Is Lying book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham

5. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Willingham's Only If You're Lucky book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

Cover of The New Couple in 5B by Lisa Unger

6. The New Couple in 5B

By: Lisa Unger

3.63

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the Ne… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Unger's The New Couple in 5B book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn back to our family of origin, aren't we? No matter how much pain they've caused, no matter how far we've run from them."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

"I remember wondering if anything was real, anything was true or if every place, every reality, was just another story you choose to believe."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

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7. 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 Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

8. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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10. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's Daughter of Mine book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica  Ward

11. 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 Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • suspense
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of My Darling Girl by Jennifer  McMahon

12. My Darling Girl

By: Jennifer McMahon

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mot… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer McMahon's My Darling Girl book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

13. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Prom Mom

By: Laura Lippman

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Prom Mom book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"

-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

Cover of A Twisted Love Story by Samantha  Downing

15. A Twisted Love Story

By: Samantha Downing

3.21

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of My Lovely Wife comes a reckless, delicious thriller about a young co… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Downing's A Twisted Love Story book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Midnight Is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead

16. Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

By: Ashley Winstead

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Beware of the dark. You might like what you find... Ruth Collier has always felt like an outside… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's Midnight Is the Darkest Hour book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Nature doesn't know good or evil. All nature knows is survival."

-Ashley Winstead, Midnight Is the Darkest Hour

Cover of Murder Road by Simone St. James

17. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen

18. Gone Tonight

By: Sarah Pekkanen

3.82

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pekkanen's Gone Tonight book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

19. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner

20. The Other Mothers

By: Katherine Faulkner

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Faulkner's The Other Mothers book and Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Chateau by Jaclyn Goldis

21. 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 Jessica Ward's The St. Ambrose School for Girls

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward

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Mine (The Lair of the Wolven, #3)

J.R. Ward

4.28

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The Beloved (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #22)

J.R. Ward

4.40

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Good Bad Girl

Alice Feeney

3.66

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Everyone Here Is Lying

Shari Lapena

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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Stacy Willingham

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