Holly Jackson's hit novel A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (first in a series) was recently adapted into a Netflix series. If you'd like to watch the series but don't have Netflix, you can borrow MHL's Roku with Netflix access. And if you've already read the books and watched the show but still crave more (fictional) murder, here are some other great YA mysteries to check out.
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A good girl's guide to murder
by Holly Jackson As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past. |
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The reappearance of Rachel Price
by Holly Jackson When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead. |
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Have you seen this girl
by Nita Tyndall Another girl has gone missing in Cardinal Creek. Sid knows their dad didn't do it-this time. He's currently serving a life sentence for the five girls he murdered ten years ago. Girls whose bodies he dumped into the lake. The same lake where June Hargrove was just found. And while Sid's dad couldn't have done it, suspicion is now directed at Sid. The only person who doesn't suspect Sid is the new girl, Mavis-as long as Sid doesn't let her find out about their past. But Sid has another secret: They're being haunted by the ghosts of the five girls their father killed. Except now there are six. And unlike the others, June isn't content to just whisper in Sid's ear. She wants them to find out who's killing again, especially as another girl goes missing. If Sid wants any chance of solving the current disappearances, they're going to have to face what their father did-or risk being haunted forever. |
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The Ivies
by Alexa Donne The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, have a showdown after Olivia gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not. |
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Looking for Smoke
by K. A. Cobell When a classmate is murdered during a traditional Blackfeet giveaway, Mara, Loren, Brody and Eli, the last people to see her alive, must take matters into their own hands and clear their names—even though one of them may be the killer. |
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Monday's not coming
by Tiffany D. Jackson Knowing when her best friend stops showing up at school that something is terribly wrong, Claudia, who depends heavily on her friend to defend her from bullies and help her navigate the toughest time in her life, is baffled when nobody around her seems to remember the last time they saw her friend. |
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One of us is lying
by Karen M. McManus When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings. |
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One killer problem
by Justine Pucella Winans When she finds her favorite teacher lying in a pool of blood, Gigi calls on her high school's “mystery club” to help her solve the murder, resulting in a cat-and-mouse game with the killer, continual flare-ups of her IBS and her archnemesis turning flirtatious. |
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Promise boys
by Nick Brooks Becoming prime suspects in the murder of their principal known for doling out extreme discipline, three Urban Promise Prep School students team up to catch the real killer and clear their names. |
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Queen of the tiles
by Hanna Alkaf When her late best friend's formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again during the Scrabble competition, with cryptic messages suggesting that her death was no accident, Najwa Bakri, surrounded by suspects, must find out who's behind these mysterious posts. |
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance. |
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Truly devious
by Maureen Johnson A first entry in a new series by the best-selling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes introduces sharp and funny detective Stevie Bell, whose first year at an elite boarding school finds her unraveling two mysteries, including one from the school's past and one in the present. |
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Where sleeping girls lie
by Faridah Abike-Iyimide Starting her junior year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy, Sade Hussein decides to investigate when her roommate Elizabeth goes missing and is plunged into a world of dark secrets—ones that rival even her own. |