Books like 'A Good Girl's Guide to Murder / Good Girl, Bad Blood / As Good As Dead'

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  • The Bay by L.J. Ross

    The Bay by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    SECRETS NEVER STAY BURIED FOR LONG. .. In the picturesque seaside town of St Ives, Detective Sergeant Sophie Keane is a pillar of the community. Between the occasional collar and lazy weekends spent on the beach, it seems a perfect life. But for Sophie, the golden sands and crystal waters hide a dark secret, one that’s lain buried for twenty years...
  • Pretty Little Liars Box Set by Sara Shepard

    Pretty Little Liars Box Set by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling series This paperback box set includes the first four books in Sara Shepard’s #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Pretty Little Liars , Flawless , Perfect, and Unbelievable...
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  • Jessica's Hero by Gia Cobie

    Jessica's Hero by Gia Cobie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, I made a terrible mistake. One I never imagined could have such horrible consequences. But I thought—I hoped—that time would bring forgiveness. That people would realize I was just a foolish girl back then and not the responsible woman I’ve become. I was wrong. Instead, I can’t go a day without someone in town reminding me of what a bad person I am...
  • Dollanganger Boxed Set: Flowers in the Attic / If There Be Thorns / Petals on the Wind / Seeds of Yesterday / Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

    Dollanganger Boxed Set: Flowers in the Attic / If There Be Thorns / Petals on the Wind / Seeds of Yesterday / Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Including a free poster of the family tree for the Dollanger Saga, this set features Flowers in the Attic, If There Be Thorns, Petals on the Wind and Seeds of Yesterday.
    Categorized as:
    horror  mystery  young adult  high-school
  • One of Us is Lying by Fiona MacKenzie, Karen M. McManus

    One of Us is Lying by Fiona MacKenzie, Karen M. McManus

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online...
  • Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Fern Michaels is a national treasure, and her latest in the Sisterhood series finds the stalwart friends bringing justice—and hope—to families devastated by a greedy con artist. The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice...
  • No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    No More Lies by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Secrets and lies shadow a woman on the run in the second novel in the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale. Jenna Mason’s life seems perfect: a successful career as an animator, a town house near the beach, and an adoring son, Josh, whose artistic talent looks as promising as his mother’s. But there’s something nobody realizes about Jenna...
  • Matrimony Meltdown by Kathi Daley

    Matrimony Meltdown by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a year and a half of on again off again relationship status, Zak and Zoe are finally getting married. Not only has her own mother morphed into Momzilla, but Zak’s mother shows up a month before the wedding with plans to stay until the big day. When the mom’s gang up to undo all of Zoe’s wedding plans, things become tense...
  • Confessions by Kate Brian

    Confessions by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Sometimes the truth hurts. .. . Reed Brennan came to superposh Easton Academy to make a brand-new life for herself. At first it seemed as though her dream had come true-she was living in the ultraexclusive Billings Hall, hanging out with the all-powerful Billings Girls, and dating the very hot Thomas Pearson. But Thomas turned out to be different from what she thought. .
  • The Nanny Song by Misty Mount

    The Nanny Song by Misty Mount

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Mallory Riscoe is no stranger to dysfunction. Despite her tumultuous childhood, at twenty-two, she has established herself as a fully functional, self-made woman. However the safe, mundane life she has created for herself is quickly turned upside-down when she's falsely accused of theft and promptly fired. Meanwhile, a dismal pall hangs over the Colt residence...
  • Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

    Flowers in the Attic/Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A value-priced bindup of the first two books ever published by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind.
  • Pure Sin by Kate Brian

    Pure Sin by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The drama follows her wherever she goes: Ariana Osgood’s reign continues in this Private series spin-off. After escaping from the Brenda T. Trumball Correctional Facility for Women and stealing the identity of rich socialite, Ariana Osgood finally thought she was on the path she always believed she deserved. But her past caught up with her and is blackmailing her right back to her old ways...
  • Something's Wrong With Us Vol. 7 by Natsumi Andō

    Something's Wrong With Us Vol. 7 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Past Truths. Nao decides to take a chance on Tsubaki's love and tell him that she's pregnant, but a series of revelations about the past shakes her resolve. Now, Nao knows she must leave Kogetsuan behind. .. forever. Still, there's one last thing she has to do before her departure...
  • Something's Wrong With Us, Vol. 16 by Natsumi Andō

    Something's Wrong With Us, Vol. 16 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A spine-chilling and steamy romance between a Japanese sweets maker and the man who framed her mother for murder -- Something's Wrong With Us is the dark, psychological, sexy shojo series readers have been waiting for! Following in her mother's footsteps, Nao became a traditional Japanese sweets maker, and at 21, she's about to take the industry by storm...
  • Protected by Vannetta Chapman

    Protected by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ERIN JACOBS doesn’t hesitate when she receives a desperate call in the middle of the night. As owner of the Noah’s Ark Animal Shelter, it’s her job to rescue animals. But from the start, this case is different. The woman’s frantic plea. Directions to a deserted hunter’s cabin. Insistence that she come alone. Then she’s looking down into a washtub at an infant child...
  • Little White Lies by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Little White Lies by Cheryl Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a serial killer sweeps through the streets of Cambria, California, Georgiana Germaine gets swept up into a tangled web of deception and lies …. After bidding farewell to the last guest of the night, Pippa Halliday checks on her four-year-old son, pours herself a glass of wine, and heads onto the deck for her nightly swim...
  • Days You Were Mine by Clare Leslie Hall, Clare Empson

    Days You Were Mine by Clare Leslie Hall, Clare Empson

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A life-changing love story. A devastating decision. An emotional, gripping family drama about relationships, secrets and jealousy that will stay with you long after the final page, from the author of Broken Country. 1972. Alice Garland can't take her eyes off Jacob Earl. With his black curls and snakeskin boots, the lead singer of the Disciples commands the stage...
  • All Shall Mourn by Ellie Marney

    All Shall Mourn by Ellie Marney

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 24 ratings
    The third and final book in the None Shall Sleep Sequence. Simon Gutmunsson is on the loose. .. Since the disastrous events of the College Killer case, the FBI is coming to terms with the fact that while catching one sociopath, they've released another. Chillingly manipulative, frighteningly intelligent, and wholly insane, Simon Gutmunsson is the worst of the worst...
  • Teen Killers In Love by Lily Sparks

    Teen Killers In Love by Lily Sparks

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Teen Killers Club is on the brink of destruction, with one faction pitted against another in a deadly game of survival. Erik and Signal are part of the group who’ve had their “kill switches” disabled, and the others are under orders to hunt them down—or meet their own demise. Now, Erik and Signal have to find a way to neutralize the others’ switches and clear Signal's name...
  • Arisa, Vol. 02 by Natsumi Andō

    Arisa, Vol. 02 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Tsubasa thinks that her pretty and popular twin sister, Arisa, has the perfect life. Everyone at school loves Arisa—unlike the hot-tempered Tsubasa, whose nickname is “the Demon Princess. ” But when Arisa attempts suicide, Tsubasa learns that her seemingly perfect sister has been keeping some dark secrets. Now Tsubasa is going undercover at school—disguised as Arisa—in search of the truth...
  • Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Under the Surface by Diana Urban

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost. Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart...
  • Club Luxe 5: New Beginnings by Olivia Noble

    Club Luxe 5: New Beginnings by Olivia Noble

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She thought the worst was over, until the one woman who could change everything returned. .. Malcolm never thought he would ever see his wife again. Her abandonment caused him years of suffering, and the sting of her betrayal tore his heart to shreds...
  • Hellfire by John Ellsworth, Jode Ellsworth

    Hellfire by John Ellsworth, Jode Ellsworth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Syrian wedding party is incinerated by a Hellfire missile fired from an American drone. Many are killed, but one survivor turns to an American lawyer for help in bringing the responsible parties to justice. The survivor is the bride-to-be and she is furious. Besides seeing justice done in an American court, she also is ready for payback of her own with a weapon of mass destruction...
  • Perfectly Good Crime  (A Kate Bradley Mystery) by Dete Meserve

    Perfectly Good Crime (A Kate Bradley Mystery) by Dete Meserve

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Good Sam comes a taut and thought-provoking follow-up, Perfectly Good Crime. When the estates of the 100 wealthiest Americans are targeted in a series of sophisticated, high tech heists, Los Angeles TV news reporter Kate Bradley must venture inside the world of the super rich to investigate the biggest story of the year...
  • Ian Bragg Omnibus 1-3 - The Operator, A Clean Kill, The Replacement : An Action Adventure Thriller by Craig Martelle

    Ian Bragg Omnibus 1-3 - The Operator, A Clean Kill, The Replacement : An Action Adventure Thriller by Craig Martelle

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Written by an author with over twenty years in both the US Marine Corps and intelligence communities. 799 pages of action adventure in one volume. When good men have to do bad things. .. …a hitman with a conscience. Problems arise and too often, those problems are scumbags, oxygen thieves, and people who don’t deserve to share the same planet with decent folk...
  • Embattled Return by J.M. Madden

    Embattled Return by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Reconnect with the Lost and Found group as they settle into the intricacies of marriage and growing families. When Shannon proposes having another baby, John is caught flat-footed. He just survived the weekend from hell, caring for his two rambunctious boys...
  • Love and Heart, Vol. 4 by Chitose Kaidō

    Love and Heart, Vol. 4 by Chitose Kaidō

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After being confessed to by both Haruma and Touya, Yoh’s heart is in turmoil. Meanwhile, Wakana, showing her true colors, reveals her plan to trap Yoh…? In an amusement park where each of their expectations clash, what will Yoh decide! ? The story reaches a new stage with the conclusion of Wakana's arc!
  • Breakneck by Erica Spindler

    Breakneck by Erica Spindler

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The first victim is murdered in his bed. A clean-cut college boy with no criminal record. Then a second victim is killed in the shower, then a third…each one striking closer to home for M. C. When loved ones become targets, M. C. must walk a fine line between upholding the law and taking it into her own hands. At stake is her job, her relationship with Kitt, and possibly, her life...
  • Christmas Crazy by Kathi Daley

    Christmas Crazy by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Every year between the dates of December 1 and December 24, a strange and wonderful insanity hits Ashton Falls. Most refer to this phenomenon as Christmas Spirit, but Zoe has been around long enough to know that spirit usually translates to insanity, which brings on a phenomenon she likes to refer to as Christmas Crazy...
  • Beautiful Disaster by Kate Brian

    Beautiful Disaster by Kate Brian

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    She's Back. .. . After wasting away in a mental institution for a year and a half, Ariana Osgood is finally back where she belongs. She has a new look, a new name, and a new life -- all thanks to her former friend Briana Leigh Covington. Now enrolled as a junior at the exclusive Atherton-Pryce boarding school just outside of D. C...
  • Deadly by Sara Shepard

    Deadly by Sara Shepard

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Deadly, the fourteenth volume in Sara Shepard's YA Pretty Little Liars series, delivers more juicy scandals, dark secrets, and shocking plot twists. This #1 New York Times bestselling series is also a hit ABC Family original TV show. High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have all done horrible things—things that would put them behind bars if anyone ever found out...
  • Protected by Cindy M. Hogan

    Protected by Cindy M. Hogan

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She has the guy. The terrorists have been taken care of. She has a shot at becoming popular. Life is great! Until they find her. Now she must run and leave behind everything she knows, including herself. Young Adults, teens and adults will love this exciting suspenseful adventure with a dash of romance. You won't want to put it down.
  • The Case for Jamie by Brittany Cavallaro

    The Case for Jamie by Brittany Cavallaro

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    The hotly anticipated and explosive third book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series. It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken. Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can’t seem to fall for...
  • The Trouble with Turkeys by Kathi Daley

    The Trouble with Turkeys by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Zoe becomes entangled in a complex murder case involving a dead miser, tipsy turkeys, and an eclectic cast of edacious heirs, when she agrees to help Jeremy in his temporary job at a nearby turkey farm two weeks before Thanksgiving.
  • Something's Wrong With Us Vol. 8 by Natsumi Andō

    Something's Wrong With Us Vol. 8 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A spine-chilling and steamy romance between a Japanese sweets maker and the man who framed her mother for murder -- Something's Wrong With Us is the dark, psychological, sexy shojo series readers have been waiting for! A New Chapter Begins. Ten months have passed since the devastating blaze at Kogetsuan...
  • Something's Wrong With Us 14 by Natsumi Andō

    Something's Wrong With Us 14 by Natsumi Andō

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Disaster and Dark Truths. An incident with Yukari leaves Nao hospitalized during the critical Burokukai ceremony. A good presentation at the event will help secure Kogetsuan's future, but without the wagashi shop's new master, things may not go well. Especially with Yukari there sowing dissent. While Tsubaki steps in to help, Takigawa visits Nao...
  • Love and Heart, Vol. 3 by Chitose Kaidō

    Love and Heart, Vol. 3 by Chitose Kaidō

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In the aftermath of the incident with the Students’ Union, Yoh and Haruma quickly grow close. But even as that happens, they have a chance reunion with a former classmate, Wakana. It seems she was interested in Haruma…? Meanwhile, Yoh's best friend Touya realizes his own feelings? ! The tangled web of love rapidly spreads! !
  • Club Luxe 6: Forever by Olivia Noble

    Club Luxe 6: Forever by Olivia Noble

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the sixth and final book of the Club Luxe series! The stunning conclusion will be available on March 24th. Victoria has lost nearly everything she cared about. Her man and her job seemed to evaporate overnight and there isn’t anything she can do about it. With Malcolm's history of blackmailing her into getting his way, she can’t even be sure that he isn’t the reason for all this...
  • The Courtship Maneuver, Book 3 by Alexa Wilder

    The Courtship Maneuver, Book 3 by Alexa Wilder

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Introducing The Courtship Maneuver, the hot and sexy new series by Alexa Wilder! Chloe Henson is in love with her boss. Completely, totally, head over heels in love. She knows he doesn't feel the same way - she doesn't expect him too. Sam Logan is successful and wealthy, and he only dates supermodels...
  • The Fledgling by Elizabeth Cadell

    The Fledgling by Elizabeth Cadell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Available for the first time on Kindle! At Edmund Brooke’s insistence, his ten-year-old daughter, Vitorina, leaves the closed world of her old and strait-laced great-aunts and their Portuguese mansion—complete with chapel—and journeys to a boarding school in England. Edmund readily accepts the offer of a golfing acquaintance to act as chaperone for Tory...
  • Teen Killers At Large by Lily Sparks

    Teen Killers At Large by Lily Sparks

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Teen Killers Club faces the end in the final installment of this “sick, twisted, fast-paced” (Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author) series. With authorities revisiting her conviction for the brutal murder of her best friend, Signal Deere awaits her fate with the Class A killers she calls her closest friends...
  • Inner Circle by Kate Brian, Julian Peploe

    Inner Circle by Kate Brian, Julian Peploe

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Reed Brennan arrived at Easton Academy expecting to find an idyllic private school experience -- challenging classes, adorably preppy boys, and a chance to create a new life for herself. Instead, she discovered lies, deception, blackmail, and. .. murder. But, thankfully, the killers were caught and the nightmare is finally over...
  • The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald

    The Night Olivia Fell by Christina McDonald

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes an emotionally charged domestic suspense novel about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. And pregnant. A search for the truth. A lifetime of lies...
  • Heart of an Assassin by Laura Pauling

    Heart of an Assassin by Laura Pauling

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secrets can be deadly. In Paris, Savvy fell for Malcolm, the hot assassin, before her mom whisked her away. In Greece, Savvy meets up with him in the most awkward reunion ever…and almost gets him killed. Fail one. Her mom gives her one easy spy mission, one chance to prove she’s ready, except she breaks the rules - for good reason, of course - and the mission implodes. Fail two...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  young adult  length-medium
  • Annie's 2nd Chance by Willee Amsden

    Annie's 2nd Chance by Willee Amsden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Annie McCauley is the Calamity Jane of the high fashion world. If something can go wrong. .. but things don’t go wrong by themselves, they usually have some help from her arch-rival, Brittany Carstairs...
  • Death by Denim by Linda Gerber

    Death by Denim by Linda Gerber

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Aphra Connolly is being chased by some very dangerous people. She knows her survival depends upon staying far away from love interest Seth, and listening to her mom? s lectures on the finer points of anonymity and survival...
  • Virtue by Ketley Allison

    Virtue by Ketley Allison

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Shh . .. do you want to know our secret? THE VIRTUES. Becoming virtuous demands a sinful price. Our role at Briarcliff has a deeper consequence than the nightly rituals and cloaked costumes the Nobles are so fond of. We’re barely visible, peripheral shadows who hold the deadliest keys. And we’re done being a secret society’s dirty little secret...
  • Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Now streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club.  meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Karen M. McManus, and Maureen Johnson. The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore . . . they're afraid...
  • Clarity 4: After the Storm by Loretta Lost

    Clarity 4: After the Storm by Loretta Lost

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He will do anything to make amends. .. But how can she forgive him when she can't even remember him? Liam did not realize how serious Winter's injuries were after her accident. He was beside himself with grief when she fell unconscious and wouldn't wake up. After a minor coma, Winter finally wakes up to a world she can partially see-- and she has no clue why...
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