Last Updated: March 20, 2026
After You Vanished
by E.A. Neeves
Teddy’s favorite place is Bottomrock Lake, where sunfish swim in their little saucer nests and lily pads edge the shore. She’s worked there as a lifeguard every summer, including last year, when her twin sister Izzy waded into the lake for a midnight swim and never came out. Now, Teddy can’t stop scripting stories for where she went. Izzy was an accomplished swimmer, so she couldn’t possibly have drowned. And if she did somehow drown, where’s her body and why is her passport missing? When Toby, the gorgeous jerk who was with Izzy on the night she vanished, comes to Bottomrock to work as a lifeguard alongside Teddy, she can’t help but be suspicious. How many of her sister’s secrets does he hold? And how can Teddy unearth them–without falling for the boy who watched her sister disappear?
Dead Fake
by Vincent Ralph
Sixteen-year-old Ava, niece of an infamous murderer, refuses to take part in the latest internet trend that lets users watch AI-generated versions of their deaths, but when the deaths start coming true, she must solve the mystery before she becomes the next victim.
Girls Who Play Dead
by Joelle Wellington
Mikky Graves returns to his hometown to comfort his sixteen-year-old sister, Kyla, after her best friend’s murder, and resolves to stay and uncover the truth, but the deeper the siblings dig into the secrets of Prophets Lake and its powerful beauty brand, the more Mikky questions everything, including his own sister.
Kill Her Twice
by Stacey Lee
In in 1930s Los Angeles Chinatown, the Chow sisters, May, Gemma, and Peony, suspect foul play in the death of Chinatown star Lulu Wong and take it upon themselves to solve the murder, revealing a conspiracy that threatens their Chinatown neighborhood.
Oxford Blood
by Rachael Davis-Featherstone
High-achieving Eva dreams of attending Oxford, but her dream turns into a nightmare when her friend George dies during interview week and suspicion falls on Eva
The Dysfunctional Family’s Guide to Murder
by Kate Emery
14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family’s vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn’t expecting a murder. And “death by typewriter” wasn’t quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end. As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she’s sad about GG. Obviously.) And she’s read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze… right? With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets, finding that each of her relatives–her dad; her aunts and their partners; even, in the interest of fairness, Dylan and herself–had reasons to want GG gone. But are any of them capable of murder? As tensions rise with everyone stuck in the house together, Ruth will have to dig deep to find out… before the killer strikes again.
The Scammer
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Jordyn Monroe is finally free. Out from under her overprotective parents, Jordyn is ready to kill it in prelaw at a prestigious, historically Black university in Washington DC. Kappa parties and student government better watch their backs. And she’s not the only one. When her roommate’s brother is released from prison, the last thing Jordyn expects is to come home and find the ex-convict on their dorm room sofa. But Devonte needs a place to stay while he gets back on his feet–and how could she say no to one of her new best friends? Devonte is older, as charming as he is intelligent, pushing every student he meets to make better choices about their young lives. But Jordyn senses something sinister beneath his friendly advice and growing group of followers. When one of Jordyn’s roommates goes missing, she must enlist the help of the university’s lone white student to uncover the mystery–or become trapped at the center of a web of lies more tangled than she can imagine.
This is Where We Die
by Cindy R.X. He
Six out of eight teens who made it out alive from a ski trip two years ago must fight for their survival again–this time from a lurking killer on a secluded island.
Wander in the Dark
by Jumata Emill
Two brothers must come together to solve the murder of the most popular girl in school after one of them is caught fleeing the scene of her death.
When Mimi Went Missing
by Suja Sukumar
After seeking retaliation against her cousin Mimi and vindictive foe Beth for relentless bullying, East Indian American Tanvi awakens as the prime suspect in Mimi’s disappearance with no memory of the previous night.