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Suspense

by Annabel Monaghan - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Farah "Digit" Higgens is looking forward to her senior year at Santa Monica High and her future as a college student at MIT, but her life is flipped around when she accidentally cracks a terrorist group's code. Will she be able to enjoy her last year in high school and figure out the plot behind this code all before she leaves for college?

by Libba Bray - Fiction, Literary, Suspense

It's 1895, and 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is sent from her home in India to an English boarding school, where she is lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls --- and their foray into the spiritual world --- lead to?

by Rosamund Lupton - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Suspense, Thriller

In the aftermath of the devastating fire that tears her family apart, Grace embarks on a mission to find the person responsible and protect her children from further harm. This fire was not an accident, and her daughter Jenny may still be in grave danger. Grace is the only one who can discover the culprit, and she will do whatever it takes to save her family.

by Megan Abbott - Mystery, Suspense

 Addy Hanlon and Beth Cassidy are the cheerleaders all the other girls fear and admire, but everything changes when the new coach, Coach French arrives. Coach French instantly overturns the girls’ peking order and gains their fierce alliance, until a shocking event shakes their fragile peace.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

          

by Patrick Carman - Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 13+

Will Besting is sent to an institution meant to help patients with crippling phobias. He and six others take turns in mysterious fear chambers, and though they feel emboldened afterwards, they also start developing strange side effects.

by Patrick Carman - Dystopian, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 13+

Ensnared in a dangerous, ever-deepening mystery, Will Besting must lead his friends through a perilous underground trap masterminded by two devious souls at war with each other. It's a game of cat and mouse, and not everyone will be alive when it's over. Can Will outwit both Rainsford and Goring, ending their reign of fear forever?

by William Richter - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 12+

Wally fled her adopted family at 15 to live on the streets of New York City. Now 16 and street-tough, she’s trying to discover who she really is while simultaneously warding off her birth-father, who will do anything to reclaim the fortune Wally's mother stole from him long ago, even if that means murdering his own blood. But Wally has had her own killer training and is hungry for justice.

by Lisa McMann - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult 14+

Ethan was abducted from his front yard when he was seven. Now, at 16, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle...at first. But his reintroduction to his old life isn't going smoothly, and there's something that's keeping his memory blocked. Something unspeakable.

written by Bill Willingham with illustrations by Mark Buckingham - Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Young Adult 10+

Max “the Wolf” is a top notch Boy Scout, an expert at orienteering and a master of being prepared. So it is a little odd that he suddenly finds himself, with no recollection of his immediate past, lost in an unfamiliar wood.

by Phoebe Kitanidis - Fiction, Supernatural Thriller, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult 14+

When Marshall King and Elyse Alton suddenly wake up tangled in each other's arms with zero memory of how they got there or even who they are, it's the start of a long journey through their separate pasts and shared future.