The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Ten years after discovering her college roommate April’s dead body, Hannah revisits the murder and as she reconnects with old friends and delves deeper into the mystery of April’s death, she realizes that the friends she thought she knew all have something to hide…including a murder.

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How I’ll Kill You by Ren DeStefano

Technically they’re sisters and not a group of friends but this stay-up-all-night thriller is about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and we see what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.

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My Summer Darlings by May Cobb

Three lifelong friends plus a dangerous, sexy new stranger in town add up to a scorching summer of manipulation, obsession, and murder.

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The Invitation by Rachel Abbott

A gripping psychological thriller about one dark night that a group of friends can’t leave behind.

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In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller returns to Duquette University for a reunion, determined to project an image of confidence and beauty. However, the unresolved murder of Heather Shelby still haunts the close-knit group of friends. As old secrets resurface, the six friends must confront the past and the dark truths that link them to that fateful night. In My Dreams I Hold A Knife weaves a gripping tale of friendship, obsession, and ambition against a backdrop of a chilling campus mystery.

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Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton

Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.

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Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon. 

They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they’re sixty years old, four women friends can’t just retire – it’s kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Timesbestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

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The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman

From two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author Carol Goodman comes a new mystery, about a group of friends isolated on a remote island with a history of foul play.

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Shiver by Allie Reynolds

In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm.

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The Secret Place by Tana French

A year after a boy’s murder at a girls’ boarding school remains unsolved, Detective Stephen Moran gets a breakthrough when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey presents a photo claiming to know the killer. He teams up with Detective Antoinette Conway to reopen the case, facing scrutiny from Holly’s father, Frank Mackey. As they investigate, they uncover a complex web of relationships among Holly’s friends and rivals, revealing that the private world of teenage girls is more mysterious and perilous than expected.

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Fierce Little Thing by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

New York Times bestselling author Miranda Beverly-Whittemore’s Fierce Little Thing is a mesmerizing story of friendship and its reckonings. The five from vastly different lives return to confront their blackmailer and reckon with the horror that split them apart. How far will they go to bury their secret forever?

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Friends Like These by Kimberly McCreight

In this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation–a reunion marked by lies, betrayal, and murder.

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The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable–and unsettling–friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins–from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.

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The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands–the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves.

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The Herd by Andrea Bartz

Why did the founder of a glamorous coworking space for women disappear? Her best friends will risk everything to uncover the truth in this “propulsive thriller” (Marie Claire) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here.

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Force of Nature by Jane Harper

When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn’t come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened.

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The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman

An unthinkable crime–and the tattered threads of a friendship gone wrong–come roaring back to terrible new life in Jody Gehrman’s riveting psychological suspense, perfect for fans of Joshilyn Jackson.

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The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.

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All the Dark Places by Terri Parlato

A savage murder rocks a quiet Massachusetts suburb, revealing the dark secrets at the center of a group of friends and setting two women –  one with a traumatic past, the other a Boston police detective – on a hunt for truth in this stylish debut thriller for fans of Megan Miranda and Shari Lapena…

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