7 Books Like A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Stevie Bell arrives at Ellingham Academy with one ambition: to solve a famous unsolved crime.

Decades earlier, the school's founder suffered a devastating family tragedy involving a kidnapping and a disappearance. The mystery has never been fully resolved, and Stevie believes that examining the original evidence may finally reveal what happened.

But the school's strange history soon becomes entangled with events in the present. As Stevie investigates, she must balance her obsession with the case against friendships, school life, and people whose motives are difficult to understand.

Alice Ogilvie has already experienced what it means to become the subject of local gossip. After disappearing for several days, she returns to Castle Cove unwilling to explain what happened.

Then Brooke Donovan, Alice's former best friend, disappears. When the case turns into a murder investigation, attention falls on someone Alice believes may have been wrongly accused.

Alice joins forces with Iris Adams, a classmate whose life is very different from her own. Inspired partly by Agatha Christie's detective stories, the two girls begin looking for answers that the adults around them may have missed.

A group of teenagers who are fascinated by unsolved crimes come together to investigate a disappearance that continues to raise questions.

What begins as a shared interest in true crime develops into a real investigation. As the teenagers compare information, uncover connections, and follow leads, they discover that the people involved have reasons to hide what they know.

Their growing involvement also makes the mystery more dangerous than they initially expected.

At Bayview High, a student's suspicious death during detention exposes the secrets and conflicting accounts of four classmates who suddenly find themselves under investigation.

When Simon, the student behind a notorious gossip app, dies under suspicious circumstances, the surviving teenagers become the focus of a murder investigation.

Each has private information they would rather keep hidden, and Simon had planned to expose their secrets. As the story unfolds through different perspectives, readers must decide which details are meaningful and which characters can be trusted.

Five years before the events of The Cheerleaders, the town of Sunnybrook lost five cheerleaders in a series of deaths.

Two died in a car accident. Two were murdered. The final girl, Monica's sister, died by suicide. The town has tried to move on, but Monica has never been able to put the tragedy completely behind her.

As strange clues begin appearing, Monica starts questioning whether the accepted explanations tell the whole story. Her search brings her closer to secrets that some people would prefer to remain buried.

Emma Lewis survived a serial killer. Travis Bell hopes to become a U.S. Marshal and carries his own painful connection to violent crime.

The two teenagers are recruited to assist the FBI with interviews involving young convicted killers. Their work brings them into contact with dangerous personalities, disturbing crimes, and psychological manipulation.

As the investigation grows more complicated, both must confront the risks of getting close to people who understand how to exploit their fears.

Cassie Hobbes has an unusual talent for understanding people. Her ability draws the attention of a special FBI program that recruits gifted teenagers to help investigate cold cases.

At the program, Cassie meets other young people with exceptional investigative abilities. Their different talents make them a formidable team, but the crimes they examine become increasingly personal and dangerous.

The story combines criminal psychology, mysteries, friendships, and complicated relationships among teenagers working under extraordinary circumstances.