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Books that will have you clutching your pearls

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Books that I have read and will be adding more as I read a 2 books a week
 
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This book will have you clutching your pearls. There are so many twist and turns. You will not see what’s coming next I promise you! I just love love love this murder mystery thriller! I read the first half on paperback and due to having kids I just ...
The Only One Left: A Novel by Riley Sager, Paperback
 
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This book is not like the regular sleeping beauty books we read as kids it’s an adult version. Imagine all the women in the world goto sleep and don’t wake up! There bodies are in cocoons. But once they goto sleep they enter a world with no men. Whil...
Sleeping Beauties
 
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Murder mystery book with some vengeance to it. Everything happens on a train.
With a Vengeance
 
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This family loves games until it gets deadly and the truth starts coming out. Another book that had me clutching my pearls
The Family Game
 
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This one is a psychological thriller with an engaging plot where a group of boys walking through the woods finds a high school girl whose body was just left there. They decided to keep the body as their girlfriend.
Our Dead Girlfriend (Author's Enhanced Edition)
 
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A pair of siblings wake up to the police knocking on their door to find out their mother and father are dead. Now they have become murder suspects. Only because each one of them had a reason to do it.
Confessions of a Murder Suspect
 
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Eights hours. Six friends. Five survive. On a road trip for spring break. There will be a crush, a killer, and classmates. A story and plot that will have you flabbergasted and wanting more.
Five Survive
 
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A psychological thriller about a detective who works for the New York Police Department that as of recent retired cops have been dying of what looks like natural causes. The detective is put on a task force to try and find the suspect or find out why...
Paranoia
 
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This is hands down one of the first serious I read I was hooked you have to read them in order to follow the story line
Escape from Asylum
 
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This is the second book in the series
Asylum
 
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3rd book in the series
Sanctum
 
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4th book in the series
The Bone Artists
 
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The last book in the series
Catacomb
 
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Omg this was really a good book
The Institute
 
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This book was really good it’s psychological and a murder mystery that left me shooketh
Along Came a Spider
 
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Another murder mystery but from the killers prospective
You'd Look Better as a Ghost
 
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My kids favorite books
How To Train Your Dragon Series in Order | Cressida Cowell
 
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Ooof this book was rough but really good I mean really good!!!
Playground
 
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The prequel to the original playground. Listen to that first and this will all makes since
Playground: Child of Divorce
 
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I love both of Ashley flowers books and all her podcast
The Missing Half
 
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Omg a good book I love her books
All Good People Here
 
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Just got done with this book and it was a really good thriller mystery where adults as kids lost their memories and came back to their home town to figure it out. They come back to find more thank they have bargained for !!!
Going Home in the Dark
 
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Tess wakes up and doesn’t remember the last decade of her life. She’s not married to the man she remembers proposing to her. So the husband she married calms her down and then she gets a text saying “don’t trust the man that calls hisself your husban...
Do You Remember?
 
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Sarah Ellis was found dead by the lake the summer before and only her best friend Mandy knows what happened. Oh so you think. The police ruled her death an accident but something is off and ain’t no way this was an accident. Trust me you want to read...
Now She's Dead
 
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Sequel to confession of a murder suspect.
Confessions: The Private School Murders
 
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Taking down a big crime organization in Russia and saving people on the process
Lost
 
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Jenna Murphy a detective investigates a wealthy couples murder and and in doing that she finds the dark history of the house. In doing that she tries to keep her secret last from coming out as well.
The Murder House
 
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The show on prime video the book is different from the show
Fallen
 
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More details in the book than the Netflix series
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
 
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2nd book after a good girls guide to murder
Good Girl, Bad Blood
 
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Book 3 of the series that goes with a good girls guide to murder
As Good as Dead
 
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My goodness this thriller mystery book had me invested I finished it in one day because I had to know. Yes lol I didn’t sleep
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
 
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Feminist version of lord of the flies. Truly mind bending
Wilder Girls
 
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This book truly caught my attention!!! Another book I stayed up until I finished because it will have you invested beyond repair because how do you disappear for so many years and why!!! This book will have you looking at your family suspiciously
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
 
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Jills Newman best friend was killed by her boyfriend and she tries to figure out why. Until a text came through her phone saying the boyfriend is innocent. Now Jill has to investigate every single aspect of her friends life and this book will leave y...
They Wish They Were Us
 
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Most of everyone is lying but when a body is found face down in a pool and it’s ruled an accident. Investigation peruses
Liar's Beach
 
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You will just have to read because 😱
Nothing More to Tell
 
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One of the very first books I read on audible where women who are kidnapped are taking to this garden and tattooed with butterflies on them. And this crazy obsessed man is wants to keep his beautiful girls deserved This is a crime thriller with some ...
The Butterfly Garden
 
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I had to watch the movie and I did 10/21/2025 and I cried only because I didn’t believe they should of been killed that’s all other than that great way to make money for your town. And didn’t expect it to end the way it did!!
The Long Walk
 
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This book is really good it has twist and turns about a older people living facility and the nurses who work there spouses. One of the residents starts a podcast lol.
Nothing Ever Happens Here
 
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10 friends went on vacation and One made it out alive.That person joined a group called final girls but mysterious stuff keeps happening and their motto is it’s better to be a final girl than a dead girl. She can’t trust one of the girls
Final Girls
 
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In 1998 female students are going missing and the sister of one the students years later is investigating what happened to them. It turns into twist and thriller
The Lake of Lost Girls
 
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Oh my goodness this book was really good because it’s of course the person you least expect
The Sorority Murder
 
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Imagine you being the last person to see your girlfriend and now you are being blamed for her disappearance. Well you and her friends break into the police station tip line and found there are siteing 2 hours away. You go and everyone says they see h...
That's Not My Name
 
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Imagine having a phobia and you have to sell your house. The person you selling your house to does bad things while you guys are there until your husband who is a psych Major gets home and he does and did even worse things that you finally remember ...
The House Hunt
 
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Oh my gooodness this book has murder, betrayal, and scamming in it. Took me a day because I was flabbergasted 😮 the whole time
She's Not Sorry
 
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My goodness this book was amazing!!! It’s a about a group being picked to go on a survival game show to find out no one is there, they have been locked in the gates, someone has died and most importantly the game show was cancelled and no one got the...
We Won't All Survive
 
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I have the paperback version as my first book I started off reading. I read half of the book paperback and then my kids wouldn’t let me finish it so I had to audiobook it and ever since then I been buying through audiobook easier to listen and move a...
The Only One Left
 
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Took me 2 weeks to read this book because it’s 40 hours. Which is a book 1-6. So this is about ghost hunters fighting vengeful ghost. In different scenarios. Each scenario had me trying to help them while listening lol 😂. My husband kept saying huh ...
Moving In Series Box Set Books 1 - 6
 
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Her husband is surrounded by death. She is inherited an expensive apartment which is kind of huanted by the past. These are good ghost but the people inside alive are bad people. All because of apartment 5B.
The New Couple in 5B
 
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Something happened in the hotel room across the hall. This happens to be linked to the murder of 3 girls friend when they where teenagers. So many suspects so many people who disliked eve. Anyone can be the suspect. You will have to wait until the en...
The Room Next Door
 
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Very interesting short story by Steven king it’s about 50 minutes long.
Quitters, Inc.
 
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Very horror and disturbing lol you will need to have a stomach to listen to it because it talks about pedos in 2/4 of the stories but aye it was a good book overall
Sew Sorry - Aron Beauregard
 
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Oh my goodness this is a must read. Their younger sister goes missing as a baby and there is a whole lot of breaking into houses setting people up. Sisters being shady and death like I said a must read imma post the audiobook for those who can’t sit ...
The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas
 
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I posted the book but here is the audiobook it’s a must read I was hooked.
The Wrong Sister Audiobook by Claire Douglas
 
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Everything came around to the conclusion and you will not believe who murdered everyone 😩
Kill Your Boss
 
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Yes yes it’s about people going around kidnapping babies for their essence. So the story is about a guy trying to protect his wife son and daughter from baby feins. The whole city is ran by them.
Blender Babies
 
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Women comes back to her hometown to find out 2 girls have been murdered she thinks her dads involved but the way she investigates the whole police department maybe dirty. Her dad’s death is suspicious and this girl almost gets killed about 12 times.
Girls Like Us
 
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Highschoolers going around trynna solve a murder to prove that one of the kids who was arrested didn’t commit the crime.
Murder Between Friends
 
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Imagine some friends getting together and one of them ended up dead. They where all asked to write a memoir about what happened and each and every one of them publishes different one. But one friend knows the truth and ends up dead.
Backstory
 
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Friends go on a trip and get stuck in the woods each friend is picked off one by one until the last 2 are alive. The person who did this you will never guess who it is. I was mindblown🤯
One by One