Thriller and Horror Spring 2024 Book Releases

Thriller and horror book nerd fans, we know you’ve been waiting for this! Check out these highly-anticipated spring 2024 thriller book releases. You’ll want to scoop these up for those late-night reading sessions.

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A Place for Vanishing

A Place for Vanishing

By Ann Fraistat

A teen girl and her family return to her mother’s childhood home, only to discover that the house’s strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest.

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Wander in the Dark

Wander in the Dark

By Jumata Emill

In this new pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Black Queen, 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.

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You'll Be the Death of Me

You'll Be the Death of Me

By Karen M. McManus

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the critically acclaimed author of One of Us Is Lying comes another pulse-pounding thriller. It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with murder when three old friends relive an epic ditch day, and it goes horribly—and fatally—wrong.

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Royal Blood

Royal Blood

By Aimée Carter

Royalty, murder and scandal combine in this thrilling new series about an American girl who becomes the British Monarchy’s greatest nightmare.

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Last One to Die

Last One to Die

By Cynthia Murphy

From TikTok’s “CEO of plot twists” comes a supernatural thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end. Packed with voice-driven whodunit storytelling, and a classic slasher-movie feel, this dark, pacy, and irresistibly creepy thriller really has something for everybody!

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Cursed Cruise

Cursed Cruise

By Victoria Fulton, Faith McClaren

From the authors of Horror Hotel, called “fast-paced and freaky” by #1 NYT bestselling author Kendare Blake, comes another addictive YA horror about a group of teen ghost hunters who are invited to travel onboard a haunted historic cruise ship.

All aboard…

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Pretty Dead Queens

Pretty Dead Queens

By Alexa Donne

The new homecoming queen is dead . . . and she’s not the first unsolved murder at Seaview High. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop YA thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killer, and the teen who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.

“Utterly savage.” –Jessica Goodman, New York Times bestselling author of They’ll Never Catch Us

“Hand this fast-paced thriller filled with plenty of twists and drama to fans of Holly Jackson or Karen M. McManus.” -SLJ

A 2023 Edgar Award Nominee!

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Royal Scandal

Royal Scandal

By Aimée Carter

The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by exposing their darkest scandals—even as they get more sinister.

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No Escape

No Escape

By Maren Stoffels

Following the success of her unputdownable debut, Escape Room, Maren Stoffels is back with a new standalone horror novel about a twisted game master who has no intention of letting their players go.

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The Reappearance of Rachel Price

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

By Holly Jackson

From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her mother’s disappearance while filming a documentary on the unsolved case.

Lights. Camera. Lies.

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The Cheerleaders

The Cheerleaders

By Kara Thomas

“Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing.”–KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying

“A crafty, dark, and disturbing story.”–KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces

“A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars.”–RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final Girls

A Goodreads Best Young Adult Book of the Year Nominee

From the author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters comes an all-new edge-of-your-seat thriller set in upstate New York about an eerie sequence of seemingly unrelated events that leaves five cheerleaders dead.

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Five Survive

Five Survive

By Holly Jackson

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.

Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.

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