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Are you looking for a mystery thriller book? Are you tired of reading random reviews and unhelpful suggestions on lists with titles like "Best Mysteries for Young Adults" or "Top Thriller Books to Read" or "Similar Books to A Good Girl's Guide to Murder"? Are you looking for a book that YOU can't put down? Have you ever considered going on a blind date with a great ... novel? Below are the first few sentences (generally the first paragraph) of amazing mystery thriller novels that appeal to teens, young adults, and adults. The books range from chart-topping best sellers and popular works of literature from New York Times or USA Today best-selling authors to hot new indie releases that have reached the top 100, top 10, and even #1 spot on Amazon's best seller lists. All feature captivating journeys of great characters. They all make great gifts! If you like the excerpts you read below, click "Reveal my date!" and you'll be magically transported to Amazon where you'll be able to learn more about your potential "date" (book). You can either turn it down (no hard feelings) or give it a chance (wouldn't that be fun!). Be sure to come back here and tell us what you thought of your date! P.S. If you're a member of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, the top six books below are FREE to read! You might also enjoy these popular posts: Blind date with a Kindle Unlimited book Descriptions of great books in ten words or less Blind date with a dystopian book Dystopian Book Bucket List Contemporary Book Bucket List |
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| I want to scream. I want to fling
myself down and beat my hands against the ground. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. This isn’t how this story was supposed to end. It feels like a lifetime ago that my family and I embarked on our simulated mission. I wish I'd known what would happen next. I wish I could go back in time and grab my family and run far away ... all the way to the moon. But, of course, that's impossible. And now it's too late to run. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| Looking out my bedroom window, I'm faced with yet another dull English summer day. The heavy clouds made it look way too dark for July, but not even that was going to faze me. Tonight I was going to celebrate the end of the school year at a gig by a school band, and I was determined to have some fun. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| I remain silent, nearly motionless, with each deliberate shallow breath. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| Screams. Screams. Everywhere.
Everyone is scared. But I don’t know who “everyone” is.
Their voices sound young, so I guess they’re
kids, like me. I don’t hear any older voices. So either the
grownups aren’t scared, or there aren’t any grownups with us
anymore. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| The cabin lights flicker on and I blink awake, neck stiff and mouth tacky. An overhead bin rattles. Turbulence. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| My eyes are wide open, but I see nothing but darkness. My heart races and my breaths come fast as I try to understand what just happened. But I am trying to make sense of something incomprehensible. All I know is that this is no accident. Someone has trapped me here. They have locked me in a place where no one can hear me scream. It will be a miracle if I make it out of here alive. I am now at the mercy of a serial killer. REVEAL MY DATE FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED |
| I watch the pathetic buzz of excitement from my car. The heavy snowstorm creates a kaleidoscope of color as students sprint into Rock Bay High wearing brightly colored parkas and the hockey team's letterman jackets. This school is all about hockey; if you don't like it, you can pretty much rule out succeeding in athletics here. They all stare at their phone screens as they run. With my window cracked open, I can hear some of them over the howling wind as they pass me without a second glance--the way I like it. They debate the topic of the day: Who has the worst death fear? REVEAL MY DATE |
| A sex tape. A pregnancy scare. Two cheating scandals. And
that's just this week's update. REVEAL MY DATE |
| Pip knew where they lived. Everyone in Fairview knew where they lived. Their home was like the town’s own haunted house; people’s footsteps quickened as they walked by, and their words strangled and died in their throats. Shrieking children would gather on their walk home from school, daring one another to run up and touch the front gate. REVEAL MY DATE |
| When I was a kid, my mom constantly invented games. The Quiet Game. The Who Can Make Their Cookie Last Longer? Game. A perennial favorite, The Marshmallow Game involved eating marshmallows while wearing puffy Goodwill jackets indoors, to avoid turning on the heat. The Flashlight Game was what we played when the electricity went out. We never walked anywhere—we raced. The floor was nearly always lava. The primary purpose of pillows was building forts. Our longest-lasting game was called I Have A Secret, because my mom said that everyone should always have at least one. Some days she guessed mine. Some days she didn’t. We played every week, right up until I was fifteen and one of her secrets landed her in the hospital. The next thing I knew, she was gone. REVEAL MY DATE |
| Welcome to the beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure. REVEAL MY DATE |
| “Do you have a favorite crime?” The girl sitting beside me in the spacious reception area asks the question so brightly, with such a wide smile, that I’m positive I must have misheard her. “A favorite what?” I ask. “Crime,” she says, still smiling. REVEAL MY DATE |
| You’ve chosen and chosen well.
Maybe this one will be the one who stops you. Maybe she’ll
be different. Maybe she’ll be enough. REVEAL MY DATE |
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| The young adult mystery thriller books and authors on this page include: They All Had A Reason: A rumor. A secret. A lie. A murder., Michele Leathers, The Unknown, J.W. Lynne, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson, The Darkness Outside, The Naturals, The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Fear, Natasha Preston, The Cabin, One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus, Five Total Strangers, Natalie D. Richards, Nothing More to Tell |
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