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Lois Duncan · 1973 · US · thriller · young adult
★ 3.36 Goodreads · 24,038 ratings

A year after four teenagers hit a boy on a bicycle and drove away, one of them finds a note in the mail: I know what you did last summer.

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12 books for readers of I Know What You Did Last Summer

Psycho

Robert Bloch · 1959 · US 99% match ★ 4.13 Goodreads · 82,054 ratings
shares: slasher, dread, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

Mary Crane, on the run with money stolen from her boss, stops for the night at an out-of-the-way motel run by Norman Bates, a lonely man who lives with his domineering mother in the house above.

There's Someone Inside Your House

Stephanie Perkins · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 3.39 Goodreads · 47,825 ratings
shares: slasher, dread, young adult · easy read, earnest

In a small Nebraska town someone starts killing the students of Osborne High one by one, and Makani Young, who moved there from Hawaii to escape her past, is in the killer's sights.

Survive the Night

Riley Sager · 2021 · US 95% match ★ 3.51 Goodreads · 205,700 ratings
shares: slasher, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

In 1991, Charlie Jordan, a college student whose best friend was murdered by a campus killer, takes a ride home to Ohio from a stranger off the ride board, and begins to suspect he is the killer.

The Final Girls

Riley Sager · 2017 · US 95% match ★ 3.47 Hardcover · 359 ratings
shares: slasher, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

Ten years after Quincy Carpenter became one of the 'Final Girls', three young women who each survived a massacre, she has a baking blog and a quiet life in Manhattan, until one of the others is found dead and the third, Sam, turns up at her door.

Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith · 1950 · US 95% match ★ 3.56 Hardcover · 93 ratings
shares: guilt, suspenseful · intimate, easy read

Two strangers meet on a train and one of them, Charles Bruno, proposes that they each commit the other's murder, a plan the architect Guy Haines takes for a joke.

Hide

Kiersten White · 2022 · US 92% match ★ 3.31 Goodreads · 46,600 ratings
shares: slasher, suspenseful, ensemble · easy read, intimate

Fourteen contestants are sent into an abandoned amusement park for a week-long game of hide and seek with a big cash prize, and Mack, who survived something terrible as a child by hiding, means to win.

Down River

John Hart · 2007 · US 92% match ★ 3.97 Goodreads · 16,509 ratings
shares: guilt, small town · intimate, easy read

Adam Chase, acquitted of murder five years ago but cast out by his family, comes home to Rowan County, North Carolina, when an old friend asks for help, and bodies start turning up.

The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda · 2019 · US 92% match ★ 3.60 Goodreads · 162,714 ratings
shares: suspenseful, small town · easy read, earnest

In Littleport, a Maine resort town, Avery Greer, a local who manages the rental houses of the wealthy Loman family, is left under suspicion after their daughter Sadie, her best friend, is found dead the night of the end-of-summer party.

Blue Heaven

C. J. Box · 2008 · US 92% match ★ 4.18 Goodreads · 22,561 ratings
shares: suspenseful, small town · easy read, intimate

Twelve-year-old Annie and her little brother William, camping in the woods of northern Idaho, see four men commit a murder, and the killers, retired Los Angeles cops, come after them.

Lucky

Marissa Stapley · 2021 · Canada 91% match ★ 3.58 Goodreads · 82,291 ratings
shares: suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Lucky Armstrong, raised by her con-man father, is alone after a job goes wrong when she finds she is holding a winning lottery ticket she can't cash, because the name she is living under is stolen.

The Lying Game

Ruth Ware · 2017 · UK 91% match ★ 3.52 Goodreads · 223,722 ratings
shares: guilt, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Isa Wilde, a young mother in London, gets a three-word text from Kate, one of her three closest friends from boarding school, and goes back to the Sussex coast where a bone has been found on the shore.

For Your Eyes Only

Ian Fleming · 1960 · UK 91% match ★ 3.67 Goodreads · 17,148 ratings
Book 8 of 14 in James Bond
shares: revenge, suspenseful · easy read, earnest

Five James Bond stories: an ambush on military dispatch riders outside Paris, a revenge killing in Vermont, a drug-smuggling job in Italy, a rare fish in the Seychelles, and a ruined marriage recounted over dinner in Nassau.