Friend or Foe: 6 YA Thrillers About Friendship

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Teen friendships are intense, and they get even more high-stakes when you throw a murder into the mix. In these young adult thrillers, groups of old and new friends find themselves at the center of death investigations that are complicated by best friends, ex-friends, and enemies that might become friends, and all of them have secrets.

In these books, you’ll find two high schoolers who, with the works of Agatha Christie as a guide, band together to find a classmate’s killer. You’ll also read about a friend group being tormented by an online gossip app, a body that turns up at a deserted resort, and a thriller that puts a focus on missing and murdered Indigenous women. Each of these stories is a compelling thriller that shows that when you’re involved in a murder investigation, the people around you can be your best resource—or the ones you should most distrust.