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The third and final book in the&nbsp;incredible&nbsp;A Good Girl&#8217;s Guide to Murder series. This book sees amateur sleuth Pip Fitz-Amobi about to head for Cambridge University when she&#8217;s hit by threats from a stalker who knows where she lives. The police refuse to take her seriously, and then Pip discovers a link between her stalkers and a local serial killer who was apparently arrested six years ago&#8230; but what if the wrong man is behind bars? The perfect choice for young thriller fans. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><a href="https://mostly-books.co.uk/product/witches-steeped-in-gold-ciannon-smart/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Witches&nbsp;Steeped in&nbsp;Gold (opens in a new tab)">Witches&nbsp;Steeped in&nbsp;Gold</a>,&nbsp;Ciannon&nbsp;Smart&nbsp;(£8.99)&nbsp;</h2>



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A gorgeously evocative debut from Ciannon Smart, Witches Steeped in Gold is a Jamaican-inspired fantasy about two witches: one the exiled heir of an overthrown dynasty, and the other the daughter of a self-crowned doyenne whose very existence is a threat to her mother&#8217;s rule. They team up to take down the same woman &#8211; but their alliance is an uneasy one. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Flash Fire,&nbsp;T J&nbsp;Klune&nbsp;(£17.99)&nbsp;</h2>



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The explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by bestselling author TJ&nbsp;Klune. Nick has bagged himself a superhero boyfriend despite having no powers of his own, but now there are new heroes arriving in Nova City, including siblings who can manipulate smoke and ice, a mysterious hero who can move objects with their mind, and a drag queen superhero wearing a whole lotta sequins. But who is villainous and who is virtuous? &nbsp;



<a href="https://mostly-books.co.uk/product/endgame-malorie-blackman-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Endgame, (opens in a new tab)">Endgame,</a>&nbsp;Malorie Blackman&nbsp;(£7.99)&nbsp;



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Twenty years after Malorie Blackman&#8217;s groundbreaking dystopian series Noughts &amp; Crosses began, her latest book Endgame brings the story to a close &#8211; and it&#8217;s clearly inspired by global events in recent years. The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney&nbsp;Durbridge, is about to go on trial for murder, but he insists he&#8217;s being framed. There were many suspects in the case &#8211; and Noughts &amp; Crosses protagonist, Sephy Hadley, is one of them. 



<a href="https://mostly-books.co.uk/product/heartstopper-volume-four-oseman-alice/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Heartstopper Volume Four (opens in a new tab)">Heartstopper Volume Four</a>,&nbsp;Alice&nbsp;Oseman&nbsp;(£10.99)&nbsp;



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This best-selling LGBTQ+ graphic novel by YA Book Prize winner Alice Oseman is about to become a live-action Netflix series, so get to know adorable main characters Charlie and Nick, two teen boys who fall in love, ASAP. This is a continuation of the story so new readers should put Volume One on their Christmas list. 



<a href="https://mostly-books.co.uk/product/ace-of-spades-faridah-bk-ymd/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ace of Spades (opens in a new tab)">Ace of Spades</a>,&nbsp;Faridah&nbsp;Abike-Iyimide&nbsp;(£8.99)&nbsp;



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This debut novel from 22-year-old author Faridah&nbsp;Abike-Iyimide netted her an impressive seven-figure book deal, and is, according to the writer herself, &#8216;a cross between Get Out and Gossip Girl&#8216;. Students at Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka, are having their darkest secrets revealed by an anonymous texter in a heart-racing, twisted high school thriller. 



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Everyone knows the mysterious and beautiful Hollow sisters &#8211; Vivi, Grey and Iris &#8211; especially as when they were children, all three of them disappeared without a trace. They returned a month later, with no memory of the event, and all with odd half-moon scars at the base of their throats. Now eldest sister Grey has disappeared again, and it&#8217;s up to Iris to find out why. A dark and twisted fairytale that&#8217;ll keep teens hooked.



<a href="https://mostly-books.co.uk/product/this-poison-heart-kalynn-bayron/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="This Poison Heart (opens in a new tab)">This Poison Heart</a>,&nbsp;Kalynn&nbsp;Bayron&nbsp;(£7.99)&nbsp;



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If your teen always has their nose stuck in a fantasy series, then this might be their new obsession. Briseis has had a power over plants for as long as she can remember &#8211; as have her adoptive mothers. But when she inherits a house with a garden full of poisonous plants from her birth mother, she starts to uncover an inherited generation of secrets along with it. 



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