Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Six top YA thrillers about friendship

Katie Moench is a librarian, runner, and lover of baked goods. A school librarian in the Upper Midwest, Moench lives with her husband and dog and spends her free time drinking coffee, trying new recipes, and adding to her TBR list.

At Book Riot she tagged six thrillers about friendship, including:
Looking for Smoke by K. A. Cobell

When Loren includes her in a Blackfeet Giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks maybe she’ll start to make friends with the other teens on the Blackfeet reservation. Instead, another Giveaway participant, Samantha White Tail, is found dead, and the four remaining participants, Mara, Loren, Brody, and Eli, find themselves swept up in the investigation of her death. Each of the four has their own complicated connection to Samantha and their own perspective to lend to the story, which is told from multiple points of view.
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--Marshal Zeringue