Here are a bunch of book recommendations based on different but weirdly specific settings!
In a Vehicle
Run on Red – Noelle W. Ihli
Olivia and Laura are driving on an isolated road to a college party and by the time they notice the car tailing them it’s too late. What, at first, seems like a simple case of road rage turns into a waking nightmare and a battle for survival.
Five Survive – Holly Jackson
6 friends are travelling in an RV for spring break when it breaks down in the middle of nowhere. They soon realise that all of their tyres have been shot out. There’s a sniper watching them in the dark, and one of them has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.
Over 8 hours, each friend must confess their deepest, darkest secrets or risk being killed for them.
Haunted House
White Smoke – Tiffany D. Jackson
Mari is running from the ghosts of her old life when her newly blended family move to a new town for a fresh start. Her mother has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a picture-perfect house on Maple Street sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by neighbours with secrets.
Soon after they move in, Mari begins to notice a lot of odd things happening – things begin to vanish, voices can be heard through the walls, lights turn on and off, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents that only Mari seems to notice…
Just Like Home – Sarah Gailey
Vera’s mother calls her back and, in spite of their long estrangement, she returns to the childhood home where her serial killer father killed and buried his victims.
Coming home is hard for Vera and it’s made even worse when she finds that a parasitic artist has moved into the guest house and someone is leaving notes around the house in her dad’s handwriting.
Small Town
Clown in a Cornfield – Adam Cesare
Quinn Maybrook has just moved to the tiny, boring town of Kettle Springs for a fresh start and all she wants to do is make it to graduation.
She finds the town split in half. Ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, the adults are determined to make Kettle Springs great again, and the kids just want to have fun and get out as soon as they can.
And then the Baypen mascot, Frendo the creepy clown, decides the only way for Kettle Springs to be brought back to its former glory is to kill all of the kids that live there now.
Where He Can’t Find You – Darcy Coates
Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People disappear and turn up with their bodies stitched back together in unnatural ways. Every time this happens the police investigate but find no evidence.
Abby lives by a strict set of rules that she believes will keep herself and her family safe… but one day her younger sister is taken and the police do nothing, so Abby and her friends take it into their own hands and decide to investigate the mysterious Stitcher for themselves.
Boarding School
XOXO – Axie Oh
Jenny is a cello prodigy that has one goal: to get into a prestigious music conservatory. One day she meets a mysterious and handsome boy called Jaewoo and in a moment of spontaneity, she allows him to pull her out of her comfort zone for an unforgettable night of adventure before he disappears without a word.
Until 3 months later when Jenny and her mother move to South Korea to take care of her ailing grandmother and she finds out he’s a student at the same elite arts academy that she’s just started at. And, he’s a member of one of the world’s biggest k-pop bands and forbidden from dating.
A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik
El is a student at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death. This is a school with no teachers, no holidays, and no way of leaving until you graduate… or die.
El has a dark power that she does her best to keep secret, but that’s easier said than done when the hallways are full of monsters and students that are your enemy.
Summer Camp
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight – Kalynn Bayron
Charity has the summer job of her dreams. She plays the ‘final girl’ at Camp Mirror Lake, where guests pay to be scared in a full-contact horror game based on a slasher movie. They recreate scenes from the classic film and try to make it as scary as possible for their guests.
But on the last weekend of the season, some of Charity’s co-workers begin to disappear and when one of them turns up dead, she begins to feel like her role as the ‘final girl’ is about to become a bit too real as they’re forced to fight for survival.
Welcome to Camp Killer – Cynthia Murphy
An American-style residential summer camp is set up in the grounds of an English stately home, and the teenage camp counselors can’t wait for a summer full of fun activities.
But as soon as the kids arrive, rumours begin to circulate of a tragedy that happened on the grounds and there are sightings of a ghostly presence.
And then the incidents begin. Someone almost drowns in the lake… and someone falls from a cliff and dies…
