Holly Jackson has quickly become one of the biggest names in modern YA thrillers. If you’re a fan of thriller novels, you must have read her debut novel, which became super popular in a very short time!
Whether you’re new to her work or just trying to figure out what to read next, reading Holly Jackson books in order could make a big difference!
She’s best known for her wildly popular A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series. What starts as a high school project becomes a full-blown cold case investigation led by the relentlessly smart and stubborn Pip Fitz-Amobi. Across three books (plus a prequel novella), the series pulls readers into a tangled web of secrets, lies, and small-town cover-ups. It’s fast-paced, suspenseful, and impossible to put down.
After wrapping up that hit series, Jackson proved she wasn’t a one-series wonder. Her standalone novels—Five Survive and The Reappearance of Rachel Price—keep the same gripping energy but introduce entirely new characters and settings. And she isn’t stopping as her new book, Not Quite Dead Yet, is releasing this year, on July 22, 2025!
So, if you are a fan of crime thrillers and the young adult genre, you don’t want to ignore this author because she does a great job at pulling her readers into a world of murder, mystery, and mind games!
Holly Jackson Books Reading Order:
Holly Jackson has written a total of 7 books, including three standalone novels and one novella. You only need to read her A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series in order because it’s a trilogy. It also has a novella telling a story set before the first book’s events. You can read it after finishing the trilogy!
The author has written 3 standalone novels, which can be read in any order, including the one set to be released in July 2025!
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series:
- Standalone Novels:
All Holly Jackson Books in Order – A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder Series:
1. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (2019)
Everyone in Fairview knows the story of the pretty and popular high school senior, Andie Bell, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about.
And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town!
But she can’t shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child; he was always kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?
Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project just to cast doubt on the original investigation. Soon, however, she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might prove Sal innocent, and the line between past and present begins to blur!
2. Good Girl, Bad Blood (2020)
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.
But she must break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.
The police won’t do anything about it. And if they won’t look for Jamie, then Pip will, uncovering more of her town’s dark secrets along the way… and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it’s too late?
3. As Good As Dead (2021)
Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by how her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?
Soon, the threats escalate, and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.
Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim.
As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle, and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears!
4. Kill Joy (2021) – A Novella
Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920s fancy dress and pretending that their town, Little Kilton, is an island called Joy.
But when the game begins, Pip is drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception, and murder.
But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer, clue by clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind!
Holly Jackson’s Standalone Novels:
1. Five Survive (2022)
Eighteen-year-old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive, but spirits are high until the RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere.
There’s no mobile phone reception and nobody around to help. And as the wheels are shot out, one by one, the friends realise that this is no accident. A sniper in the dark is watching them, and he knows exactly who they are. One of the group has a secret that the sniper is willing to kill for.
A game of cat-and-mouse plays out as the group desperately tries to get help and work out which group member is the target. Buried secrets are forced to light in the cramped, claustrophobic setting of the RV, and tensions within the group will reach deadly levels.
2. The Reappearance of Rachel Price (2024)
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished, and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would move on.
However, the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end and life to return to normal. And then the impossible happens—Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.
Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And could she be dangerous?
With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead!
3. Not Quite Dead Yet (July 2025)
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.
Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates, she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. Nevertheless, she’s determined to finish at least one thing—Jet will solve her own murder!
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