Eight top thrillers about influencers and the world of influencing

Elisa Shoenberger is a freelance writer and journalist. At Book Riot she tagged eight "compelling, sometimes ripped-from-the-headlines thrillers about influencers and the world of influencing." One title on the list:

Kismet by Amina Akhtar

Ronnie Khan has taken a big leap. Fleeing her life with the abusive aunt who raised her, she decides to move across the country to Sedona, Arizona, with a woman she just met: Marley Dewhurst. Marley wants nothing more than to be the next wellness influencer and will do anything to achieve it. In the land of Sedona, they find a like minded community focused on wellness. But they soon learn that someone is more than just unhappy about the wellness community there; they are murdering influencers in terrible ways. Will Marley and Ronnie find themselves in the crosshairs of this killer?

Read about the other titles on the list.

Kismet is among Rachel Koller Croft's eight top thrillers in which the characters actually get to have fun, Jamie Lee Sogn's eight top mysteries & thrillers set in the wellness industry, Molly Odintz's twelve wacky, weird, and wildly entertaining mysteries & thrillers and Meredith Hambrock's five recent crime novels featuring messy female characters.

--Marshal Zeringue