The First Time She Drowned by Kerry Kletter While trying to solve the mystery of what happens to her Mara also falls in love, something she never thought was possible. She soon learns she was in an accident that killed her friends but she cannot remember any of it. Mara Dyer wakes up one day in a hospital with no idea how she got there. Wanting something does not make it real.” “Thinking something does not make it true. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

In this historical thriller, Grace must find a murderer all while trying to confront the demons in her own mind. The doctor takes her on as his crime scene assistant and soon she finds herself hunting a killer who attacks young women.

After a violent incident she is banished to the darkest part of the hospital where she is discovered by a doctor studying the new field of criminal psychology. Grace Mae is locked away in a Boston insane asylum, pregnant and unable to speak about her family secrets (or at all). “You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. I know I’m not the only one so I have cobbled together a list of the top YA books that are at least partially set in a psychiatric hospital. Whatever the reason, I have always been drawn to books that feature psychiatric hospitals (and even set my first novel in one). Maybe it has to do with my own issues with mental health, a family history of mental illness, or a simple interest in the macabre. I’ve always had a fascination with madness and with psychiatric hospitals in particular.

Ashwood by C.J. Malarsky