--• Mysteries •--

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Adamson, Isaac - Hokkaido Popsicle (329 pages) After a fight with the director of the movie based on his life, reporter Billy Chaka gets sent to Hokkaido on a mandatory vacation, but he soon finds himself back at work after a porter at the Hotel Kitty dies in his room.  (N)  

Avi - Wolf Rider (202 pages)  After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.  (N)   BIB # 22630

Bendis, Brian Michael - Who Killed Retro Girl?   Homicide detective Christian Walker takes on rookie partner Deena Pilgrim while investigating the murder of popular superhero Retro Girl, and soon discovers that to solve this crime, he may have to reveal a dark secret about himself.  (N) 

Bennett, Jay – Dark Corridor  (151 pages) At the end of a summer disrupted by three teen suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend Alicia apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts.  (N)

Bennett, Jay – Sing Me a Death Song (160 pages) Jason risks his life to find evidence that his mother, a convicted murderer facing execution, was framed.  (N)

Bennett, Madison – Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox  (201 pages) When a mysterious person called the Fox begins to threaten young starlets, Lulu Dark investigates, even though she suspects that her own mother--an aging actress--might be behind it all. (N) 

Bennett, Madison – Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls (248 pages) When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates.  (N)  BIB # 574010

Bloor, Edward – Crusader (390 pages) After a violent virtual-reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she works, fifteen-year-old Roberta finds the courage to search out the person who murdered her mother.  (N)

Brooks, Kevin – Martyn Pig B (230 pages) Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in disposing of the body.  (N)

Burke, Morgan – Get It Started    (247 pages) Samantha Byrne is found dead in Central Park after leaving the Party Room with a guy no one had seen before, and the one clue to the murder is a school tie from Talcott Prep, a prestigious New York boarding school.  (N)  Book One of The Party Room trilogy.

Cage, Elizabeth – License to Thrill (180 pages) Three ten spies for the government investigate the handsome son of an American diplomat, a boy who may or may not be a terrorist, responsible for the assassination of a covert operative.  Book One of the Spy Girls series. (K)

Chandler, Elizabeth – Don’t Tell  (199 pages) Returning home seven years after her mother's mysterious death, Lauren finds herself shocked by the appearance of her Aunt Jule's riverfront home and of the suspicious relationships between Jule, her children, and Nick, Lauren's childhood friend.  (N)

Coles, William E. – Another Kind of Monday (246 pages) When Mark discovers money and a note concealed in the pages of a copy of Dickens' Great expectations, he undertakes a quest with his classmate Zeena that leads to more money, more clues to follow, and ultimately more knowledge of himself.  (N)

Coles, William E. – Compass in the Blood   (263 pages) While working with a Pittsburgh television journalist on a project to uncover the truth about the 1902 Katherine Soffel scandal, college student Dee Armstrong learns about different types of betrayal.  (N)

Cooney, Caroline B. – Hush Little Baby (258 pages) Kit's usually calm world is turned upside down with her ex-stepmother thrusts a baby into her arms, not telling Kit whose baby it is. (N)

Cooney, Caroline B. – The Terrorist  (198 pages) Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb. (N)

Cooney, Linda A. – Samantha Crane On the Run  (234 pages) Things heat up with a killer on the loose on the streets of L.A. looking for Samantha Crane, a junior at West L.A. High, but as she tries to stop his killing spree, she leads him closer to his next victim, who may be someone she knows or it may be Samantha herself.  (N)

Cormier, Robert – The Rag and Bone Shop  (154 pages) Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.  (N)

Cormier, Robert – Tenderness  (229 pages) A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.  (N)

Deaver, Julie – The Night I Disappeared (242 pages) Something scary is happening to seventeen-year-old Jamie Tessman. Ever since she and her mother arrived in Chicago, she's been plagued by freaky mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her sort-of-boyfriend, Webb. When Jamie's inner world starts taking her hostage and keeping her imprisoned for longer periods of time, she becomes terrified that she is slowly losing her mind.  (N)

Delaney, Mark – The Vanishing Chip (188 pages) When Mattie's grandfather becomes a suspect in the theft of a valuable computer chip, Peter, Byte, Jake, and Mattie, four high school students who consider themselves misfits, pool their talents to try to discover who really stole the chip and how.  (N)  Book One of the Misfits, Inc. series.

Duncan, Lois – I Know What You Did Last Summer (199 pages) Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery person seeking revenge.  (N)

Duncan, Lois – The Third Eye  (220 pages) High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children.  (N)

Garfield, Henry – Tartabull’s Throw (284 pages) In 1967 an encounter with a mysterious young woman from Maine involves a nineteen-year-old baseball player in an investigation of a vicious, murderous werewolf.  (N)

Glenn, Mel – Foreign Exchange: A Mystery in Poems (159 pages) A mystery story told in free verse poems describes the reactions of the residents of a rural town and some city visitors when a white teenage girl, a town resident, is murdered, and one of the visiting city students, a young Afro-American man, is accused of her murder.  (N)

Golden, Christopher – Burning Bones (224 pages) Two people burst into flame, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause. Spontaneous human combustion is a bizarre phenomenon, but according to published accounts, it happens. Could that be what occurred here? Or is it murder?  (N)  Book One of the Body of Evidence series.

Guest, Jacqueline – At Risk (186 pages) While working the summer at a ranch for at-risk teens, Tia becomes intrigued with Sage, a troubled street kid on his last chance.  When money goes missing and Sage is blamed, Tia is determined to find the true culprit and clear Sage’s name.  (K)

Hautman, Pete and Mary Logue – Snatched  (200 pages)  A science geek and a pushy high school reporter band together in an unlikely duo to solve the disappearance of a fellow classmate.  Book One in the Bloodwater Mysteries series.  (K)

Heisel, Sharon – Eyes of a Stranger (168 pages) Marissa, a shy self-conscious girl with a twisted leg, is attracted to a strikingly handsome visitor to he uncle's carousel but begins to suspect that he is a psychotic serial killer. (N)

Holubitsky, Katherine – The Hippie House  (233 pages) In the summer of 1970, fourteen-year-old Emma Jenkins realizes that life in her small town will never be the same after the brutal rape and murder of one of her classmates.  (N)

Holland, Isabelle - The Island  (182 pages) - A teenager goes to visit wealthy relatives on a Caribbean island where the atmosphere soon becomes ominous, and then life-threatening.  (LC)

Honey, Elizabeth – Remote Man (260 pages) Thirteen-year-old Ned and his depressed mother leave Australia for a rest in America, but he is soon on the trail of international smugglers of exotic animals, with help from his Internet friends.  (N)

Johnson, Rodney – The Curse of the Royal Ruby  (276 pages) Fourteen-year-old Rinnah Two Feathers, a Lakota Indian, exercises her sleuthing skills when a mysterious Bulgarian woman approaches her with a cryptic note and a warning: “They are after the rose!”  (LC)

Karbo, Karen – Minerva Clark Gets a Clue (245 pages) After an electrical shock jolts once-insecure seventh grader, Minerva Clark, into a self-assured, confident and fearless new person, she turns private eye, investigating a convoluted identity theft .  (K)

Karbo, Karen – Minerva Clark Goes to the Dogs (211 pages) Thirteen-year-old Minerva investigates when a wealthy classmate loses a priceless ring.  (K)

Karr, Kathleen – The Seventh Knot  (149 pages) Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet.  (N)

Lachtman, Ofelia – The Summer of El Pintor (235 pages) When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past. (N)

Laurie, Victoria – Abby Cooper: Psychic Eye  (295 pages) In Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit, thirtysomething Abby Cooper lives a life that’s kind of like vanilla ice cream—good enough, but a little bland. Her work as a P.I. –Psychic Intuitive—can be rewarding but she feels like somehow she’s missing out on the hot fudge topping.  Now she’s getting what she wished for when a client winds up dead and the clues start pointing in Abby’s direction. Turns out she knows too many details about the murder for her own good.  To make matters worse the hot blind date she just met is the lead investigator on the case.  And gorgeous Detective Dutch Rivers is convinced she’s a fraud.  (LC)

Lisle, Janet Taylor – Black Duck  (252 pages)  Life becomes complicated for Reuben and Jeddy when they find a body washed up on the shore, a body they suspect is tied to illegal rum-running. Before they know it, the boys are deeply immersed in a bootlegging operation, and in the Prohibition Era, messing with gangsters isn’t the wisest thing they could have done.  (K)

Martin, Ann M. – Missing Since Monday (167 pages) When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect. (N)

McNamee, Graham – Acceleration (210 pages) Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him. (N)

Nixon, Joan Lowery – A Candidate for Murder (210 pages) When Cary’s father runs for governor, she never expects her family to become the victims of vandalism and threatening phone calls.  But when Cary realizes she overheard a conversation someone would rather keep secret, she realizes her very life may be in danger.    (K)

Nixon, Joan Lowery – The Stalker  (180 pages) When her best friend is accused of murder, seventeen-year-old Jennifer is determined to prove her innocence by finding the real culprit.  (N)

Nixon, Joan Lowery – The Weekend Was Murder! (193 pages) Sixteen-year-old Liz's summer job with an expensive hotel involves her in a staged murder mystery weekend and a real murder.  (N)

O’Keefe, Susan – My Life and Death by Alexandra Canarsie   (217 pages) Escaping school and family problems in a cemetery, fifteen-year-old Allie begins attending strangers' funerals, which leads to her first real friendship and a mystery that she believes only she can solve.  (N)

Parker, Daniel – Break the Surface  (202 pages) High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.  (N) Book One in the Watching Alice series.

Parker, Daniel – Trust Falls  B(270 pages) New student Fred and his friend Sunday discover a plot to blackmail one of their friends while they are playing pranks around Wessex Academy, and Fred suspects that one of the members of the blackmail ring may be his dorm counselor.  (N)   Book One of The Wessex Papers trilogy.

Peck, Richard – Are You In the House Alone?  (172 pages) Gail, a rape victim, learns she must prove her assailant's guilt in order to see him convicted.  (N)

Peretti, Frank – The Hangman’s Curse   (281 pages) When several students at Baker High School are stricken by an alleged curse of the school's ghost, Elijah and Elisha Springfield and their parents, undercover investigators, are sent to uncover the truth behind the events. (N)  Book One of The Veritas Project series.

Pike, Christopher – Die Softly  (248 pages) Herb, a lecherous high school photography buff, plants his camera in the girls' shower room, and when a cheerleader mysteriously dies that same night, Herb realizes that he holds the evidence to her murder.  (N)

Pike, Christopher – Fall into Darkness (213 pages) Ann Rice is dead and Sharon McKay, her best friend, stands accused. There is no body and Sharon says Ann committed suicide, but Ann wasn't suicidal, she was obsessed. (N)

Plum-Ucci, Carol – The Body of Christopher Creed  (248 pages) Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. (N)

Plum-Ucci, Carol – The Night My Sister Went Missing  (202 pages) When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community. (N)

Plum-Ucci, Carol – The She  (280 pages) After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related tragedy. (N)

Porter, Frank – King Dork  (344 pages) Social dork and wannabe rock star, Tom Henderson, discovers his dead father’s old books and the codes hidden within them.  As Tom tries to unravel the mystery of his father’s death—and more importantly, the mystery of who his dad was as a teenager—he also navigates the biting social jungle of high school, forms a band with his best friend, and searches for the mysterious Fiona, a girl he could love or at least make out with more than once.  A hilarious and deftly plotted tale with a satisfying end.  (K)

Pullman, Philip – The Ruby in the Smoke (230 pages) In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. (N)

Qualey, Marsha – Close to a Killer  (182 pages) Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon. (N)

Qualey, Marsha – Thin Ice  (261 pages) When Arden's missing brother's snowmobile is found at the bottom of a river, she suspects that the incident was not an accident. (N)

Rabb, M.E. – The Rose Queen (186 pages) Sam and Sophie leave Queens and settle in Venice, Indiana, under new identities, but the disappearance of Noelle McBride, Venice's Rose Queen, threatens to expose them and sends the girls on a quest to solve the case themselves.  (N)  Book One of The Missing Persons series.

Reiss, Kathryn – Paint By Magic: A Time Travel Mystery (271 pages) After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.  (N)

Roberts, Willo Davis – Blood on His Hands  (188 pages) After the death of his little sister, Marc's life begins to fall apart--his parents divorce, his mother comes under the influence of a pushy insurance agent, and Marc is sent to a camp for socially maladjusted youths. (N)

Roberts, Willo Davis – Rebel (153 pages) When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery. (N)

Roberts, Willo Davis – Twisted Summer  (156 pages) Hoping for romance, fourteen-year-old Cici instead spends summer vacation with her extended family at Crystal Lake trying to solve a murder which occurred there the year before. (N)

Roper, Gayle G. – Caught in the Middle (238 pages) Merrileigh Kramer, a young staff reporter for her hometown paper, finds a body in the trunk of her car, and after getting over the shock, asks her boss to let her cover the story (N) Book One of the Amhearst Mystery series.

Rose, Malcolm – Framed! (223 pages) Sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding and his robot sidekick Malc race to discover who is behind three student murders, only to find that the evidence points to Luke himself.  (N)

Rose, Malcolm – Lost Bullet   (204 pages) Sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding and his robot sidekick Malc investigate a murder where the bullet and the rest of the clues have been washed away by the rain.  (N)

Rushford, Patricia – Too Many Secrets (172 pages) Jennie, distressed that her mother believes her father is dead and wishes to remarry, looks forward to her summer with her grandmother, travel-writer and occasional secret agent Helen McGrady, but when Gram disappears and becomes the chief suspect in a major jewel theft, Jennie and Gram's neighbor Ryan investigate (N)  Book One of the Jennie McGrady Mystery series.

Scrimger, Richard – From Charlie’s Point of View  (278 pages) Best friends Bernadette and Charlie begin seventh grade and help unravel the mysterious case of the Stocking Bandit. Best friends Bernadette and Charlie begin seventh grade and help unravel the mysterious case of the Stocking Bandit.  (N)

Sorrells, Walter – Club Dread  (266 pages) When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.  (N)

Sorrells, Walter – Fake I.D. (313 pages) After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.  (N)

Springer, Nancy – Blood Trail   (105 pages) After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone. (N)

St. George, Judith – Haunted  (158 pages) Following the murder-suicide of the Von Dursts, 16-year-old Alex, hired to house-sit their estate, is haunted by two forces, one leading him to discovery, and the other trying to kill him.  (N)

Stewart, Mary – Nine Coaches Waiting (272 pages) Charmed in spite of herself, English governess Linda Martin is baffled by the increasingly strange behavior of the de Valmys.  (N)

Strasser, Todd – The Accident (178 pages) After four of his friends leave a beer party and suffer a fatal accident, eighteen-year-old Matt senses something peculiar about the police investigation and suspects a cover-up to hide the identity of who was really responsible. (N)

Sullivan, Winona – Death’s a Beach (276 pages) When wealthy Elliot Barclay is found murdered, nun-turned-sleuth Sister Cecile must uncover a killer in the midst of the victim's associates, beautiful girlfriends, and mob connections, before another murder occurs (N)

Sykes, Shelley – For Mike (197 pages) When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold. (N)

Taylor, Theodore – Lord of the Kill (244 pages) With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity.  (N)

Vande Velde, Vivian – Magic Can Be Murder (197 pages) Nola and her mother are witches with the ability to see the future—but they must keep their abilities secret since witchcraft is punishable by death.  When Nola sees a murder in a vision, her life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when the murderer tries to frame Nola and her mother for the crime.  (K)

Vande Velde, Vivian – Never Trust a Dead Man (194 pages) Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed up in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer. (N)

Vande Velde, Vivian – Witch Dreams (120 pages) Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people’s dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.  (LC)

Watson, Jude – Premonitions   (241 pages) Gracie sees visions—but when they come she doesn’t know whether they’re from the past, present or future. She’s always had them and accepted them as natural—until her best friend disappears and the visions become the key to finding her friend before it’s too late.  (K)

Wells, Rosemary – The Man in the Woods (217 pages) Fourteen-year-old Helen investigates what she considers the false arrest of a classmate and is nearly killed herself as her findings lead her into big-money drug dealings. (N)

Werlin, Nancy –  Black Mirror (249 pages) Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.  (N)

Werlin, Nancy – The Killer’s Cousin (229 pages) After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily. (N)

Winspear, Jacqueline – Maisie Dobbs (294 pages) Private detective Maisie Dobbs must investigate the reappearance of a dead man who turns up at a cooperative farm called the Retreat that caters to men who are recovering their health after World War I.  (N)

Zindel, Paul – The Scream Museum (149 pages) P.C. Hawke and his partner MacKenzie are two cool, teenaged sleuths. Their friend Tom the janitor has been accused of murdering the head biologist at New York City's Museum of Natural History. They know Tom couldn't be the real killer so they start investigating and find a strange, precious artifact and a huge arachnid. (N)  Book One of the P.C. Hawke Mysteries series.

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(K)= Synopsis by Librarian

(LC)= Synopsis taken from Library Catalog

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