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Abramson, Peter. Down the Rabbit Hole: an Echo Falls Mystery - Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her hometown of Echo Falls.

Avi. Something Upstairs. - When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.

Avi. Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror. - 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.

Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer - When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Bennett, Jay. Coverup. - Teenage Brad is tormented by confused memories of a drunken ride with his best friend Alden, during which they may have hit and killed a man.

Bennett, Jay. The Dangling Witness. - An eighteen-year-old boy who witnesses a murder decides to keep quiet after he is threatened by the killer, but finds his silence increasingly hard to bear.

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

Bennett, Jay. The Long Black Coat. - Seventeen-year-old Phil is terrorized by two of his dead brother's associates from Vietnam who demand from him a package he knows nothing about.

Bennett, Jay. Sing Me a Death Song. - Jason risks his life to find evidence that his mother, a convicted murderer facing execution, was framed.

Bennett, Jay. The Skeleton Man. - When his Uncle Ed commits suicide, after giving him 30,000 for his eighteenth birthday, Ray receives mysterious death threats and becomes involved in a dangerous sequence of events.

Bennett, Jay. Skinhead: A Novel. - A plea from a dying man he has never seen before involves nineteen-year-old Jonathan in a life-and-death struggle with white-supremacist skinheads.

Broach, Elise. Desert Crossing - A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.

Cooney, Caroline. The Fog. - Christina comes from her island home to the mainland of Maine to go to school, never guessing at the evil waiting for her.

Cooney, Caroline. The Snow. - Christina has survived her first semester away from home, overcoming more than just homesickness. She has survived the Evil. Until now.

Cooney, Caroline. The Terrorist. - 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.

Corbett, Sue. 12 Again. - Twelve year old Patrick's mother is missing and unless he can get her back, he faces a life of waiting on his brother.

Cormier, Robert. In the Middle of the Night. - Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father.

Crew, Gary. Angel's Gate. - Kimmy encounters two wild children who have grown up in the hills of Australia and tries to protect them from the unknown person who murdered their father.

Cross, Gillian. Tightrope. - When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.

Dahl, Michael. The Horizontal Man. Thirteen-year-old Finnegan Zwake is staying with his Uncle Stoppard, a bestselling mystery writer, and still hoping his parents will return from an archaeological expedition in Iceland. They disappeared there several years ago. Life with his uncle is fairly normal -- until the day Finn discovers a body in the basement, a dead body. It's in the storage area where Finn's parents left behind gold treasure from their last expedition. And missing from the storage space is a magnificent Mayan gold figure, the Horizontal Man....

Daniel, Kate. Sweetheart. Jessie looks forward to Valentine's Day until two women are murdered on campus.

DeClements, Barthe. Wake Me at Midnight. - Strange noises awaken Caitlin at midnight but she can't tell who is digging in the neighbor's backyard. Should she investigate?

Dhondy, Farrukh. Black Swan.- While taking care of an elderly man, Rose realizes that they are being watched, and becomes caught up in a mystery going back to Elizabethan England involving Shakespeare, Marlowe, and an extraordinary black slave.

Dixon, Franklin W. Hardy Boys Series. Mystery series featuring the Hardy brothers.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. - A collection of the following Sherlock Holmes titles: A study in scarlet. The sign of four. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Memoires of Sherlock. Holmes. The return of Sherlock Holmes. The hound of the Baskervilles. The valley of fear. His last bow. The case book of Sherlock Holmes.

Duncan, Lois. Don't Look Behind You. - Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

Duncan, Lois. I Know What You Did Last Summer. - Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

Duncan, Lois. Killing Mr. Griffin. - A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?

Duncan, Lois. Locked in Time. - Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

Duncan, Lois. They Never Came Home. - The disappearance of two boys creates a major upheaval in the boys' families when they fail to return from a weekend camping trip.

Duncan, Lois. The Third Eye. - 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.

Duncan, Lois. The Twisted Window. - Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.

Dunlop, Eileen. The House on the Hill. - Cousins visiting proud, unfriendly Great-aunt Jane in her spooky Victorian house come upon a fifty-year-old mystery which is frightening in its investigation and which reveals a tragic story in Jane's past.

Ferguson, Alan. The Christopher Killer: A Forensic Mystery - On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.

Giberga, Jane Sughrue. Friends to Die For. - Sixteen-year-old Cristina is forced to evaluate her sophisticated world of elegant New York apartments, private schools, and rich friends when a girl she knows is murdered after a party they both attended.

Giles, Gail. Dead Girls Don't Write Letters - Sunny's family has completely fallen apart. Their favorite daughter Jazz died in a fire six months ago. Both her parents are in a stupor, so Sunny cooks, cleans and sends letters to school excusing herself from classes. Then one day Sunny receives a letter from her sister Jazz saying that she's coming home. They snap to when they hear Jazz is coming home. Sunny's mom cooks a big meal with all of Jazz's favorite foods. But when Jazz arrives, she's ...not Jazz. She knows exactly what Jazz likes and who's who, but she's Not-Jazz. Tha's what Sunny calls her (not to her face) as she goes about figuring out who this girl is. This is a great and creepy story by the author of Shattering Glass.

Golden, Christopher. Thief of Hearts. - A second grisly murder mystery is unfolding at Somerset University, and Jenna Blake's job as a pathology assistant at the local hospital brings her too close to the haunting crimes.

Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear. - A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

Harrell, Janice. Dead Girls Can't Scream. - Laurie runs for her life after she witnesses a man stuffing a body into the trunk of a car.

Harrell, Janice. The Murder Game. - When a guest is killed at his "murder" party, Dusty's name must be cleared.

Hart, Alison. Shadow Horse. - Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind.

Hautman, Pete and Mary Logue. Snatched - Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Hayes, Daniel. The Trouble with Lemons. - Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.

Higson, Charley. Blood Fever - During a summer holiday in Italy, the teen-age James Bond tangles with an underground empire of criminals as he attempts the rescue of a kidnapped young girl.

Hoobler, Dorothy. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn. - While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

Horowitz, Anthony. The Falcon's Malteser: A Diamond Brothers Mystery - When the vertically challenged Johnny Naples entrusts Tim Diamond with a package worth over three million pounds, hes making a big mistake. Tim Diamond is the worst detective in the world. Next day, Johnny's dead, Tim feels the heat, and his smart younger brother, Nick, gets the package and every crook in town on his back!

Karbo, Karen. Minerva Clark Gets a Clue - A thirteen-year-old girl in Portland, Oregon, loses all self-doubt when she is zapped by lightning and uses her newfound courage to solve a murder mystery.

Kerr, M.E. The Books of Fell. - A young man from the wrong side of the tracks, John Fell investigates spies, drug dealers, murders, and a decades-old disappearance case, all of which are connected to his exclusive prep school's mysterious club, Sevens.

Kerr, M.E. Fell. - A strange incident on the night of the senior prom changes John Fell's entire life, leading him to enroll in an exclusive private school under an assumed name.

Kerr, M.E. Fell Back. - When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder.

Kerr, M.E. Fell Down. - Seventeen-year-old Fell's determination to investigate his best friend's death in a car crash leads him to a ventriloquists' convention and an unsolved disappearance from almost twenty years ago.

L'Engle, Madeleine. Troubling a Star. - As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.

Littke, Lael. Lake of Secrets. - Having arrived in her mother's home town to try to find her long-missing brother, who disappeared three years before she was born, fifteen-year-old Carlene finds herself haunted by memories from a past life.

MacGregor, Rob. Prophecy Rock. - Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.

Madison, Bennett. Lulu Clark Can See through Walls - When someone steals her purse and identity at a rock concert, Lulu Dark and her friends discover a twisted mystery involving a rock star, a rich socialite, and a serious case of mistaken identity.

Montes, Marisa. Something Wicked's in Those Woods. - When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder.

Nickerson, Sara. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. - With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. A Candidate for Murder. - Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Dark and Deadly Pool. - Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. A Deadly Game of Magic. - Lisa and her three friends find themselves unwilling players in a cat-and-mouse game with a murderous magician whose identity and motivation baffle them.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Name of the Game Was Murder. - Samantha does not want to go when great-uncle Augustus Trevor blackmails a group of celebrities to participate in a "game" at his island mansion--but when Uncle Augustus is found dead, Samantha must join the game.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Other Side of Dark. - Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Spirit Seeker. - To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.

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

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Whispers from the Dead. - After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Who Are You? - When the police discover that a man who has been shot has been keeping a file of her entire life, sixteen-year-old Kristi, an aspiring artist, suspects a connection with the possible theft of a painting from a museum.

Peck, Richard. Dreamland Lake. - When two thirteen-year-olds discover a dead man, a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.

Peck, Richard. Through a Brief Darkness. - Forced to ask herself whether her father was indeed a criminal, Karen comes to rely on her own instincts and judgment as her situation becomes increasingly terrifying.

Penman, Sharon Kay. The Queen's Man : A Medieval Mystery. - A swashbuckling mystery set in England in the year 1193 traces the investigation of Justin de Quincy, the trusted confidant of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, into the disappearance of Eleanor's son Richard Lionheart and the rumors concerning a conspiracy involving his brother John.

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

Pullman, Philip. Detective Stories. - Detective and mystery stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Isaac Asimov, Agatha Christie, and more.

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

Pullman, Philip. Shadow in the North. - In 1878 in London, Sally, now twenty-two and established in her own business, and her companions Frederick and Jim try to solve the mystery surrounding the unexpected collapse of a shipping firm and its ties to a sinister corporation called North Star.

Pullman, Philip. The Tiger in the Well. - In London in 1881, twenty-four-year-old Sally finds her young daughter and her possessions assailed by an unknown enemy, while a shadowy figure known as the Tzaddik involves her in his plot to defraud and exploit the hordes of Jewish immigrants pouring into the country.

Pullman, Philip. The White Mercedes. - Seventeen-year-old Chris, living and working in Oxford, falls in love with an elusive girl and while searching for her discovers the devastating consequences of placing his trust in the wrong person.

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

Qualey, Marsha. Thin Ice. - Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he's really run away.

Rees, Celia. The Truth Out There. - Thirteen-year-old Josh begins digging into the mystery of his Uncle Patrick, an autistic boy who died at Josh's age while investigating the crash of a flying saucer, and a terrible family secret is uncovered.

Roberts, Willo Davis. Nightmare. - When a falling body strikes Nick's car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man's death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in danger when he tries to investigate.

Rushford, Patricia. Deceived. - While on a Caribbean cruise with her grandmother and cousin, sixteen-year-old Jennie McGrady puts herself in great danger by her rash efforts to find her father, a government agent who disappeared five years earlier.

Scoppettone, Sandra. Playing Murder. - When one of the players in a murder game is killed, seventeen-year-old Anna and her twin brother realize that their circle of friends may conceal a real murderer.

Simmons, Michael. Finding Lubchenko - When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

Sorrells, Walter. Fake ID: A Mystery . - Chass and her mother have been moving to new cities and assuming new names as long as she can remember. The other weird thing is that she is not allowed to sing or listen to music. Then on the night of her sixteenth birthday, her mother disappeared. Later her car was found out by an old, rotting house some blood was found in the cellar along with a wallet full of ID cards. The sheriff threatens to put Chass in a foster home in six days if her mom doesn't come back.

Stine, R.L. Beach House. - A killer stalks a group of teenagers at the beach.

Stine, R.L. The Hitchhiker. - A hitchhiker gets more than he bargained for in the way of a ride.

Strasser, Todd. The Accident. - 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 for the accident.

Sykes, Shelley. For Mike. - 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.

Tan, Maureen. AKA Jane. - Jane Nichols, aka Molly, aka Moura, aka Max, is a British MI-5 agent who travels to Savannah to hunt down the killer of a fellow spy.

Vande Velde, Vivian. Never Trust a Dead Man. - Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed 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.

Voigt, Cynthia. The Callender Papers. - In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.

Wells, Rosemary. The Man in the Woods. - 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.

Werlin, Nancy. Black Mirror. - 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.

Werlin, Nancy. The Killer's Cousin. - 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.

Westall, Robert. Yaxley's Cat. - After Yaxley disappears, the inhabitants of an English village fear that his ugly old cat will uncover the truth about the secret they are hiding.

White, Robb. Deathwatch. - Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.

Windsor, Patricia. The Sandman's Eyes. - Angry because he was confined in a school for disturbed juveniles for two years after witnessing a murder, upon his release eighteen-year-old Michael seeks to prove his innocence by tracking down the killer only he saw.

Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Boy in the Burning House. - Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.

Young, Karen Romano. Video. - "Mean Janine" turns out to be a complicated person, as Eric discovers during his spring term assignment to observe a classmate and record his observations, an assignment that changes both of them in unexpected ways.

Zambreno, Mary Frances. Journeyman Wizard. - When Jermyn goes to Land's End to study wizardry under the famous spellmaker Lady Jean Allons, he finds his lessons disrupted by magical mayhem and a mysterious murder.

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