Mysteries Fiction Title: A Northern Light Author: Jennifer Donnelly Summary: In the summer of 1906 while Mattie is working at an Adirondack hotel, a young woman drowns in the lake after giving Mattie bundles of personal letters that may hold clues to her death. Title: Acceleration Author: Graham McNamee Summary: Seventeen-year old Duncan finds a horrifying diary in the Toronto subway's Lost and Found and decides to track down the writer, who has documented his escalation from animal cruelty to stalking people. Title: As Simple as Snow Author: Gregory Galloway Summary: After his girlfriend's dress is found near an ice hole in the river, a small-town teen reviews their relationship in an attempt to piece together the clues that led to her disappearance. Title: Bad Kitty Author: Michele Jaffe Summary: A wannabe detective, 17-year-old Jasmine, is embroiled in a murder mystery surrounding a famous model and her fugitive husband when she rescues their son's three legged cat at a Vegas hotel. Title: Black Mirror Author: Nancy Werlin Summary: After Frances' older brother commits suicide, she begins to suspect that Unity, a charity organization at their preppy boarding school, is hiding something about his death. Title: Black Taxi Author: James Moloney Summary: When Rosie becomes the guardian of her grandfather's black Mercedes and his cell phone while he is in jail, she also becomes the recipient of threatening phone calls involving a jewelry theft. Title: Blackthorn Winter: A Murder Mystery Author: Kathryn Reiss Summary: Juliana doesn't want to live in an artist's colony while her mother tries to re-kindle her career, and when the move triggers suppressed memories and a woman is murdered, Juliana is drawn into the investigation. Title: Body Bags: A Body of Evidence Thriller #1 Author: Christopher Golden Summary: During her first year of college, Jenna uses her job in the autopsy lab to investigate the strange death of a congressional aide whose diseased brain, full of insect larvae, points to a sinister killer. Title: Crocodile on the Sandbank: An Amelia Peabody Mystery Author: Elizabeth Peters Summary: The indomitable Amelia Peabody uses her inheritance money to travel to Egypt, little guessing the adventures that await her, including a kidnapping attempt and a homicidal mummy. Title: Dovey Coe Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell Summary: Even though "I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the next person, but I didn't kill him," 12-year-old Dovey finds herself on trial for murder with no memory of what happened. Title: Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery Author: Peter Abrahams Summary: When 13-year-old Ingrid finds herself in a bad part of town, she is rescued by a local misfit who later ends up dead, leaving Ingrid among the last people to see Cracked-Up Katie alive. Title: Fake I.D. Author: Walter Sorrells Summary: Having spent most of her life on the move with her mother, Chastity Pureheart finds there are deadly secrets in her mother's past when she goes missing on Chastity's 16th birthday. Title: Framed! Traces #1 Author: Malcolm Rose Summary: In a parallel world, 15-year-old Luke Harding gains his forensic investigator's license and immediately encounters his first case, in which the evidence leadsto him! Title: From Charlie's Point of View: A Mystery Author: Richard Scrimger Summary: Charlie, who is blind, sorts through clues and suspects to unravel the mystery of the Stocking Bandit robberies and prove his father's innocence. Title: Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty #1 and Half a Life #2 Author: Greg Rucka Summary: Commissioner Akins and the Major Crimes Unit of Gotham city attempt to prove their crime-fighting skills are as good as Batman's in this graphic novel series. Title: Jude Author: Kate Morgenroth Summary: After his drug-dealing father is murdered, Jude learns his father kidnapped him as a baby, moves in with the mother he thought had abandoned him and is tricked into taking the rap for a crime he didn't commit. Title: King Dork Author: Frank Portman Summary: Tom's father left behind a copy of Catcher in the Rye filled with coded messages that may reveal the reason he died, leaving Tom to put the clues together while dodging bullies at school and thinking up names for his rock band. Title: Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery Author: John Feinstein Summary: Teenage journalists Stevie and Susan are covering the NCAA's Final Four when they learn that a player is being blackmailed to throw the last game. Title: Maisie Dobbs Author: Jacqueline Winspear Summary: In post-World War I England, a suspicious husband hires young Maisie Dobbs, a specialist in "discreet investigations," to follow his wife, unveiling a dastardly scheme. Title: Missing Abby Author: Lee Weatherly Summary: When her former best friend, Abby, disappears, 13-year-old Emma revisits the Goth and role-playing world to try to find her, even though she's moved to a new school and made new friends just to escape her past. Title: Murder on the Orient Express Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Hercule Poirot uses his cunning deductive skills to determine which traveler inflicted fatal stab wounds on a wealthy American in the night compartment of the Calais coach on the fabled Orient Express. Title: Rebecca Author: Daphne Du Maurier Summary: The lovely Rebecca De Winter is dead, but not gone, and when Maxim De Winter brings his shy new wife home to Manderley, Rebecca casts her shadow over the young bride. Title: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief Author: Wendelin Van Draanen Summary: With murder, models, mummies and mayhem all around, it's good to have a gutsy girl detective like Sammy Keyes on the case! Title: Shakespeare's Secret Author: Elise Broach Summary: Sixth-grader Hero escapes teasing at her new school by searching for the mysterious Murphy Diamond rumored to be hidden in her home, assisted by popular eighth-grader Danny and Shakespeare himself. Title: Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure Author: Charlie Higson Summary: When a boy goes fishing on Loch Silverfin and never returns, the school-age James Bond infiltrates the castle of a sinister arms dealer- James' main suspect. Title: Size 12 is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Former teen pop star Heather Wells leaves her career to become assistant director in a New York college residence hall where she must use her wits to investigate the deaths of three female students. Title: So Yesterday Author: Scott Westerfeld Summary: Hunter, who identifies trends for big corporations in New York, investigates with his friend, Jen, when his boss goes missing and reveals a conspiracy to manipulate the teen consumer system. Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Summary: Join the legendary detective as he solves some of his most famous cases, which feature such oddities as a club for redheads, a deformed beggar, a deadly snake and a severed thumb. Title: The Beekeeper's Apprentice: On the Segregation of the Queen Author: Laurie R. King Summary: Mary Russell, a Victorian young lady, teams up with the legendary Sherlock Holmes to become his partner-in-training and works with him to solve the kidnapping of an American senator's daughter in Wales. Title: The Body of Christopher Creed Author: Carol Plum-Ucci Summary: When Christopher Creed, a bullied teen, sends a puzzling email from the school library computer and then disappears, Torey Adams goes on an intensive quest to find out what happened to him. Title: The Boy in the Burning House Author: Tim Wynne-Jones Summary: When Ruth Rose claims her stepfather murdered Jim's dad, 14-year-old Jim starts examining his dad's past hoping to solve his sudden disappearance two years ago. Title: The Client Author: John Grisham Summary: Young Mark Sway, an unintentional witness to the suicide of a mob attorney, also knows who killed Senator Boyette and where he is buried, and is now a target himself. Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Author: Mark Haddon Summary: Although Christopher understands little about relating to people in the world, he uses his amazing logic skills to determine who impaled his neighbor's dog with a garden fork. Title: The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Author: Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler Summary: Seikei, the only witness when a valuable ruby is stolen, will have to display the strength of a samurai to track down the thief-but how do you catch a thief when he's a ghost? Title: The Name of the Rose Author: Umberto Eco Summary: Adso of Melk, a young Benedictine monk, helps Brother William of Baskervillle solve a series of deadly murders at his monastery in 1327. Title: The Perfect Shot Author: Elaine Marie Alphin Summary: Who shot Brian's girlfriend and her family and is trying to kill him, too? Title: The Rag and Bone Shop Author: Robert Cormier Summary: Twelve-year-old Jason, the last person to see 7-year-old Alicia alive, is either the best hope of catching the killer, or is the killer himself. Title: The Rose Queen: Missing Persons #1 Author: M. E. Rabb Summary: Orphaned sisters Sam and Sophie are forced to adopt new identities when their father dies, taking them to a small town where they become implicated in the disappearance of a snobby beauty queen. Title: The Ruby in the Smoke Author: Phillip Pullman Summary: In Victorian London, Sally Lockhart finds that she holds the key to both her father's murder and a stolen ruby, but will she survive the discovery? Title: The Westing Game Author: Ellen Raskin Summary: An eccentric millionaire sets up an elaborate game in which his hopeful heirs must figure out how he was murdered in order to inherit his fortune. Title: Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure Author: Michael Hoeye Summary: When his beloved Ms. Linka Perflinger goes missing and a creepy yellow-eyed rat shows up to claim her watch from his shop, the gentle watchmaker mouse Hermux Tantamoq sets off to find her. Title: Witch Dreams Author: Vivian Vande Velde Summary: Sixteen-year-old Nyssa would be put to death if the people in her medieval village knew she used her power to see into other peoples dreams and find out who killed her parents six years ago.