Mysteries


Fiction
Title: A Spy in the House: The Agency 1
Author: Y. S. Lee
Summary: After thief Mary Quinn is rescued from the gallows, she goes to Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she learns investigative skills. Her first assignment with the Agency involves being companion to Thorold's daughter while looking into the mysterious sinking of his ships.


Title: All Unquiet Things
Author: Anna Jarzab
Summary: After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.


Title: Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
Author: Kat Rosenfield
Summary: A horrific murder affects residents of the small Appalachian town where the body is discovered, and shakes eighteen-year-old Becca's determination to leave home as soon as possible.


Title: Between
Author: Jessica Warman
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in Long Island Sound by sifting through her memories and watching friends and family.


Title: Blink and Caution
Author: Tim Wynne-Jones
Summary: Two teenagers, barely scraping by on the streets, become unexpected allies when they get sucked into a criminal plot.


Title: Close to the Heel
Author: Norah McClintock
Summary: At the request of his late grandfather, seventeen-year-old Rennie goes to Iceland to right an old wrong and gets drawn into investigating a murder.


Title: Deadly Cool
Author: Gemma Halliday
Summary: When sixteen-year-old Hartley Featherstone finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she goes to his house to confront him and finds 'the other girl' dead in his closet, strangled by her own iPod earbuds.


Title: Death Cloud
Author: Andrew Lane
Summary: The Sherlock Holmes legend begins in 1868, when fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.


Title: Ghost Flower
Author: Michele Jaffe
Summary: Siblings Bain and Bridgette ask runaway Eve Brightman to impersonate their missing cousin, Aurora, in a scheme to inherit their cousin's fortune and split the money. Eve, who looks exactly like Aurora, accepts, but there is more to the mystery than any of them realize.


Title: Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator
Author: Josh Berk
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.


Title: I Hunt Killers
Author: Barry Lyga
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."


Title: Jasper Jones
Author: Craig Silvey
Summary: In a small town in Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when Jasper asks Charlie to help him cover up a murder until he can prove who is responsible.


Title: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Summary: After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.


Title: Reality Check
Author: Peter Abrahams
Summary: When Cody, quarterback for his school's varsity football team, injures his knee, he quits both football and school. His ex-girlfriend's disappearance from her Vermont boarding school distracts him from his troubles as he travels across country to investigate.


Title: Ripper
Author: Stefan Petrucha
Summary: Carver Young's orphanage closes down, but he has the good fortune of being adopted by Detective Hawking who teaches him criminal investigation skills. Aligned with the Pinkerton Agency they all work together to find Jack the Ripper before he kills more young women.


Title: Shelter: A Mickey Bolitar Novel
Author: Harlan Coben
Summary: Mickey Bolitar gets drawn into a double mystery when he goes to live with his Uncle Myron after his father’s death. He investigates his new girlfriend’s disappearance and a weird lady tells him his father may still be alive.


Title: The Butterfly Clues
Author: Kate Ellison
Summary: After her brother's death, Penelope, who hoards beautiful things, discovers a lovely butterfly figurine at a flea market, and recognizes it as having been stolen from the home of a recently murdered girl.


Title: The Diviners
Author: Libba Bray
Summary: It is 1926, and small-town girl Evie O'Neill is thrilled to go live with her Uncle Will in New York City. Evie's ability to read secrets from personal objects, combined with her Uncle Will's occult expertise, thrusts her into investigating a series of ritualistic murders.


Title: The Girl in the Park
Author: Mariah Fredericks
Summary: When a teenaged girl with a bad reputation is murdered in New York City's Central Park after a party, her childhood friend is determined to solve the mystery of who caused her death.


Title: The Girl is Murder
Author: Kathryn Miller Haines
Summary: In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.


Title: The London Eye Mystery
Author: Siobhan Dowd
Summary: When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.


Title: The Missing Girl
Author: Norma Fox Mazer
Summary: A nameless man stalks five sisters in Mallory, New York. When the family prepares to send one sister away, he makes his move, abducting the youngest sister, Autumn, and changing their lives forever.


Title: The Name of the Star
Author: Maureen Johnson
Summary: Rory, a girl from Louisiana spending her senior year in London, witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and discovers that she can see the 'shades' of the dead, an ability which draws her in to the investigation.


Title: The Night She Disappeared
Author: April Henry
Summary: As the police search for the body and murderer of their missing Pete’s Pizza co-worker, Gabie and Drew, who don’t believe that Kayla was the intended victim or that she’s dead, set out to find her before it’s too late.


Title: The Shattering
Author: Karen Healey
Summary: Keri's older brother, who she adores, commits suicide leaving her totally grief-stricken. When she discovers that other boys in their New Zealand resort town have committed suicide at a rate of one a year she joins other grieving siblings to find out what really happened.


Title: The Silence of Murder
Author: Dandi Daley Mackall
Summary: Hope Long investigates the murder of beloved baseball coach John Johnson to clear her autistic, mute brother, Jeremy, of guilt before he is executed.


Title: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Author: C. Alan Bradley
Summary: In the summer of 1950, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect.


Title: Tokyo Heist
Author: Diana Renn
Summary: After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.


Title: What I Saw and How I Lied
Author: Judy Blundell
Summary: When Evie's step-father, Joe, brings a war buddy back home with him from World War II, Evie finds herself in a complicated and dangerous situation when their family's guest suddenly drowns and dark family secrets are revealed.


Title: When You Reach Me
Author: Rebecca Stead
Summary: Sixth-grader Miranda begins receiving mysterious notes that make surprisingly accurate and personal predictions about her future, including a message that makes her believe only she can prevent a tragic death.


Title: You Killed Wesley Payne
Author: Sean Beaudoin
Summary: In this humorous noir update, Dalton Rev transfers to Salt River High to solve the case of a dead student and tries to outwit the police, negotiate the school's social hierarchy, and get paid.