Mystery Stories
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Abrahams, Peter. Down the Rabbit Hole (Echo Falls Mysteries). YA F Abr Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls. Other books in the series are: #2: Behind the Curtain #3: Into the Dark |
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Alphin, Elaine Marie. Counterfeit Son. YA F Alp When serial killer Hank Miller is killed in a shoot-out with police, his abused son Cameron adopts the identity of one of his father's victims in order to find a better life. |
 | Arnold, Tedd. Rat Life. YA F Arn After developing an unusual friendship with a young Vietnam War veteran in 1972, fourteen-year-old Todd discovers his writing talent and solves a murder mystery. |
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Bauer, Cat. Harley Like a Person. YA F Bau Fourteen-year-old Harley, an artistic teenager living with her alcoholic father and angry mother, suspects that she is adopted and begins a search for her biological parents. |
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Broach, Elise. Desert Crossing. YA F Bro 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. |
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Cormier, Robert. In the Middle of the Night. YA F Cor 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. |
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Duncan, Lois. Don’t Look Behind You. YA F Dun 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. |
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Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher Killer: a forensic mystery. YA F Fer 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. |
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Giles, Gail. Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters. YA F Gil Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier. |
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Glenn, Mel. Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: a mystery in poems. YA F Gle Free verse poems describe the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when a high school teacher is shot to death as the school day begins. |
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Golden, Christopher. Body of Evidence (series). YA F Gol #1: Body Bags #2: Thief of Hearts #3: Soul Survivor #4: Meets the Eye #5: Head Games #6: Skin Deep #7: Burning Bones #8: Brain Trust #9: Last Breath #10: Throat Culture |
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Hoffman, Mary. The Falconer’s Knot: a story of friars, flirtation and foul play. YA F Hof Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love. |
 | Jaffe, Michele. Bad Kitty. YA F Jaf While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California. |
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Madison, Bennett. Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls. YA F Mad When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates. There are more mysteries in Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox. |
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Nixon, Joan Lowry. Nightmare. YA F Nix Sixteen-year-old Emily is sent to a camp for underachievers where she discovers a murderer on the staff who might provide an explanation for her recurring nightmares. |
 | Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Body of Christopher Creed. YA F Plu Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. |
 | Reiss, Kathryn. Blackthorn. YA F Rei An idyllic seaside artists’ colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past. |
 | Roberts, Willo Davis. Nightmare. YA F Rob 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. |
 | Sorrells, Walter. Hunted series. YA F Sor 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. #1: Fake ID #2: Club Dread |
 | Voigt, Cynthia. The Callender Papers. YA F Voi Jean was barely thirteen when she agreed to work with Mr. Theil to catalogue his family papers. She was trying to be brave and independent, but he was a frightening man. Yet, as she went through his papers, a nightmare unfolded. It was a cruel story from the past...events that long ago shook a peaceful village. And the more Jean learned, the more she knew she was in mortal danger.... |
 | Werlin, Nancy. Double Helix. YA F Wer Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering. |
 | Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Boy in the Burning House. YA F Wyn 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. |