Mcteague
Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: married people, murderers, dentists, greed, san francisco (calif.), western stories, homicide [X]
Bang
High school juniors Quentin and JD engage in a robbery that turns deadly, and one of them is left to take the blame.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: robbery, murder, mystery and detective stories, theft, homicide [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, stealing
Scum
When Megan's brother Danny is killed in an apparent robbery, she wants to believe it was an accident but as she digs deeper into Danny's death, she discovers that Danny was in a lot of trouble.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: brothers and sisters, brothers, robbery, siblings, homicide [X], drug dealers, mystery fiction, theft, stealing, mystery fiction
Impact
The death of Jordan's brother two years earlier in what appeared to be a random act, has lasting effects on the entire family, especially Jordan who knows more than he is saying about the murder.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
One Of Us
On his way home from work, Derrick Shaw witnesses a murder and to save himself he promises not to reveal the identity of the killer, a former Tubman student, but the guilt of the cover-up proves to be too much for Derrick as he contemplates turning in the shooter.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: murder, guilt, schools, school stories, homicide [X], african american teenagers, crime, high school students, electronic books, electronic books
Death On The Nile
Poirot takes a vacation on a cruise on the Nile, but has an uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: private investigators, poirot, hercule (fictitious character), belgians, egypt, steamboats fiction. sears, homicide fiction. sears, mystery and detective stories. sears, mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, poirot, hercule, homicide [X], ocean travel, detective and mystery fiction
Playing In Traffic
Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: family problems, interpersonal relations, parent and child, murder, high schools, schools, family life, parent-child relationship, homicide [X], school stories, family, dysfunctional families, families
Fifth Business
The first novel of the Deptford Trilogy which centers around the mystery of who killed Boy Staunton.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: guilt, bachelors, history teachers, school principals, world war, 1914-1918, canada, mystery fiction, canadians, homicide [X]
Guilty
When Finn's stepmother is gunned down, and he learns that the gunman has also admitted to killing Finn's birth mother years before, Finn strikes up a friendship with the killer's daughter and the two search for the truth of what is going on.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
The Waking Dark
"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
Murder & Mystery
Three graphic novels containing elements of murder and mystery.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Macbeth
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about Macbeth, the eleventh-century king of Scotland, and of the tragedy of prophecy and royal murder.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
subjects: shakespeare, william, macbeth, regicides, murder, kings, queens, rulers, etc, cartoons and comics, homicide [X], scotland, graphic novels, kings and rulers, comic books, strips, etc, electronic books
The Lethal Gorilla
P.C. and Mackenzie investigate when a scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park dies from a dose of gorilla blood.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gorilla, murder, mystery and detective stories, gorillas, homicide [X], bronx (new york, n.y.)
The Murder At The Vicarage
Miss Jane Marple, a deceptively demure spinster, investigates when an unpopular magistrate and church warden is discovered shot through the head.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: marple, jane (fictitious character), women detectives, marple, jane (fictional character), mystery fiction, england, marple, jane, homicide [X], detective and mystery fiction
Loves Music, Loves To Dance
A killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, drawing his victims from among the women who answer his personal ads in New York's trendy weekly magazines.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740