Confessions
Reed Brennan is sure her boyfriend, Josh Hollis, is not responsible for her ex-boyfriend Thomas Pearson's death and vows to find a way to clear Josh's name and track down the real killer.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Ingenue
Unaware that a hired killer has followed them from Chicago, three eighteen-year-old flappers relocate to separate sections of New York City where their lives still revolve around speakeasies and rich boyfriends.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: historical fiction, prohibition, murder [X], nineteen twenties, social classes, homicide [X], new york (n.y.)
Monstrous Beauty
In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: mermaids, murder [X], ghosts, supernatural, massachusetts, homicide [X], mermaids and mermen
Velveteen
Velveteen, who was murdered at sixteen, has difficulty adjusting to her current existence in purgatory, preferring to plot revenge against her killer, which could have dire consequences for purgatory and for her.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: juvenile fiction / social issues / death & dying, juvenile fiction / horror & ghost stories, juvenile fiction / love & romance, murder [X], serial murderers, serial killers, homicide [X], future life
Confessions
Teenage detective Tandy Angel attempts to exonerate her famous brother of murder charges, track down a New York City killer, and figure out what happened to her lost love.
FIC
year:
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: brothers and sisters, families, murder [X], mystery fiction, love stories, homicide [X], family life, siblings, new york (n.y.)
The Investigation Of Murder
Takes a hypothetical case as a starting point from which factual information is given on the investigation of murder.
363.2
year: 1996
copies: 1
call number/section: 363.2
lexile:
Dead Is Just A Dream
Paranormal warrior Jessica Walsh enlists the help of her psychic neighbor, Daisy Giordano, to help discover who or what is causing Nightshade, California, residents to die in their sleep with horrified looks on their faces.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: supernatural, nightmares, homicide [X], psychics, high schools, paranormal fiction, murder [X], psychic ability, schools, interpersonal relations, electronic books
Murphy's Stand
After Midge's death, Al Murphy wandered around for years, a hollowed-out man who had turned to alcohol until it started to eat away his stomach, the same way grief had eaten away his heart.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Out Of Order
Twenty-seven-year-old Jason Talley impulsively decides to travel to India to pay homage to his friends Sriram and Vidya who have died in what police are calling a murder/suicide, and to deliver a scarf Sriram had purchased for his mother, but Jason soon learns that Sriram had a secret life that apparently got him killed, and is now endangering Jason.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction, adventure fiction, india, railroad travel, americans
Relative Danger
After being fired, Doug Pearce travels to Toronto to try and learn more about the life of his Uncle Russ, the family black sheep, and to uncover the truth behind his uncle's murder, a search which leads him on a long adventure through the Middle East and Singapore.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: young men, murder [X], homicide [X], adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, middle east, singapore, toronto (ont.), mystery fiction
Dead Until Dark
Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: vampires, stackhouse, sookie (fictitious character), waitresses, stackhouse, sookie (fictional character), telepathy, louisiana, murder [X], homicide [X]
Best Girl
Amanda Moss always knew she was adopted, but it wasn't until a friend of her birth mother called her and told Amanda her mother just died from cancer, Amanda sets out to learn the truth about her biological parents.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 400
Real World
Four teenage girls living in the suburbs of Tokyo, Toshi, Terauchi, Yuzan, and Kirarin, are doing their best to focus on summer school classes, in preparation for college, but when Toshi's neighbor is found murdered the girls suspect his son, a high school classmate they nicknamed "Worm.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Death Comes As The End
Discord entered the house of the ka-priest Imhotep with Nofret, the beautiful young concubine from the kingdom of the North.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
Me & Emma
Carrie Parker, an imaginative eight-year-old, struggles to make the best of things for herself and her sister Emma after their father is murdered, and their mother marries an abusive drunk, but one particular act of cruelty pushes Carrie beyond what she can endure.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, murder [X], cruelty, homicide [X], family violence, child abuse, domestic violence, north carolina