Little Creeping Things
Tormented by her guilt and classmate's taunts since she accidentally set a lethal fire as a child, Cassidy is implicated in her worst bully's murder and must find the killer before someone else dies.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, best friends, friendship, brothers and sisters, high schools, schools, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], siblings, school stories, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction, criminal investigation
Premeditated Myrtle
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighbor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
FIC
year:
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminals, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], great britain, detective and mystery fiction
Peril At Owl Park
"Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with death in her small town of Torquay on the coast of England, Aggie can't wait to spend the holidays with her sister, Marjorie, the new Lady Greyson of Owl Park, an enormous manor house the country; Grannie Jane, and her fellow sleuth and partner in crime, Hector Perot.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, manors, emeralds, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], dwellings, mystery and detective stories [X], houses, criminal investigation, mystery fiction [X], england, detective and mystery fiction, homicide [X]
Good Girl, Bad Blood
Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 94
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: cold cases (criminal investigation), murder, podcasting, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], criminal investigation, homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction, teenagers, podcasts, missing persons, friendship, city and town life, young adult fiction, high school students, mystery fiction, suspense fiction
In The Study With The Wrench
"In the aftermath of Headmaster Boddy's murder, Blackbrook Academy has been thrown into complete disarray.
FIC
year:
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: high school students, private schools, school superintendents and principals, homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], maine, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, school principals, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], detective fiction
The Perfect Place To Die
Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: household employees, sisters, buildings, murder, mystery fiction [X], horror tales, pinkerton's national detective agency, world's columbian exposition, chicago (ill.), detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], horror stories, homicide [X], detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction
The Mary Shelley Club
"Scholarship student Rachel keeps to herself at Manchester Prep, preferring the company of horror films to trust fund babies.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: secret societies, boarding schools, practical jokes, homicide [X], clubs, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction), private schools, mystery fiction [X]
All These Bodies
"Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: serial murderers, murder, mystery and detective stories [X], serial killers, homicide [X], criminal investigation, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
Time Will Tell
Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged parents leading up to the crime.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminal investigation, murder, homosexuality, discrimination, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction
Sense And Second-degree Murder
Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dashwood, elinor, dashwood, marianne, murder, opium, sisters, characters and characteristics in literature, detective and mystery stories [X], characters in literature, mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], great britain, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction
Pretty Dead Queens
Not long after seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis arrives to live with her estranged grandmother in a coastal California town, the high school homecoming queen is found dead and Cecelia, fearing a copycat killer is on the loose, throws herself into the investigation.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, grandmothers, high schools, schools, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], school stories, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction
The Agathas
"Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 59
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: secrecy, murder, high schools, schools, detective and mystery stories [X], secrets, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery fiction, school fiction, homicide [X], school stories, mystery fiction [X]
Five Survive
"Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: her best friend and her older brother, his perfect girlfriend, Red's secret crush, a classmate--and a killer.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: friendship, secrecy, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], secrets, mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)
She's Gone
Accused of murdering his girlfriend, who disappeared after they were in an accident, Hunter Gifford races against time to clear his name, putting his freedom, family and life at risk, as his former best friend makes a true-crime documentary condemning him.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: traffic accidents, missing persons, high school seniors, amnesia, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction)
Nine Liars
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 48
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: criminal investigation, homicide [X], foreign study, friendship, interpersonal relations, boarding school students, mystery fiction [X], cambridge (england), england, london (england), detective and mystery fiction, school fiction, novels, cold cases (criminal investigation), murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories [X]