Close To A Killer
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: murder [X], mothers and daughters, mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mother-daughter relationship
The Diviners
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: psychic ability, occultism, uncles, murder [X], new york (n.y.), paranormal fiction, mystery and detective stories, new york (ny), psychic ability, homicide [X], mystery and detective stories
Notes From Ghost Town
Olivia Tithe, a sixteen-year-old self-styled artist, struggles to keep her sanity as she unravels the clues left by the ghost of her first love to figure out how he died.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: death, schizophrenia, murder [X], remarriage, love, love stories, ghost stories, homicide [X]
Helter Skelter
Recounts the story of the murder of seven people in Los Angeles in 1969 and the trial and conviction of the Manson "family" for the murders.
364.1
year: 1995
copies: 26
call number/section: 364.1
lexile:
subjects: manson, charles, murder [X], trials (murder), trials (homicide), homicide [X], manson, charles, 1934-
Magic Can Be Murder
Nola and her mother have unusual abilities that have always set them apart from others, but when Nola sees a murder using her power to call up images using water and a person's hair, she finds herself in the worst danger ever.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: witchcraft, murder [X], homicide [X], mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, occult fiction, paranormal fiction
Secret, Silent Screams
A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
Whispers From The Dead
After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
The S?ance
Lauren's misgivings about participating in a seance turn to real fear when two of the girls who participated in the event are murdered.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, seances, texas, east, texas, murder [X], homicide [X]
The Executioner
Three survivors of an automobile crash in which the driver was killed are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.
FIC
year: 1982
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
Evil Under The Sun
Poirot vacations at the picturesque Jolly Roger Hotel, situated on an island, and finds that at least one of the guests is a cunning murderer.
FIC
year: 1991
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: poirot, hercule (fictitious character), murder [X], poirot, hercule (fictional character), homicide [X], mystery fiction
Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered her husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera Donovan.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1150
Wanted!
Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver's license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: fathers and daughters, murder [X], horror stories, father-daughter relationship, homicide [X], mystery fiction
The Name Of The Game Was Murder
When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: large type books, mystery and detective stories, murder [X], authors, mystery fiction, mystery fiction, homicide [X]
Many Stones
After her sister Laura is murdered in South Africa, Berry and her estranged father travel there to participate in the dedication of a memorial in her name.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: murder [X], death, fathers and daughters, family life, homicide [X], south africa, families, father-daughter relationship
The Boy In The Burning House
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.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: murder [X], mystery and detective stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, canada, large type books