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, horror stories, homicide, detective and mystery fiction [X], horror fiction
All That's Bright And Gone
Six-year-old Aoife doesn't understand what happened to her big brother Theo and why her mama is in the hospital.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: girls, child detectives, families, brothers, murder, family secrets, mentally ill parents, loss (psychology), detective and mystery stories [X], family life, homicide, criminal investigation, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], domestic fiction
Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize
"Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times, Lucy retaliates.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: teenage girls, private schools, eccentrics and eccentricities, stalkers, attempted homicide, mystery fiction [X], manhattan (new york, n.y.), detective and mystery fiction [X], boarding schools, attempted murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories
Aven Green, Sleuthing Machine
Third grader Aven Green, who was born without arms but believes that her missing arm cells went to her super-powered brain, tries to solve two cases involving her teacher's missing lunch and the disappearance of her great-grandmother's dog.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: people with disabilities, lost articles, schools, detective and mystery stories [X], humorous stories, lost and found possessions, mystery and detective stories, school stories, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], humorous fiction
Sky Private Eye And The Case Of The Sparkly Slipper
"The Prince is stunned. Just as the clock struck midnight, the winner of the best costume competition at his ball vanished into thin air! All she left behind was a sparkly slipper.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: footwear, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, shoes, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], fairy tales, picture books
Lies Like Wildfire
When Hannah and her best friends accidentally spark an enormous and deadly wildfire, their instinct is to lie, but as the blaze roars through their rural town, Hannah's friends begin to crack and one ends up missing.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: friendship, wildfires, missing persons, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], best friends, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective fiction, mystery fiction
The Haunted Mustache
Fifth-graders Parker and Lucas get more than they bargained for when they seek to debunk one of Wolver Hollow's greatest legends about a haunted mustache that, every year on the anniversary of its owner's death, seeks a lip to claim as its own.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mustaches, horror tales, detective and mystery stories [X], humorous stories, horror stories, mystery and detective stories, horror fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X], humorous fiction, mystery fiction [X]
What Lives In The Woods
Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives nearby.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: haunted houses, siblings, friendship, mystery fiction [X], ghost stories, thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction [X], brothers and sisters, detective and mystery stories [X], ghosts, mystery and detective stories, ghost stories
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, clubs, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], 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, serial killers, homicide, criminal investigation, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
The Interplanetary Expedition Of Mars Patel
"Six months ago, Mars Patel boarded a spaceship to travel to Oliver Pruitt's colony on the planet Mars, and now he's finally there.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mars (planet), space colonies, friendship, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], science fiction, 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, homicide, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X]
I Hope You're Listening
Seventeen-year-old Dee secretly hosts a popular true-crime podcast but when a missing child seems linked to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, she considers revealing her identity to uncover the truth.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing children, kidnapping, podcasts, identity (philosophical concept), lesbians, detective and mystery stories [X], identity, mystery and detective stories, sound, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X]
All The Pretty Things
Ivy's best friend is traumatized by finding the dead body of a young man but as Ivy seeks answers, she learns that her small New Hamshire town hides many secrets.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: friendship, death, secrecy, amusement parks, families, detective and mystery stories [X], secrets, family life, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], new hampshire, detective and mystery fiction [X]
[the Silver Mystery]
Outside Valleby's church, an extensive excavation is underway. For two weeks archaeologist Sofia Winge and her assistant Waldorf Eriksson have been digging feverishly to see if there is anything valuable hidden in the ground.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: excavation, treasure troves, detective and mystery stories [X], buried treasure, mystery and detective stories, arabic language materials, mystery fiction [X], arabic language, detective and mystery fiction [X]