Defending Jacob
Assistant district attorney Andy Barber is shocked when his fourteen-year-old son Jacob is accused of murdering a fellow student.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide [X], legal stories, massachusetts [X], public prosecutors, criminal investigation, mystery fiction
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, ghosts, supernatural, massachusetts [X], homicide [X], mermaids and mermen
The Year Of The Gadfly
A budding teen journalist and her enigmatic science teacher separately work to locate and infiltrate a secret society that threatens their elite prep school with a shady tragedy from the past, an event that challenges the student's allegiances.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hallucinations and illusions, journalists, adolescence, homicide [X], kidnapping, massachusetts [X]
Secrets And Lies
In Echo Bay, Massachusetts, a beach town haunted by misfortune, Tenley Reed, Sydney Morgan, and Emerson Cunningham come together to investigate a murder, while old mysteries resurface and new dares appear.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Family Of Liars
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
FIC
year:
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sisters, drug abuse, secrecy, murder, wealth, ghosts, secrets, homicide [X], massachusetts [X]
Family Of Liars
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: drug abuse, ghost stories, murder, secrecy, sisters, wealth, ghosts, secrets, homicide [X], massachusetts [X], domestic fiction, ghost stories
The House In The Pines
"Maya was a high school senior when her best friend Aubrey mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man, Frank, they'd been hanging around with all summer.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder, best friends, memory, cold cases (criminal investigation), psychic trauma, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], friendship, criminal investigation, mystery fiction, massachusetts [X], thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction, psychological fiction