Nearly Found
High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families [X], high schools, trailer camps, crime laboratories, criminal investigation, serial murderers, murder [X], family life, detective and mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories [X], serial killers, trailer parks, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, homicide, electronic books, electronic books
The Private School Murders
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: 2013
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mystery and detective stories [X], brothers and sisters, families [X], murder [X], love, new york (n.y.), mystery fiction, love stories
Wreck At Ada's Reef
Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch inherits a house on Swallowtail Island in Lake Erie, where she untangles a decades-old mystery and saves the island from unscrupulous developers.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: inheritance and succession, islands, murder [X], families [X], detective and mystery stories, family life, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery fiction
The Swifts
When someone gives Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude a deadly push down the stairs during the Swift Family Reunion, Shenanigan Swift, who has a penchant for mischief, decides to become a detective and solve this mysterious case.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: murder [X], families [X], family reunions, detective and mystery stories, family life, mystery and detective stories [X], homicide, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Where He Can't Find You
"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing persons, families [X], murder [X], detective and mystery stories, horror tales, family life, mystery and detective stories [X], horror stories, detective and mystery fiction, horror fiction
Hatchet Girls
In Fall River, Massachusetts, home to New England's infamous Bridgewater Triangle, Tessa must prove her brother innocent of murdering his girlfriend's parents with an axe, a mystery that proves all too close to the Lizzie Borden murders one hundred years earlier.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: murder [X], siblings, families [X], secrecy, detective and mystery stories, family life, secrets, mystery and detective stories [X], fall river (mass.), detective and mystery fiction
The Swifts
The second book in the New York Times-bestselling series - a gleeful gothic mystery perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Robin Stevens.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: families [X], private investigators, art thefts, mystery, family reunions, detective and mystery stories, murder [X], family life, humorous fiction, mystery and detective stories [X], homicide, robbers and outlaws, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction, paris (france)
Tender Beasts
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], siblings, secrecy, families [X], african americans, private schools, schools, detective and mystery stories, secrets, family life, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery fiction, thrillers (fiction), school fiction