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 [X], mystery and detective stories [X], serial killers, trailer parks, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, homicide, electronic books, electronic books
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 [X]
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 [X]
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 [X], 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 [X]
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 [X], 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 [X], thrillers (fiction), school fiction