Blood Wounds
Willa's life as part of a loving, blended family is torn apart when her estranged father kills his new wife and children and heads east in pursuit of her and her mother, and while in police protection, Willa learns her mom has been harboring secrets, and tries to decide whether to share a devastating secret of her own.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: murder [X], families, stepfamilies, cutting (self-mutilation), self-mutilation, secrecy [X], family life, homicide
Jasper Jones
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: interpersonal relations, secrets, murder [X], family problems, recluses, australia, secrecy [X], homicide, hermits, detective and mystery stories, dysfunctional families, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, mystery fiction
The Space Between Trees
When the body of one of her classmates is discovered in the woods, sixteen-year-old Evie's lies wind up involving her with the girl's best friend in an attempt to track down the killer.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: homicide, secrecy [X], high schools, coming of age, murder [X], secrets, schools, school stories, bildungsromans
Torn
After witnessing her best friend's murder, Mo Fitzgerald discovers Verity was hiding things she never could have guessed; to find the answers she needs and the vengeance she craves, Mo enters a world of raw magic and shifting alliances.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Dead Girls Don't Lie
Jaycee and Rachel were best friends until a terrible night when their friendship faltered and Rachel was found dead, but her last text message starts Jaycee on a search that may prove Rachel's death was no random crime.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, juvenile fiction / love & romance, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, juvenile fiction / social issues / emigration & immigration, murder [X], secrecy [X], best friends, friendship, dating (social customs), washington (state)
The Silence Of Bonaventure Arrow
Bonaventure Arrow, who was born with exceptional hearing but doesn't speak, with the help of his Creole housekeeper is able to help his mother, Dancy, who is haunted by the death of her husband, his Grand-mere Letice, plagued by grief and a buried secret, and his father, William, whose spirit is trying to fix the past.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families, murder [X], silence, new orleans (la.), large print books, homocide, voodooism, secrecy [X], listening, louisiana
Little Wolves
Intertwining stories in small-town America in the 1980's feature a man searching for answers after his son commits a crime and a pastor's wife who has returned to the town for mysterious reasons of her own.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy [X], homicide, father-son relationship, minnesota, fathers and sons, murder [X], spouses of clergy, family secrets, large type books
Vicious
On trial for murdering an actually still-alive Alison DiLaurentis, only Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna know they have been framed and resolve to beat Ali at her own game.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Damage Done
"Julia Vann has a new identity after being forced to leave town because of her twin brother's terrible crime.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
Becoming Darkness
Toward the end of World War II Hitler unleashed the Gomorrah virus, which wiped out most of humanity and turned the rest into vampires, except for those who, like seventeen-year-old Sophie Harkness, who carry a genetic mutation that makes them immune--but when her best friend is murdered and attempts are made on her life, Sophie sets out to discover the dark secrets that lie at the heart of Haven, the last refuge of the Immunes.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
See How They Run
Grace Blakely believed that finding the truth about her mother's murder would finally give her peace, but now she knows that it is only the beginning of the secrets that will dominate her life--and make her a target on Embassy Row in Adria.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 37
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: murder [X], assassination, secret societies, diplomatic and consular service, american, secrecy [X], secrets, homicide, american diplomatic and consular service, action and adventure fiction
Mycroft Holmes
When his fianc?e abruptly departs for Trinidad after hearing disturbing news, Mycroft Holmes and his best friend Cyrus Douglas follow and find themselves drawn in to a treacherous investigation.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Cross Justice
"When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cross, alex (fictitious character), police, homicide, north carolina, african american detectives, secrets, murder [X], mystery fiction, suspense fiction, secrecy [X]