Ordinary Grace
Thirteen-year-old Frank Drum is living with his family in New Bremen, Minnesota, in the summer 1961, when tragedy strikes hard and frequently and Frank is thrust into an adult world of secrets, lies, and betrayal.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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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, serial killers, trailer parks, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories, homicide, electronic books, electronic books
Arf
Birdie Gaux's dog, Bowser, considers himself in charge of security at 19 Gentilly Lane, so when the house is broken into Bowser wants to find the man with the limeade aftershave (and the cat) responsible--but nobody seems to know what the culprits were looking for, or why a strange girl is asking questions about Birdie's father, a policeman who was killed in the line of duty years before Bowser was adopted.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mutts (dogs), dogs, theft, families [X], murder [X], stealing, family life, detective and mystery fiction [X]
No Saints In Kansas
In Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 the Clutter family is murdered and Carly Fleming, recently arrived from New York, inserts herself into the investigation, along with New Yorker writer Truman Capote.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: capote, truman, lee, harper, murder [X], criminal investigation, high schools, schools, families [X], family life, kansas, detective and mystery fiction [X], homicide
Firekeeper's Daughter
Strong Ojibwe women are like the ride, reminding us of forces too powerful to control.
FIC
year: 2023
copies: 95
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: crime, drugs, undercover operations, families [X], racially mixed people, ojibwa indians, indians of north america, family life, criminal investigation, native americans, michigan, thrillers (fiction), mystery fiction, large print books, detective and mystery fiction [X], witnesses, murder [X], deception, caregivers, young adult fiction, fiction, juvenile works, young adult works
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 [X], brothers, murder [X], family secrets, mentally ill parents, loss (psychology), detective and mystery stories, family life, homicide, criminal investigation, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X], domestic fiction
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, detective and mystery fiction [X]
Iced In Paradise
"Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], families [X], family-owned business enterprises, man-woman relationships, detective and mystery stories, kauai (hawaii), seattle (wash.), detective and mystery fiction [X]
Under Lock & Skeleton Key
"After an accident derails Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home and begins working for her father's company.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], east indian americans, actresses, families [X], blessing and cursing, family-owned business enterprises, novels, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, detective and mystery fiction [X], thrillers (fiction), school fiction