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 [X], 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 [X], schools, school stories, bildungsromans
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
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 [X], homicide, american diplomatic and consular service, action and adventure fiction
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 [X], murder [X], mystery fiction, suspense fiction, secrecy [X]
The May Queen Murders
When her beloved cousin goes missing after a May Day celebration, sixteen-year-old Ivy discovers that both her cousin and her hometown in the Missouri Ozarks are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
The Darkest Corners
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: detective and mystery stories, sisters, friendship, secrecy [X], murder [X], pennsylvania, youths' writings, secrets [X], serial murderers, serial killers, homicide, electronic books, detective and mystery fiction, electronic books
The Girl In The Picture
When a popular high school boy is found murdered, everyone is surprised he carried pictures of himself with Nicole Morgan, a shy "music geek" no one knew was close to him.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: disfigured persons, high schools, murder [X], schools, secrets [X], secrecy [X], homicide, school stories, detective and mystery fiction
People Like Us
"When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year:
copies: 45
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], boarding schools, schools, secrecy [X], treasure hunt (game), secrets [X], psychological fiction, thrillers (fiction), detective and mystery fiction
Girl At The Grave
"[In 1849] As a child, Valentine saw her mother murder the wealthiest man in their Connecticut town and then hang at the gallows.
FIC
year:
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: cemeteries, homicide, secrecy [X], connecticut, historical fiction, murder [X], secrets [X]
Killing November
"November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that's completely off the grid, there's no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: boarding schools, secrecy [X], assassins, spy stories, teenagers, murder [X], secrets [X], spy fiction, thrillers (fiction)
Wild And Crooked
Kalyn, living under a pseudonym, and Gus, who has cerebral palsy, get caught in an uproar in Samsboro, Kentucky as the truth about the brutal murder of Gus's father by Kalyn's comes to light.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: murder [X], secrecy [X], friendship, cerebral palsy, people with disabilities, city and town life, secrets [X], kentucky
Creep
"Teenager Olivia Danvers knows that the previous residents at 16 Olcott Place moved out in the middle of the night, but nobody really knows why; the new family, the Donahues, have three children including a daughter, Janie, Olivia's age, and the two become close friends--but when the threatening letters start arriving from the 'Sentry of Glennon Heights' the two girls realize that the house and town are hiding sinister secrets, which could tear their whole world apart"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: threats of violence, secrecy [X], murder [X], neighbors, best friends, detective and mystery stories, secrets [X], friendship, mystery and detective stories, homicide, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Midnight At The Barclay Hotel
"Five murder suspects are invited to the haunted Barclay Hotel for a weekend getaway, and it is up to twelve-year-old JJ and eleven-year-old Penny--and a lonely ghost--to figure out who committed the crime"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: detectives, ghost stories, hotels, murder [X], mystery fiction, secrecy [X], ghosts, hotels, motels, etc, mystery and detective stories, secrets [X], homicide, hotels and motels, detective and mystery fiction, ghost stories, criminal investigation, paranormal fiction
Hunting November
"After surviving a crash course in espionage at the mysterious Academy Absconditi, November has only one purpose: finding her missing father.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: boarding schools, secrecy [X], assassins, spy stories, teenagers, murder [X], secrets [X], private schools, homicide, spy fiction, thrillers (fiction)