The Perfect Place To Die
Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: household employees, sisters, buildings, murder, mystery fiction, horror tales, pinkerton's national detective agency, world's columbian exposition, chicago (ill.) [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery and detective stories, horror stories, homicide [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], horror fiction
Curious Toys
"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: darger, henry, women detectives, gangs, amusement parks, homicide [X], criminal investigation, murderers, riverview amusement park (chicago, ill.), chicago (ill.) [X], historical fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X]
Hollow Fires
School newspaper editor Safiya Mirza's dreams of becoming a journalist get a grim start when she is the first person to discover the body of the murdered boy, Jawad Ali--the fourteen-year-old Muslim boy who created a costume jet pack, which got mistaken for a bomb, which led him to be labeled a terrorist, and which finally led a group of white supremacists to murder him.
FIC
year:
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hate crimes, homicide [X], reporters and reporting, muslims, ghost stories, white supremacy movements, mystery fiction, chicago (ill.) [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction
Blackmail And Bibingka
"When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can't be far behind.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wineries, beauty contests, filipino americans, family-owned business enterprises, aunts, murder, detective and mystery stories, homicide [X], mystery fiction, asian-pacific islanders, chicago (ill.) [X], detective and mystery fiction [X]