The Case Of The Missing Moonstone
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: shelley, mary wollstonecraft, lovelace, ada king, mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction, challenges, london (england), great britain, detective and mystery stories [X], detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X], biographical fiction
The Charmed Children Of Rookskill Castle
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: magic, secrecy, castles, brothers and sisters, world war, 1939-1945, scotland, secrets, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X], children?s audiobooks, detective and mystery stories [X], audiobooks, mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, siblings
The Edge Of Lost
On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: immigrants, prisoners, fiction / historical, inmate guards, missing children, prisons, ireland, new york (state), san francisco bay area (calif.), california, united states penitentiary, alcatraz island, california, detective and mystery fiction [X], fiction, historical fiction [X], mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X]
How I Became A Spy
"Bertie Bradshaw never set out to become a spy. He never imagined traipsing around war-torn London, solving ciphers, practicing surveillance, and searching for a traitor to the Allied forces.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, friendship, london (england), historical fiction [X], cryptologic fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X], spy fiction, code and cipher stories, detective and mystery stories [X], spy stories, mystery and detective stories, war fiction
El Caso Del Marqu?s Desaparecido
Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: missing persons, mothers, mystery fiction, mystery and detective stories, spanish language materials, london (england), great britain, detective and mystery fiction [X], holmes, enola (fictitious character), detective and mystery stories [X], historical fiction [X]
The Vanishing Half
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: twins, sisters, african american women, identity (philosophical concept), detective and mystery stories [X], identity (psychology), mystery fiction, united states, historical fiction [X], domestic fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X]
The Case Of The Missing Marquess
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: mothers, missing persons, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, london (england), historical fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X]
The Winter Soldier
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: world war, 1914-1918, historical fiction, man-woman relationships, detective and mystery stories [X], romance fiction, fiction / literary, fiction / historical, fiction / war & military, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]
Lingering Echoes
"In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in October 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: Bone can see the history of a significant object when she touches it.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: psychic ability, glass jars, detective and mystery stories [X], supernatural, mystery and detective stories, virginia, paranormal fiction, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]
The Truce
"In a southern Virginia coal-mining town in December 1942, Bone Phillips is learning to control her Gift: seeing the history of a significant object when she touches it.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: families, detective and mystery stories [X], family life, supernatural, mystery and detective stories, virginia, paranormal fiction, historical fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction [X]
The Hummingbird Dagger
"1833. A near-fatal carriage accident has deposited an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of Hardwick Manor and into the care of young Lord James Ellerby.
FIC
year: 2019
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity (philosophical concept), memory, nightmares, murder, historical fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]
All These Bodies
"Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: serial murderers, murder, mystery and detective stories, serial killers, homicide, criminal investigation, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction
Deadly Curious
"1834. Sophia Thompson wants nothing more than to be one of the famed Bow Street Runners, London's most elite corps of detectives.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: women detectives, murder, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, london (england), detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]
The House On Vesper Sands
"London, 1893: high up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: secrecy, nobility, missing persons, detective and mystery stories [X], london (england), detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]
Sense And Second-degree Murder
Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.
FIC
year:
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: dashwood, elinor, dashwood, marianne, murder, opium, sisters, characters and characteristics in literature, detective and mystery stories [X], characters in literature, mystery and detective stories, homicide, mystery fiction, great britain, detective and mystery fiction [X], historical fiction [X]