Sudden Prey
After a notorious woman bank robber is killed in a shoot-out with a Minneapolis police team headed by Lucas Davenport, her husband vows to avenge her death by learning the names of the cops responsible and murdering their loved ones.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: davenport, lucas (fictitious character), private investigators, davenport, lucas (fictional character), mystery fiction, minneapolis (minn.), detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
A Single Stone
In an isolated society, one girl makes a discovery that will change everything---and learns that a single stone, once set in motion, can bring down a mountain.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: belief and doubt, child labor, mines and mineral resources, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X]
Finding Mighty
"Along the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: families, graffiti, parkour, family life, dobbs ferry (n.y.), detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], east indian americans, racially mixed people, children's audiobooks, graffiti fiction, dobbs ferry (n.y.) fiction, mystery and detective stories
Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be At This Hour?
The first installment in a new mystery series by Lemony Snicket involving asking all sorts of wrong questions.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: snicket, lemony, questions and answers, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction [X]
A Properly Unhaunted Place
"In a world full of ghosts, Rosa and Jasper live in the only unhaunted town--but must spring to action when they realize the ghosts are lying in wait to take the town back"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: books and reading, haunted places, libraries, mothers and daughters, supernatural, adventure and adventurers, ghosts, ghost stories, haunted houses, mother-daughter relationship, adventure stories, detective and mystery stories [X], ghost stories, humorous stories, mystery and detective stories, adventure fiction, humorous fiction, mystery fiction [X], paranormal fiction
Super Max And The Mystery Of Thornwood's Revenge
Twelve-year-old Max is determined to investigate the connection between a hacker's online attacks of her grandfather and other town officials and suspicious activity at the supposedly haunted Thornwood Manor, even though her grandfather, who is Blue Creek's police chief, wants to keep Max and her souped-up wheelchair out of police business.
FIC
year:
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: hackers, haunted houses, robbers and outlaws, wheelchairs, criminals, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X]
Cici's Journal
"Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: child authors, honesty, mothers and daughters, truthfulness and falsehood, authors, mother-daughter relationship, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], secrecy, friendship, secrets, detective and mystery comics, graphic novels
Pinky Bloom And The Case Of The Missing Kiddush Cup
"While investigating suspicious happenings at her friend's parents' Chinese restaurant, Brooklyn's greatest detective, fourth grader Penina 'Pinky' Bloom, solves the mystery of recently stolen artifacts from the Jewish Museum"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: restaurants, sabotage, theft, jews, stealing, mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X]
The Agony House
"Seventeen-year-old Denise Farber, her mom, and her stepfather are moving back to New Orleans, into the Argonne house, which is over 150 years old, and really showing its age, but which her mother plans to turn into a bed-and-breakfast--but old houses have histories, and sometimes ghosts, and a mysterious old comic book that Denise finds in the attic may hold the answer to a crime and the terrifying things that keep happening in what she thinks of as the "Agony" house.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: murder, haunted houses, new orleans (la.), detective and mystery stories [X], ghost stories, comic books, strips, etc, comic books, strips, etc, detective and mystery stories, ghost stories, homicide, juvenile fiction / comics & graphic novels, juvenile fiction / horror, juvenile fiction / mysteries & detective stories, cartoons and comics, mystery and detective stories, ghosts, louisiana, new orleans (la), young adult fiction, detective and mystery fiction, graphic novels, comics (graphic works), mystery fiction [X], fiction, juvenile works, haunted places
Sadie
"Sadie hasn't had an easy life. Growing up on her own, she's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 78
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: speech disorders, sisters, revenge, podcasting, stuttering, podcasts, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], detective and mystery stories, mystery fiction, detective and mystery fiction
Two's A Crowd
Ten-year-old detective Moxie McCoy and her little brother Milton investigate a suspicious letter Moxie's friend Emily received that's signed with a purple squiggle.
FIC
year:
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: brothers and sisters, detectives, schools, siblings, detective and mystery stories [X], mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction [X], mystery fiction, letters, detective and mystery fiction
The Impossible Crime
In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B.
FIC
year:
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: crown jewels, theft, jewels, stealing, jewelry, detective and mystery stories [X], humorous stories, mystery and detective stories, humorous fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Extremely High Tide!
Talise finds a puzzling message in a bottle, but can she and her classmates discover what it means before a dangerously high tide engulfs all of Topsea and its endless pier?.
FIC
year:
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boats and boating, friendship, tides, detective and mystery stories [X], humorous stories, mystery and detective stories, humorous fiction, mystery fiction [X]
The Plotters
Reseng is an assassin, and behind every assassination, there is an anonymous mastermind--a plotter--working in the shadows.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: conspiracies, assassination, assassins, seoul (korea), mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery stories [X]
Following
Amateur investigator Alden Ross thinks he witnessed a murder, but when the victim shows up alive, he must figure out what he could have seen and what the school's most popular couple is hiding.
FIC
year:
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: homicide, high school students, detectives, murder, mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories, detective and mystery stories [X]