Good Reads

The following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved by the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR .

FICTION

Abrahams, Peter. Down the rabbit hole: an Echo Falls mystery.
Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.

________. Behind the curtain: an Echo Falls mystery.
An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.

Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
In search for a missing cat, detective Dirk Gently uncovers a ghost, a time-traveler, and the devastating secret of humankind.

_________. Long dark tea-time of the soul.
When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God.  But which god, wonders holistic detective Dirk Gently?  What god would be hanging around Heathrow trying to catch the 3:37 to Oslo?

Akunin, B. Murder on the Leviathan: a novel.
A grizzly murder occurs on the rue de Grenelle and a priceless Indian shawl is missing and police commissioner "Papa" Gauche teams up with the celebrated detective Erast Fandorin aboard the steamship "Leviathan" to investigate which of the ten suspects is the killer.

Alcorn, Randy. Deadline: a novel
When tragedy strikes those closest to him, an award-winning journalist struggles to unravel the mystery behind a murder investigation, as well as the mystery of life.

(Mason, Lynn) ALIAS series. Recruited.
This prequel is the first in a new series based on the smash ABC show Alias. It's Sydney's life before she discovers she's working for the bad guys, juxtaposing normal college life against her fabulous exploits as a working spy.

Anderson, Janet. The last treasure.
Thirteen-year-old Ellsworth leaves his father to visit the relatives he has never met and eventually joins forces with Jess, his distant cousin, to uncover family secrets and search for their ancestor's hidden treasure.

Armstrong, Jennifer. The kiln.
After a virus destroys most of the world's adult population, a band of children travels in search of an explanation for the dark mystery that forms the heart of their existence.

Asai, Carrie. Samuri girl: book of the sword.
Nineteen-year-old Heaven Kogo, the sole survivor of a plane crash when she was just an infant, has been raised in luxury as the adopted daughter of a Japanese crime boss, but her life takes a drastic change when her wedding is interrupted by a ninja attack, leading her to train to become a samurai and learn the truth about her past.

Asimov, Isaac. Naked sun.
On the beautiful planet of Solaria, New York detective Elijah Bailey and his robot partner attempt to solve an incredible murder.

Avi. Wolf rider.
After receiving an apparant crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, 15-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

Balliett, Blue and Helquist, Brett. Chasing Vermeer.
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Bannister, Jo. Shards.
British reporter Gil Todd and photojournalist Mickey Flynn are inseparable partners.  Their relationship is threatened when Flynn is shot while covering a demonstration in Holland.  Refusing to accept that his career may be over, Flynn agrees to do what may be his final shoot, the photographing of a terrorist training camp run by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Barr, Nevada. A Superior death.
Park ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royal National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan.  She finds herself in the lake searching for a connection between a drowned man and a sunken cargo ship.

Bebris, Carrie and Austen, Jane. Pride and prescience, or, A truth universally acknowledged: a Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery
Mr. and Mrs. Darcy, the newlyweds from "Pride and Prejudice," try to get to the bottom of an apparent plot to destroy the lovely Caroline Bingley, who is engaged to marry a wealthy American, and her entire family.

Bedard, Michael. Stained glass.
Charles Endicott hides out at St. Bart's Church to avoid his piano lesson, but his life is turned upside down when a homeless girl is trapped by a falling stained glass window and he is blamed for the accident.

Belfer, Lauren. City of light
Louisa Barrett, headmistress of the Macaulay School for Girls in 1901 Buffalo, New York, feels secure in her position at the school and in the community until a mysterious death at the hydro-electric power development at nearby Niagara Falls forces her to return to a past she had struggled to conceal.

Bell, Hilari. A matter of profit
Sick of the horrors of conquering beings on other planets, Ahvrem will end his service as a soldier and save his sister from an unhappy marriage if he can discover who is behind a rumored plot to assassinate the Emperor.

Bennett, Jay. Coverup
A young man risks his friendship and future to try to find out the truth about a car accident which he only vaguely remembers after drinking too much at a party.

_______. Dark corridor
At the end of a summer disrupted by three teenage suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend Alicia apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts.

_______. Sing me a death song
Jason can't believe his mother, Marian, is going to be executed for murder.  A tip from a dying ex-policeman sends him racing against time for the proof he needs to save his mother.

_______. Deathman, do not follow me
Teenager Danny Morgan is the only one who knows that the multimillion dollar Van Gogh painting at the Museum has been stolen.  The only one, that is, besides the ones that stole it.  Now Danny's life is all that stands between them and a fortune.

_______. Hooded man.
It was Cory's turn to die.  And Cory knew it would be soon.  He'd already seen the hooded man from his bedroom window, looking up, ready to strike, a grisly but familiar figure ever since his best friend, Fred, was killed in a tragic accident.

Benjamin, Carol Lea. Lady vanishes: a Rachel Alexander and Dash mystery
The disappearance of a beloved "therapy dog" and the suspicious death of her owner puts the lives of investigator Rachel Alexander and her pit bull Dash in jeopardy as they seek answers and justice.

Binchy, Maeve. The glass lake.
A novel of a mother's secret and a daughter's courage, and their relationship that neither deceit nor death can destroy.

Boyd, Donna. The awakening
Paul and Penny Mason and their teenage daughter Elsie become caught up in a frightening mystery when they go to their family lake house for the summer in an effort to patch up their marriage and help Elsie recover from a past trauma, and find the once idyllic home is being haunted by a woman who needs their help to move on.

Brooks, Kevin. Kissing the rain
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.

Broach, Elise. Desert crossing
A summer trip across the New Mexico desert turns nightmarish for fourteen-year-old Lucy, her older brother Jamie, and his best friend Kit, as they become involved in the suspicious death of a young girl.

Brooks, Bill. Law for hire: protecting Hickok
In this first blazing installment in an all-new western adventure series, novice Pinkerton private detective Teddy Blue must protect legendary pistoleer Wild Bill Hickok.

Buckley, Fiona. A pawn for a queen: an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court.
Ursula Blanchard, secret agent for Queen Elizabeth I, arrives in Edinburgh and discovers that her cousin has been murdered while carrying a secret list of families loyal to Elizabeth's rival.

Burcell, Robin. Deadly legacy
San Francisco P.D. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie's investigation into a bizarre apparent murder/suicide is threatening to careen out of control.

Burke, Morgan. After hours.
One night Samantha Byrne leaves the Party Room with a guy no one's seen before and ends up dead in Central Park. A tie from Talcott Prep.  found at the murder scene leads police to suspect a serial killer is at work.

Cabot, Meg (MEDIATOR series). Ninth key.
Everything is going great for Suze. Her new life in California is a whirlwind of parties and excellent hair days. Tad Beaumont, the hottest boy in town, has even asked Suze out on her very first date. Suze is so excited that she's willing to ignore her misgivings about Tad-particularly the fact that he's not Jesse, whose ghostly status-not to mention apparent disinterest in her-make him unattainable. What Suze can't ignore, however, is the ghost of a murdered woman whose death seems directly connected to dark secrets hidden in none other than Tad Beaumont's past.

Caldwell, Ian and Thomason, Dustin. The rule of four
Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris are determined to unlock the centuries old mystery behind an ancient Renaissance text before their graduation from Princeton, but just as they are about to discover its secrets, the campus is rocked with a series of suspicious deaths.

Card, Orson Scott. Speaker for the dead.
As a sequel to "Ender's Game", when a second alien race is discovered and humans are dying, Ender Wiggin must solve the mystery.

Carroll, Jenny. Code name Cassandra.
Jess Mastriani's psychic ability to find missing children is more of a bother than a gift, and her attempts to locate a missing girl is hindered the by the government's attempts to take her into custody to study her powers.

Carroll, Jenny. Sanctuary.
Sixteen-year-old Jessica Mastriani joins forces with the U.S. government to find a boy who was reportedly taken by a backwoods militia group.

Carr, Caleb. The Italian secretary: a further adventure of Sherlock Holmes.
Detective Sherlock Holmes, his brother Mycroft, and his assistant Dr. Watson investigate the murders of an architect and his foreman who were about to start renovation of a wing of the Royal Palace in Edinburgh. The victims' deaths remind Holmes of the murder three centuries before of the music teacher of Mary, Queen of Scots. Holmes considers whether the murders may be the work of the teacher's vengeful spirit or of conspirators against the current queen.

Chamberlain, Diane. The courage tree.
Janine finds herself in the midst of a mother's worst nightmare when her eight-year-old daughter Sophie, a child who suffers from kidney disease, disappears in the woods of West Virginia while on a scouting trip.

Chlovechok, James D. Game face
Game Face is the name of a secret performance-enhancing drug.  It provices something that no other chemical can:  a mental edge.  But what if people start dropping dead?

Christie, Agatha. And then there were none.
Ten bodies are found by Scotland Yard inspectors on a deserted island with no way for a murderer to escape.

Clark, Mary Higgins. Before I say good-bye.
After the violent death of her husband, Nell MacDermott is asked to reconsider running for her grandfather's seat in the New York state senate, but she is constantly troubled by nightmares.

Coben, Harlan. Tell no one
Eight years after the disappearance of his wife--presumed dead--Dr. David Beck receives an email message containing hints that Elizabeth is alive, prompting him to leave everyone he knows and trusts to chase after that possibility.  Little does he know he is being hunted.

Collins, Wilkie. The moonstone.
English police Sergeant Cuff tries to locate a fabulous diamond that might have been stolen by a group of Hindus who regard it as a sacred stone.

Collins, Max (CSI). Grave matters.
Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas  businessman hounds Captain Brass to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death.

Collins, Kate. Mum's the word.
As the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, Abby Knight finds herself struggling when a new low-cost competitor moves in.

Colfer, Eoin. Half-Moon investigations
Twleve-year-old private investigator Fletcher Moon, nicknamed "Half Moon" because of his shortness, must track down a conspiracy or be framed for a crime he did not commit.

Coman, Carolyn. Tell me everything
Twelve-year-old Roz is struggling to understand the details of her mother's death by finding the boy her mother rescued.

Connelly, Michael. Lost light
Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch, working as a private investigator, becomes mired in a case linked with the cops, FBI, and an international terrorist when he decides to pursue the unsolved murder of a young Hollywood production assistant which was put on the back burner when the theft of an armored car days later took center stage.

Cook, Robin. Vector.
A disgruntled Russian emigre' is poised to lash out at America with the ultimate terror:  a modern bioweapon.  But he must test it first.

Cooney, Caroline B. Wanted!
Alice hears over the radio that her father has been murdered and that she has confessed to the crime.

_____. Out of time.
Annie Lockwood must choose between her family or Strat, the boy she loves in the 19th century.  The companion to "Both sides of time".

Cornwell, Patricia. Black notice.
Medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is on the trail of a killer, a trail which will take her to the "city of lights."

Cormier, Robert. The rag and bone shop
Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.

Cornwell, Bernard. Gallows thief.
A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, Rider Sandman accepts the job of government Investigator in order to survive but finds himself in trouble when his first case pits him against powerful people who wish to see an innocent man hung.

Cortez, Donn (CSI: MIAMI). Riptide.
Horatio and Delko examine the badly damaged body of a woman that has washed ashore. During the autopsy it is determined the evidence seems to have been faked, then other bodies begin to turn up with similar injuries.

Crichton, Michael. Congo.
Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes.

Cross, Gillian. Phoning a dead man.
When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancée Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.

Cross, Amanda. The edge of doom.
English professor and sleuth Kate Fansler encounters an unsolved crime from the past that has a devastating impact on the present.

Cusick, Richie Tankersley. Locker.
The minute she opened the locker, Marlee was afraid

Dams, Jeanne M. Red, white, and blue murder: a Hilda Johansson mystery.
The assassination of President McKinley in 1901 throws the Studebaker household into turmoil and sets independent-minded servant Hilda Johansson to wondering about the suspicious behavior of coachman John Bolton whose sympathies clearly lie with the anarchist who killed the McKinley.

Davis, Patrick A. A long day for dying.
When the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is found dead in the private compartment of his airplane, Air Force investigator Martin Collins finds himself thrust into the most controversial case of his career.

Davis, Lindsey. See Delphi and die: a Marcus Didius Falco novel.
Marcus Didius Falco is a Roman detective in A.D. 76 who has just been called to Greece to investigate the deaths of two female tourists that died while visiting Olympia. Both women booked their vacations through Seven Sights Travel, an agency with a shady background. Falco and his wife Helena investigate under the guise of tourists.

Deaver, Jeff. The empty chair.
As he prepares to undergo high-risk surgery, paralyzed crime analyst Lincoln Rhyme and his protégé Amelia Sachs set out to solve the murder of a local teen and the kidnapping of two young women.

_______. The vanished man: a Lincoln Rhyme novel.
Quadriplegic forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his ambitious partner, Amelia Sachs, search for a New York City serial killer with a talent for diabolical illusions.

________. Garden of beasts: a novel of Berlin 1936.
Mobster hitman Paul Schumann agrees to work as a covert government officer to avoid going to prison, and travels to the summer Olympics in Berlin, posing as a journalist, to hunt down and kill Reinhard Ernst, one of Hitler's top advisors.

Dickinson, Matt. Black ice.
Scientist Lauren Burgess must put aside her latest discovery deep in the core of the Antarctic ice cap to help rescue two stranded explorers.

Dogar, Sharon. Waves.
Hal feels eerily connected to his comatose older sister as she hovers between life and death in a hospital.  Hal believes his sister is trying to communicate with him as he tries to solve the mystery of her accident.

Dokey, Cameron. Before midnight: a retelling of "Cinderella".
Left alone by her mother's death and her father's desertion, a nameless baby is left to the servants' care, to be raised along side another child whose identity is a mystery.

Doss, James D. White shell woman: a Charlie Moon mystery.
The two sandstone monoliths towering over the southern Colorado landscape are wrapped in ancient mystery. To the local tribes, they are the Twin War Gods, sons of the moon goddess, White Shell Woman. Legends tell of strange happenings in their shadows, of lost treasure and Anasazi blood sacrifice. But it is a much more recent history that troubles former Ute policeman-turned-rancher Charlie Moon, specifically the fresh corpse of a young Native American woman unearthed at an archaeological dig.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. Hound of the Baskervilles.
The story of the demon-hound whose cry meant the fulfillment of an ancient supernatural legend.

______. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
A collection of eleven stories of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

______. Return of Sherlock Holmes
A collection of thirteen stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Dumas, Margaret. Speak now.
Charley Van Leeuwen returns to San Francisco with a new husband who seems to be the perfect man, but Charley soon begins to suspect her new husband is not who he claims to be.

Duncan, Lois. Don't look behind you.
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

______. Killing Mr. Griffin.
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?

Ehrenhaft, Daniel and Ristow, Trevor. Drawing a blank, or, How I tried to solve a mystery, end a feud, and land the girl of my dreams.
Carlton Dunne IV, an outcast boarding school student with a secret identity as a graphic novelist, teams up with a beautiful Scottish girl who yearns to be an American police officer, to resolve an ancient feud and rescue Carlton's kidnapped father.

Evanovich, Janet. One for the money.
ONE FINE MESS. Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash-fast-but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family. Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. As does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli.

Feinstein, John. Vanishing act: mystery at the U.S. Open.
Sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie reunite at the U.S.Open tennis championships where they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a top Russian player.

______. Cover-up.
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.

Ferrars, E. X. Murder too many.
It has been two years since the death of artist Carl Judd, but his murder is still a subject of hot dispute.  Stephen Sharland has been convicted of the murder, but his wife and Judd's widow maintain his innocence.  And now more people are being murdered, the rumor of blackmail has surfaced, and the ugliness of two years past has been exhumed.

Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher killer: a forensic mystery
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.

_________. The angel of death: a forensic mystery.
While investigating the murder of her English teacher, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, who works as assistant coroner for her father, begins a romance with the most popular guy in school, awaits the arrival of her long-missing mother, and puts her life in danger.

Fforde, Jasper. Lost in a good book
Follows Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, as she searches for the people responsible for holding her beloved captive.

Fforde, Jasper. The big over easy: a nursery crime.
Detective inspector Jack Spratt and his partner, sergeant Mary Mary, are called on to solve the nursery crime of Humpty Dumpty's murder. As they search through Humpty's sordid past, they uncover a plot that involves money laundering, bullion smuggling, beanstalk problems, asylum-seeking Titans, and international chiropody.

Fielding, Joy. Don't cry now.
Bonnie Wheeler had it all, a handsome husband, a darling young daughter, and a nice home, but her world unravels when the police find her near the body of her husband's ex-wife Joan.

Forsyth, Frederick. Avenger.
Calvin Dexter, a small-town attorney and secret vigilante, is hired to bring Serbian warlord Zoran Zilic to American justice for the murder of volunteer aid worker Ricky Colenso, but he finds his efforts hindered by CIA agent Paul Devereaux who has another purpose in mind for Zilic.

Francis, Dick. In the frame.
Charles Todd suddenly finds himself involved in a dangerous manhunt as he searches, against all odds, for the elusive killer of his cousin's wife.

______. Whip hand.
An ex-jockey turned private-eye can save the sport and the woman he loves only if he can bring himself to face his worst nightmare!.

Franklin, Ariana. The serpent's tale.
Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison-and the king's estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. Henry suspects that Rosamund's murder is probably the first move in Eleanor's long-simmering plot to overthrow him. If Eleanor is guilty, the result could be civil war. The king must once again summon Adelia Aguilar, mistress of the art of death, to uncover the truth.

Friedman, Kinky. Meanwhile, back at the ranch: a novel
Kinky attempts to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky.

Frost, Scott. Run the risk.
When a serial bomber kidnaps a young girl and plans to unleash his incendiary powers on live TV, he ignites white-hot rage--and a mother's revenge.

Funke, Cornelia and Latsch, Oliver. The thief lord
Two brothers, having run away from the aunt who plans to adopt the younger one, are sought by a detective hired by their aunt, but they have found shelter with, and protection from, Venice's "Thief Lord."

Garcia, Eric. Anonymous Rex: a detective story.
Los Angeles private investigator Vincent Rubio, one of many dinosaurs who still roam the earth disguised in latex costumes that allow them to blend into human society, jeopardizes his life and the secret of his fellow dinosaurs when he is lured to New York City--the scene of his partner's death.

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal and Gear, W. Michael. The Visitant.
When physical anthropologist Maureen Cole is called in to examine a mass grave that has been discovered in New Mexico, a strange series of events begins to unfold that convinces her that a murderer is stalking victims in two different centuries.

George, Elizabeth. Deception on his mind.
English policewoman Barbara Havers is assigned to investigate the murder of an affluent Pakistani which sparked a race riot. In between the sleuthing, a look at the tense race relations in modern Britain.

Gibson, William. Pattern recognition.
American design consultant Cayce Pollard is hired by a London advertiser to find the creator of an Internet montage of video snippets that is gaining cult popularity--Cayce herself one of its hooked viewers--and her search turns up unexpected clues about her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks.

Giles, Gail. Dead girls don't write letters.
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a fire months earlier.

Giles, Gail. What happened to Cass McBride?
After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible.

Goddard, Ken. In extremis
A ruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range ... and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will soon test the skills of Gil Grissom and his team of CSIs to their limit.

Golden, Christopher. Skin deep.
Jenna Blake, college student and medical examiner assitant, finds herself in the middle of a storm of controversy when the campus becomes the scene of a series of race-based crimes, just as she becomes involved in an interracial romance.

______. Burning bones.
Two people burst into flame, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause.  Spontaneous human combustion is a bizarre phenomenon, but according to published accounts, it happens.  Could that be what occurred here?  Or is it murder?

Golden, Christopher and Sniegoski, Tom. Force majeure.
Twenty-year-old Shane Monroe, working on a major research project for a brain trust, devises a means of replicating a tornado, but things turn ugly when he realizes the organization wants to use his discovery as a weapon.

Gratz, Alan. Something rotten: a Horatio Wilkes mystery.
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare's play "Hamlet," Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee.

Greer, Robert O. The devil's backbone.
CJ Floyd is called to investigate when the body of a retired African-American rodeo star is found floating in a water trough at Colorado's Greeley Independence Stampede, but his efforts are hindered by Celeste Deepstream--the beautiful sister of a crook CJ turned in--who is out for revenge.

Grisham, John. The Client.
Just before committing suicide, an attorney tells 11-year-old Mark a deadly secret.

Grimes, Martha. The Lomorna Wink: a Richard Jury mystery
Melrose Plant, aristocratic sidekick of Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury, rents an estate in Cornwall only to learn he cannot excape the murderous tendencies of his fellow man, or the company of his dreaded Aunt Agatha.

Grossman, Lev. Codex.
Edward Wozny's curiosity turns to mystery and obsession when he realizes that a medieval codex may be hidden among a personal library of rare books and enlists the help of Margaret Napier, a medieval scholar, to help him discover the strange history that lies within its pages.

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The house on the gulf.
A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a housesitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.

<>Hamilton, Virginia. The House of Dies Drear.
A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Hamilton, Virginia. Mystery of Drear House: the conclusion of the Dies Drear Chronicle.
A black family living in the house of long-dead abolitionist Dies Drear must decide what to do with his stupendous treasure, hidden for one hundred years in a cavern near their home.

Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese falcon.
In San Francisco in 1928, Sam Spade searches for a priceless statuette.  He finds himself torn between loyalty to his murdered partner and an opportunity for personal gain.

Hart, Erin. Haunted ground.
Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin are forced to work together when the perfectly preserved head of a young woman is found in an Irish peat bog, and the two must put aside their professional differences to solve the mystery.

Harris, Charlaine. Grave surprise
Harper Connelly can find dead people.  At fifteen, struck by lightening, Harper developed a rather unique talent.  Now she is in Memphis with her brother and Dr. Clyde Nimley to demonstrate - but finding two bodies in the same grave rather than one is a surprise indeed.

Hautman, Pete and Logue, Mary. Snatched
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Hawke, Simon. The slaying of the shrew.
Will Shakespeare and his London roommate, minor player Symington Smythe, travel to a rural estate with their theater company to take part in a wedding pageant and end up investigating the murder of the headstrong bride.

Hayes, Daniel. Trouble with lemons.
Tyler feels he is the family "lemon".  While taking a late-night swim, he bumps into a dead body floating in the water, and he realizes staying alive is more important than self-pity.

Higson, Charles and Fleming, Ian. Blood fever.
During a summer holiday in Italy, the teen-age James Bond tangles with an underground empire of criminals as he attempts the rescue of a kidnapped young girl.

Hillerman, Tony. Blessing way.
When Lt. Leaphorn discovers a corpse with a mouth full of sand, he is ready to suspect a supernatural killer.

Hoeye, Michael. No time like show time: a Hermux Tantamoq adventure.
Watchmaker-mouse Hermux Tantamoq enters the exciting and somewhat shady world of show business to investigate a mysterious blackmailer at the Varmint Theater.

Hoffman, Alice. The river king.
An inexplicable death in Haddan, Massachusetts leads to the unraveling of the lives of some of the residents of the small river town.

Holubitsky, Katherine. The hippie house
In the summer of 1970 in a rural Canadian town the lives of Emma an other local teenagers are changed when a girl is found murdered in a deserted house hippies had used for band practice.

Hoobler, Dorothy and Hoobler, Thomas. The sword that cut the burning grass: a samurai mystery
In his latest adventure in eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old samurai apprentice Seikei, with the help of a servant girl and an imperious old man, sets out to rescue the young Emperor Yasuhito from his kidnappers.

Hubbard, S.W. Take the bait.
High School senior Janelle Harvey suddenly vanishes while walking home from school and Police Chief Frank Bennett is determined to solve the mystery.

Hussey, Charmian and Crump, Christopher. The valley of secrets.
When strange events occur in his newly inherited manor house in Cornwall, England, Stephen, a teenager who was abandoned at birth, investigates the mystery and his family history using clues found in a travel journal kept by his great uncle Theo during his trip to the Amazon River region.

Inness-Brown, Elizabeth. Burning Marguerite
A lifetime of family secrets are revealed after thirty-five-year-old carpenter James Jack Wright finds his beloved "Tante" Marguerite Deo, the woman who raised him from the age of four, dead in the winter woods outside their cabin.

Jaffe, Michele. Bad kitty.
While vacationing with her family in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Jasmine stumbles upon a murder mystery that she attempts to solve with the help of her friends, recently arrived from California.

Jance, Judith A. Paradise lost.
Joanna Brady, sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, embarks on a very personal investigation when she believes her daughter Jenny may be next on the list of a murderer who killed Jenny's tentmate just days after the two  girls stumbled across a dead heiress while on a scouting trip.

Johansen, Iris. Body of lies.
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, rocked by the discovery that the child's skeleton she buried is not that of her murdered daughter, feels compelled to leave her lover Joe and adopted daughter Jane and take an assignment in Baton Rouge that leads her to the heart of a dangerous, and perhaps deadly, government conspiracy.

Jubert, Hervé and Bell, Anthea. Dance of the assassins.
A sorceress and a police detective track a reborn Jack the Ripper through historically recreated cities, from Victorian London to Montezuma's Mexico City.  

_________. Devil's tango.
A witch/detective and her young associate try to track a serial killer known as the Baron of the Mists in a city where crime should be impossible.

Kandel, Susan. Not a girl detective.
Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso, researching the life of author Carolyn Keene, heads for the annual Nancy Drew convention in Palm Springs where she plans to stay at the vacation home of a collector of original volumes of the mystery series, but her trip takes a deadly turn when she arrives to find a corpse in the pool.

Kelley, Norman. Black heat: a Nina Halligan mystery
The story revolves around the disappearance of the daughter of a slain Civil Rights leader, but contains scathing commentary on race relations in the United States.

Kelby, N. M. Whale season: a novel.
A Jesus-impersonator shocks the small town of Whale Season by performing magic tricks such as getting a recreational vehicle for a drunken gambler. Nobody knows that Jesus is really a serial killer or who will become his next victim.

Kennen, Ally. Beast.
Seventeen-year-old Steven, who is always in trouble and is about to be kicked out of his foster home, discovers that his pet twelve-foot crocodile, that he has kept secretly hidden, has escaped.

Kerr, M. E. Fell.
A strange incident on the night of the senior prom changes John Fell's entire life, leading him to enroll in an exclusive private school under an assumed name.

_______. Fell back.
When a classmate at his exclusive private school falls to his death from a tower, seventeen-year-old John Fell is determined to find out whether the incident was suicide, accident, or murder.

_______. Fell down.
Seventeen-year-old Fell's determination to investigate his best friend's death in a car crash leads him to a ventriloquists' convention and an unsolved disappearance from almost twenty years ago.

King, Laurie R. A grave talent.
Detectives Casey Martinelli and Alonzo Hawkin investigate the murders of children in an odd colony outside of San Francisco.

King, Laurie R. A monstrous regiment of women.
When several members of a feminist Christian sect in London are murdered, Mary Russell, with the help of her friend Sherlock Holmes, begins to investigate and finds herself in danger.

Koontz, Dean R. Icebound.
A secret Arctic experiment has gone wrong, and now a team of scientists are trapped on an iceberg with a ticking time bomb, and a killer.

Koontz, Dean R. Vision.
A woman's psychic gift becomes the ultimate curse when she enters the mind of a psychopath.

Korman, Gordon. Jake, reinvented.
Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.

Krich, Rochelle Majer. Blues in the night.
True-crime writer Molly Blume investigates a hit and run accident that doesn't seem like an accident at all.

Wilkens, S. G. Nowhere to hide.
Most things remain a mystery to Kyle, his past, his missing belly button, his connection to the creepy neighborhood patrolman. But one thing has always been certain: He likes Amanda Bloom. So when she needs help planning the annual Halloween party, Kyle jumps at the chance to spend time with her.

Lackey, Mercedes. Burning water.
Detective Mark Valdez recognizes that Dallas is in the grip of an evil power when the city becomes the scene of dozens of deaths, from cattle to people, and calls upon Diana Tregarde, practicing witch, to track down the malevolent force.

Lawrence, Margaret. Hearts and bones.
Hannah Trevor, a midwife in the small town of Rutheford, Maine, is shocked to learn that one of the men as killer of Anthea Emory is Daniel Jossly, Hannah's former lover and the father of her child.

Lawrence, Martha C. Murder in Scorpio
Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist turned private investigator, finds her psyche gifts handy when she is hired by a police sergant to investigate a suspicious automobile death.

Ledbetter, Suzann. A lady never trifles with thieves.
In 1870s Denver, a young detective/self-proclaimed "scientist" named Josephine Beckworth Sawyer blows up her tool shed with homemade nitroglycerine.

L'Engle, Madeleine. Dragons in the waters.
A thirteen-year-old boy's trip to Venezuela with his cousin culminates in murder and the discovery of an unexpected bond with an Indian tribe, dating from the days of Simon Bolivar.

L'Engle, Madeleine. Troubling a star.
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.

Littke, Lael. Watcher.
Catherine Belmont watches her soap opera every day.  Little by little, in strange, frightening ways, Catherines's life begins to echo soap star Cassandra's.  But Cassandra's life isn't so wonderful anymore.  Someone wants her dead.  Catherine is sure her own life is also in danger.  Or is she losing her mind?

Littke, Lael. Lake of secrets.
Having arrived in her mother's home town to try to find her long-missing brother, who disappeared three years before she was born, fifteen-year-old Carlene finds herself haunted by memories from a past life.

Lowenstein, Sallie Claire. Focus.
Sixteen-year-old Andrew has never taken his father's advice to focus seriously, and as he prepares to enter the real world, he finds himself wishing he has had more direction in his life.

MacGregor, Rob. Hawk moon.
Will faces a mystery involving drugs at his high school, while being framed for the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend.

________. Prophecy Rock.
Will Lansa visits his father, who is the tribal police chief on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and learns about some sacred Hopi traditions while he helps investigate several murders.

MacPherson, Rett. A comedy of heirs: a novel
Torie O'Shea, a genealogist with the local historical society, stirs up a lot of trouble when she decides to investigate the fifty-year-old murder of her grandfather.

Madison, Bennett. Lulu Dark and the summer of the Fox: a mystery.
When a mysterious person called the Fox begins to threaten young starlets, Lulu Dark investigates, even though she suspects that her own mother--an aging actress--might be behind it all.

Massey, Sujata. The bride's Kimono.
Rei Shimura, a twenty-eight-year-old, California-born antiques dealer living in Japan, is pleasantly surprised when she is asked to transport several valuable nineteenth-century kimonos to an American museum and lecture on them, but the trip goes awry when a kimono goes missing and Rei's passport turns up on a dead body in a dumpster.

Mazer, Harry. Who is Eddie Leonard?
Eddie is 15 and has no idea who his parents are--until he sees his face, at age 3, on a missing child poster. Will he be accepted by the family he has missed for so long?

McDaniel, Lurlene. Holly's story.
With the support of her two best friends, high school  enior Holly tries to deal with the murder of her brother and her anger at God for allowing the crime to happen.

McGrady, Kayla. Dead ball foul
Four teens from a quiet town in Southwest Virginia work together to find a killer after one of their close friends is found murdered.

McKillip, Patricia A. Alphabet of thorn.
Nepenthe, an orphan who has been raised by the librarians of the Royal Library of Raine, becomes obsessed with deciphering a supposedly untranslatable book brought to the palace by a young mage, not realizing that the words and her fate are entwined with that of the newly crowned, fourteen-year-old queen.

McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.  

Michaels, Barbara. Search the shadows.
Born of a secret, tainted bloodline, Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's academic footsteps.  But it was more than a degree she was seeking.  Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death, and the true identity of her father.

________. Smoke and mirrors.
The fast-paced world of politics was both exhilarating and daunting to young Erin Hartsock; she came to Washington, D.C., to join the campaigning of a charismatic congresswoman.  But Erin's enthusiasm turned to dread as the campaign took a dark turn.

________. Walker in shadows.
The house next door stood empty for years, an eerie mirror image of Pat Robbins' well-tended home.  Until the day the Friedrichses moved in.

Monfredo, Miriam Grace. Must the maiden die.
Librarian Glenis Tryon is drafted into detective work once again, with hopes of vindicating a mute servant girl from a charge of murdering her employer.  

Morson, Ian. Falconer and the great beast.
Master William Falconer, a committed scientist in thirteenth-century England, believes there is a rational explanation for the mysterious death of a Tartar ambassador who was awaiting an audience with the king, but even if his theory proves to be true, Falconer must still figure out how to trick the murderer into showing himself.

Muller, Marcia. Listen to the silence.
After her father's death, private investigator Sharon McCone finds her own adoption papers among his things.  Her search for the truth takes her to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she unearths old hatreds and present-day violence.

Murphy, Shirley Rousseau. Cat spitting mad: a Joe Grey mystery.
Cat detectives Joe and Dulcie investigate a double murder that is being pinned on their human friend, Molena Point policeman Max Harper.

Murphy, Pat. Adventures in time and space with Max Merriwell.
Famous author Max Merriwell receives a threatening note from one of his own pseudonyms when the cruise ship he is aboard--the "Odyssey"--passes into the Bermuda Triangle.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Other side of dark.
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

O'Connell, Carol. Crime school
Special crimes investigator Kathy Mallory comes face to face with her past when Sparrow, a middle-aged prostitute who cared for Kathy when she was a homeless child on the streets of New York, becomes the latest victim of a serial killer who has been operating for decades.

Odom, Mel. The mystery unravels
Just weeks after his father's horrific death, Matt Hunter confronts the murderous Lucius Creighdor and vows revenge. But battling this vicious foe is treacherous for Matt -- and his steadfast league of friends.

O'Keefe, Susan Heyboer. My life and death by Alexandra Canarsie.
Escaping school and family problems in a cemetery, fourteen-year-old Allie begins attending strangers' funerals, which leads to her first real friendship and a mystery that she believes only she can solve.

Page, Katherine Hall. The body in the attic: a Faith Fairchild mystery
An old diary discovered in the attic of a historic Cambridge house launches caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild into a troubling and dangerous murder mystery.

Pagliarulo, Antonio. The celebutantes: in the club.
Wealthy triplets Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton are shocked when one of their classmates at St. Cecilia's Prep is killed during the opening of their father's newest nightclub, but even after they narrow down the suspects to the members of a secret campus role-playing club, the murderer is not obvious.

Parker, Daniel. Outsmart.
In the satisfying conclusion, Sunday and Fred pull off the scam of the century, and beat the blackmailers at their own game.

Parry, Owen. Bold sons of Erin
A general's murder, a false confession, a rumor of cholera combine to offer a mystery set during the Civil War.

Parker, Daniel. Walk on water
Alice's diary reveals her true, hidden reason for pursuing Tom; her secret meetings in a downtown hospital and her desperation to escape her ex-boyfriend, Carter.

Pascal, Francine (FEARLESS series). Before Gaia.
Presents the complicated love story of Gaia's parents, leading to the truth about why she is fearless.

Patterson, James and Emerson, Michael. Four blind mice.
With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey deep across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers.

Paulsen, Gary. Murphy's gold.
When Wangsu's wife comes to Murphy to report the Chinese laundryman missing, Murphy finds himself deeper and deeper in the middle of a case involving kidnapping, fraud, and murder.

<>Pearl, Matthew. The Dante Club.
A small circle of literati is bent on translating and publishing Dante's Divine Comedy so that all Americans may learn of the writer's genius. As this group of scholars, poets, publishers and professors readies the manuscript, much more exciting doings are happening outside their circle. The Boston police are hot on the trail of a series of murders taking place around town. In one, a priest is buried alive, his feet set on fire; in another, a man's body is eaten by maggots. It doesn't take a rocket scientist - only a Dante expert - to realize these murders are based on Dante's Inferno and its account of Hell's punishments. Scholars become snoopers, and the Dante Club is soon on the scene, investigating the crimes and trying to find the killer.

________. The Poe shadow: a novel.
Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, and even Poe’s own family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who met a disgraceful end as a drunkard. Everyone, in fact, seems to believe this except a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who puts his own career and reputation at risk in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe’s.

Peck, Richard. Through a brief darkness.
Forced to ask herself whether her father was indeed a criminal, Karen comes to rely on her own instincts and judgment as her situation becomes increasingly terrifying.  

Peretti, Frank E. Nightmare Academy
Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.

Pérez-Reverte, Arturo. Club Dumas
Lucas Corso, a book dectective/mercenary, is hired to authenticate part of the original manuscript of Alexander Dumas's Three Muskateers, but is drawn into a much more involved plot.

Perry, Anne. Half Moon Street.
Superintendent Thomas Pitt, investigating the discovery of a dead man found drifting in the Thames, must walk a narrow line between hunting down he guilty and protecting the innocent when his search for answers leads him deep into Victorian London's bohemia.

Perry, Anne. The Twisted Root.
When investigator William Mons is asked to locate a young man's runaway fiancee, he discovers a brutal murder that may be linked to the young girl.

Perry, Thomas. Death benefits: a novel.
John Walker, a young data analyst at McClaren Life and Casualty is drawn into a deadly conspiracy when he agrees to help security consultant Max Stillman locate Walker's former lover and colleague who disappeared after paying a large death benefit to an impostor.

Pineiro, R. J. Conspiracy.com
Mike Ryan accepts a job at SoftCorp, Inc. after graduating from Stanford University, but his dreams of fame and fortune are ruined when he learns the FBI is investigating his new boss for tax fraud.

Piziks, Steven. Identity.
In the middle of a raging storm, ten strangers find themselves stranded at a run-down desert motel. cut off from the outside world.

Portman, Frank and Chang, Daniel. King Dork.
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.

Preston, Douglas J and Child, Lincoln. The Relic
When visitors are killed at the New York Museum of Natural History before the opening of the Superstition exhibition, graduate student Margo Green discovers a link between the killings, a tragic archaeological trip to the Amazon Basin, and a figurine from the exhibit.

__________. Brimstone
FBI Special Agent Pendergast, searching for the human villain behind the death of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove, found murdered in a crime that appears to have supernatural origins, follows the trail from New York to the Italian countryside where he learns a shocking secret.

Priestly, Chris. Death and the arrow.
After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr. Harker to help find the killer.

Pullman, Philip (Sally Lockheart trilology). Ruby in the smoke.
In 19th century London, 16 year old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Qualey, Marsha. Close to a killer
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

Reiss, Katheryn. Paperquake: a puzzle.
Certain that she is being drawn by more than coincidences into the lives of people living nearly 100 years ago, Violet, who feels like the odd sister in a set of triplets, searches for clues to help her advert an imminent tragedy.

Reiss, Kathryn. Blackthorn winter.
An idyllic seaside artists' colony in England is the scene of murder, and fifteen-year-old American-born Juliana Martin-Drake attempts to solve the crime while unraveling the mystery of her own past.

Reynolds, Marjorie. The Starlite Drive-in.
The discovery of human remains at the site of her father's old drive-in movie theater stirs Callie Anne Benton's memories of a summer thirty-six years earlier, when her mother fell in love with a romantic drifter.

Rice, Anne. The witching hour.
Rowan Mayfair finds the drowned body of a man and brings him back to life. Together they try to solve the mystery of her past and his suddenly acquired sensory power. It takes them through four centuries of witchcraft and the occult.

Richards, Justin. The death collector.
Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

Richardson, E. E. The intruders.
When soon-to-be stepbrothers, Joel and Tim, start having the same nightmare after moving into a old house, they decide to investigate its source and the many.

Robinson, Lynda Suzanne. Slayer of gods.
Prompted by the teenage Tutankhamen, master spy and detective Lord Meren searches for the killers of Queen Nefertiti.

Roberts, Gillian. Till the end of Tom: an Amanda Pepper mystery.
Philly Prep English teacher and part time sleuth Amanda Pepper searches for the killer of a man who left many enemies behind.

Ruditis, Paul. The four Dorothys.
During preparation for the annual school musical, the stars of The Wizard of Oz are dropping out of the spotlight one by one, or rather someone is pushing them. And it's up to Brian to save them.

Ruff, Matt. Bad monkeys
Jane Charlotte, arrested for murder, is referred to a psychiatrist who tries to figure out what is really going on after Jane explains that as a member of a secret group devoted to fighting evil, she is responsible for getting rid of irredeemable persons--otherwise known as "Bad Monkeys."

Scottoline, Lisa. Everywhere that Mary went.
Mary DiNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm.  She's too busy to worry about the crank phone calls she's been getting, until they fall into a sinister pattern.

Seranella, Barbara. No man standing: a Munch Mancini crime novel
Someone has murdered Munch Mancini's good friend's mother and stepfather and Munch is determined to protect her friend.

Shepard, Sara. Pretty little liars.
When one of their tightly-knit group mysteriously disappears, four high school girls find their friendship difficult to maintain when they begin receiving taunting messages from someone who seems to know everything about their past and present secrets.

________. Flawless: a pretty little liars novel.
After their friend who has been missing for more than three years turns up dead, four former best friends continue to receive frightening messages from someone who knows damaging secrets about them.

Siler, Jenny. Shot: a novel.
After her husband is shot after a series of suspicious events, Lucy Greene sets out to uncover the truth behind his death, and in the process she stumbles onto a dangerous secret about a government-sponsored biological warfare program that her husband was involved in.

Simmons, Dan. Hard case.
Joe Kurtz, an ex-P.I. fresh out of prison, is hired to find the missing accountant of a semiretired New York mob boss and is met with strange resistance and obstacles on all sides.

Simmons, Michael. The rise of Lubchenko.
Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.

Slaughter, Karin. Blindsighted.
Dr. Sara Linton, who is both the county coroner and the local pediatrician is running late for her weekly lunch at the local diner with her sister, Tessa. When she gets there, she goes to the washroom to freshen up and is met by a grisly sight. Sibyl Adams, a professor at the local college, is sitting in one of the stalls--stabbed and raped and barely alive.

Snyder, Keith. Coffin's got the dead guy on the inside.
Jason Keltner, unwilling detective, tracks Paul Reno, a slacker who might be involved in a big-time cyber scam.

Sorrells, Walter. Club Dread.
When sixteen-year-old Chastity witnesses the murder of a pop star, her hopes of settling down with her mother in San Francisco seem to disappear.

________. Fake ID.
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.

Spiller, Robert. The witch of Agnesi.
Math teacher Bonnie Pinkwater begins to think she might be the main target of a murderer who is killing students on her team of Knowledge Bowl competitors.

Stabenow, Dana. A grave denied.
Aleut sleuth Kate Shugak puts herself and her teenage charge Johnny Morgan--the son of her dead lover--in danger after her investigation of the murder of a local handyman turns up details of a secret life the killer does not want revealed.

Sternberg, Libby. Uncovering Sadie's secrets.
Fifteen-year-old Bianca finds herself in one mess after another when she tries to figure out what is going on with Sadie Sinclair, a shy and secretive girl who it appears is being stalked by a pair of thugs.

Sternberg, Libby. Finding the forger: a Bianca Balducci mystery.
Amateur sleuth Bianca Balducci has her hands full dealing with high school, Christmas shopping, party planning, bickering friends, and a boyfriend whose attention seems to be wandering, but that does not keep her from jumping into the fray when several paintings go missing from the local art museum and forgeries are hung in their place.

Stewart, Sean and Brigg, Cathy. Cathy's book: if found, call (650) 266-8233.
After Victor breaks up with Cathy and her father dies unexpectedly, and she is failing at school, everything goes from bad to worse including a conflict with her best friend Emma. As she describes her struggle, she provides letters, photographs, date book entries, and her telephone number and her web site address that readers can access to learn her secrets.

Stott, Rebecca. Ghostwalk : a novel.
The mysterious drowning death of Elizabeth Vogelsang, a Cambridge University scholar who was almost finished writing a controversial biography of Isaac Newton, leads her son, Cameron Brown, to recruit Lydia Brooke, his former lover, to complete the book. That request plunges Brooke into probing two ostensibly separate series of murders: one in the 17th century claimed the lives of several who stood between Newton and the fellowship he needed to continue his studies at Cambridge; the other in the present day appears to target those who have offended a radical animal rights group. Brooke's work may be haunted by a ghost from Newton's time who guides her to a radical reinterpretation of the role of alchemy and the supernatural in Newton's life.

Swann, Leonie and Bell, Anthea. Three bags full: a sheep detective story
A flock of sheep living on a hillside near the Irish village of Glennkill, regularly exposed to literature by their shepherd George, feel well-equipped to investigate murder after they find George dead--pinned to the ground with a spade.

Sykes, Shelley. For Mike.
When Jeff's best friend Mike dissappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold.

Tracy, P. J. Monkeewrench.
A new cops-and-crooks computer game becomes a nightmare when someone starts duplicating the fictional murders in real life. Now the game's designer, Grace, and her oddball programmers must rethink their game to deduce the killer's next target.

Truman, Margaret. Murder in the CIA.
Barrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington literary agent, arrives at London's Heathrow airport with plenty of time to make her flight to Budapest, where she's planning to meet an author.  The airport is crowded, but it's not a scheduling problem that keeps Barrie from getting off the ground.  The doctors call her death a heart attack, but her best friend, Collette Cahill, has her doubts.

Twain, Mark. A murder, a mystery, and a marriage.
Set in the mythical town of Deer Lick, this tale follows the fortunes of humble farmer John Gray. Gray wants to marry off his daughter to the scion of a wealthy family, but a stranger lying comatose in the snow derails Gray's plans.

Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood mummy.
A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen-year-old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case.

Voigt, Cynthia. Vandemark mummy.
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

________. The Callender papers.
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphan Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.

Waite, Judy. Trick of the mind.
The struggles of several young people who confront family problems, emotional problems, unrequited love, mystery, and violence, is told from the viewpoint of Matt, who is known for his unusual behavior but who has unusual gifts, and Erin, who tries to use her proficiency with magic to attract Matt.

Wallace, Bill. Trapped in Death Cave
A posthumous letter referring to buried treasure convinces Gary that his grandfather did not die a natural death and, with his friend Brian, he sets out to find both the treasure and his grandfather's killer.

Ward, Robert. Four kinds of rain.
Bob Wells, a hapless psychologist, sees a chance to reverse his fortunes when he learns his patient owns a priceless artifact, the Mask of Utu. Embracing selfish motives for the first time in his life, Bob hopes for prosperity and love will follow when he enlists criminal help to steal the mask.

Watt, Alan. Diamond dogs.
Seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin blames his abusive father for driving his mother away years earlier, and plans on leaving his small hometown after graduating high school, but when he accidentally commits a terrible crime, which his father, unasked, covers up, he finds himself unwillingly indebted to his father.

Watson, Jude. Disappearance: a premonitions mystery
Gracie's father, who had disappeared when she was a baby, returns after her mother's death with some dark secrets in tow.

Webber, Heather. Trouble in Spades: a Nina Quinn mystery.
The mysterious disappearance of her brother-in-law to be and a couple of inconveniently dug-up corpses all threaten to send Nina's already topsy-turvy life over the edge.

Werlin, Nancy. Black mirror: a novel.
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

West, Cameron and Slattery, Seamus. The Medici dagger
Stuntman Reb Barnett travels to Italy, hoping to discover why his father, a museum curator, was killed in a tragic fire more than twenty years ago.

Westlake, Donald E. Put a lid on it.
Professional thief Francis Meehan, waiting for sentencing in the Manhattan Correctional Center, is offered a chance at freedom when he is approached by a member of the president's staff who wants Meehan to steal a video that contains incriminating information that would almost certainly keep the president from being re-elected.

Westerfeld, Scott. So yesterday: a novel.
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

Whitney, Phyllis A. Daughter of the stars.
Lacey returns to the town of her birth, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia and becomes involved in trying to learn who killed her father thirty years ago.

Whitney, Phyllis A. Amethyst dreams.
Romantic suspense as Hallie Knight searches for her missing college roommate.

White, Michael C. Brother's blood:  a novel.
Wolfgang Kallick arrives in Maine to learn the details of his brother Dieter's death as a German prisoner of war in the U.S. during World War II.

White, Kate. If looks could kill.
Thirtysomething true crime reporter Bailey Weggins is thrust into a true crime investigation when her boss, Cat Jones, calls her frantically to her town house and shares a chilling discovery: the dead body of the family's live-in nanny, who may have died in Cat's place.

Wilhelm, Kate. Defense for the devil.
Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway uses all her wits to obtain child support for the widow of a murdered man whose business partners refuse to share his money.

Williams, Tamara. Truth and lies.
Erin's friend, Marcel, is in a coma as a result of a savage beating and Erin decides to track down the person or persons who did it, but she has no clues to get her started.

Wynne-Jones, Tim. The boy in the burning house
Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.

NONFICTION

811 GLE
Glenn, Mel. Foreign exchange : a mystery in poems.
A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city--caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing.

811 GLE
Glenn, Mel. Who killed Mr. Chippendale?: a mystery in poems.
A murder mystery told in free verse poems, describing the reactions of students, colleagues, and others when high school teacher Mr. Chippendale, loved by some, hated by others, is shot as the school day begins.

813 CLA
Clark, Mary Higgins. Anastasia syndrome and other stories.
 Collection of short stories full of mystery and suspense.

813 DAH
Daheim, Mary. Motherhood is murder.
Four of mystery's reigning matriarchs have joined together to concoct a delectable stew of clues, corpses, and felonious hijinks -- all spectacularly seasoned with a mother's loving touch.

813 DAO
Daoust, Jerry. Waking up bees.
10 short stories portraying characters wrestling with important life questions as they enter the world of adulthood.

813 POE
Poe, Edgar Allen. Edgar Allan Poe: a collection of stories.
Enter the realms of mystery, horror and suspense.

813 POE
Poe, Edgar Allen. Ten great mysteries.
Ten mystery tales by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror.

813.52 REH
Rehak, Melanie. Girl sleuth: Nancy Drew and the women who created her.
Chronicles the behind-the-scenes success of the creative trio who created the Nancy Drew mystery series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Describes how children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer started the Stratemeyer Syndicate and how the publishing empire achieved success under the leadership of two women: Edward's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, and Iowa journalist Mildred Wirt Benson, who was the ghostwriter for the series. Documents how Harriet and Mildred challenged the domestic labels during the 1930s and beyond to create a publishing phenomenon that has lasted more than seventy-five years.