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Pasadena

2016
When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.

Escape to California

2014
While on vacation in San Francisco, Flat Stanley meets a girl who asks for his help performing a trick, to escape from Alcatraz.

Lost at Khe Sanh

2015
Anderson is drawn to the old trunk of military relics in the basement again, and this time when he finds an old grenade with a note attatched a ghost of a soldier appears, claiming that it's his lucky grenade from during his service in the Vietnam War.

The emperor of any place

2015
When Evan looks into the hand-bound book that his father was reading when he passed away, the diary of a Japanese soldier in World War II, questions about the book and how it relates to Evan begin to multiply.

Nothing bad is going to happen

2016
When sixteen-year-old Kippy finds her boyfriend clinging to life and everyone in town assumes it was an attempted suicide, she must find the culprit who wanted him dead, all the while still haunted by the near-death experience of her last attempt at amateur sleuthing.

Lair of dreams

a Diviners novel
2015
"After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner and has become a media darling. In the meantime, a mysterious sleeping sickness has hit New York City, and the Diviners must band together to find the cause and the cure"--.

Case closed?!

40 mini-mysteries for you to solve
2004
The reader can use visual clues and deductive reasoning to help Daisy and Ridley solve forty puzzling mysteries.

Hideout

2017
In this riveting middle-grade adventure, the son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness.

Good idea

Seeking revenge for the death of her childhood best friend, a girl returns to her smalltown home in Maine.

A study in Charlotte

a Charlotte Holmes novel
2016
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.

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