mystery and detective stories

"When Quest (Q) and his stepsister Angela head to Chicago for their parents' concert, they uncover another plot by the terrorist group Ghost Cell in the Windy City"--.

While at the fun park, the Dino detectives decide to visit the haunted house, but find it a lot more spooky than they expected.

When his aunt is kidnapped, an eleven-year-old boy staying at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel in 1956 tries to find her, with the help of Alfred Hitchcock.

"Fifteen-year-old Mike McGill has been living with his Uncle Billy since his mother's death. Only ten years older than Mike, Billy loves to party, and doesn't pay much attention when Mike starts getting in trouble. But Mike's history teacher, an ex-cop name Riel, does pay attention. Especially when long-hidden information starts coming to light that makes it seem that the death of Mike's mother might not have been an accident after all"--.

October Schwartz investigates the hundred-year-old murder of her ghost friend Morna Macisaac, but before she can find out who did it, October's best living friend, Yumi, comes under harassment at school, which October decides needs to be addressed right away.

Bud and Laurie have started a new year at Tuckernuck Hall, which brings along with it an old murder mystery to solve: their beloved school founder, Maria Tutweiler, has been accused of murdering the magician Marchetti. But, Laurie, and their friends know she is not a murderer and set out to prove it.

In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend, Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned--but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of London threatens to become a more urgent problem.

"After Claire Can survives a brutal attack in Chicago, she and her father move to Peculiar, Missouri, where she discovers the body of a high-school girl and realizes that she cannot escape her past"--.

"When a photo of Katie's popular boyfriend Mark having drunken sex with a tattooed girl at a party goes viral at their exclusive boarding school, Katie is devastated. Mark swears that he doesn't remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing--and Katie receives a gruesome present in the mail: a badly wrapped severed hand with a red rose tattoo"--.