mystery and detective stories

"Charlie was not expecting to spend his summer trying to solve a murder. Helping his mother run the family hotel doesn't usually offer Charlie much excitement. The only other people around are Penny Price, the spoiled child actor from the hit TV series "Little Miss Murder," and Mr. Ignato, an elderly resident at the hotel. When Mr. Ignato dies from a fall down the stairs, Charlie suspects foul play. Nobody believes him except for Penny, who jumps at the chance to solve a real murder. The two of them discover that Mr. Ignato has been hiding a criminal past. Could this be related to his untimely death? Charlie and Penny are determined to prove it wasn't an accident"--Provided by publisher.

Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.

"Rumors spread that Tobias Hawthorne's lost son may still be alive, casting doubt on seventeen-year-old Avery's inheritance and changing the rules of the game"--OCLC.

"Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and everyone else...moved on...Now he's sixteen and officially retired. That is, until Lily shows up suddenly at Gideon's door, needing his help...As a cover, Gideon joins Lily on the school paper. Surprisingly, he finds himself warming up to the welcoming, close-knit staff...especially Tess, the cute, witty editor-in-chief"--Provided by publisher.

"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to a boarding school, Enola escapes, displaying a cleverness that even impresses the elder Holmes. But nothing prepares her for what lies ahead"--OCLC.

"When Nell Magnificent's awful parents go to Paris for a business trip, she surprises them by tagging along. But Nell isn't planning on hanging around. The city is hiding someone very dear to her. Someone Nell affectionately calls Pear. Somone Nell is determined to find. And so Nell runs away on an epic mission during which she befriends bellboys, camps out in the laundry rooms of luxurious hotels and races through underground tunnels and catacombs. All to discover that the mystery behind Pear's disappearance leads to an even greater mystery . . . one that might implicate the whole of Paris"--Provided by publisher.

"Alice Ogilvie's disappearance last summer is the biggest scandal at Castle Cove High School--until her ex-boyfriend is accused of murdering his new girlfriend, and Alice must pair up with her tutor Iris Adams to clear his name by relying on the wisdom of Agatha Christie"--OCLC.

When Archie is woken by a scary noise in the night, he turns to his fox friend Reddie to help him get to the bottom of it.

After their friend Alison, missing for more than three years, turns up dead, four former best friends, each of whom had a secret known only by Alison, begin receiving frightening messages from someone identified by the letter "A.".

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.