mystery and detective stories

Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents have turned into a bed and breakfast business; in a parallel story, a Quaker boy living in the house in 1857 sets out to help some fugitive slaves to freedom.

As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.

J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now--that she's dangerous. If can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what she'll destroy next.

Even though she knows her memories have been fabricated by the mysterious Dr. Styron, JD still has problems not believing them and struggles to learn what has happened to her and why.

Thirteen-year-old J.D. loses her memory and is haunted by dark visions, showing her that she is in grave danger and must find a way to understand her past although there is no one she can trust.

A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.

Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love.

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.

Stuck working in the lost and found department 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.

When cats begin to mysteriously disappear in Santa Martina, thirteen-year-old friends Sammy and Holly start snooping around town to find out what is happening.