mystery and detective stories

A plea from a dying man he has never seen before involves nineteen-year-old Jonathan in a life-and-death struggle with white-supremacist skinheads.

Twenty years before, little Carrie had vanished. Now grown up, her sister Liz must find out how--and why.

A murdered teen's experience of her afterlife includes her efforts to have her body found and to provide comfort to her loved ones.

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.

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.

Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him--except the murderer.

Lisa and her three friends find themselves unwilling players in a cat-and-mouse game with a murderous magician whose identity and motivation baffle them.

Jason risks his life to find evidence that his mother, a convicted murderer facing execution, was framed.

Fourteen-year-old Jere is haunted by a recurring dream about a murder he may have witnessed ten years earlier.

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 Sim?n Bol?var.