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The mystery unravels

2005
Matt Hunter vows revenge against the evil Lucius Creighdor after Lucius kills Matt's father and enlists the help of his friends to defeat their deadly foe.

A candidate for murder

1992
Cary finds her life in danger when she uncovers a plot to sabotage her father's political campaign for governor of Texas.

How to disappear completely and never be found

2003
With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest.

Throat culture

2005
Jenna Blake tries to find out who is responsibly for spreading a very dangerous and contagious virus in the Boston area.

Dead girls don't write letters

2003
Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died in a fire months earlier.

Twisted summer

1998
Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.

Sammy Keyes and the curse of Moustache Mary

2001
While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.

Sammy Keyes and the skeleton man

2005
On Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume.

Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy

2005
Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.

Lake of secrets

2002
Having arrived in her mother's home town to try to find her long-missing brother, who disappeared three years before she was born, fifteen-year-old Carlene finds herself haunted by memories from a past life.

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