mystery and detective stories

Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

Kristen is trying to forget the death her best friend and that she had dated a murderer; she parties every night, until she meets her ex-boyfriend in the Hamptons.

In the year 2010, the FBI's computer security agency, Net Force, must find the man causing chaos in cyberspace and threatening world peace, and things get even uglier when several people hunting him in virtual reality suffer strokes, including Net Force's Jay Gridley.

In eighteenth-century Japan, fourteen-year-old Seikei, a merchant's son in training to be a samurai, helps his patron investigate a series of murders and arson in the capital city of Edo, each of which is associated in some way with a popular geisha.

Fourteen-year-old Seiki, a tea merchant's son who longs to be samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel.

In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.

When someone steals her purse and her identity, high-school junior and reluctant girl sleuth Lulu Dark investigates.

When Rosie agrees to take care of her grandfather's Mercedes while he is in jail, she gets more than she bargained for, including being thrust into the middle of a jewel heist mystery and being attracted to a dangerous boy.

When a prominent local adult is killed at a teen house party, the whole school seems to know who is to blame, but no one will go to the police.

Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.