mystery and detective stories

During his sophomore year, high school senior David Crandall's mother was murdered; and now, after learning about a family embezzlement secret and witnessing his father burying a shot gun, he starts to suspect his dad was the murderer.

Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.

Recently qualified as a forensic investigator, sixteen-year-old Luke Harding is assigned to the slums of London, where he and his robotic sidekick Malc investigate a doctor's murder.

Sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding, aided by his laser-equipped robot Malc, and his girlfriend Jade, works to figure out who is trying to sabotage the Youth International Games.

Sixteen-year-old forensic investigator Luke Harding and his laser-equipped robot Malc, rush to learn the truth when Luke is tipped-off that teenage death row inmate Everton Kohter, whose execution is only days away, is innocent.

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, having learned he is a Traveler--someone who can ride "flumes" through time and space, is soon off to the alternative dimension of Denduron where he teams up with Loor, a girl his age from the warrior-territory of Zadaa, in an attempt to save the gentle Milago people from slavery.

Thirteen-year-old Blue Schwartz values her baby-sitting job with the Albanys, a Chicago professor and his wife, but her situation is jeopardized when a valuable artifact goes missing from the Albany household, and Blue becomes the chief suspect in the theft.

Joel Demetrius is somewhat excited about moving into the home of his new stepfather, but when he and his stepbrother Tim begin having identical nightmares which for Joel run over into the daylight, they decide they must figure out who or what is haunting the house.

Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.

Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, describes in her diary her efforts to discover who is counterfeiting the new English silver coin.