mystery fiction

"A small town Oregon boy couldn't really have been possessed by a ghost. The kids are sure they'll be collecting a new Mysterious Monster for 'Motel Mattigan,' but sorting out the truth this time will force them to look inside themselves like they never have before"--OCLC.

"It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is being pursued at that moment by a strange hook-handed man. And the town legend of the Malamander--a part-fish, part-human monster whose egg is said to make dreams come true--is rearing its scaly head. As various townspeople, some good-hearted, some nefarious, reveal themselves to be monster hunters on the sly, can Herbert and Violet elude them and discover what happened to Violet's kin?"--Amazon.

"There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder. With the help of the daring Violet Parma, ever-reliable Herbie will do his best to figure out what the Gargantis wants and who stole her treasure in the first place. In a town full of suspicious, secretive characters, it could be anyone!"--Provided by publisher.

"Autumn has arrived and the fourth graders at Arthimos Elementary couldn't be more excited for the Fall Festival! But when the tickets go missing, the pie eating contest is sabotoged, and a suspiciously humongous pumpkin shows up, will anyone be able to save the day and catch the culprit? The school's best (and only) investigators are on the case, The Prime Detectives--Abby 'the Abacus' Feldstein, Cameron 'Cam' McGill, and Gabriel 'Gabe' Kim. Using arithmetic, geometry, and logic, the Prime Detectives will stop at nothing to figure out who did what, when, and why!"--Amazon.

"On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago. Now with new, vastly different lives--and unknowing families to protect--will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?"--Provided by publisher.

Fleeing depression over his coma-stricken wife, journalist Michael Wilde travels to the South Pole on an expedition in search of a mysterious vessel carrying an exiled Crimean War deserter, discovering upon arrival the bodies of a young man and a young woman bound and frozen in a block of ice, both apparently alive.

The Boxcar Children investigate when everything seems to go wrong for the Greenfield Museum as soon as the Museum displays a four-thousand-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy.

On a vacation to Padre Island, the Aldens help an endangered sea turtle and solve a mystery.

"Maddie, Max, and Theo have come to the most haunted neighborhood in the most haunted city in America--and they're staying in the spooky Vampire House. While their father searches for evidence to prove its blood-sucker is fake, they set out on a search of their own through a city of the dead to a crumbling Voodoo shack. The Mattigan kids are on the case--but sometimes even the most clever plan can be a recipe for disaster"--Provided by publisher.