murder

Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle's plans to bring her father and governess together are jeopardized when she investigates a murder and cursed treasure on a Scottish Island, and finds herself being hunted by another who will stop at nothing to find the treasure for themselves.

"Set in the aspirational world of the Ivy-League, . . . detective Holiday Poirot and her childhood friend Linden work to uncover a mysterious murder on campus"--Provided by publisher.

After a disastrous accident at her school's Midsummer Ball leads to Meg's suspension, she agrees to attend a Halloween party at her old friends' ancestral home in Ireland in order to make amends, only to discover that the estate has a sordid past of its own.

"Sixteen-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived in London for the summer, and quickly discovers that girls who look frighteningly like her are being attacked"--Provided by publisher.

While on a celebratory yacht trip to Bermuda, ex-best friends Naya and Yana, newly inducted into an exclusive society of top recent graduates, are plunged into a nightmare when a classmate is brutally murdered, and as the body count rises, they must team up to survive.

The most popular--and hated--girl in school is murdered and the suspects are aplenty, but when Dawn becomes the number one, she must uncover the truth before another person dies.

"A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--Provided by publisher.

"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic"--Provided by publisher.

Fifty years after runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, two Cambridge art history students stumble across proof that the fire was no accident, which threatens the very foundation of Juliette's aristocratic family and revives rumors of the infamous curse that has haunted them for generations.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.