murder

"A wealthy businessman is dead, and fifteen-year-old Ruby Monroe is in a Dallas jail awaiting trial for his murder. Ruby has no one she can count on--no one, except her state-appointed caseworker, a woman named Cadence Ware. In Ruby's experience, that's not anyone she can trust. Cadence is familiar with the cold reality of Ruby's situation, even before Ruby was arrested. Angry and alone, homeless and hungry, breaking the law just to survive, she is the kind of girl no one wants to listen to, especially not the prosecutor who wants to put her away for life. But no one knows the story--the real story--of what happened the day Ruby met the man who would end up dead. As the layers of truth are peeled away and time is running out, Ruby and Cadence will both have desperate choices to make--choices that could mean the difference between Ruby spending her life in prison or her name being cleared"--Provided by publisher.

"Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual--but after the deaths of two childhood friends, Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. So, Isa took off before the town could swallow her, too. Even though it meant leaving everything she knew behind, including her last surviving friend, Mason. When Isa's abusive father dies, however, she agrees to come back from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by an evil that haunts the town, and he needs Isa to help stop it--before it takes anyone else. When Isa begins to hear strange songs on the wind, and eerie artwork fills her sketchbook that she can't recall drawing, she's forced to stop running and confront her past. Because something is waiting in the shadows of Slater's valleys, something that feeds on the pain and heartbreak of its children. Whatever it is, it knows Isa's back... and it won't let her escape again"--Provided by publisher.

"Eighteen-year-old Addie Blackwood is forced to team up with her childhood rival to unmask her sister's killer"--Provided by publisher.

Eight months after the murder of her sister, Oli joins forces with another girl in a desperate and dangerous quest to unravel the case in their seemingly idyllic hometown.

"When Gianna 'Gigi' Ricci lands in detention again, she doesn't expect it to be her alibi in the death of her favorite teacher, Mr. Ford. Officially, Mr. Ford's death is an accident. Unofficially? Gigi doesn't buy it. Luckily, Gigi's friends with her high school's Mystery Club, and even though they have a zero percent success rate, she figures there's no better way to break that streak than with a genuine case to solve. So, alongside her best friend, Sean, and longtime crush, Mari, Gigi sets out to solve a murder. But it turns out that murderers are extremely unwilling to be caught, and the deeper Gigi gets in this mystery, the more dangerous things become. Between fending off a murderer, continual flare-ups of her IBS, and her archnemesis turning flirtatious, making it out of junior year is going to be one killer problem"--Provided by publisher.

Bettina Holland, known for being the daughter of the Smiley Face Killer, confronts her past and questions her beliefs about her father's guilt when a series of copycat murders emerge. She teams up with Eugenia, the mortician's daughter, to unmask a murderer closer to home than she ever imagined.

Told in alternating voices, Ruby and her sister agree to impersonate a stranger's grandchildren at a dinner party where they witness the murder of a witch and become involved in a magical power struggle.

"Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi's #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That's when Penney makes a bold decision. He [trades in] his power-lawyer identity and creates a new one: lawyer lifeguard. Moonlighting at the beach, showing up to court in flip-flops, mentoring a law student, the new Penney is at first unrecognizable. It's said that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client. But when Penney is accused of murder, [he] will find a way to triumph"--OCLC.

Detective Cross and his partner John Sampson are hot on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer, who is targeting commercial pilots.

"Two horror stories include "Give me a K-I-L-L," in which, when a lack of funding threatens to end cheerleading at Shadyside High, newcomer and talented cheerleader Heather competes against the school's head cheerleader in the hope of securing the last position on the squad"--OCLC.