murder

Hypocrisy and prejudice twist events in such a way as to implicate two children, one from a prominent white family and the other an African-American, in a murder.

Herculeah investigates the murder of a local fortune-teller--the only witness being the victim's parrot, who refuses to talk--and finds her own life in danger as she gets closer to the truth.

Earthmen have gone underground to live in overcrowded cities, afraid of the open spaces and scorned by the outer world planets.

Fourteen-year-old Darcy Murphy has been helping to raise his younger sister, Kat, since their mother was convicted of attempted murder; but now Sherri Murphy is being released and it will take incredible strength for Darcy to face her and the community that has labeled both of them.

Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle, the only passenger on a voyage from England to America in 1832, must take serious matters into her own hands when she learns that the captain is murderous.

In the medieval village of Penryth, seventeen-year-old Selwyn sets out to find the real killer of Farold, a young man he has been wrongfully convicted of murdering, with Farold himself as his only companion, brought back to life in the form of a bat by a cave-dwelling witch.

"After a series of suicide-killings and a deadly storm, the residents of the town of Oleander, Kansas, start acting even more strangely than would be expected. Only the 5 witnesses of the murders retain their sound minds, and must band together to save the town from whatever has come over it"--Provided by publisher.

When Finn's stepmother is gunned down, and he learns that the gunman has also admitted to killing Finn's birth mother years before, Finn strikes up a friendship with the killer's daughter and the two search for the truth of what is going on.

When sixteen-year-old Lark is murdered, she, her childhood best friend Eva, and a girl she used to babysit, Nyetta, find themselves facing hard truths about their lives and seeking a way to move on.

Reykjav?k police inspector Erlendur, with the help of Elinborg and Sigurdur, investigates when a skeleton is found in a lake which has been drained due to an earthquake and uncovers the victim was murdered and may have been involved in Cold War espionage.