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A good girl's guide to murder

"As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past"--Provided by publisher.
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This is my America

While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

Deacon King Kong

a novel
Tells the story of what happens to the witnesses after a fumbling, cranky old church deacon, known as Sportcoat, shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in South Brooklyn and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range, in 1969.
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Midnight at the Barclay Hotel

Five murder suspects are invited to the haunted Barclay Hotel for a weekend getaway, and it is up to twelve-year-old JJ and eleven-year-old Penny--and a lonely ghost--to figure out who committed the crime.
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The Greenbrier ghost

a ghost convicts her killer
"Elva Zona Heaster Shue died in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in January 1897. Her death was originally thought to be from natural causes. But when Zona's ghost began visiting her mother, the death began to look a lot more suspicious. This terrifying true story details the trial of Zona's murderer and the evidence presented against him from Zona herself, beyond the grave"--Provided by the publisher.

Vicious spirits

"Somin and Junu are helping Miyoung and Jihoon heal from their recent trauma when a new supernatural threat arises"--Provided by publisher.

The silence of bones

In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol, an indentured servant within the police bureau, becomes entangled in a politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman.
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Premeditated Myrtle

When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighbor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and thatshe must find the killer.

Killing November

"November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that's completely off the grid, there's no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from knife-throwing and poisons to the art of deception. And the other students? All children of the world's most elite strategists, in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators. November Adley doesn't know why she's been sent to this place, or the secrets that make up its legacy, but she'll quickly discover that allies are few in a school where competition is everything. When another student is murdered, all eyes turn to November, who must figure out exactly how she fits in before she is found guilty of the crime...or becomes the killer's next victim"--OCLC.

The justice project

Former high school football star Matt Barnes attempts to prove a convicted murderer's innocence while adjusting to a permanent injury.

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