homicide

After a violent virtual-reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she works, fifteen-year-old Roberta finds the courage to search out the person who murdered her mother.

Jenna Blake, college student and medical examiner's assistant, investigates when several people mysteriously burn to death.

As a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia, in 1903, Rachel has seen a lot of dark times. She doesn't want the society standard life of a mother and wife. She would much rather be a writer. When her Christian friend Mikhail is murdered, everything turns on the Jews--the Christian community becomes outspokenly violent and anti-Semitic. Only her friendship with and growing love for Sergei, a Christian, keeps Rachel's hopes alive.

When Ali befriends four middle school classmates, she helps them achieve popularity at the price of doing whatever terrible thing Ali wants. Now, three years later, the four girls think they can put the awful experience to rest unless Ali has more in store for them.

After Dr. David Hunter, a forensic anthropologist travels to a remote island to inspect a puzzling set of remains, he learns that a pile of burned bones of a woman are located in an undamaged area. Hunter believes she had been brutally murdered.

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is about to expose a sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden implicating several high-ranking officials when two investigative reporters are murdered. The murder suspect is none other than Lisbeth Salander, the troubled computer hacker who aided him in the past. While Blomkvist tries to clear her name, Salander confronts her past in order to save herself from the person trying to frame her for murder.

In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell, " fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.

Contains three stories in which sixteen-year-old Aphra Behn Connolly becomes involved in three deadly mysteries after meeting handsome teenage spy Seth Mulo, learning that her mother is a secret agent, and joining her mother on the run from a dangerous criminal.

After months of concealing her secret identity as a murderer and prison escapee, Ariana Osgood realizes she is one wrong move from raising the suspicions of those closest to her and losing everything.

Reed Brennan's boyfriend is mysteriously murdered at their elite prep school. When their mutual friend, Josh, is arrested as the lead suspect, Reed sets out to prove his innocence. As her investigation leads closer to the truth, Ruth finds her own life at risk.