detective and mystery fiction

"Melody is impressed by her sophisticated new friend, Leah Roth, but she wishes her cousin Val would stop being so standoffish to Leah! Melody meets Leah's grandfather, Dr. Roth, a botanist who escaped the Nazis and brought a rare and valuable Lady's Slipper orchid with him to America. When Melody's own grandfather becomes a suspect in a burglary, Melody turns to Val and Leah for help. Yet Leah seems to be hiding something, something to do with her grandfather, that could hurt all of them. Can Melody catch the orchid thief before it's too late?"--Back cover.

"Scooby and the gang are on vacation at the lake. But a big, hairy monster seems to be lurking around their cabin. Is he after their Scooby-snacks? It's a case only the Mystery Inc. gang can solve!"--Publisher.

"Harriet, Jack, and Toby follow the second lost journal into the dangerous Nether, hoping to rescue William the Explorer from the fiery biome"--Provided by publisher.

Detective Antoinette Conway, new to the Murder Squad and being harrassed by the other detectives, investigates a murder that looks like a lovers' quarrel gone bad, but as Antoinette and her partner learn more about the victim, they start to realize there is something darker going on.

"Ella Nygaard, 27, has been a ward of the state since she was 7 years old, the night her father murdered her mother. She doesn't remember anything about that night - but her body remembers. The PTSD-induced panic attacks she now suffers incapacitate her for days. After one particularly bad episode lands Ella in a psych ward, she discovers her son, Alex, has been taken from her by the state and placed with a foster family. Driven by desperation, Ella kidnaps Alex and flees to the seaside town in northern Denmark where she was born, where she is forced to confront the demons of her childhood"--Provided by publisher.

When 114 people go missing on Roanoke Island in what seems like an eerie repeat of what happened hundreds of years before, seventeen-year-olds Miranda and Grant may be the key to the mysteries past and present.

Hoping to ensure their friendship will outlast high school, Izzie and her friends form a secret society devoted to mischief that rights wrongs and pays back debts, but it spirals out of control when the whole town wants to participate.

"Two years ago, Jane Norton crashed her car on a lonely road, killing her friend David and leaving her with amnesia. At first, everyone was sympathetic. Then they found Jane's note: I wish we were dead together. ... From that day the town turned against her. But even now Jane is filled with questions: Why were they on that road? Why was she with David? Did she really want to die? ... Most of all, she must find out who has just written her an anonymous message: 'I know what really happened. I know what you don't remember...'"--Provided by publisher.

"Wannabe reporter Laya, aspiring actress Aster, and fledgling musician Tommy joined the Unrivaled nightclub competition for the same reason-they knew winning it would change their lives. They just never imagined that somewhere along the way they'd become entangled in the disappearance of mega starlet Madison Brooks. Now each of them is smack in the center of a media frenzy that threatens to take all of them down. Banding together to clear their names, the fierce adversaries become temporary allies and vow to dig up the truth. But when Layla, Aster, and Tommy team with an unsuspecting insider, they will find that some secrets are best kept in the grave"--Amazon.

"When the rodeo comes to Bayport, Joe and Frank catch the ranch hands trying to steal a prize horse. After the boys stop the theft, they're recruited to help drive the cattle back to the ranch. However, mysterious things continue to happen and the Hardy boys have to solve the mystery"--OCLC.