detective and mystery stories

At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.

Dink Duncan and his two friends investigate the apparent kidnapping of famous mystery author Wallis Wallace.

The Freaky Joe Club's mission is to solve crimes and fight evil in Ship's Cove, Texas. Conor, Timmy, and Jack have to find out who wants to keep the Ship's Cove Octopi's from winning a charity swimathon.

Told in separate voices, Lena and Aubrey, each hiding their own secrets, set off in search of the truth about Charlie, including if he is really dead, after meeting at his funeral and learning that he was dating both of them.

Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.

When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

A goblin detective and a technology-tinkering troll set out to solve the mystery of the escaped cleaning slimes.

"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.

High school senior and science whiz Nearly Boswell, called Leigh, is thrilled when she gets an internship in a forensic science lab, since it is a step toward college and a way out of the trailer park--but soon she finds herself the target of a serial killer, one who seems to know a lot about the residents of Sunny View Trailer Park as well as her absent father's secrets.

"A year has passed since Berta's father was confined to bed. One year since she had to take over the detective agency. A year for reflection. Now, the first album of her group is coming out, she has to seriously consider her relationship with a music star, decide if she wants to continue taking care of the detective agency and all its problems, which are not few. Everything accelerates when the police inspector Alfredo Sanlleh?, her protector, is seriously injured and Berta has to solve two very dangerous cases. In one, an online stalker threatens a women with posting her nude photos. In the other, the strange disappearance of a young Colombian woman will lead her to face drug lords"--Amazon.com.