mystery fiction

"When her best friend invites her to spend a week at the lake, Luna jumps at the chance. But what starts off as the perfect summer getaway quickly turns to an unsettling mystery. Can Luna figure out the forest's secrets before it's too late?"--Provided by publisher.

"Harper is dealing with too many new changes in her house. Her cousin, Leo, is now living with them; her sister, Kelly, has started working at a local makeup store, Jeune; and Harper's spirit hunter abilities have grown increasingly more powerful and uncontrollable, making her a target for possession. But when Harper and Dayo uncover a dangerous plot to steal youth from millions of innocent people, Harper must use all her powers to destroy an ancient evil and save her sister. Can our intrepid spirit hunters rescue Kelly before it's too late?"--From the publisher's web site.

Not long after seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis arrives to live with her estranged grandmother in a coastal California town, the high school homecoming queen is found dead and Cecelia, fearing a copycat killer is on the loose, throws herself into the investigation.

Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.

School newspaper editor Safiya Mirza's dreams of becoming a journalist get a grim start when she is the first person to discover the body of the murdered boy, Jawad Ali--the fourteen-year-old Muslim boy who created a costume jet pack, which got mistaken for a bomb, which led him to be labeled a terrorist, and which finally led a group of white supremacists to murder him. Guided in her investigation by the haunting voice of Jawad, though, Safiya will discover a secret and lies while the jury in the case is still undecided, which will challenge everyone's notions of facts and truth.

"In 30 BCE, Cleopatra and her husband, Marc Antony, lost their war against Octavian for control of the Egyptian Empire. However, Cleopatra knew Octavian was really after the mysterious item that was the source of all her wealth and influence, so she hid it before committing suicide. She left a series of devious clues behind for her children to find it, but they were lost to history--until now. . . . Charlie must fight for her life against ruthless enemies, match wits with Cleopatra, and solve the two-thousand-year-old mystery to prevent the most powerful treasure of the ancient world from falling into the wrong hands"--Provided by publisher.

"Colin and Nevaeh, whose parents own rival junk-removal businesses, uncover mysteries hidden in attics and basements and discover how trash can become treasure. . . . Colin and Nevaeh find vintage letters that lead to interlocking mysteries from the 1970s and '80s, and they learn about 'women's lib,' the ERA, and other social issues from that time in history--and the way echoes from that era affect Colin and Nevaeh themselves"--Provided by publisher.

When four Mexican-American teenagers from Houston travel to Diamond Park to buy a 1959 Chevy Impala from Maga?a's godfather, something goes very wrong, and one of them, Susi, ends up arrested for murder; convinced that the real killer is a drug trafficker called Anaconda, Flaco and Maga?a head to Mexico hunting for him to clear Susi's name--but in the process of kidnapping Anaconda Flaco discovers how little he understands about what really happened in Diamond Park.

"Madeline Harper does not like lima beans and she's not afraid to make that clear. But when she gets sent to bed for not eating her vegetables, she'll find something far worse than her mother's frustration. A lima bean scorned is a terrible thing and it will not stop until Madeline Harper eats her vegetables!"--Publisher.

Everyone on the Bader Ginsburg Middle School Badgers is looking forward to the playoffs and a chance to win back the Supreme Bowl trophy from the Wellstone Middle School Warriors--but somebody has stolen the trophy, and evidence points to one of the Badgers, so teammates Kenny Hu and Romeo Russell set out to clear their friend and discover the truth.