mystery fiction

"Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young"--Provided by publisher.

After their shocking discoveries on Summer Island, Marly, Sai, and Isla have one final set of clues to follow before reaching the end of their search.

Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.

Ginny is unhappy when her family moves from Chicago to upstate Michigan for the summer; her father has a job restoring a 1930s mansion, but there are rumors about Woodmoor and the forest next to it: rumors about strange mutant creatures; Ginny, an aspiring mystery writer, is soon half convinced that the rumors are true, because something or someone is haunting the house--and she plans to investigate, with the help of Will, the older boy who lives nearby.

The first Mrs. Ford was accomplished, beautiful, and exorbitantly wealthy, but now she is dead. The second Mrs. Ford is a small-town waitress who married the man with whom she had a summer romance ten years ago, and never forgot, and now is exorbitantly wealthy. The man linking these two women--one dead, the other one not yet dead--is Connor Ford, whose life is lived among the glittering Hamptons mansions. Connor's life unfolds through the eyes of the two women, his wives, who know and knew him best, and reveal the secrets of who is the real victim and villain.

Delta Dawn, a photographer no longer content just observing the perfect lives of NYC's elite citizens but wanting a piece of the pie for herself, is hired to photograph the eleventh birthday party of Natalie Straub. Using her connection to the family, Dawn becomes not only Natalie's photographer but also her nanny, befriends the mother, and ingratiates herself with the father. Slowly, Dawn finds in herself the frightening power to not only manipulate photos, but also the real world--but at a high cost.

Biologist Alex Carter is studying endangered wolverines in Montana when someone tries to run her off the road. Later, Alex reviews photographs her wildlife cameras captured of an injured man lost and wandering the wilderness. It seems she has captured evidence of some illegal operation, and now a human predator is on her trail.

When George Clare's wife is murdered and his toddler left alone in the house, he becomes a murder suspect. As the police try to find the killer, the fates of two families intertwine over the unsolved murder.

Nikki Tesla is a genius, so mostly she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father; trouble is most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in--but when her death ray disappears she has something bigger to worry about: who took it and what are they planning to do?.

"Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"--Provided by publisher.