mystery fiction

When Tori's cousin and best friend, Sumiko, visits, the two girls investigate a mystery involving a missing zoo animal and strange noises in the back yard.

While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred-dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.

Alternates between the detective work of middle-schooler Jesse and her new friend, Springer, after her father is accused of stealing, and post-tornado rescue efforts of Jesse and her Pomeranian, Sam-Sam.

Presents the first four books in Patrick Carman's "Skeleton Creek" in which teenaged Ryan who is housebound following an eerie accident, continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a journal and viewing email video clips sent by fellow detective Sarah.

"As an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, Lacy Stoltz sees plenty of corruption among the men and women elected to the bench. In The whistler, she took on a crime syndicate that was paying millions to a crooked judge. Now, in The judge's list, the crimes are even worse. The man hiding behind the black robe is not taking bribes--but he may be taking lives"--Provided by publisher.

"It was a cold winter in New Mouse City when my grandfather William Shortpaws decided to take the whole family on vacation! We all climbed aboard the cheese-colored camper and set off on a relaxing retreat. But we took a wrong turn, and somehow I found myself trying to round up a caravan of spitting camels. Could I get them all back to The Last Resort Oasis?"--Back cover.

When high school senior Piper Woods finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins, she is sure the book is too gruesome to be true, but when a student from the list dies, and although everyone thinks it is a suicide, she suspects something much worse, and her fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text daring her to make things right.

A collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective, and his devoted friend, Dr. Watson.

All signs point to murder when a wealthy businessman plummets from his office window, but with no evidence, witness, or apparent motive, the investigation becomes a cold case. Months later, Detective Inspector Sep Black of the Cold Case Unit is approached by an attractive widow who wants him to look into the murder of her husband, a reporter who seems to have been close to breaking a big story, for which someone had him killed. Black discovers the connection between the two murders, then an attempt is made on his own life.

Stranded alone while vacationing in the Adirondacks, twelve-year-old best friends Kat Wolfe and Harper Lamb leave their snug cabin to search for a missing witness in a criminal case, while a blizzard nears.