mystery fiction

Life in the remote town of Alder Creek, California, is boring for eighth-grader Sam and his friends, until his newly awakened ability to tell when a person is lying involves him in a series of mysterious events.

When some older residents of their town have been bilked by con artists, best friends Dunc and Amos investigate these crimes.

When her boyfriend is arrested and charged with murdering the school guidance counselor, seventeen-year-old Ashlyn tries to find the real killer.

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.

The two young detectives solve a mystery involving a top secret government agency and a world-famous spy who wishes to defect to America.

After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

In 1900, sixteen-year-old Paris, a Chicago teenager with a fondness for Sherlock Holmes, travels to Paris, France, to visit her uncle, a prominent scientist, only to find on her arrival that he has died under circumstances sufficiently mysterious to make her determined to investigate on her own.

After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger.