mystery fiction

Co-workers in a dead-end Canadian town, Moses and Jamie hit a lion on their way home from work and leave it to die, which appears to prompt a series of ominous events, such as Moses losing his mother, Jamie losing his home, and a vengeful hunt by lion's owner for its killers.

The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.

Finlay Donovan is a struggling single mom of two who is trying to finish her next novel. But when Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she is believed to be contract killer and approached with a job offer to get rid of a problem husband. Finlay agress, but one thing leads to another, and soon she finds her life is becoming more dangerous than the books she's written.

While attending a prestigious New England school, seventeen-year-old Charlie seeks to become a member of an elite secret society by playing The Game, a semester-long, high-stakes scavenger hunt that will reveal the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life.

"Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective he had an inspiring mentor, John Jack Thompson, who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case. Now John Jack is dead and Harry inherits a murder book that Thompson took with him when he left the LAPD 20 years before - the unsolved killing of a troubled young man in an alley used for drug deals. Bosch brings the murder book to Renee Ballard and asks her to help him find what about the case lit Thompson's fire all those years ago. That will be their starting point. The bond between Bosch and Ballard tightens as they become a formidable investigative team. And they soon arrive at a worrying question: Did Thompson steal the murder book to work the case in retirement, or to make sure it never got solved?"--Provided by publisher.

Billie James learns she has inherited her poet father's Mississippi Delta shack thirty years after he died. When she returns to remodel the shack into a rental, she learns from locals that she went missing the day he died, when she was only four years old. As she digs through her father's writings, she uncovers the truth of his death and her disappearance.

When her friend Link Miller is found drowned in a forest far away from the nearest source of water, Noemi Amato is haunted by his death, because she knows he drowned in a lake only she can see. When her mother's boyfriend and his son Jonas move in, Noemi begins to trust him and eventually reveals what's happening to him and to Link's younger sister, Amberlyn. Together, they try to make sense of what appear to be text messages from Link, while they seek to understand who they are and their place in the world.

After a mad dash to safety out of a windowless shack in the woods where her captor had been holding her, a young woman calling herself Lena returns to the world after fourteen years missing. However, this is only the beginning of a new nightmare--her family swears she is not their Lena, in spite of the matching scar she has. The little girl who Lena escape with is also a question mark--she is not saying everything she knows. Meanwhile, Lena fears her tormentor is not done with her, and will not rest until the whole truth about what happened in that shack in the woods.

Collects twenty short mystery stories by American authors, including Brock Adams, Brendan DuBois, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Ed Gorman.

"Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time. This means her mother can finally 'follow her bliss,' which involves moving to a tiny apartment in Kensington Market, working at a herbal remedy shop and trying to develop her so-called mystical powers. Clara tries to make the best of a bad situation by joining the newspaper staff at her new middle school, where she can sharpen her investigative journalistic skills and tell the kind of hard-news stories her grandmother appreciated. But the editor relegates her to boring news stories and worse . . . the horoscopes. Worse yet, her horoscopes come true, and soon everyone at school is talking about Clara Voyant, the talented fortune-teller. Clara is horrified--horoscopes and clairvoyance aren't real, she insists, just like her grandmother always told her. But when a mystery unfolds at school, she finds herself in a strange situation: having an opportunity to prove herself as an investigative journalist . . . with the help of her own mystical powers"--Provided by publisher.