mystery fiction

"When the king's lucky fishing hat goes missing, so does his luck. Everything is going wrong! But Ava and Gabby Danger are on the case"--Provided by publisher.

"Something strange is happening at Dragon Elementary. Teachers are whispering, Principal Knight is extra sweaty, and someone swears something was flying above the playground! And what in the world is that smell? Ava and Gabby are on the case! Along with their frog, Erk, they'll put on their thinking crowns and follow the clues"--Back cover.

"Despite their differences, Daphne and Velma were able to solve the mystery of The Vanishing Girl. But there are a lot of secrets buried in the town of Crystal Cove. And the biggest case of all still remains unsolved--why did the town's original settlers all disappear? What happened to them? Velma is determined to find out--especially because her family's ancestors were among the disappeared. And now that she and Daphne have started to get a reputation for solving mysteries, everyone in town is looking to them for answers. But digging up the past can be dangerous-- especially when some people in town have profited from the mystery for so long. Can these two intrepid teen detectives crack the case--and escape with their lives?"--Provided by publisher.

"Popular Daphne Blake and ?ber-nerd Velma Dinkley are not friends. They aren't enemies either, but they don't have any reason to speak to each other, and that's how they prefer it. The two girls grew up together--they'd been best friends since pre-K--but when they hit middle school, Daphne dropped Velma and never looked back. These days, Daphne's deep in the popular crowd, daughter of the richest family in town, while Velma's an outsider, hiding from the world behind her thick glasses. When they run into each other in the halls of Crystal Cove High, they look the other way. But then Daphne's best friend, Marcy--who happens to be Velma's cousin--goes missing. A century ago, there was a wave of disappearances in Crystal Cove, and many local people believe that supernatural forces were behind it. Now the whole town believes those same forces are back and up to no good. Daphne and Velma may be the only ones who can solve the mystery and save Marcy--if they can trust each other enough to try. Especially since the truth might be stranger--and scarier--than either girl can imagine"--Provided by publisher.

"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club"--Provided by publisher.

"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has met his match, and now no one is safe. April and her friends will have to solve a decades-old mystery in order to hang on to the most important thing in the world: each other"--Provided by publisher.

When sixteen-year-old Sadie Saunders goes missing for a week, the blame rests on her friends who swear they are innocent. To prove it, they form their own search party and head into the woods where she was last seen to find her. However, each one of them hides a secret--and one of them won't make it out of the woods alive.

"When a woman is murdered in Blackdown, a quintessentially British village, newsreader Anna Andrews is reluctant to cover the case. Detective Jack Harper is suspicious of her involvement, until he becomes a suspect in his own murder investigation. Someone isn't telling the truth, and some secrets are worth killing to keep"--Amazon.

Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Thirty years later, he still doesn't know anything, and another child is missing. Wilde can't ignore an outcast in trouble. In order to venture back into his past community, he must uncover secrets that could destroy the lives of millions.

"On the surface, Rachel Marin is an ordinary single mother; on the inside, she's a fierce, brilliant vigilante. After an unspeakable crime shatters her life, she changes her identity and moves to a small town in Illinois, hoping to spare her children from further trauma...or worse. But crime follows her everywhere. When the former mayor winds up dead, Rachel can't help but get involved. Where local detectives see suicide, she sees murder. They resent her for butting in--especially since she's always one step ahead. But her investigative genius may be her undoing: the deeper she digs, the harder it is to keep her own secrets buried. Her persistence makes her the target of both the cops and a killer. . ."--OCLC.