mystery fiction

Curie and Nick Masters follow their mad-scientist father to some of the country's most tornado-prone locations, learning about past tornadoes and the possibility of future ones.

Curie and Nick Masters join their scientist father as he studies dangerous hurricanes. Includes facts, trivia, and safety information about hurricanes.

Scientist Artemis Masters travels with his children Curie and Nick to the Adriondacks where he has been hired by local resort owners to develop an early warning system for snowstorms, but when he becomes ill, Curie and Nick take over managing the experiment while trying to figure out why their hosts are trying to sabotage their efforts.

While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.

When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.

The Boxcar Children rush to get the scoop when it becomes apparent that someone is trying to shut down the Ice Cream Barn.

Eleven-year-old Skeet Waters flees to his boat to escape his parents' troubles and discovers a manatee that had been shot in the head.

Investigator Ruth Lake and her partner, Greg Carver, are haunted by a new serial killer dubbed the Ferryman, whose penchant is for "art installations" of his victims and whose motive seems to be narcissism, utilizing Britain's new obsession--the true-crime TV show "Fact, or Fable?"--to garner public attention. While Ruth goes out investigating, Greg still must deal with the effects of the head trauma that nearly killed him on their last investigation. However, the strange auras that have been blurring his vision may not be a side effect of his injury--it may be something that could help him see a person's true nature.

A sixteen-year-old boy arranges a housesitting job for the summer, but he starts acting strangely after his family moves in, and his sister begins to suspect they are not supposed to be there.

A woman named Jane awakes the day after a party to find herself tangled in a rosebush, paralyzed, and unable to remember the previous night. Her mother and doctors tell her that she was the victim of a hit-and-run accident but Jane suspects that someone is trying to kill her. She must try to understand what happened by sorting through random memories and friends' conflicting reports before the killer strikes again.