Mysteries & Suspense
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Enter the world of crime, thrillers and suspense.
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Barnes, Jennifer Nobody There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. That's why they make the perfect assassins. 2013 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Blundell, Judy What I Saw and How I Lied When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But when handsome Peter Coleridge shows up, Evie finds herself falling for him and ignoring the secrets that surround him, until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two. 2008 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Doctorow, Cory Homeland Ths sequel to Little Brother is set a few years after an economic collapse ends Marcus' college ambitions and leads to a much-needed job as a webmaster for a reformer politician. When Marcus' onetime girlfriend Masha gives him with a thumbdrive containing hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy, Marcus is reluctant to release it to the world. But then people begin to shadow Marcus - people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. 2013 Teen Fiction Book |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Stories of the quintessential detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, confronted by his archenemy Professor Moriarty, and outwitted by the most unlikely of persons. 2002 Adult Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Feinstein, John Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.[Edgar Award Winner] 2005 Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Gagnon, Michelle Don't Turn Around 16-year-old Noa is using her computer-hacking skills to stay out of foster care and live off the grid. But one day she wakes up on a table in an empty warehouse with an IV in her arm, a new scar on her chest and no memory of how she got there. Peter, a privileged kid who leads a computer hacktivist group, decides to poke around on his dad’s company’s server when his front door is kicked in by three armed men. Suddenly the two of them are on the run, chased by a powerful company willing to do anything to catch them and keep their secrets. 2012 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Green, John Paper Towns One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin Q Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears. [Edgar Award Winner] 2008 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Harrington, Kim Clarity Clarity "Clare" Fern sees things. Things no one else can see. All she has to do is touch a certain object, and the visions come to her. It's a gift. And a curse. When a teenage girl is found murdered, Clare's ex-boyfriend wants her to help solve the case. After Clare's brother becomes the prime suspect, Clare can no longer look away. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Hiaasen, Carl Flush With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. 2005 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Higson, Charles SilverFin Young James Bond, while attending boarding school at Eton in the 1930s, must battle an insane arms dealer who, by using killer eels, is attempting to create a race of indestructible soldiers on the eve of World War II. 2010 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Johnson, Maureen The Name of the Star Louisiana teen Rory is spending a year at a London boarding school when she becomes the prime witness in a case involving a Jack the Ripper copycat. In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory learns the truth about the secret ghost police of London and discovers her own shocking abilities. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Lee, Y. S. A Spy in the House Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, 17-year-old orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called the Agency. Her mission: to infiltrate a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships. 2010 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Leonard, Niall Crusher Seventeen-year-old Finn Maguire's life is dismal - he's a dyslexic dropout with a criminal record. After his father, a washed-up actor-turned-screenwriter, is murdered Finn becomes the prime suspect and has to scour the London underworld to find the true killer. A gripping thriller with a surprise ending. 2012 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Patterson, James Angel Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Pearson, Mary The Fox Inheritance After a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, Jenna's, Locke's and Kara's minds were kept alive. Even in that disembodied state, they were still together. When Jenna disappeared, Locke and Kara went on without her. 260 years later, they have been released at last. Locke and Kara awaken to a world they know nothing about, where everyone they once knew and loved is long dead -- everyone except Jenna Fox. 2011 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Shepard, Sara Never Have I Ever When Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, she finds new suspects at every turn, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Strasser, Todd Blood On My Hands When queen bee Katherine is found murdered at party, and her (former) friend Callie is found with a bloody knife in her hand, the evidence seems solid. Callie knows she didn't kill Katherine, but how will she prove it? 2010 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity Oct. 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. A truly suspenseful tale full of surprising and dramatic twists. 2012 Teen Fiction Book Other formats available |
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