Mystery Selections

DON'T SCREAM, by Joan Lowery Nixon
When two new guys start at Jess's high school, she thinks the year is really looking up. When cats start disappearing and someone is lurking in her backyard, she learns the two boys are not all that they seem. Who can she trust? Will she be the next victim?

 EYES OF A STRANGER by Sharon Heisel
Attracted to the handsome, mysterious stranger who has been visiting the carousel she runs, shy Melissa longs to be his girlfriend until she realizes he may connected to a series of murders.

GETTING LINCOLN’S GOAT by E.M.Goldman
In this comic mystery, slightly nerdy tenth­ grader Eliot Armbruster investigates the mysterious disappearance of Lincoln High’s school mascot and gets a taste of what being a detective would really be like.

HAWK MOON by Rob MacGregor
Only the help of a Hopi Indian spirit and a computer hacker can help Will prove his innocence when he is suspected in the disappearance and possible murder of his girlfriend, Myra.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER by Lois Duncan
Four high school juniors swear a pact never to confess to the hit and run accident. But a year later, they receive a picture of a boy on a bike, a mysterious phone call, and a letter that reads, “I know what you did last summer.” 

THE OTHER SIDE OF DARK by Joan Lowery Nixon
Stacey awakens from a coma that lasted four years and learns she is the only eyewitness to the murder of her mother.

THE RUBY IN THE SMOKE, by Philip Pullman
In Victorian England, the disappearance of a ruby and the death of her father are two mysteries must be solved by heroine Sally Lockhart.

TWISTED SUMMER by Willo Davis Roberts
Cici is hoping for a romantic summer at Crystal Beach. Instead, as she tries to solve a murder from the year before, she discovers that her step­grandfather is hiding a secret.

WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN? by Mary Higgins Clark
With a new Marriage and children in Cape Cod, Nancy Harmon thought she had left the heartbreak of her first marriage and the murder of her two children behind her... until the morning she looked in the back yard for her little boy and girl and found only a single red mitten. The nightmare was beginning again.

WHO KILLED MR. CHIPPENDALE, by Mel Glenn      
A series of poems describes the murder of an English teacher, Mr. Chippendale, and reactions of students and staff to his death. The poems eventually reveal the identity of the murderer.

WHO'S THERE by Stephanie Tolan
After their parents' unexpected deaths, fourteen year old Drew and her younger brother move to their grandfather's house where they sense a haunting presence.

WOLF RIDER by Avi
The anonymous caller said, “I just killed someone.” Andy’s father and the police said it was just someone crying “wolf.” To Andy, talk death was never a joke.