Mystery and Suspense Books
| YA BRADLEY |
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
Based on interviews with the real Suzanne David, this story of World War II heroism relates how a teenage Suzanne, training to become an opera singer, is recruited as a secret courier by an organizer in the French Resistance. |
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| Spy High Series by A.J. Butcher | |
| YA-PAP BUTCHER |
Spy High Mission OneTo the outside world, the New England boarding school known as Devereaux Academy looks no different than any other exclusive private school. But to first-year students, it goes by the name Spy High. |
| YA-PAP BUTCHER |
Spy High Mission TwoThe Sherlock Shield is awarded to the team that performs best in a series of competitions. Bond Team is locked in a tight battle with Solo Team. But when a terrorist organization causes epic disasters across the United States, Bond Team has a more important task at hand. |
| YA-PAP BUTCHER |
Spy High Mission Three: The Serpent ScenarioThe kids from Spy High are back. The mission this time is to avenge the death of Jennifer, a member of Bond Team, and stop druglords from taking over Undertown. |
| YA-PAP BUTCHER |
Spy High Mission Four: The ParanoiaRebecca Dee has spiked green hair, a LOT of body piercing and even more attitude. But that's not what's bothering the Bond Team. They're more worried about the "accidents" that seem to happen whenever their new teammate is around. And where she keeps sneaking off to late at night. Her unusual behavior is beginning to look like more than a coincidence. Bond Team is beginning to suspect Rebecca Dee is a double agent! |
| YA CROSS |
Phoning a Dead ManWhen her brother John, a demolition expert, is killed in an explosion in Siberia, Hayley agrees to accompany his wheelchair-bound fiancee, Annie, to the scene of the accident, but both suspect that their only escorts have possible Mafia connections. |
| YA GLENN |
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale: A Mystery in Poems
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| The Alex Rider Adventures by Anthony Horowitz | |
| YA HOROWITZ |
StormbreakerAfter the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Point Blank: An Alex Rider AdventureFresh from his training by MI6, Alex Rider is headed for an exclusive private school in the French Alps because the isolated mountain academy is linked to the deaths of two prominent men. Though Alex finds himself in a few tight spots, his courage and ingenuity prevent the school's power-mad directors from using adolescent clones to take over the world. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Skeleton KeyTwice, young Alex has managed to save the world. And twice, he has almost been killed doing it. But now Alex faces something even more dangerous. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Eagle StrikeTeen spy Alex Rider survives a bullfight, a high-speed bicycle chase through Amsterdam, and even being the target in a human video-game, only to face his most disturbing challenge yet: when the best of intentions are driven by insanity, how do you reason with a madman? |
| YA HOROWITZ |
Scorpia: An Alex Rider AdventureAfter being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren. |
| YA-PAP HOROWITZ |
The Devil and His BoyYoung Tom Falconer is miserable working at The Pig's Head Inn in Elizabethan England. When a mysterious gentleman takes Tom to a new life, he thinks it's a miracle. But then the gentleman is murdered, and Tom is left to find his way around London on his own. When Tom gets involved with a group of actors putting on a play, he doesn't suspect their plot to overthrow the queen. |
| YA HOROWITZ |
The Falcon's Malteaser: A Diamond Brothers Mystery
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| The Roman Mysteries by Caroline Lawrence | |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery (Book One)
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| YA LAWRENCE |
The Secrets of Vesuvius (Book Two)Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The Pirates of Pompeii (Book Three)At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The Assassins of Rome (Book Four)September, A.D. 79 In Ostia, near Rome, Flavia Gemina, the sea captain's daughter, Nubia, the African girl, and Lupus, the mute boy, are celebrating their friend Jonathan's birthday. Then a visitor from the past arrives to see Jonathan's father. The next day, the visitor has disappeared -- and so has Jonathan. When the three friends discover that Jonathan has gone on a secret mission to Rome, they are determined to follow him. Their mission takes them to the Golden House of the Emperor Nero, where a deadly assassin is at work, and brings them face-to-face with the terrible destruction of Jerusalem and its impact on Jonathan's family. |
| YA LAWRENCE |
The Dolphins of Laurentum (Book Five)A ragged stranger and the prospect of losing her family's fortune lead Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Lupus, and Nubia to a seaside villa. There, they discover a shipwreck and sunken treasure -- and that someone else is after the treasure, too. As they solve the riddle of the wreck, the four friends also stumble across the terrible mystery of Lupus's past. |
| YA NAPOLI |
Three DaysWhen her father suddenly dies while on a business trip leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year-old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives. |
| YA NIXON |
The TrapSixteen-year-old Julie agrees to spend the summer at her great-aunt and uncle's ranch in Texas, but gets more than she bargained for when valuables suddenly start disappearing and it appears that there may be a murderer in their midst. |
| YA-PAP PLUM-UCCI |
The Body of Christopher CreedCorey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. |
| Sammy Keyes Mysteries by Wendelin Van-Draanen | |
| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception
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| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary
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| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
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| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel ThiefThirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother. |
| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen
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| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Runaway ElfAfter a dog she is watching disappears from a city parade and the owner receives a ransom note, thirteen-year-old Sammy must use her detective skills to solve the mystery. |
| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes
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| YA VAN DRAANEN |
Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton ManOn Halloween night, seventh grader Sammy stumbles onto a mystery involving a twenty-year-old family feud and some heirlooms stolen by a man in a skeleton costume. |
| Adult Fiction WATT, Alan |
Diamond DogsNeil Garvin is a seventeen-year-old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime and his father, unasked, covers up for him. As the FBI arrives and begins to narrow in, Neil and his father become locked in a confrontation that will break them apart and set them free. Contains some adult subject matter. Recommended for grades 10 and up. |
| YA WER YA-PAP WERLIN |
Killer's CousinAfter being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily. |
| YA WYNNE- JONES |
The Boy In the Burning HouseTrying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor. |
| YA ZINDEL |
The GadgetIn 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue. |
