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Who Done It?: Historical Mysteries
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Girl in the blue coat
by Monica Hesse
A grief-stricken procurer of black-market goods in World War II-era Amsterdam is compelled to help a desperate neighbor track down a missing Jewish teen who had been hiding from the Nazis.
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Three Brooklyn teens plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he is still alive, in a vibrant standalone novel by the NAACP Image Award-nominated author of Monday's Not Coming.
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An assassin's guide to love & treason
by Virginia Boecker
When her father is executed for being a Catholic, Lady Katherine disguises herself as a male Shakespearean actor as part of a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and is unknowingly cast opposite a spy for the queen. By the author of the Witch Hunter series.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper
by Kerri Maniscalco
The privileged teen daughter of a lord in Victorian-era London secretly studies forensic medicine before she is embroiled in the investigation of serial killer Jack the Ripper. A first novel.
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The pearl thief
by Elizabeth Wein
Recovering from an injury at her grandfather's estate in the aftermath of an incident she gradually realizes may not have been an accident, 15-year-old Julia investigates the disappearance of a missing person alongside a boy whose family has been shaped by stark prejudices. By the Edgar Award-winning author of Code Name Verity.
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Dreamland Burning
by Jennifer Latham
A dual-narrated tale by the author of Scarlett Undercover explores how race relations have changed in the past century through the story of 17-year-old Rowan, who investigates a century-old murder committed during the race riots of 1921 Tulsa.
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Girl at the grave
by Teri Bailey Black
Targeted with suspicion as the daughter of a convicted murderer in the wake of a string of local killings, Valentine finds unexpected support from the son of the man her mother killed years earlier and is forced to confront her own dark secrets.
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A spy in the house
by Y. S. Lee
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young 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 and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.
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These shallow graves
by Jennifer Donnelly
A young woman in 19th-century New York City must struggle against gender and class boundaries when her father is found dead of a supposed suicide that she believes is more than meets the eye, but in order to uncover the truth, she will have to decide how much she is willing to risk and lose.
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Jackaby
by William Ritter
Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature
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The Lie Tree
by Frances Hardinge
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
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Mister Death's blue-eyed girls
by Mary Downing Hahn
A tale inspired by a double murder that took place in the author's 1950s Maryland hometown follows the experiences of high school junior Nora, who questions everything she ever believed in the aftermath of the killings of two teenage peers, whose deaths are blamed on a victim's bitter ex-boyfriend.
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Wrapped
by Jennifer Bradbury
Attracting the attentions of 19th-century England's most eligible bachelors throughout her debut season, Agnes Wilkins wonders if a handsome young collector of Egyptian artifacts may be too good to be true before discovering his true identity as a spy for Napoleon.
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The transatlantic conspiracy
by G. D. Falksen
When her industrialist father books passage for her on the 1908 maiden voyage of his underwater railway without asking her first, socialite Rosalind is accompanied by her best friend's handsome older brother and must fight to clear her name when she is implicated in a double murder. By the author of The Ouroboros Cycle series.
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