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Not Quite True Crime: Mysteries for Teens
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A good girl's guide to murder
by Holly Jackson
Five years after the shattering murder and suicide of two popular teens, a skeptical high school student reexamines the case before uncovering disturbing clues about what really happened. A first novel.
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I hope you're listening
by Tom Ryan
Seventeen-year-old Dee secretly hosts a popular true-crime podcast but when a missing child seems linked to the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago, she considers revealing her identity to uncover the truth.
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
Resolving to bring her sister's killer to justice, an orphaned teen goes missing while investigating meager clues, before a radio personality learns her story and becomes obsessed with finding her before it is too late. By the author of What Goes Around.
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The cheerleaders
by Kara Thomas
The surviving sister of a cheerleader who was one of five girls who died violently years earlier realizes during a memory-laden memorial that the tragedies may have been more sinister. By the author of Little Monsters.
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Grown
by Tiffany D. Jackson
"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point to Enchanted"
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One of us is lying
by Karen M. McManus
When one of five students in detention is found dead, his high-profile classmates—including a brainy intellectual, a popular beauty, a drug dealer on probation and an all-star athlete—are investigated and revealed to be the subjects of the victim's latest gossip postings.
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People like us
by Dana Mele
When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life. A first novel.
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Burn Baby Burn
by Meg Medina
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence.
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The amateurs
by Sara Shepard
Investigating the cold-case disappearance that first inspired her ambition to become a detective, Seneca Frazier teams up with fellow enthusiasts to investigate suspicious activity in a trendy community filled with dark secrets and shocking betrayals.
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Broken things
by Lauren Oliver
Withdrawing from a community that blames them for a friend's death five years earlier, two girls are reunited by a seemingly insignificant discovery that resurrects the mystery and forces them to confront traumatic events to uncover what really happened.
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City of saints and thieves
by Natalie C. Anderson
Years after her beloved mother is murdered by her corrupt businessman employer, Tina, a girl who fled Congo during childhood, becomes an expert thief in order to support her younger sister and pursue a dangerous opportunity to exact revenge.
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I Killed Zoe Spanos
by Kit Frick
For fans of Sadie and Serial, this gripping thriller follows two teens whose lives become inextricably linked when one confesses to murder and the other becomes determined to uncover the real truth no matter the cost.
What happened to Zoe won’t stay buried…
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Ink and ashes
by Valynne E. Maetani
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"
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Keep this to yourself
by Tom Ryan
After high school graduation, Mac focuses on finding the serial killer who murdered his best friend the previous summer, while working through his own feelings for the deceased.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
A first entry in a new series by the best-selling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes introduces sharp and funny detective Stevie Bell, whose first year at an elite boarding school finds her unraveling two mysteries, including one from the school's past and one in the present.
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Patron saints of nothing
by Randy Ribay
Setting aside his college ambitions when he learns that his cousin has been murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, a high school senior travels to the Philippines to uncover the truth, and the part he may have played in it. By the author of After the Shot Drops.
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