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Mystery royale
by Kaitlyn Cavalancia
Sixteen-year-old Mullory Prudence is competing in a game of Mystery Royale at Stoutmire Estate for a chance to win an inheritance and discovers the prize is a recluse's illusionary magical properties and must untangle a twisted family web.
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Seasick
by Kristin Cast
While on a celebratory yacht trip to Bermuda, ex-best friends Naya and Yana, newly inducted into an exclusive society of top recent graduates, are plunged into a nightmare when a classmate is brutally murdered, and as the body count rises, they must team up to survive.
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Silent sister
by Megan Davidhizar
Found injured, with her sister's blood on her clothes, Grace must piece together what happened on the school trip with the help of her sister's notebook and the classmates who know more than they're telling the police about that tragic night.
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Better left buried
by Mary E. Roach
Told in alternating voices, teenagers Lucy and Audrey investigate a town full of secrets, a family full of mystery, and an abandoned amusement park where people keep turning up dead
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These deadly prophecies
by Andrea Tang
When her boss, the infamous fortuneteller Sorcerer Solomon, is murdered after predicting his own brutal death, Tabitha Zeng, a prime suspect in the crime, must place her trust in his youngest son to find the real killer and prove her innocence.
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The black queen
by Jumata Emill
When her best friend, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is murdered, Duchess Simmons becomes convinced that beautiful, wealthy and white Tinsley McArthur is responsible, and though Duchess is determined to prove Tinsley's guilt, Tinsley has an agenda of her own.
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Girl forgotten
by April Henry
Starting a podcast to investigate the unsolved murder of Layla Trello, true-crime fan Piper Gray begins receiving anonymous threats warning her off the case, leading her to believe the killer is still out there—and is coming for her next.
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Missing Clarissa : a novel
by Ripley Jones
Twenty years after the mysterious disappearance of popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell, Oreville high school juniors and best friends Blair and Cameron start a true crime podcast to finally discover the truth, with dangerous consequences. 150,000 first printing.
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Stateless
by Elizabeth Wein
Chosen to represent Britain in Europe's first air race for young people in 1937, Stella North is the only participating female pilot, and, while constantly having to prove herself as a worthy competitor, experiences turbulence when someone resorts to sabotage to get ahead of the game.
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Queen of the tiles
by Hanna Alkaf
When her late best friend's formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again during the Scrabble competition, with cryptic messages suggesting that her death was no accident, Najwa Bakri, surrounded by suspects, must find out who's behind these mysterious posts.
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Murder of Crows
by K. Ancrum
"Tig has caught the attention of the town's local armchair detective group, the Murder of Crows. They're obsessed with Hollow Falls' dark past and fixated on a dangerous search for the missing body of the town's founder. There are rumors about what's buried with the body that could be life-changing for whoever finds it, and with a mission like that underway, it's not long before a member of the Murder of Crows turns up dead. Tig, along with her friends Max and Wyn, steps in to help, but the stakes are getting higher and the hunt more deadly"
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Gideon Green in black and white
by Katie Henry
Gideon Green's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle school started and everyone else—including his best friend, Lily—moved on; now that he's 16 and officially retired, Lily shows up asking for Gideon's help.
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The red palace
by June Hur
In 1758 Joseon (Korea), 18-year-old palace nurse Hyeon works closely with a young police inspector to uncover the truth surrounding the murder of eight palace nurses when all the evidence points to the Crown Prince himself.
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Cold
by Mariko Tamaki
After being murdered, Todd Mayer, now some sort of ghost, replays the events that led to his death, while Georgia, who didn't know Todd but feels a strange connection, sets out to expose a killer in their quiet town.
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This golden state
by Marit Weisenberg
Determined to find out why her family is constantly on the run, Poppy undoes decades of careful work to keep her family anonymous and must protect them while trying to find her own place in the world.
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When all the girls are sleeping
by Emily Arsenault
When a disturbing video of her late ex-best friend surfaces, making it like look like she was murdered, Haley digs into what really happened and must solve this supernatural mystery before history has a chance to repeat itself.
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All these bodies
by Kendare Blake
When the suspect in a grisly string of murders refuses to talk to anyone but him, aspiring journalist Michael Jensen, the son of the town sheriff, must learn to separate fact from fiction to discover the truth.
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The forest of stolen girls
by June Hur
When her detective father goes missing while investigating the disappearance of 13 young women, including her sister, Hwani returns to their early 15th-century village in Korea to uncover dark community secrets.
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Pride and premeditation
by Tirzah Price
A first entry in a murder-mystery trilogy inspired by three of Jane Austen's classic novels follows the efforts of an aspiring lawyer who would prove herself to the heir of a prestigious firm.
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The girl in the white van
by April Henry
Kidnapped after an argument with her stepfather that causes everyone to assume she has run away, a kung fu student is held captive in a remote trailer home and struggles to free herself and a fellow prisoner who was nearly killed for attempting escape.
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You're next
by Kylie Schachte
Haunted by the unsolved murder of a classmate whose body she discovered, a teen with a reputation for nosiness witnesses the death of a former flame before uncovering a shocking conspiracy that puts her loved ones in mortal danger.
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The dead queens club
by Hannah Capin
Moving from Cleveland to Lancaster, Indiana, Annie Marck transformed into teenage royalty by entering Lancaster High on the arm of Henry, the king of the school. He's the jock, the genius and the brooding bad boy all in one. Which sort of explains why he's on his sixth girlfriend in two years. What it doesn't explain is why two of them are dead. Annie is determined to find out what really happened to Lancaster's dead queens-- ideally before history repeats itself. -- adapted from jacket
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The lonely dead
by April Henry
Discovering that her estranged friend has been murdered, Adele, a teen with the ability to speak with ghosts, risks her life to help stop the killer and clear her own name of suspicion.
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Killing November
by Adriana Mather
A new student at an off-the-grid training academy for future assassins, spies and con artists rapidly discovers the school's fiercely competitive and punitive environment before she is wrongly accused of murdering a classmate.
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The ruinous sweep
by Tim Wynne-Jones
"On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing car, he startles the driver, causing a fatal accident. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he's running from something--or someone--Donovan grabs the dead driver's briefcase and flees. Meanwhile, Bee is fighting for Dono's life everybit as much as he is. But when the police show up and hint that he is the prime suspect in a murder, Bee is determined to put together the pieces of what happened and clear his name"
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The similars
by Rebecca Hanover
Facing a wrenching junior year after the death of her best friend, Emma is shocked when her friend is illegally cloned six times, a mystery that leads Emma to uncover a dark truth about her prestigious school at the same time she starts falling for a boy with her best friend's face.
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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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Sophie someone
by Hayley Long
Loving her international school and friends in Belgium despite questions about why her family moved away from England when she was little, 14-year-old Sophie makes a startling discovery about her identity and her family that throws into question everything she believed about trust, choices and forgiveness. By the award-winning author of What's Up With Jody Barton?
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The disappearances
by Emily Bain Murphy
Sent to live in a faraway rural community after their secretive mother's death, Aila and her younger brother are targeted by locals who blame their mother for a mysterious phenomenon that triggers the disappearances of sensory and mental experiences every seven years.
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To catch a killer
by Sheryl Scarborough
Conducting a secret investigation years after surviving the unsolved murder of her mother, Erin Blake finds herself once again in the spotlight when a teacher is killed, causing her to suspect that the same murderer has struck again.
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The underdogs
by Sara Hammel
When a popular teen is found murdered at an elite tennis club, 12-year-old Evie and her best friend, Chelsea, follow the footsteps of the case's lead detective during a summertime filled with tension, blame and heroism.
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Half in love with death
by Emily Ross
When fifteen-year-old Caroline's older sister Jess disappears, Caroline gets together with Jess's boyfriend, Tony, to try to find her but Tony may not be as wonderful as he seems in this story inspired by the Pied Piper murders in Tucson, Arizona, in the1960s.
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Witch for hire
by Ted Naifeh
"When a series of high school pranks get out of hand, teen witch Faye Faulkner is the only one who can solve the case"
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