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Here are our favorite mystery books. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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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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Queen of the Tiles
by Hanna Alkaf
When her late best friends 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 whos behind these mysterious posts. 40,000 first printing.
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Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets
by Chelsea Ichaso
"Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it--things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper's locker inviting Piper to a meeting of their school's wilderness club...at the very place and on the very day she fell. Which means there was a chance that Piper wasn't alone. Someone might have seen something. Worse, someone might have done something. But who would have wanted to hurt the perfect Piper Sullivan--and why? To discover the truth, Savannah joins the club on their weekend-long camping trip on the same mountain where her sister fell. But she'd better be careful. Everyone in the club is a suspect, and everyone seems to be keeping secrets about that tragic day. And Savannah? She's been keeping secrets too..."
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The Counselors
by Jessica Goodman
After a traumatic school year, camp counselor Goldie Easton is excited to reunite with her two best friends at an elite summer camp, but when a local boy is found dead on the grounds, all three must reveal a dark secret to find the murderer
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Anatomy : A Love Story
by Dana Schwartz
When Hazel, an aspiring female surgeon, meets Jack, a resurrection man who sells bodies for a living, they work together to uncover the secrets buried not just in unmarked graves but in the very heart of Edinburgh society.
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Two Can Keep a Secret
by Karen M. McManus
While true-crime aficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
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Nancy Drew - the Palace of Wisdom
by Kelly Thompson
Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything, especially solving crimes. But her life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she'll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies and who exactly is trying to kill her.
This title is found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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Truly Devious
by Maureen Johnson
This series 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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The Silence of Bones
by June Hur
In Joseon Dynasty-era Korea, sixteen-year-old Seol, an indentured servant within the police bureau, becomes entangled in a politically-charged investigation into the murder of a noblewoman.
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Spin
by L. R. Giles
When a rising star of the local music scene is found dead, her two friends Kya--her pre-fame best friend--and Fuse--her chief groupie--must team together to find out who murdered her.
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Sadie
by Courtney Summers
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
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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.
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The June Boys: A Novel
by Courtney C Stevens
Believing her missing cousin has become the latest victim of an elusive kidnapper behind at least a dozen disappearances, Thea Delacroix investigates the abductor’s strange patterns before coming to a devastating conclusion about his identity.
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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.
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What I Want You to See
by Catherine Linka
After winning a prestigious scholarship at the end of a painful senior year marked by the loss of her mother, a visual arts student struggles under her teacher’s inscrutable criticism before she is inspired to secretly paint her own version of his masterpiece.
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Before I Let Go
by Marieke Nijkamp
Returning to her small Alaska home town after her bipolar best friend's death, Corey uncovers chilling secrets about the townspeople and their treatment of Kyra prior to her drowning.
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Five Midnights
by Ann Dávila Cardinal
A mystery set in modern-day Puerto Rico and based on the Caribbean boogeyman myth finds two rival teens struggling to set aside their differences to solve a series of grisly murders with ties to an otherworldly reality of myths, legends and killer monsters.
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The Beautiful
by Renée Ahdieh
Fleeing to 19th-century New Orleans when her life in Paris is threatened, a dressmaker is welcomed into the glitzy underworld before her prospects are upended by a pair of murders and an age-old feud involving the city’s ruling vampires. Simultaneous eBook.
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Lost and Found by Orson Scott CardThe Hugo Award-winning author of Ender’s Game presents the story of a youth whose psychic ability to find lost objects is challenged by police suspicions and the disappearance of his best friend.
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Easy Prey by Catherine LoA desperate MIT hopeful, a star athlete with a bad reputation, and a good girl turned rebel are targeted with suspicion when a teacher's racy photos that only the three had access to go viral on the Internet.
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