MYSTERY BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acceleration McNamee, Graham
Summary: Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
And Then There Were None Christie, Agatha
Summary: Ten strangers meet on an island, guests of a diabolical killer, who has marked them as prisoners and as prey.
Blood Trail Springer, Nancy
Summary: After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime - but he doesn't dare tell anyone.
The Body of Christopher Creed Plum-Ucci, Carol
Summary: Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
Chasing Vermeer Balliett, Blue
Summary: When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Crusader Bloor, Edward
Summary: After a violent virtual-reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she works, fifteen-year-old Roberta finds the courage to search out the person who murdered her mother.
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters Giles, Gail
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister, Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.
Deck the Halls Clark, Mary & Carol Higgins
Summary: Los Angeles private detective Regan Reilly teams up with lottery
winner and amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan to investigate when Regan's father
Luke and his -driver, Rosita, are kidnapped pending a one million dollar ransom.
Deep Vance, Susanna
Summary: Somewhere in the Caribbean, seventeen-year-old Morgan and thirteen -year-old Birdie, two girls whose lives are worlds apart, are brought together by the maniacal Nicholas.
T The Executioner Bennett, Jay
Summary: Three survivors of an automobile crash in which the driver was killed are threatened by an executioner who believes they too should die.
The Face on the Milk Carton Cooney, Caroline B.
Summary: A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity. (4 Sequels)
Gal Gallows Hill Duncan, Lois
Summary: Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
The Ghosts of Now Nixon, Joan Lowery
Summary: With her brother in a coma following a hit-and-run accident, a high school senior investigates the incident, stirring up animosity in the small, tight West Texas community where her family has recently moved.
H Hangman's Curse Peretti, Frank E.
Summary: When several students at Baker High School are stricken by an alleged curse of the school's ghost, Elijah and Elisha Springfield and their parents, undercover investigators, are sent to uncover the truth behind the events.
H Haunted Sister Littke, Lael
Summary: A sixteen-year-old girl suffers a near-death experience in which her twin sister, who died in an accident twelve years before, returns to forcibly share her body.
Th e Kidnappers: A Mystery Roberts, Willo Davis
Summary: No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school. (Also: View From the Cherry Tree)
I I Know What You Did Last Summer Duncan, Lois
Summary: Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
In In Darkness, Death Hoobler, Dorothy
Summary: In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikel becomes involved with a ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder of a samurai.
Ja Jade Green (M) Naylor, Phyllis
Summary: Judith Sparrow's uncle warned her, before moving into his house, not to bring anything green. But she can't and doesn't throw away the green frame with her dead mother's picture and now she wonders why strange things are happening in the house.
Th The Killer's Cousin Wedin, Nancy
Summary: After 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.
Ne Never Trust a Dead Man Vande Velde, Vivian
Summary: Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
Th The Night I Disappeared Deaver, Julie Reece
Summary: Ever since Jamie and her mother arrived in Chicago, she's been plagued by freakly mind-slips and vivid daydreams about her sort-of-boyfriend Webb.
Ni Nightmare Academy Peretti, Frank E.
Summary: Elijah and his sister Elisha go undercover to investigate a mysterious school that is sheltering runaway teenagers for a sinister purpose.
Th The Other Side of Dark Nixon, Joan Lowery
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her. (Author has numerous mystery titles.)
Th The Presence Bunting, Eve
Summary: While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
Th The Rag and Bone Shop: a novel (M) Cormier, Robert
Summary: Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
The Ruby in the Smoke Pullman, Philip
Summary: In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
The The She Plum-Ucci, Carol
Summary: After his parents are lost at sea, Evan Barrett and his older brother leave their seaside home in West Hook to escape bad memories, but years later even worse questions emerge when Evan is asked to help a fellow student deal with another sea-related
tragedy.
Sil Silent Night Clark, Mary Higgins
Summary: A family finds adversity and renewed courage during a Christmas visit to New York.
Skeleton Man Bennett, Jay
Summary: When his Uncle Ed commits suicide, after giving him $30,000 for his eighteenth birthday, Ray receives mysterious death threats and becomes involved in a dangerous sequence of events.
The Specter Nixon, Joan Lowery
Summary: A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nine-year-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.
Taking Terri Mueller Mazer, Norma Fox
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Terri remembers only life with her father, but then she discovers that he kidnapped her from her mother after a divorce and that her mother is still alive.
The Terrorist Cooney, Caroline
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
Thin Ice Qualey, Marsha
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he's really run away.
Three Days Napoli, Donna Jo
Summary: Eleven-year-old Jackie, traveling with her father in Italy, finds herself in a dangerous situation when she is picked up by two men after her father dies suddenly of a heart attack, leaving her alone on an Italian highway.
Tightrope Cross, Gillian
Summary: When Ashley begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, she comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.
The Trouble With Lemons Hayes, Daniel
Summary: Tyler and Lymie, eighth grade misfits, discover a dead body in a quarry and work to uncover the mystery behind it.
The View from the Cherry Tree Roberts, Willo Davis
Summary: Rob admits having seen a murder, but no one believes him, except the murderer.
Wolf Rider Avi
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Andy Zadinski is terrified by a crank telephone call from an unknown caller who claims to have killed a coed from the local college, but no one believes Andy when he reports the call to the police.
Revised 9/05