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Author
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. But she can't shake the...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything, Pip has no choice to investigate. After all, Jamie Reynolds disappeared on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary...
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
4) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University...
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 4
Language
English
Description
After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy. Then politician Edward King arrives at her house to offer a deal: he will bring Stevie back to Ellingham if she will play nice with his son, David, a fellow classmate. King is in the midst of a campaign and can't afford his son stirring...
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. With all the freedom their pre-college summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what they are to each other. But upon their arrival at Oxford, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents befell the theater program at Oxford last year, culminating in a young woman going missing on the night...
Author
Series
Murder she wrote volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine. But this time, the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four teens dig up the time capsule that their parents buried in 1986 and never bothered to recover. In addition to the expected ephemera of mixtapes, Walkmans, photographs, letters, toys, and assorted junk, Elayah, Liam, Marcie, and Jorja discover something sinister: a hunting knife stained with blood and wrapped with a note. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to kill anyone." The teens haven't just unearthed a time capsule: they've also dug up pain and secrets...
Author
Series
Amateurs novel volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-one-year-old social media star Chelsea Dawson disappears, Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison, noticing that she looks exactly like Aerin's murdered sister, Helena, investigate, determined to find the connection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated third volume of the paranormal detective series perfect for "readers who enjoy Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm...and of course, Sherlock Holmes stories, and who are ready to say up into the wee hours." Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly landlord of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve a decade-old murder--her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold...
12) Girl forgotten
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen years ago, Layla Trello was murdered and her killer was never found. Enter true-crime fan Piper Gray, who is determined to reopen Layla's case and get some answers. With the help of Jonas--who has a secret of his own--Piper starts a podcast investigating Layla's murder. But as she digs deeper into the mysteries of the past, Piper begins receiving anonymous threats telling her to back off the investigation, or else. The killer is still out...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, sunning at the waterfalls and partying at the mansions of the rich vacationers there. One night, Audrey didn't come home. Though Audrey wasn't the first girl to disappear in Clearwater Ridge, she left behind more lies than clues. Now, one summer later, her case has gone cold, and...
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Erin Blake has one of those names--instantly recognizable; a name inextricably linked to a grisly crime. As a toddler, Erin survived for three days alongside the corpse of her murdered mother. The case--which remains unsolved--fascinated a nation. Her father's identity unknown, Erin was taken in and raised by her mother's best friend. Fourteen years later, Erin has become a relatively normal teen in spite of the looming questions about her past...but...
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Aerin is kidnapped by a killer she knows all too well, her friends Seneca, Maddox, and Madison have four days to solve a series of related cases in order to secure her release.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Tig Torres first moved back to her hometown of Hollow Falls, she solved the infamous Lit Killer case--and cleared her late Aunt Beth's name in the process. Tig's work on the case brought her to the attention of Hollow Falls's local armchair detective group, the Murder of Crows. The eccentric group is obsessed with their town's dark past--but their interests extend far beyond the Lit Killer. Members of the group are fixated on a decades-long...
17) The amateurs
Author
Series
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four teens who met on an online cold-case solving forum attempt to solve another teen's murder"--
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her--who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa's beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. Despite the efforts of internet...
19) One last breath
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mount Orange, Florida, is famous for two things: Cerulean freshwater springs, ideal for free divers who aren't afraid of lurking gators. And the gruesome cold case murder of best friends, Bailey and Celeste, twenty years ago. Bailey and Celeste's murders cast a permanent darkness over sunny Mount Orange. Tru has always lived in that shadow. Now she's supposed to head to FSU in the fall with her boyfriend, but those unsolved murders -- and the death...