Mystery

What we saw: When a woman is found dead in the woods, Abbi and Skylar realize they hold the key to solving her murder, and as tensions rise and their friendship frays, they must choose between keeping a secret or exposing a life-altering truth.  FIC HAH

She's gone:  Accused of murdering his girlfriend, who disappeared after they were in an accident, Hunter Gifford races against time to clear his name, putting his freedom, family and life at risk, as his former best friend makes a true-crime documentary condemning him.  FIC BEL

Skyjacked: Five teenagers from the elite Hartwell Academy are on their way back to New York from an end-of-summer camping trip in Idaho when they realize that something has gone wrong; one of them has become violently ill, and their private plane has apparently been hijacked and is headed in the wrong direction--and even if they can somehow break into the cockpit and manage to overpower the hijacker, they have no idea how to fly the plane, much less land it.  FIC GRI

Little creeping things:  Tormented by her guilt and classmate's taunts since she accidentally set a lethal fire as a child, Cassidy is implicated in her worst bully's murder and must find the killer before someone else dies.  FIC ICH

Girl forgotten:  When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.  FIC HEN

A forgery of roses:  She's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies, which is a talent some would kidnap, blackmail, and worse to control. Guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary stone mansion, however, it becomes clear that the boy's death was no accident. A killer stalks these halls--one disturbingly obsessed with portrait magic. Desperate to get out of the manor as quickly as possible, Myra turns to the governor's older son for help completing the painting before the secret she spent her life concealing makes her the killer's next victim.  FIC OLS

The Naturals:  Seventeen-year-old Cassie, who has a natural ability to read people, joins an elite group of criminal profilers at the FBI in order to help solve cold cases.  FIC BAR

Chasing starlight:  1938. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Palm trees and movie stars. Film studios pumping out musicals and gangster films at a furious pace. Everyone wants to be a star except society girl and aspiring astronomer Kate Hildebrand. She's already famous after a childhood tragedy turned her into a newspaper headline. What she craves now is stability. But when Kate has to move to Hollywood to live with her washed-up silent film star grandfather, she walks into a murder scene and finds herself on the front page again. She suspects one of the young men boarding in her grandfather's run-down mansion is the killer--or maybe even her grandfather. Now, Kate must discover the killer while working on the set of a musical--and falling in love. Will her stars align so she can catch the murderer and live the dream in Old Hollywood? Or will she find that she's just chasing starlight?  FIC BLA

In the hall with the knife:  When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlett Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide. With this group of students who are all hiding something, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a motive for murder.  FIC PET

Eyes of the forest:  Seventeen-year-old Bridget is both an employee of author RM Haldon and his biggest fan, so when she starts to receive cryptic emails from him after he goes missing, she teams up with her friend to find Haldon.  FIC HEN

Ghost in the headlights:  When Brianna Jenson moves in with her uncle on Shadowrun Road, she doesn't expect to find herself in the center of a terrifying town legend. Every afternoon on her walk home from school, Brianna hears foot-steps-- but when she turns no is there. Then one terrifying night, a speeding car almost runs her over on the narrow country road! Bit when she looks past its blinding lights ... no one is driving.  FIC DUG

Scream site:  Future investigative reporter Sabrina, fourteen, researches a popular website where people post horror videos, hoping to prove they are not as real as they seem until her sister, a big fan of the site, disappears.  FIC IRE

Run, hide, fight back: Told from multiple viewpoints, holiday shoppers struggle to survive as three masked shooters open fire in a crowded mall and five teens form a plan to stop them. FIC HEN

Girl in the white van:  Told in multiple voices, sixteen-year-old Savannah Taylor is abducted after her kung fu class and must figure out how to escape and rescue fellow prisoner Jenny Dowd.  FIC HEN

Killing November:  November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that's completely off the grid, there's no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from knife-throwing and poisons to the art of deception. And the other students? All children of the world's most elite strategists, in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators. November Adley doesn't know why she's been sent to this place, or the secrets that make up its legacy, but she'll quickly discover that allies are few in a school where competition is everything. When another student is murdered, all eyes turn to November, who must figure out exactly how she fits in before she is found guilty of the crime...or becomes the killer's next victim.  FIC MAT

Lonely Dead:  When schizophrenic Adele, who possesses a paranormal gift, is implicated in an investigation that involves the murder of her ex-best friend Tori, Adele must work with Tori's ghost to find the killer. FIC HEN

Book of lies: Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret destructive power-or is it both? FIC TER

Maiden Voyage-a Titanic Story: Three girls from different economic classes navigate dangerous secrets and their shifting views about loyalty while uncovering their unexpected ties to each other during the maiden voyage of the ill-fated Titanic. FIC JAN

Famous last words: High-schooler Willa has just moved to California with her mother and film director stepfather, and she will be attending a private school--but her real problem is that she keeps seeing things that are not really there, like a dead body in the swimming pool, and her visions may be connected to a serial killer that is stalking young girls in Hollywood. FIC ALE

Color of lies:  High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death. FIC LYO

Revenant: Willie, having accepted a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary under the name of a classmate, begins to question her belief in ghosts and is forced to face her past when strange things start happening at the school and she hears students discussing the death of a girl who is rumored to haunt the room in which Willie is staying.  FIC GEN

Darkdeep:  Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets. FIC CON

Ghost Road:  For the first time, Ruth is heading to Newfoundland to stay with family she's never met instead of spending the summer traveling with her dad. Ruth's cousin Ruby is also staying for the summer, and the two discover they have a lot in common: they both lost their moms when they were two years old, they're the same age and they even like the same food. But while Ruby believes in spirits and fairies, Ruth believes in science and cold, hard facts. When they find ominous information on some tombstones in the local cemetery, Ruth and Ruby start investigating their family's past and discover that twin girls are born in every generation, and every set of twins dies young, leaving their children without mothers. What's more, one of the twins always has The Sight and can see the Ghost Road that leads to the mysterious lost settlement of Slippers Cove.  FIC COT

Girl at the grave:  As a child, Valentine saw her mother murder the wealthiest man in their Connecticut town and then hang at the gallows. Neglected by her father, she's learned to fend for herself, living in a crumbling estate that feels haunted by the past. Now a top student at Drake Academy, she's determined to prove herself and overcome her mother's crime. But like all small towns, Feavers Crossing has a stiflingly long memory, and when a new string of murders occurs, all signs point to the daughter of a killer as they most likely suspect. Outcast and isolated, Valentine finds an unlikely ally in Rowan Blackshaw, the son of the man her mother murdered all those years ago.  FIC BLA

The Disappearances:  Every seven years, an important thing, like scent, disappears from the town of Sterling and Aila, sixteen, is determined to find the cause and how her recently-deceased mother was involved.  FIC MUR

Shadow Cipher:  In order to save their apartment building, Tess, Theo, and Jaime search for the Old York Cipher treasure created by the architects of New York.  FIC RUB

Wax:  Seventeen-year-old Poppy stumbles into a secret workshop at the infamous Grosholtz Candle Factory and soon, a wax boy called Dud is helping her uncover an evil plot that threatens her hometown of Paraffin, Vermont. FIC DAM

Asylum:  Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past.  FIC ROU

The girl I used to be:  Olivia's parents were killed fourteen years ago. Now, new evidence reopens the case . . . and she finds herself involved.  FIC HEN

Shock Point:  Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet. FIC HEN

Brightwood:  When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.  FIC UNS

Forbidden:  In early 19th century England, Josie, 16, finds herself in a sinister place with mysterious, hostile people, including her own relatives. Persistence and determination drive her to uncover the town's horrifying secret despite obstacles natural and supernatural.  FIC BUN

All fall down:  There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay.  FIC CAR

The Detour:  Seventeen-year-old Livvy Flynn, a bestselling author of YA fiction, is kidnapped by a woman and her apparently manic daughter who have no intention of letting her go.  FIC BOD

Jackaby:  Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature. FIC RIT

Compulsion:  After the death of her disfigured, shut-in mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation, which is guarded by an ancient spirit who cursed one of the island's three founding families and gave the others magical gifts that become compulsions.  FIC BOO

Blood will tell:  Teen Portland Search and Rescue team member Nick Walker becomes a prime suspect in a murder.  FIC HEN

What waits in the woods:  A hiking trip in the woods in upstate New York is out of the comfort zone for sixteen-year-old city girl Callie Velasquez, but she wants to bond with her new friends Lissa and Penelope, not to mention her new boyfriend, Jeremy--however, nothing could have prepared her for the true human darkness that waits for her in the wood.  FIC SCO

Beware the Wild: A teenaged girl and her boyfriend must find her older brother after he wanders into their town's swamp and a mysterious girl appears in his place. FIC PAR

The Body in the WoodsWhile helping the Portland County Sheriff's Search and Rescue to seek a missing autistic man, teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby find instead, a body and join forces to find the girl's murderer, forming an unlikely friendship, as well.  FIC HEN

Sweet Unrest: When seventeen-year-old Lucy Aimes moves to New Orleans and meets Alex, a boy who behaves as if they've known each other forever, she becomes caught up in a centuries-old vendetta.  FIC MAX

The Girl Who was Supposed to Die:  She doesn't know who she is.  She doesn't know where she is, or why.  All she knows is that when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.  And that she must run. 

Broken:  Attending high school for the first time, chronically ill Scarlet, with the help of her new friends, faces down bullies, endures her school-nurse mother's smothering overprotectiveness, and eventually discovers the truth behind her illness -- a truth that puts much more than her life at risk.  FIC LYO

Caged Graves:  Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.  FIC SAL

The Night She Disappeared:  Told from various viewpoints, Gabie and Drew set out to prove that their missing co-worker Kayla is not dead, and to find her before she is, while the police search for her body and the man who abducted her.  FIC HEN

Dead and Buried:  New student Jade uncovers a murder mystery when she moves into a house haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jade's high school.  FIC HAR

Ghosts of the Titanic:  Kevin and his family travel to Halifax after inheriting a home from a man they have never met, and, while exploring the estate, Kevin discovers some mysterious artifacts that transport him back in time to the deck of the "Titanic," where he races to save a young woman and her child from a tragic ending.  FIC LAW

The Twin's Daughter:  In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.  FIC BAR

Found:  When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.  (series)  FIC HAD

Escape from Memory:  Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.  FIC HAD

Double Identity:  Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. FIC HAD

The Christopher Killer:  On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.  (series) FIC FER

Angel of Death:  Seventeen-year-old high school senior Cameryn Mahoney uses skills learned as assistant to her coroner father to try to unravel the mystery of a local teacher's gruesome death, while also awaiting a possible reunion with her long-missing mother.  (series)  FIC FER

Circle of Blood:  As she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to investigate the death of a young runaway, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney, an assistant to her coroner father, worries that her secretive mother may be involved.  (series) FIC FER

The Dying Breath:  When her ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, seventeen-year-old Cameryn must use her knowledge of forensic sciences to protect herself. (series)  FIC FER

The Dark & Deadly Pool:  Sixteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth's summer job at an expensive health club turns out to be more exciting than she bargained for when a series of mysterious events culminate in murder.  FIC NIX

Lily Dale: Awakening:  When seventeen-year-old Calla’s mother suddenly dies, she goes to stay with her psychic grandmother in Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in western New York, where she discovers some disconcerting secrets about her practical, down-to-earth mother, and realizes that she herself may also have some psychic abilities. (series)  FIC STA

If the Witness Lied:  Torn apart by tragedies and the publicity they brought, siblings Smithy, Jack, and Madison, aged fourteen to sixteen, tap into their parent's courage to pull together and protect their brother Tris, nearly three, from further media exploitation and a much more sinister threat.  FIC COO

Closed for the Season:  When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.  FIC HAH

Taken:  Stephanie does not get along with her mother's new boyfriend Gregg, who is so very different from her late father, and while Gregg goes out of his way to irritate her, Stephanie is unnerved when he mentions her resemblance to the girls who have recently gone missing from their homes.  FIC MCC

Curse of the Night Wolf:  Barnaby Grimes, a punctual lad who runs errands around the city, seeks out mysteries to solve, is attacked one night by a huge dog, and gets caught up in a world of corrupt doctors, strange potions, and expensive furs.  FIC STE

They Never Came Back:  When fifteen-year old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.  FIC COO

Peeled:  In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.  FIC BAU

Scat:  Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.   FIC HIA

The White Gates:  When his mother becomes the doctor in Snow Park, Colorado, twelve-year-old Tor learns of a curse placed on the town's doctors many years before by an eccentric Ute woman, but suspects that a villain is hiding behind that curse.  FIC RAM

Stolen Children:  Fourteen-year-old Amy's excitement over her first babysitting job ends when she and her three-year-old charge are kidnapped, but a daily videorecording sent to little Kendra's parents allows Amy to send clues, in hopes of being rescued before the kidnappers decide they no longer need her.  FIC KEH

Dani Noir:  Thirteen-year-old Dani Callanzano finds the summer before her eighth grade year going from boring to full of excitement when a mystery involving the town's movie theater and a girl with polka dot tights begins to unfold.  FIC SUM

Dark Secrets 2:  Presents two novels in Elizabeth Chandler's Dark Secrets series, "No Time to Die," in which Jenny is stalked by the same serial killer who murdered her sister, Liza--who tries to warn Jenny from the grave; and "The Deep End of Fear," in which Kate tutors a boy living in the estate she used to call home and discovers he is in contact with Ashley, Kate's childhood best friend who drowned in an icy pond.  FIC CHA