Mystery
Today is 5/24/2012
Many titles are available as electronic downloads in audio or eBook format. Ask at the Youth Desk for assistance or more information.
Behind the Curtain: An Echo Falls Mystery (YA ABR, YA CD ABR)
by Peter Abrahams (1st in series)
An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.
Chasing Vermeer (YA BAL, YA CD BAL)
by Blue Balliett (1st in series)
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.
The Face on the Milk Carton (YA COO, YA CD COO)
by Caroline B. Cooney (1st in series)
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
A Northern Light (YA DON, YA CD DON)
by Jennifer Donnelly
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Cover-up (YA FEI)
by John Feinstein
Fledgling fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan, Carol, and Stevie investigate suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from his co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
Something Rotten: A Horatio Wilkes mystery (YA GRA)
by Alan Gratz (1st in series)
In a contemporary story based on Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince’s father in Denmark, Tennessee.
Paper Towns (YA GRE)
by John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin “Q” Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q’s neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Sign of the Raven (YA HEA)
by Julie Hearn
In the basement of his grandmother’s home in London where
his mother is recuperating from cancer, twelve-year-old Tom discovers a path to the past where, in the year 1717, a “fairy child” and her friends desperately need his help.
A Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (YA HOO)
by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant’s son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City (YA MIL)
by Kirsten Miller
Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.
Nobody’s There (YA NIX)
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Following an act of vandalism against her father’s girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.
The Boxer and the Spy (YA PAR)
by Robert B. Parker
Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate.
The Body of Christopher Creed (YA PLU, YA LP PLU)
by Carol Plum-Ucci
Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery (YA SPR)
by Nancy Springer (1st in series)
Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.
Me, the Missing, and the Dead (YA VAL)
by Jenny Valentine
When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner, Lucas Swain, becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father’s sudden disappearance.
