Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Youth Services Department

Young Adult
MYSTERY FICTION 


Alcock, Vivien.  The Mysterious Mr. Ross. Y FIC Alcock
The mysterious Albert Ross, whom twelve-year-old Felicity saves from drowning on the dangerous seacoast where she lives, appears to be either an exotic world traveler or a fearsome liar, and he ultimately changes the lives of those who seek the truth about him.

Anderson, M. T. The Game of Sunken Places.  Y FIC Anderson
When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.

Archer, Jennifer.  Through Her Eyes. Y FIC Archer
Sixteen-year-old Tansy is used to moving every time her mother starts writing a new book, but in the small Texas town where her grandfather grew up, she is lured into the world of a troubled young man whose death sixty years earlier is shrouded in mystery.

Beil, Michael D.  The Red Blazer Girls : the Ring of Rocamadour.  Y FIC Beil
Catholic-schooled seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann help an elderly neighbor solve a puzzle her father left for her estranged daughter twenty years ago.

Bethancourt, T. Ernesto.  Doris Fein, Legacy of Terror.  Y FIC Bethancourt
Having inherited fifteen million dollars, Doris goes to Chicago to meet with a man who claims to be the real heir to the fortune, only to be kidnapped and involved with the most sinister members of organized crime.

Butler, Beverly. Ghost Cat. Y FIC Butler
Visiting for the first time on the family farm with relatives she doesn't quite feel comfortable around, fourteen-year-old Annabel gradually unravels a mystery involving a crying cat, an abandoned house, a forty-year-old feud, suspicions of murder, and her own grandparents.

Chatterton, Martin.  The Brain Finds a Leg.  Y FIC Chatterton
In Farrago Bay, Australia, thirteen-year-old Sheldon is recruited by a new student, Theo Brain, to help investigate a murder, which is tied not only to bizarre animal behavior but also to a diabolical plot to alter human intelligence.

Clark, Margaret Goff.  Who Stole Kathy Young?  Y FIC Clark
Many tourists visit the Texas Gulf Coast, and Meg and Kathy are sure at least two of them look suspicious. But it is only a game until Kathy disappears.

Cross, Gillian. Tightrope. Y FIC Cross
When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, teenage Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.

Duffy, James.  The Graveyard Gang.  Y FIC Duffy
During the summer after seventh grade, life in a small New Hampshire town improves for Amy, when new friendships help her deal with her father's death, her mother's emotional problems, and the accusation that she killed a local boy.

Feinstein, John. Change-Up : mystery at the World Series. Y FIC Feinstein
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.

Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher killer : a forensic mystery.  Y FIC Ferguson
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.

Ferguson, Alane.  Show Me the Evidence.   Y FIC Ferguson
When, after a bizarre series of events, her best friend is accused of murdering her own baby brother and two other babies, Lauren, convinced of her friend's innocence, joins her in trying to solve the mystery and find evidence to clear her name.

Giberga, Jane Sughrue. Friends to Die For. Y FIC Giberga
Sixteen-year-old Cristina is forced to evaluate her sophisticated world of elegant New York apartments, private schools, and rich friends when a girl she knows is murdered after a party they both attended.

Hall, Lynn.  Murder at the Spaniel Show.  Y FIC HALL
Sixteen-year-old Tabby wonders what connection lies between her boss, a blind dog breeder, and the sinister death threats to his twin brother who has arrived to judge an important national show.

Hautman, Pete. Skullduggery. Y Fic Hautman
During a field trip in the local woods, Roni and Brian find the local archaeology professor, Andrew Dart, knocked unconscious in a cave, which leads them to investigate a land development scheme.

Hautman, Pete. Snatched. Y Fic Hautman
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.

Henderson, Lauren.  Kisses and Lies.  Y FIC Henderson
Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett. (Series)

Kidd, Ronald.  Second Fiddle : A Sizzle & Splat Mystery.  Y FIC Kidd
Two members of the Pirelli Youth Orchestra find their lives in danger when they try to find the practical joker whose string of pranks includes destroying a $50,000 violin.

Konigsburg, E. L.  Up from Jericho Tel.  Y FIC Konigsburg
The spirit of a dead actress turns two children invisible and sends them out among a group of colorful street performers to search for a missing necklace.

L'Engle, Madeleine.  Troubling A Star.  Y FIC L'Engle
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.

Lee, Ying.  A Spy in the House.  Y FIC Lee
Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships.

McMann, Lisa.  Cryer's Cross.  Y FIC McMann
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.

McNamee, Graham. Acceleration. Y Fic McNamee.
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.

Murphy, Jim. Death Run. Y FIC Murphy
An incident in a park leads to an accidental death, but a police detective wonders if it was an accident -- or murder.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. Search for the Shadowman. YPB N
While working on a genealogy project for his seventh grade history class, Andy Bonner becomes determined to solve the mystery surrounding a distant relative who was accused of stealing the family fortune.

Page, Katherine Hall. Christie & Company. Y FIC Page
Three new eighth-grade girls at Cabot School find that their shared interest in mysteries comes in handy when the roommates are blamed for a series of thefts at the school.

Patneaude, David.   Someone Was Watching.  Y FIC Patneaude
When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and uncovers evidence that something entirely different has happened to her.

Peacock, Shane. Death in the Air.  Y FIC Peacock   Series: The Boy Sherlock Holmes
After losing his mother while solving a brutal murder, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime. While visiting his father at work, Sherlock watches a dangerous trapeze performance. When the troupe's star drops to his death, Sherlock notices something is amiss and realizes it was foul play.  Be sure to check out more titles in this series!

Petersen, P. J.  The Freshman Detective Blues.  Y FIC Petersen
Eddie, age fourteen, and Jack, age seventeen, find a skeleton weighted down in Muir Lake, and Jack thinks it just might be his father who's been missing for nine years.

Qualey, Marsha.  Close to a Killer.  Y FIC Qualey
Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon.

Silsbee, Peter.   Love Among the Hiccups. Y FIC Silsbee / Y PB S
Palmer Swain, a teenage tour guide in the Thousand Islands, finds his new romantic misadventures complicated by mysterious strangers fighting over possession of a decaying mansion.

Sleator, William.  The Spirit House.  Y FIC Sleator
Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.

Strasser, Todd. The Accident. Y FIC Strasser
After four of his friends leave a beer party and suffer a fatal accident, eighteen-year-old Matt senses something peculiar about the police investigation and suspects a cover-up to hide the identity of who was really responsible for the accident.

Vande Velde, Vivian.  Never Trust A Dead Man.  Y FIC Vande Velde
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.

Voigt, Cynthia.  The Vandemark Mummy.  Y FIC Voigt
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.

Westall, Robert.   Stormsearch.  Y FIC Westall
Tim Vaux's discovery of an antique model ship on an English beach leads him to an unsolved family mystery involving a London heiress, a heartbroken drunkard, and the fanatic miser Black Idris.

Yep, Laurence. The Case of the Lion Dance. Y FIC Yep
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.

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