Mysteries and Thrillers
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All Unquiet Things After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder. subjects: Murder, Social Classes, Interpersonal Relations, High Schools, Mystery and Detective Stories, Northern California |
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Black Rabbit Summer When two of sixteen-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet. subjects: Missing Persons, Frienship, Carnivals, Drug Abuse, Homosexuality, Mystery and Detective Stories, England. |
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The Christopher Killer: a Forensic Mystery 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. Sequel: The Angel of Death, The Circle of Blood, The Dying Breath. subjects: Coroners, Forensic Science, Fathers and Daughters, Mystery and Detective Stories |
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The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class. subjects: Deaf, People With Disabilities, High Schools, Bullies, Murder, Mystery and Detective Stories |
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The Death Collector Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs. subjects: Monsters, Zombies, Mystery and Detective Stories, London (England) |
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Kiss Me Kill Me Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever. Sequels: Kisses and Lies, A Kiss in the Dark. subjects: Popularity, Orphans, Friendship, Wealth, Bullying, Murder, High Schools, Mystery and Detective Stories, England |
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The Less-Dead Sixteen-year-old Noah Nordstrom, whose father is the host of a popular evangelical Christian radio program, believes that the person who has been killing gay teenagers in the Austin, Texas, foster care system, is a regular caller on his dad's show. subjects: Murder, Homosexuality, Christian Life, Conduct of Life, Mystery and Detective Stories, Austin (Tex.) |
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| The Mystery of the Third Lucretia While traveling in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, fourteen-year-old best friends Kari and Lucas solve an international art forgery mystery. subjects: Art Forgeries, Best Friends, Friendship, Travel, Mystery and Detective Stories, Europe |
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Paper Towns 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. subjects: Missing Persons, Coming of Age, Mystery and Detective Stories, Florida |
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Reality Check After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search. subjects: Missing Persons, Social Classes, High Schools, Dropouts, Gambling |
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Shift When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened. subjects: Bicycles and Bicycling, Travel, Missing Persons, Best Friends, Cycling, Friendship |
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So Yesterday Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture. subjects: Missing Persons, New York (N.Y.), Adventure and Adventurers, Mystery and Detective Stories |
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A Spy in the House 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. subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Swindlers and Swindling, Household Employees, Sex Role, Orphans, London (England). |
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The Unspoken Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents. subjects: Cults, Murder, Dreams, Horror Tales, Horror Stories |
List updated May 2010—Patti Cook
