Mysteries & Detective Stories - Teens Ficton

Quest Chasers is a middle grade fantasy adventure series featuring Eevie, Tommy and Drew.Follow the teenagers' journey to a hidden world-filled with evil sorcerers, monsters and demons-led by a queen with an unquenchable thirst for human souls. Can they put an end to her...

Three friends went in search of long-lost treasure. What they found was a murder.In a forgotten corner of the Solaris castle, Jax Wendyll discovers a forgotten workroom once belonging to the mysterious and powerful Pirate Queen, Adela Lagmir.Erion Le'Dan came to the capital expecting...

NAACP Image Award nominee!Mean Girls meets Dear White People in this bighearted, sharp-witted UK boarding school story about family, friendship, and belonging--with a propulsive mystery at its heart.Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, an elite boarding school in the English countryside, reputation is everything....

Everyone in Gardiners Bay has a secret.When Jenna Dallas and Adam Cole find Colleen O'Dell's body floating off the shore of their coastal town, the community of Gardiners Bay is shaken. But even more shocking is the fact that her drowning was no accident.Once...

Three friends went in search of long-lost treasure. What they found was a murder.In a forgotten corner of the Solaris castle, Jax Wendyll discovers a forgotten workroom once belonging to the mysterious and powerful Pirate Queen, Adela Lagmir.Erion Le'Dan came to the capital expecting...

Enola Holmes, Sherlock's much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet's daughter who is on the run from her father's devious schemes in Nancy Springer's Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade. Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of...

Pamela Hillan and Penelope Dyan, lifelong friends who used to like to pretend they were in a Nancy Drew book when they were kids, are back again, all grown up (and then some); and they are still pretending! And this is exactly why the...

NEVER JUDGE A CROOK BY HER COVER.Julep Dupree tells lies. A lot of them. She's a con artist, a master of disguise, and a sophomore at Chicago's swanky St. Agatha High, where her father, an old-school grifter with a weakness for the ponies, sends...

Fifteen-year-old Tendo Katende was looking forward to the holidays and a break from schoolwork, but two weeks in he can't stand the routine of playing video games all day long any more. Will the rest of the holiday be like this? Then a visit...

A spine-tingling contemporary horror-comedy novel that follows a scary-movie buff as she hosts an elaborate Halloween bash but soon finds the festivities upended when she and her guests are forced to test their survival skills in a deadly game, from debut author Lisa Springer....

What would you do if you were fifteen years old and you still had no super-power?Paley Curtis, now fifteen and accepting of the fact that she has no talent in a world where everyone has a super-power, grinds through a summer job with a...

It's Halloween, and seventeen-year-old MaryAnn is excited about her town's annual celebration. The season assumes an ominous tone when MaryAnn is led to the body of her neighbor, Mr. Carlson, by the eerie howls of the big orange stray who frequents his backyard. Weeks...

It is the summer of 1870 in London, and death seems to be everywhere; at least it feels that way to Sherlock Holmes. Almost seventeen now, he cannot shake the blackness that has descended upon him: he has lost his dear father; his mentor,...

Truly Devious meets Turtles All the Way Down in critically acclaimed author Katie Henry's YA contemporary comedic mystery, a hilarious send-up of the hardboiled detective genre that spotlights family, friendship, and love. Gideon's short-lived run as a locally famous boy detective ended when middle...

It was just a game...until it wasn't. Will Cate discover the assassin before it's too late? Perfect for fans of teen mystery books!TAG. You're It...At Cate's isolated boarding school Killer is more than a game--it's an elite secret society. Members must avoid being "killed"...

"The shadows have risen, and the line is law. All Bree wanted was to uncover the truth behind her mother's death. So she infiltrated the Legendborn Order, a secret society descended from King Arthur's knights--only to discover her own ancestral power. Now, Bree has...

What is friendship without a few secrets?It wasn't Tillie's choice to leave Philadelphia. But after everything that happened junior year, her mom insisted the quiet suburb of Willow Creek was the perfect place to get a fresh start, to put the trauma and rumors...

A death metal mystery. Eighteen-year-old Kasper has gone through a rough time, but now he has landed his dream job at the amusement park Gra Lund. He befriends Iris who teaches him how to terrify guests in the haunted house. Thirty years earlier, in...

Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer books, all in a single volume. Includes The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Tom Sawyer Abroad; and Tom Sawyer, Detective--the complete adventures of a classic character of American literature.Author: Mark TwainISBN-10: 1627300503ISBN-13: 9781627300506Publisher: Stonewell PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2013Pages: 382Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.00h...

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical mystery sure to keep readers guessing until the last page. The forest watches me, hostile and still, with remembering eyes. 1426, Joseon (Korea). Hwani's family has never been the...

The bestselling, "gripping" (Entertainment Weekly), "powerful" (Hypable), "utterly thrilling" (Paste.com) winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery, perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah and Ruta Sepetys Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying...

Frank and Joe Hardy were driving along on their motorcycles one pleasant afternoon when a roadster driven by an apparent madman almost ran them down. The event happened so fast that all the boys noticed was the drivers's bright red hair. Later, that same...

What if your last kiss was with the wrong boy? In Bethany Neal's My Last Kiss, Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys....

In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends--each with their own dark secret--must team up to solve a murder.Calista, Zoe, Holly, and Denise were inseparable best friends when they spent their summers together at sleepaway camp. But after an...

How do you solve a murder? Follow the lessons of the master--Agatha Christie! Iris and Alice find themselves in the middle of another Castle Cove mystery in the sequel to New York Times bestseller The Agathas, by powerhouse authors Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson....

Spotty the parakeet is a detective in the community of Bird Villa. He solves many problems, including defending rascal chipmunks, fighting a cruel cat and some rabbits, and finding out who murdered two important birds that everyone loved. When there's a food problem between...

From the undisputed queen of thrillers comes a boxed set that includes the two bestselling thrillers in young adult fiction, One of Us Is Lying and its sequel, One of Us Is Next. "When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in...

After six months of fruitless searching for Malcom and Silas, Phineas is losing hope. That is until Raven returns with a message from Malcom-a message that takes Phineas on a faraway adventure and puts him on a collision course with Malcom's dark past and...

* "Razor-sharp."--Booklist, starred review An old money/new murder mystery set on the island of Martha's Vineyard, with rich kids doing bad things from New York Times bestselling author Katie Cotugno Perfect for fans of Jessica Goodman, Agatha Christie, Glass Onion, and Martha's Vineyard Mysteries...

Every great lie begins with the truth.For thirteen-year-old Sage, living with his low-life con artist father Marty in Las Vegas hasn't been easy. When Marty dies, the authorities arrange to send Sage to Evansville, Connecticut, to live with family he never knew existed. Sage...

"Those who love One of Us Is Lying, will devour this page-turner." (Buzzfeed) Delve into a murderous, twisty whodunit doused in juicy Hollywood lore. No one at Hollywood High knows who's behind We'll Never Tell--a viral YouTube channel where the anonymous creators trespass behind...

Whether told around a campfire or with a storm raging outside, ghost stories aren't always just stories.When the power fails in the middle of a storm, Zack and Daniel turn to their father, John Malone, for comfort. Feeling that the boys are old enough...

"A clever page-turner that I couldn't put down." --Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author​ Determined to escape menacing families, two desperate teens fake their own deaths in this queer contemporary thriller perfect for fans of Karen McManus. In one week Maude will...

Collected here in one omnibus edition are the first three Hardy Boys Adventures. These are the stories that captured the imagination of generations of readers.The Tower TreasureFrank and Joe Hardy were driving along on their motorcycles one pleasant afternoon when a roadster driven by...

David Crandall's mother was murdered. With few clues, no witnesses, and no motive, the police were never able to solve the crime. Now, two years after the murder, David's starting his senior year and struggling to get on with his life. But still, the...

2023 Reprint of the 1927 U.S. Edition. The Tower Treasure is the first volume in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1927. The book ranks 55th on Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List for the United...

Their discovery could change the world forever...In 1947 a spaceship crashed outside Roswell, New Mexico, and the government quickly covered it up. With that, the most famous UFO event in history remained buried. But what if someone smuggled material out from the crash site...

Frank and Joe help prevent Ken Blake from getting killed in a cycling accident. The Hardy Boys learn that their friend Chet Morton was swindles when he made change for what turned out to be a counterfeit twenty dollar bill, something that the police...

Disabled best friends Zed and Gretchen are barely staying afloat through an adolescent riptide of relationships, ableism, and pickles when their new neighbor and instant crush is mysteriously replaced by an inexact duplicate.Along with a tough as nails non-binary friend from school, they soon...

Fenton Hardy, the famous private detective and father of the Hardy Boys, asks his sons to help him with his latest case involving the illegal drug trade. Hardy sends Frank and Joe to a house on the cliff, whose location offers an excellent vantage...

Her fate rests with the map...It is 1967 and Fifteen-year-old Melanie Simpson's life has been ripped apart and is lying in shambles. With a mother near death, and her relationship with Frankie faltering, regaining footing, then faltering again, Mel must try to keep a...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! "Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or...

Her destiny lies in the cards... Fifteen-year-old Melanie Simpson and her friends uncovered a secret her father held for twenty years-material he smuggled out of a UFO crash in 1947 and has hidden away somewhere. Now, twenty years later, Melanie has found it, and...

Mary Eliska Girl Detective and The Mystery of the Gray Mask originally The Gray Mask a 1920 mystery by Charles Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936) currently in the public domain. Camp was a writer, a critic, and a foreign correspondent who suffered lung damage from exposure...

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Frances HardingeIn a world where anyone can create a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them.Kellen does not fully understand his talent, but helps...

In this daring tale of female agency and revenge from a New York Times bestselling author, a girl becomes a teenage vigilante who roams Victorian England using her privilege and power to punish her friends' abusive suitors and keep other young women safe.Adele grew...

Whether told around a campfire or with a storm raging outside, ghost stories aren't always just stories.When the power fails in the middle of a storm, Zack and Daniel turn to their father, John Malone, for comfort. Feeling that the boys are old enough...

Sixteen year-old school one day when he stumbles across the dead body of his close friend Paul Connors. Paul, who once had been active in his church youth group, had recently joined the Black Ravens, a Satanic gang.Gil vows to find the killer, but...

Fall arrives in the miserable seaside town of Gloomsbury, Massachusetts like a fresh corpse-cold, gray, devoid of life.After vanquishing an undead Victorian monster with his best friend Jeni Myers over summer break, the last thing Thomas Creeper wants is another supernatural mystery to solve....

"A twisty, dark psychological thriller that will leave you guessing til the very end."--Teen Vogue"[A] riveting read..."--NPR The line between best friend and something more is a line always crossed in the dark. Jess Wong is Angie Redmond's best friend. And that's the most...