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21) The fade
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Haley moves into a house haunted by the ghosts of murdered girls who hope Haley will be able to help them move on.
22) Jackaby
Author
Series
Jackaby volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Curiosity House volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary orphans must figure out who framed the ringmaster of the flea circus, and all signs point to Nicholas Rattigan, the children's previous captor.
26) All fall down
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace won't stop until she finds out who killed her mother and makes the killer pay.
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Series
Theodore Boone volume 1
Language
English
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With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into it, it's up to this amateur attorney to save the day.
28) #NoEscape
Author
Series
#MurderTrending volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When contestants in an escape room challenge start being killed, seventeen-year-old Persey must solve a series of bizarre and gruesome puzzles, riddles, and games to make it out alive.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Seth is a kitchen boy at the remote Last Chance Hotel. His father has long ago left, leaving him imprisoned until he is old enough to set out on his own. If there's any hope he has, it's to be the greatest chef that ever lived... just like his father. One night, a band of magicians begin to arrive to participate in a secret meeting -- a Prospect Selection Procedure to determine the most talented magicians in the world, judged by their leader Dr....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A near-fatal carriage accident has deposited an unconscious young woman on the doorstep of Hardwick Manor and into the care of young Lord James Ellerby. But when she finally awakens, it is with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Beth, as she calls herself, has no identity; the only clue to her circumstances is a recurring nightmare of a hummingbird, blood dripping from its steel beak. With the help of James and his sister, Caroline, Beth...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Lilac. The bard songs say that she's the world's most fearsome bounty hunter. That there's no criminal she can't catch, no mystery she can't solve. None of that is true. Yet. In reality, the Lilac is just a kid, and the bard who wrote all that is her best friend, Dulcinetta. But the Lilac has set her goals on becoming the best bounty hunter in the Thirteen Kingdoms--and when a priceless artifact goes missing from the home of famed monster hunter...
32) The haunting
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On Halloween, a copycat killer may be stalking a town still reeling from murders that took place one year earlier.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
In a small town deep in the bayou, seventeen-year-old Grey searches for answers about the disappearance of her best friend, uncovering long-held secrets that threaten everything she believed about herself, her family, her friends, and her home.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Everybody likes Chris Goodman. Sure, he's a little odd. He wears those funny bell-bottoms and he really likes the word ennui and he shakes your hand when he meets you, but he's also the kind of guy who's always up for a good time, always happy to lend a hand. Everybody likes Chris Goodman, which makes it especially shocking when he's murdered. Here, in a stunning multi-voiced narrative - including the perspective of the fifteen-year-old killer - and...
39) The last laugh
Author
Series
Initial insult volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In the dark and stunning sequel to The Initial Insult, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis concludes this suspenseful YA duology as long-held family secrets finally come to light . . . changing Amontillado forevermore.
40) Death cloud
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire, where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain.
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