Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror (Avi) After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him. (Teen Fiction) The Alienist (Carr, Caleb) In 1896, a shockingly brutal murder in New York City is investigated by a newspaper reporter, a psychologist, and Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt. (Adult Fiction) Murder on the Orient Express (Christie, Agatha) Hercule Poirot solves the mysterious murder on the famous train, now stopped on the tracks by a giant snowdrift. (Teen Fiction) Wanted! (Cooney, Caroline B.) Alice Robie was not the kind of girl you would expect to be a killer. But she is, at least according to the radio. She's wanted. She's on the run, and nobody, not even her mother, seems to believe she's innocent (Teen Fiction) In the Middles of the Night (Cormier, Robert) Sixteen-year-old Denny lives in the shadow of a deadly accident with which his father was connected when he was Denny's age, a disaster for which some of the survivors still blame his father. (Teen Fiction) Body in the Bathhouse (Davis, Lindsey) Ancient Roman investigator Marcus Didius Falco finds trouble on the site of a new palace being built by the king of the Atrebates tribe in distant Britain. (Adult Fiction) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle, Arthur Conan) The adventure of the empty house -- The adventure of the Norwood builder -- The adventure of the dancing men -- The adventure of the solitary cyclist -- The adventure of the priory school -- The adventure of Black Peter -- The adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton -- The adventure of the six Napoleons -- The adventure of the three students -- The adventure of the golden pince-nez -- The adventure of the missing three-quarter -- The adventure of the Abbey Grange -- The adventure of the second stain -- Afterword. (Adult Fiction) The Twisted Window (Duncan, Lois) Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her. (Teen Fiction) Two for the Dough (Evanovich, Janet) A woman bounty hunter and her coach join forces with a vice cop to find a bond jumper who recently left the army and inadvertently shot his best friend. (Adult Fiction) Running Out of Time (Haddix, Margaret Peterson) When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. (Teen Fiction) The House of Dies Drear (Hamilton, Virginia) A family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events and discoveries of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger. (Teen Fiction) Following Fake Man (Holmes, Barbara Ware) During his summer in Maine, twelve-year-old Homer, together with his new friend Roger, is determined to find the truth about himself, his long-dead father, and a mysterious costumed man. (Teen Fiction) Stormbreaker (Horowitz, Anthony) After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. (Teen Fiction) The Seventh Knot (Karr, Kathleen) Two brothers touring Europe in the 19th century become embroiled in a mystery involving Albrecht Durer's knot woodcuts and a secret German society when they go in search of their uncle's enigmatic missing valet. (Teen Fiction) Fell Down (Kerr, M.E.) Seventeen-year-old Fell's determination to investigate his best friend's death in a car crash leads him to a ventriloquists' convention and an unsolved disappearance from almost twenty years ago. (Teen Fiction) The Beekeeper's Apprentice (King, Laurie R.) When Mary Russell meets famous detective Sherlock Holmes, she discovers that he is also a beekeeper. Soon she finds herself on the trail of kidnappers and discovers a plot to kill both Holmes and herself. (Adult Fiction) Troubling a Star (L'Engle, Madeleine) 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. (Teen Fiction) How to Disappear Completely & Never Be Found (Nickerson, Sara) With a swimming medal, the key to a mansion, and a comic book about a half-man/half-rat as her only clues, a twelve-year-old girl seeks the true story of her father's mysterious death four years earlier near an island in the Pacific Northwest. (Teen Fiction) Name of the Game was Murder (Nixon, Joan Lowery) When she visits her great-uncle, a successful and self-centered author, at his fortress-like home on Catalina Island, fifteen-year-old Samantha becomes involved in his manipulative game that leads to murder. (Teen Fiction) My Life and Death, by Alexandra Canarsie (O'Keefe, Susan) Escaping school and family problems in a cemetery, fifteen-year-old Allie begins attending strangers' funerals, which leads to her first real friendship and a mystery that she believes only she can solve. (Teen Fiction) Indemnity Only (Paretsky, Sara) Hired by the head of Chicago's biggest bank to find his son's missing girlfriend, private investigator V.I. Warshawski soon finds herself up against the worst of the city's white-collar criminals in a fight to save the life of an innocent young woman. (Adult Fiction) Body of Christopher Creed (Plum-Ucci, Carol) Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. (Teen Fiction) Death and the Arrow (Priestly, Chris) After his friend Will, a pickpocket in London in 1715, is murdered as part of a series of mysterious deaths, fifteen-year-old Tom Marlowe asks his friend Dr. Harker to help find the killer. (Teen Fiction) Ruby in the Smoke (Pullman, Phillip) In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby. (Teen Fiction) Close to a Killer (Qualey, Marsha) Seventeen-year-old Barrie finds herself involved in a string of murders that are somehow connected to her mother's hair salon. (Teen Fiction) Missing Persons Series (Rabb, M.E.) The Rose Queen:The Chief of Police things Noelle is dead, and all the evidence points to Sophie. If she and Sam can't find out soon what really happened, they're in big trouble! (Book 1) (Teen Fiction) The Chocolate Lover: Trying to locate someone who has been missing for over fifty years is a challenge for any private investigator. But for Sophie and Sam, the real challenge is trying to figure out whether Professor Leo Shattenberg is also "Cousin" Leo... without exposing who they really are. (Book 2) (Teen Fiction)> The Venetian Policeman: Sophie and Sam thought they knew everything there was to know about Gus Jenkins, the private detective they're working with. But when Gus's life takes a turn for the worse, the girls discover that the has a missing son (who happens to be a total stud), and they decide that they just have to find him. Can they manage to find Gus's son, while keeping their identity and their motives a secret? (Book 3) (Teen Fiction) The Westing Game (Raskin, Ellen) The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. (Teen Fiction) Strong Poison (Sayers, Dorothy L.) When her fiance is murdered, mystery novelist Harriet Vane becomes the chief suspect due to her expert knowledge on poison, but Lord Peter Wimsey, prompted by his love for Harriet, vows to clear her name. Reprint. (Adult Fiction) Lord of the Kill (Taylor, Theodore) With his parents in India, sixteen-year-old Ben Jepson is in charge of Los Coyotes Preserve, a refuge for big cats near Los Angeles, when two powerful groups try to shut it down by intimidation, murder, and kidnapping the largest tiger in captivity. (Teen Fiction) Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Van Draanen, Wendelin) Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother. (Children's Fiction) Never Trust a Dead Man (Vande Velde, Vivian) 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. (Teen Fiction) The Killer's Cousin (Werlin, Nancy) After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily. (Teen Fiction) The Boy in the Burning House (Wynne-Jones, Tim) Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor. (Teen Fiction)