Middle School Mystery (MS):

Abrahams, Peter
Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery
An avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Ingrid Levin-Hill, 13, is also a fleet-footed soccer player with a knack for stage acting-skills that come in handy when she finds herself caught in a police investigation following the murder of an eccentric woman. The deceased was associated with the Prescott Players, a local theater troupe in which Ingrid lands the title role in a production of Alice in Wonderland.
MS Mystery

Armistead, John
$66 Summer, The
It’s the summer of 1955, and George’s grandmother has hired him to work in her store in Alabama so he can earn money to buy a motorcycle.  George, who is white, becomes involved with helping his African-American friends solve the mystery of their father’s disappearance.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Avi
Man Who Was Poe, The
In this suspenseful historical mystery, Edmund is looking for his missing family.  Strangely reluctant to help in this search is the dark and grim Edgar Allan Poe.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Balliett, Blue
Chasing Vermeer
Two sixth graders, Petra and Calder find friendship as they are drawn together to help solve a mystery. An assignment given by their favorite teacher and a series of unexplained coincidences lead them into trying to figure out who stole a missing Vermeer painting. Observant readers can use the puzzles embedded throughout the story -- both in the illustrations and text, to provide them with clues.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Cooney, Caroline
Face on the Milk Carton
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Cooney, Caroline B.
Flight Number 116 Is Down
When a 747 crashes on her parents' property, Heidi becomes involved in the massive rescue effort.  Moment-by-moment action makes this taut suspense story feel like a chronicle of an actual disaster.  Cooney never exploits the horror of the event but depicts the drama and human interest inherent in disaster.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Dexter, Catherine
I Dream of Murder
Fourteen-year-old Jere is haunted by a recurring dream from his childhood in which a young woman is murdered in the park across from his house. But he soon discovers that his nightmare is all too true, in this spine-tingling mystery.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Duncan, Lois
Don't Look Behind You
How can April give up her name, her friends, her boyfriend Steve, and everything she's ever known?  She feels like her life is over when she learns that her father has been working undercover for the FBI and the family must relocate under the Federal Witness Security Program.  No one can reach them now…or can they?
MS Mystery / Suspense

Duncan, Lois
I Know What You Did Last Summer
It was only an accident - but it would change their lives forever.  Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret.  But some secrets don't stay buried, and someone has learned the truth.  Someone bent on revenge.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Ferris, Jean
Love Among the Walnuts
Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Gaiman, Neil
Coraline
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Hoeye, Michael
Time Stops for No Mouse
When Linka Perflinger, a jaunty mouse, brings a watch into his shop to be repaired and then disappears, Hermux Tantamoq is caught up in a dangerous search for eternal youth as he tries to find out what happened to her.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Nixon, Joan Lowery
Shadowmaker
Soon after she and her mother come to the small Texas town of Kluney and experience a series of menacing events, Katie begins to suspect that there is something sinister going on.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Van Draanen, Wendelin
Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy
Third in the series of Sammy Keyes mysteries, this story finds our seventh grade protagonist serving her detention at St. Mary’s church when an ivory cross is stolen, and Sammy is on the case. Another humorous, fast-paced mystery ensues as Sammy works to solve the theft, win a softball tournament, and deal with a variety of quirky characters.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Voight, Cynthia
Vandemark Mummy, The
When their father, a new professor at a college, is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, a twelve-year-old boy and his older sister try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Wallace, Barbara Brooks
Secret in St. Something
Fleeing from a cruel step-father, eleven-year-old Robin takes his baby brother and finds shelter with street boys living in a church in a tenement area of New York City.
MS Mystery / Suspense

Wynne-Jones, Tim
Boy in the Burning House, The
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.
MS Mystery / Suspense

 

High School Mystery (HS):

Avi
Wolf Rider: A Tale of Terror
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.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Bambola, Sylvia
Tears in a Bottle
Becky Taylor succumbs to her parents' decision that she have an abortion, believing that she has no other choice. Then, while waiting in a small room for her mother to pick her up after the procedure, she hears screams and gunfire. Within minutes, Becky is the only living soul left in the clinic.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Barr, Nevada
Firestorm
After a wildfire, Ranger Anna Pigeon emerges from her “shake & bake” and discovers a murdered body.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Beaton, M.C.
Death of an Outsider
One of many mysteries set in the Highlands of Scotland and featuring Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back Constable who would rather mooch coffee and chat than use a lot of effort to solve a case.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Bloor, Edward
Crusader
In this complex mystery of virtual vs. real, 15-year-old Roberta is trying to find the truth behind her mother's murder years ago as a violent virtual reality game arrives at the mall arcade where she works.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Braun, Lilian Jackson
Cat Who Went Up a Creek, The
James Qwilleran is enjoying a vacation at the Nutcracker Inn, but the tranquillity is soon interrupted when one of the other guests is found dead, and feline detectives Koko and Yum Yum do their best to help Qwill solve the case.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Brown, Dan
Deception Point
When NASA says that it has discovered a meteorite from deep space embedded in the polar ice, and the meteorite has fossils indicating life in space, the world community is fascinated. But then mysterious deaths in the scientific community point the way to massive deception.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Carroll, Jenny
When Lightening Strikes
Walking home from school one afternoon, sixteen-year-old Jessica Mastriani is hit by lightening and finds she has acquired an amazing power - which can be used for good ...or evil.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Christie, Agatha
ABC Murders, The
Hercules Poirot must stop a ruthless murderer who kills his victims in alphabetical order.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Clancy, Tom
Hunt for Red October
A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Clancy, Tom
Rainbow Six
Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, newly appointed head of an international anti-terrorism task force, begins to see a pattern in a rash of seemingly separate episodes that leads to the discovery of a group of terrorists whose cunning and skill threatens to alter the entire fabric of life on Earth.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Cook, Thomas H.
Interrogation, The
The lives of three police officers begin to unravel as they come down to the last twelve hours in the interrogation of a murder suspect and are still unable to come up with any evidence that Albert Jay Smalls strangled an eight-year-old girl in the park.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Cooney, Caroline B.
Wanted
It all started when her father telephoned Alice to take the Corvette and meet him. Only Alice doesn't have a driver's license, and he knows it. But now, her father is dead, someone has already confessed to his murder by e-mail, and that someone is Alice.  The police are after her, and the real murderer is, too.  It's only a matter of time before somebody catches her.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Cornwell, Patricia
Body Farm, The
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, consulting pathologist for the FBI Forensic Science Unit, must deal with the truly horrific as she seeks to understand the murder of an eleven-year-old girl in rural North Carolina.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Cornwell, Patricia
Postmortem
Using the latest advances in forensic research, medical examiner Kay Scarpetta sets out to unmask a maniac who wants her dead.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Crichton, Michael
Terminal Man
Harry Benson becomes part of an experimental program that sends electrodes to his brain to calm his terrible seizures. When he discovers how to get those soothing pulses more frequently, he ends up on a murderous rampage  with a deadly agenda.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Crombie, Deborah
Finer End, A
Duncan Kincaid and his partner Gemma travel to Galstonbury to help Duncan's cousin solve a problem, but instead of the relaxing weekend they were expecting, Duncan and Gemma find themselves involved in a baffling mystery.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Davis, Lindsey
One Virgin Too Many
Marcus Didius Falco, royal informer, now keeper of the sacred geese, is plunged into another Roman tempest when a young Vestel Virgin candidate claims someone is trying to kill her - and then disappears.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Deaver, Jeffrey
Bone Collector, The
Lincoln Rhyme, forensic genius and former head of the NYPD's  Central Investigation and Resource Department, a quadriplegic considering euthanasia, instead finds himself at the center of a manhunt for a brutal serial killer.
HS Mature Mystery / Suspense

Deaver, Jeffrey
Vanished Man, The
When a talented magician becomes a serial killer, Lincoln Rhyme must use all of his intelligence to follow the forensic clues to try and stop him.
HS Mature Mystery / Suspense

Duncan, Lois
Killing Mr. Griffin
A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to be murder?
HS Mystery / Suspense

Duncan, Lois
Locked in Time
Nore arrives at her stepmother's Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Elkins, Aaron
Dead Men's Hearts
After reluctantly agreeing to help film a documentary promoting a center for Egyptian studies located in the Nile Valley, forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver becomes enmeshed in a case with a  wandering skeleton and a murdered professor.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Evanovich, Janet
One for the Money
Out of work, car repossessed, Stephanie Plum blackmails her cousin Vinnie into hiring her as an “apprehension agent,” or bounty hunter. Clueless but resourceful, with the help of a cast of true characters, against a backdrop of cars blowing up and people disappearing, Stephanie succeeds with her first case -- sort of. Welcome to the wild, wacky world of Stephanie Plum in this first of a series of best-selling mystery / detective stories by Evanovich. True page-turners that are as addictive as they are hysterical.
HS Mature Mystery / Suspense

Evanovich, Janet
Two for the Dough
Armed with plenty of attitude and her trusty .38, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum goes after bail jumper Kenny Mancuso.  The place to find him is a funeral parlor.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Follett, Ken
Hornet Flight
An old-fashioned tale of ordinary people thrown into the drama and danger of war. The time is 1941, and British bombers attacking Germany are being blown out of the sky in horrific numbers. How do the Nazis know they're coming?
HS Mystery / Suspense

Frazer, Margaret
Clerk's Tale, The
When she accompanies her prioress on a mercy visit to a nunnery, Dame Frevisse becomes entangled in an inheritance dispute, a family feud, and the chaotic aftermath of a brutal murder.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Glen, Mel
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems
When popular Tower High English teacher Mr. Chippendale is fatally shot, everyone's a suspect. Told in a series of interlocking poems, this suspenseful story will keep readers guessing who the killer is right up until the last page.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Griffin, Adele
Amadine
Although she knows from the first that Amandine is "unusual", maybe even crazy, Delia, the new girl in town, is drawn toward Amandine's magnetic personality. When Amandine's antics turn cruel, Delia must find the courage to get away from her influence.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Grisham, John
Last Juror, The
In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family.
HS Mature Mystery / Suspense

Grisham, John
Summons, The
Law professor Ray Atlee and his brother are summoned home by their ailing father to discuss his will.  When Ray arrives the judge is already dead, and the one-page will seems crystal clear. What it doesn't mention is the small fortune in cash Ray discovers hidden in the old man's house--$3 million!
HS Mystery / Suspense

Hillerman, Tony
Thief of Time
Navajo tribal policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee plunge into the past to unearth the truth behind two murders at a sacred Indian ruin.
HS Mystery / Suspense

King, Laurie R.
Beekeeper's Apprentice, The
What would happen if Sherlock Holmes, a perfect man of the Victorian age - pompous, smug, and misogynistic - were to come face-to-face with a twentieth-century female?
HS Mystery / Suspense

King, Stephen
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The
Lost in the woods for nine days, a young girl survives by her wits and imagined help from baseball hero Tom Gordon.
HS Mystery / Suspense

McCrumb, Sharyn
Paying the Piper
People are slowly dying on an isolated Scottish island.  Who’s the killer?
HS Mystery / Suspense

Monfredo, Miriam Grace
Seneca Falls Inheritance
Seneca Falls, NY, was in the midst of the 1848 Women’s Right’s convention when a body is discovered in the Erie Canal.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Nixon, Joan Lowery
Other Side of Dark, The
Stacy wakes up in a room that's not hers, in a body she doesn't recognize, to discover she's been in a coma for four years. Her mother is dead - murdered - and Stacy, recovering from a gunshot wound, is the only eyewitness. She can recall only a shadowy face, but the killer is not about to take any chances…
HS Mystery / Suspense

Parker, Robert B.
Early Autumn
When private detective Spenser is hired to protect 15 year old Paul, both get more than they agreed to in the bargain.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Patterson, James
Pop Goes the Weasel
Geoffrey Shafer, the Weasel, is a British diplomat who lives a secret life; he murders people during a fantasy game he plays with three other men around the globe. Alex Cross doesn't know it, but he and the people he cares about are the newest pawns in the game.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Peters, Elizabeth
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody heads for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past.  Little does she know that a homicidal mummy awaits.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Peters, Ellis
Morbid Taste for Bones, A
Brother Cadfael, once a crusading knight, now a brother in a monastery, must solve a mystery while attempting to obtain the bones of a Welch saint for his Prior.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Plum-Ucci, Carol
Body of Christopher Creed, The
The often-tortured class weirdo has disappeared, leaving an enigmatic note on the school library computer. Is he a runaway, a suicide, or a murder victim?
HS Mystery / Suspense

Pullman, Philip
Ruby in the Smoke
In search of clues to the mystery of her father's death, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart ventures into the shadowy underworld of Victorian London. Pursued by villains at every turn, the intrepid Sally finally uncovers two dark mysteries - and realizes that she herself is the key to both.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Qualey, Marsha
Thin Ice
Orphaned at age seven, Arden has been raised by her much older brother, Scott. When she is a high school senior, Scott is apparently drowned in a snowmobile accident. The vehicle is recovered from a river, but even after a great deal of searching, no body is found. Arden grieves and suffers terrible nightmares until one day she realizes that something about the facts surrounding Scott's death is not right.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Roberts, Willo Davis
Twisted Summer
Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Sayers, Dorothy
Five Red Herrings, The: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
When an artist is found dead at the bottom of a cliff where he was painting, six artists are suspect.  Who is the killer?
HS Mystery / Suspense

Scottoline, Lisa
Everywhere That Mary Went
Mary DiNunzio fights for her life when crank phone calls fall into a sinister pattern.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Smith, Alexander McCall
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The
Botswana's only female detective, Precious Ramotswe, whose investigation of whether the father who's turned up on the doorstep of Happy Bapetsi, is really her father edges her toward considerably darker waters. Their cases are amusing, as is Mma. Ramotswe.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Sykes, Shelley
For Mike
When Jeff's best friend Mike disappears in the fall of their senior year in high school, Jeff has disturbing dreams in which Mike urges him to come get him, and a secret begins to unfold.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Trueman, Terry
Stuck in Neutral
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Werlin, Nancy
Black Mirror
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
HS Mystery / Suspense

Woodworth, Deborah
Simple Shaker Murder, A
The Shaker village of North Homage is doing nicely, until a group of reformers, hoping to create a utopian community, creates dissention…and death.
HS Mystery / Suspense