Mystery

The Ruinous Sweep by Tim Wynne-Jones

On the night Donovan Turner is thrown out of a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. Where is he? Where is his girlfriend, Bee? In an attempt to flag down the next passing...

The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci

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?

Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in...

Code Orange (Paperback Mass Market) by Caroline B Cooney

New Yorker Mitty Blake is late getting started on his advanced bio report on infectious diseases. After he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house, he discovers an envelope containing two scabs in one of the books. The report is no...

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes #2 Boxed Set by Conan Arthur Doyle

Since his first appearance in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and...

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications...

Paper Towns by John Green

With his trademark brilliant wit and heart-stopping emotional honesty, the Printz Medal-winning author of "Looking for Alaska" returns with a novel about a teenage girl who has mysteriously vanished, and the boy who looks for her by following the clues...

Trouble Is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly

After her parents' divorce, Zoe Webster moves from Brooklyn to upstate New York where she meets the weirdly compelling misfit Philip Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as he pulls her into his investigation...

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey

In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters brings her entire...

Bonechiller by Graham McNamee

Four high school students face off against a soul-stealing beast that has been making young people disappear from their small Ontario, Canada, town for centuries.