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1) Nearly gone
Author
Series
Nearly gone volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A math-whiz from a trailer park discovers she's the only student capable of unravelling complex clues left by a serial killer who's systematically getting rid of her classmates"--
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Historical Fiction - YA
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
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Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Alternating between 1980s Cuba and present-day Miami, this stunning story of a Cuban American family of brujas follows twin sisters Ofelia and Delfi as they secretly embrace their magical inheritance to stop a serial killer from taking even more innocent lives.
5) 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
Fear Street. Relaunch volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Everyone at Shadyshide High is talking about Lizzy Palmer. There's something weird about Lizzy. When Michael invites her to a snowmobile race, tragedy strikes. Then someone starts killing all of Michael's friends. His girlfriend, Pepper, thinks Lizzy is to blame, but the truth lies buried in a fateful betrayal over 60 years old.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Thrills and Chills (Halloween) - YA
Description
Publisher Annotation: The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones. Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide. All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets. But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness...
9) Ruthless
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Carver has always competed like her life depends on it. Ambitious. Tough. Maybe even mean. It's no wonder people call her Ruthless. When she wakes up with a concussion in the bed of a moving pickup trick, she realizes she has been entered into a contest she can't afford to lose. At a remote, rotting cabin deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Ruth's blindfold comes off and she comes face-to-face with her captor. A man who believes his mission is...
10) The Night Raven
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she’s about to prove it. It's 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets…or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby is left at the orphanage in the middle of the night, by a boy with a...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
London 1888, and Jack the Ripper is terrorizing the people of the city. Evelyn, a young woman disfigured by her dangerous work in a matchstick factory with nowhere to go, does not know what to make of her new position as a maid to the Elephant Man in London Hospital. Evelyn wanted to be locked away from the world, like he is, shut away from the filth and dangers of the streets. But in Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, she finds a gentle kindred, who...
12) The Clackity
Author
Series
Blight Harbor volume 1
Language
English
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Description
To rescue her aunt from the ghost of a serial killer, twelve-year-old Evie Von Rathe embarks on a journey into a strange world filled with hungry witches, ghosts, and a story thief, all while trying to fulfill her deal with the Clackity.
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