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4) When
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI investigation.
5) Kick
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
Author
Series
Streetball crew volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Chris's older brother, Jax, is caught betting on the pick-up basketball games that Chris and his friends play, Chris becomes involved in the police investigation.
7) Atty at law
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Atticus "Atty" Peale fights for the rights of animals, copes with having a racially-mixed family in small-town Alabama, navigates the social scene of middle school, and determines to help her father prove Jethro Gersham innocent of murder.
9) Bad blood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Cassie Hobbes joined the FBI's Naturals program, she had one goal: uncover the truth about her mother's murder. But now, everything Cassie thought she know about what happened that night has been called into question. Her mother is alive, and the people holding her captive are more powerful--and more dangerous--than anything the Naturals have faced so far. As Cassie and the team work to uncover an insidious group that has been killing in secret...
10) The final step
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Before James Moriarty and his sister Moria enrolled in Baskerville Academy, they were inseparable-as close to best friends as a brother and sister could be. But since setting foot on the boarding school's campus, James has been different. At Baskerville, he's become cunning, deceptive, ruthless, sometimes reckless. And now that his roommate Sherlock Holmes has been expelled, there's no one left to help Moira figure out what's going on with her brother...
Author
Series
Real Pigeons volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Alguna vez te preguntaste por qué las palomas hacen cosas tan raras? Pues es porque están persiguiendo a los malos, salvándonos el trasero a todos y ¡resolviendo complicado misterios! ¿Por qué han desaparecido todas las migajas del parque? ¿Quién está secuestrando a los murciélagos? Y, lo más importante, ¿conseguierá la Pandilla Paloma evitar que la cena se covierta en un desastre?"--
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The New York Times bestselling author of the Peter and the Starcatcher and Kingdom Keepers series, Ridley Pearson, brings us the second riveting tale in the Lock and Key trilogy. This bravely reimagined origin story of the rivalry of literature's most famous enemies-Sherlock Holmes and James Moriarty-is told from the perspective of James's observant little sister, Moira. At the thrilling conclusion to book one, we left off with...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Amateur sleuth Stevie Bell needs a good murder. After catching a killer at her high school, she's back at home for a normal (that means boring) summer. But then she gets a message from the owner of Sunny Pines, formerly known as Camp Wonder Falls-the site of the notorious unsolved case, the Box in the Woods Murders. Back in 1978, four camp counselors were killed in the woods outside of the town of Barlow Corners, their bodies...
15) Curious minds
Author
Series
Knight and Moon novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A brand-new series introducing a fun and entertaining crime-solving team with great romantic chemistry--fiesty financial analyst Riley Moon and eccentric savant Emerson Knight. Riley Moon is a junior analyst at a mega-bank, when she uncovers what looks like an embezzlement scheme that could lead straight to the top. With his gold gone missing and analysts disappearing, famously eccentric Emerson Knight, the bank's biggest client, decides to take...
16) Truly devious
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of...
17) Nine liars
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.
Author
Series
Real pigeons volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Ever wonder why pigeons act so weird? Because they are secretly chasing bad guys and flying around saving your butt! This hilarious illustrated series is perfect for fans of BAD GUYS and DOG MAN.
19) Girl forgotten
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
20) The red palace
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
While investigating a series of grisly murders, eighteen-year-old palace nurse Hyeon navigates royal and political intrigue and becomes entangled with a young police inspector.
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