Mysteries for Teens

After a knee injury destroys 16-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town, but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search. 

 

Blundell, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied

In 1947, with her stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies that change her life and that of her family forever. 

 

Brooks, Kevin. Black Rabbit Summer

When two of 16-year-old Pete's childhood classmates disappear from a carnival the same night, he is a suspect, but his own investigation implicates other old friends he was with that evening--and a tough, knife-wielding enemy determined to keep him quiet. 

 

Ferguson, Alane. The Christopher Killer: Forensic Mystery Series

Seventeen-year-old Cameryn finds herself in terrible danger when she uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch a friend’s killer. 

 

Gerber, Linda. Death by Latte

When 16-year-old Aphra sneaks away from the island resort where she lives with her father, and travels to Seattle to find the mother she has not seen for four years, she does not anticipate getting involved in a CIA plot that threatens not only her life, but that of her boyfriend and her mother as well. 

Giles, Gail. Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters

Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister who supposedly died months earlier. 

 

Gratz, Alan. Something Rotten: A Horatio Wilkes Mystery

In a story based on Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, Horatio Wilkes seeks to solve the murder of his friend Hamilton Prince's father in Denmark, Tennessee. 

 

Madison, Bennett. Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls

Lulu needs to investigate after someone steals her purse and her identity. 

 

Olin, Sean. Killing Britney

After transforming herself into one of the most popular girls in school, Britney fears that the supposedly accidental deaths of her mother and boyfriend may have something to do with a jealous schoolmate trying to kill her. 

 

Osterlund, Anne. Aurelia

The king sends for Robert, whose father was a trusted spy, when someone tries to assassinate Aurelia, the stubborn and feisty crown princess of Tyralt. 

 

Parker, Robert B. The Boxer & the Spy

Fifteen-year-old Terry, an aspiring boxer, uncovers the mystery behind the unexpected death of a classmate. 

 

Plum-Ucci, Carol. The Night My Sister Went Missing

When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, 17-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community. 

 

Price, Charlie. Dead Connection

A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her.

 

Shearer, Alex. Canned

When eccentric can collector Fergal Banfield, finds some unexpected--and even alarming--things in a few of his treasures, he begins an investigation that leads him into dangerous territory. 

 

Simmons, Michael. Finding Lubchenko

When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit. 

 

Sorrells, Walter. Fake ID

After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother. 

 

Taylor, G.P. Mariah Mundi: the Midas Box

In 1886 England, 15-year-old Mariah tries to solve the mystery of workers who have disappeared at the Prince Regent Hotel only to find that nothing is as it appears. 

 

Werlin, Nancy. Black Mirror

Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, 16-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.