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The morgue and me
Par John C. Ford. 2009
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Newell gets a summer job at the morgue hoping to learn about forensic pathology for his future career…
as a spy. But when examining a corpse leads Christopher to suspect a police cover-up, he investigates the case himself. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2009Oyster moon
Par Margaret Meacham. 1996
Set in 1885 on Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a fourteen-year-old girl rescues her twin brother from the…
clutches of the cruel captain of an oyster dredge during the height of the Oyster Wars. For grades 4-7Soon be free (Companion To: Steal Away Home)
Par Lois Ruby, Jean-Francois Podevin. 2000
Parallel stories about Dana, a modern teenager, investigating a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents run as…
a bed-and-breakfast, and James, a Quaker youth living in that same house in 1857, trying to help some fugitive slaves to freedom. Sequel to Steal Away Home (DB 41158). For grades 3-6. 2000Set in darkness: an Inspector Rebus novel
Par Ian Rankin, Sherry Conway Appel. 2000
Inspector John Rebus is assigned to a bogus task force for the new Scottish parliament. He contends with inexperienced--but noble…
class darling--Inspector Derek Linford, while determining whether a newly discovered corpse, a homeless man's suicide, and a murdered politician are connected. Some violence and some strong language. 2000Montana mirage
Par J. T Flynn, J. T. Flynn, Lynn Arensmeyer. 1998
Montana Mirage combines the conflict of man versus nature with that of man versus man in a unique fusion of…
adventure, intrigue and character study. The search for a mountain lion that has preyed upon a small child and ranch cattle pits Headwaters County Sheriff Ben Green and District Attorney Jefferson Kirk against the animal rights group, Animals Forever. Mystery and suspense intensify with the discovery of another bodyAnd then I found out the truth
Par Jennifer Sturman. 2010
Delia discovers that her mother, an environmentalist, is alive and hiding from evildoers in South America and tries to help…
remotely. Meanwhile she manages her school, boyfriend, and aunts. Sequel to And Then Everything Unraveled (DB 70160). Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2010Hold fast
Par Blue Balliett. 2013
Chicago. One January day, eleven-year-old Early's dad disappears without a trace from their neighborhood. Soon after Early, her mom, and…
her brother must flee their apartment and seek safety in a shelter, and it is up to Early to find her father. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2013The dead and buried
Par Kim Harrington. 2013
Seventeen-year-old Jade's dream comes true when her family moves into a big house in an upscale Boston suburb. But the…
house is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jade's new high school. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2012And then everything unraveled
Par Jennifer Sturman. 2009
When the ship that Delia's mother is aboard disappears in Antarctica, Delia goes to live with her two aunts in…
Manhattan. Refusing to believe her mom is dead, Delia searches for clues and discovers that her mother was the victim of a conspiracy. For junior and senior high readers. 2009The missing girl
Par Norma Fox Mazer. 2008
A middle-aged man secretly stalks the Herbert family's five sisters, ages eleven to seventeen, as they carry out their everyday…
activities in the small town of Mallory, New York. Then the stranger makes his move, luring Autumn, the youngest girl, into his house. For junior and senior high readers. 2008The case of the food fight (A Jigsaw Jones Mystery)
Par James Preller. 2005
Jigsaw walks into the school cafeteria during a food fight and gets hit in the face with Jell-O. When one…
of the lunch aides blames Joey Pignattano, Joey asks Jigsaw to prove that he's innocent and thus save Joey from being banned from the cafeteria. For grades 2-4. 2005Swept Away: Ruth Mornay and the Unwanted Clues
Par Natalie Hyde. 2023
Suspicious of her neighbour Beatrice’s untimely death, Ruth Mornay teams up with Bea’s godson Saul to figure out what happened…
that night on the flooded banks of the Teeswater River. Ruth, Saul, and Ruth’s pet chicken Dorcas scour the box of seemingly random junk that Bea left behind for clues.Creep
Par Eireann Corrigan. 2019
"Teenager Olivia Danvers knows that the previous residents at 16 Olcott Place moved out in the middle of the night,…
but nobody really knows why; the new family, the Donahues, have three children including a daughter, Janie, Olivia's age, and the two become close friends--but when the threatening letters start arriving from the "Sentry of Glennon Heights" the two girls realize that the house and town are hiding sinister secrets, which could tear their whole world apart."--Provided by publisherThe sun: a mystery
Par Courtney White. 2018
Dr. Bryce Miller, a young doctor in Boston, inherits a large, historic ranch in northern New Mexico from a wealthy…
uncle she barely knew. Then, a body is found murdered on the ranch. Is it a warning meant for her? Meanwhile, she must choose among a colorful cast of potential buyers who want to turn the working cattle ranch into something entirely different. AdultWalrus With A Gold Tooth: Crime in Anchorage, Alaska—the Pioneer Way—Unorganized!
Par Steven Levi. 2014
In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of…
10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. Uptown, downtown, out of town, the locals were clever enough to keep the East Coast families out. Walrus With A Gold Tooth is a fictionalized version of crime in Anchorage over these two decades and a step-by-step history of how the local squeezed out the mob before it ever made it in. And if you know your Anchorage history, you just might be able to determine which characters are actual people whose names have been changed to protect the guilty.The Morgue and Me
Par John C. Ford. 2009
Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn?t expect it to be…
in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation involving bribery, kidnappings, more murders . . . and his best friend. And he certainly could never have predicted that Tina?loud, insanely hot, ambitious newspaper reporter Tina?would be his partner. But all of that did happen. And Christopher?s life will never be the same. With plenty of plot twists, red herrings, and dry wit, The Morgue and Me is a page-turning modern take on the classic detective genre.Alphabet
Par Kathy Page. 2014
"Simply an epiphany."-Kirkus, starred reviewSimon Austen has the names people have called him tattooed all over his body. Waste of…
Space. Bastard. A Threat to Women. Murderer. Facing a lifetime behind bars and subjected to new therapies for sexual reprogramming, Simon finds himself plunged into a terrifying process of self-reconstruction. But how much, in the end, can a man really change? Darkly compelling and deeply moving, Alphabet is a psychological exploration of one man's uncertain and often-harrowing journey towards rehabilitation."Intense, revealing, challenging and above all riveting ... I kept saying to myself, how could she know this?"-Erwin James, convicted murderer, author of A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook"Sometimes novelists go too far-and sometimes they manage to demonstrate that too far is the place they needed to go."-Time Out UKPraise for Kathy Page"Her unforgettable prose is moody, shape-shifting, provocative and always as compelling as a strong light at the end of a road you hesitate to walk down...but will."- Amy Bloom, author of Where the God of Love Hangs Out"Marvellously well-crafted ... I can't remember the last time I was so compelled, impressed and unsettled by the emotional world of a novel."- Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the VelvetAmerica’s New Order
Par S. D. Johnson. 2018
This is a fictional story about wealthy entrepreneur, Henry Riley, and his obsessive need to control the United States of…
America. Backed by his political New Order Party, are members determined to create a new society, a new order for the working class. From his three children, Henry plans to have his eldest son at the helm. Supported by their family’s private firm, NUKE Security, and a privatized U.S. military, by 2037, he will control the U.S. under unlimited unilateral power, enacting new decrees and laws, while using technological advancements to control the American people. Truth is in the fiction.Entanglement
Par Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Zygmunt Miloszewski. 2007
Praise for Entanglement:"An exquisite contemporary crime story. Polish literature boasts a real master."--Jerzy Pilch, author of The Mighty Angel"A tightly…
plotted mystery novel, dark humor and contemporary Warsaw perfectly rendered."--Przekrój MagazineThe morning after a group psychotherapy session in a Warsaw monastery, Henry Talek is found dead, a roasting spit stuck in one eye.Public prosecutor Teodor Szacki, world-weary, suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui, feels that life has passed him by. But this case changes everything. Because of it he meets Monika Grzelka, a young journalist whose charms prove difficult to resist, and he discovers the frightening power of certain esoteric therapeutic methods. The shocking videos of the sessions lead him to an array of possible scenarios. Could one of the patients have become so absorbed by his therapy role-playing that he murdered Telak? Szacki's investigation leads him to an earlier murder, before the fall of Communism.And why is the Secret Police suddenly taking an interest in all this? As Szacki uncovers each piece of the puzzle, facts emerge that he'd be better off not knowing, for his own safety.Zygmunt Miloszewski, born in Warsaw in 1975, is an editor currently working for Newsweek. His first novel, The Intercom, was published in 2005 to high acclaim. Entanglement followed in 2007, and the author is now working on screenplays based on The Intercom and Entanglement as well as on a sequel to the latter, also featuring Teodor Szacki.The Spy on the Tennessee Walker (The Maggie Fiori Mysteries #3)
Par Linda Peterson. 2015
Praise for Linda Lee Peterson's The Devil's Interval:"Impossible to put down. Sparkling dialogue, references both musical and literary, and an…
offbeat cast of believable characters make the pages fly by."--Library Journal, starred review"A fast-paced, intelligent tale of intrigue that will keep readers guessing until the refreshing end."--Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMaggie Fiori, San Francisco magazine editor and amateur sleuth, gets a package that leads her to investigate a family scandal going back to the Civil War. Why was her great-great-great grandmother imprisoned for bigamy and espionage? Was she a criminal or a hero? Did she support the Confederates or the Union? Maggie's husband, Michael, joins her on the trip to Oxford, Mississippi, to dig deep and solve the mystery.Combining an engaging contemporary mystery with a carefully researched Civil War setting and nineteenth-century characters, The Spy on the Tennessee Walker will appeal to Civil War and American history buffs as well as fans of modern mysteries and historical fiction.Linda Lee Peterson is the author of two previous Maggie Fiori mysteries, Edited to Death and The Devil's Interval. She has also written several nonfiction books, including The Stanford Century, On Flowers (Chronicle), and Linens and Candles (HarperCollins) and has written for several national publications, including the Chicago Tribune. A longtime San Franciscan and an alumna of Stanford University, Peterson now lives in Portland, Oregon.