Mysteries in Other Times and Other PlacesFrom the far reaches of outerspace to the windswept rocky shores of Washington state, murder and mystery know no bounds. |
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 | Bell, Hilari |
| A Matter of Profit |
A war-weary young soldier makes a deal—discover who’s behind the plot to assassinate the emperor and become a civilian. But when your potential suspects include 40 conquered alien worlds, multiple motives for murder abound.
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 | Donnelly, Jennifer |
| A Northern Light |
| 16 year-old waitress Mattie Gokey suspects the death of the young woman was anything but an accident but doesn’t dare jeopardize her position in the hotel by coming forward. |
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 | Ehrenhaft, Daniel |
| Drawing a Blank, or, How I Tried to Solve a Mystery, End a Feud, and Land the Girl of My Dreams |
| A centuries-old feud lures 16 year-old comic strip artist Carlton Dunne IV from his posh Connecticut boarding school all the way across the Atlantic to the Scottish countryside. |
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 | Hobbs, Will |
| Ghost Canoe |
| What does a mysterious shipwreck survivor have to do with the murder of the ship’s captain, lost Spanish treasure, and a series of thefts at the local Makah trading post? |
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 | Holm, Jennifer |
| The Creek |
| Years ago Caleb terrorized the town. Everyone’s convinced he’s behind the missing pets and mysterious fires. Only Jenny knows the truth about what’s in the creek, and that this time, Caleb is innocent. |
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 | Klause, Annette Curtis |
| Alien Secrets |
| Returning home in disgrace, Puck befriends one of the alien Shoowa and puts herself in mortal danger when their hunt for a stolen artifact attracts the attention of a killer. |
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 | Plum-Ucci, Carol |
| The Body of Christopher Creed |
| When the school misfit disappears, a popular teen enlists other outsiders to find out what’s become of him, unearthing secrets their small town had thought buried forever. |
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 | Pullman, Philip |
| The Ruby in the Smoke |
| Seeking the truth behind her father’s death, newly orphaned Sally Lockhart finds herself competing with nefarious members of Victorian London’s underworld to locate a fabled ruby. |
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 | Reiss, Kathryn |
| Paperquake: a Puzzle |
A hidden century-old cache of letters revealed by an earthquake holds clues to an impending disaster for modern-day San Francisco.
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 | Rick Geary |
| The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman Mudgett Known to the World as H. H. Holmes... |
| The true story in graphic novel format of America’s first known serial killer who ran a boarding house at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair where tourists checked in but never checked out. |
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 | Roberts, Willo Davis |
| Twisted Summer |
| Cici’s plans for an idyllic summer at the lake are shattered when a family friend is arrested for killing a local girl the previous summer. |
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 | Updale, Eleanor |
| Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? |
| Saved by a brilliant physician from certain death, a young thief uses his second chance to build a new identity and embark on an even greater life of crime. |
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 | Vande Velde, Vivian |
| Never Trust a Dead Man |
| Selwyn’s having a bad day--his girlfriend dumped him, he’s been accused of a murder he didn’t commit, and to prove his innocence he must team up with his worst enemy. |
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 | Wynne-Jones, Tim |
| The Boy in the Burning House |
| Jim’s life is put into danger when his investigations implicate a local minister in the disappearance of Jim’s father and in the death of a boy 30 years previously. |
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