Mystery Bibliography

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett. FIC BAL

When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

Lucas by Kevin Brooks FIC BRO

On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.

Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks FIC BRO

Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London and travel to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.

The wish list by Eoin Colfer FIC COL

Forced out of her home by her stepfather after her mother's death, Meg Finn becomes a wanderer, until an attempted robbery goes wrong, leaving Meg's spirit in limbo, where she becomes involved in a battle between good and evil.

Tenderness by Robert Cormier FIC COR

A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.

Tightrope by Gillian Cross FIC CRO

When she begins receiving bizarre threatening messages from someone who seems to know her every move, fourteen-year-old Ashley, after seeking help from the neighborhood tough guy, comes to realize that she alone can end the stalker's reign of terror.

I know what you did last summer by Lois Duncan FIC DUN

Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery person seeking revenge.

Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan FIC DUN

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?

The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson FIC FER

On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.

As Simple as Snow by Gregory Galloway FIC GAL

In awe of high school girl Anna Cayne and her penchant for affectionate magic tricks and riddles, a man is baffled by her mysterious disappearance just before Valentine's Day and retraces the time they spent together for clues to her fate.

Dead Girls don’t write letters by Gail Giles FIC GIL

Fourteen-year-old Sunny is stunned when a total stranger shows up at her house posing as her older sister Jazz, who supposedly died out of town in a fire months earlier.

Nathan’s run by John Gilstrap FIC GIL

Twelve-year-old Nathan Bailey, an escapee from a juvenile detention center who has been accused of killing a guard, becomes the center of a national dialogue on violent youth crime, the object of a nationwide manhunt, and the target of a professional killer

Escape from Memory by Margaret Peterson Haddix FIC HAD

Allowing herself to be hypnotized, fifteen-year-old Kira reveals memories of another time and place that may eventually cost her and her mother their lives.

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz FIC HOR

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Acceleration by Graham McNamee FIC McN

Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.

Kiki Strike by Kirsten Miller FIC MIL

Life becomes more interesting for Ananka Fishbein when, at the age of twelve, she discovers an underground room in the park across from her New York City apartment and meets a mysterious girl called Kiki Strike who claims that she, too, wants to explore the subterranean world.

Jude by Kate Morgenroth FIC MOR

Still reeling from his drug-dealing father's murder, moving in with the wealthy mother he never knew, and transferring to a private school, fifteen-year-old Jude is tricked into pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit.

Full tilt by Neal Shusterman FIC SHU

When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

The boy who couldn’t die by William Sleator FIC SLE

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Inside out by Terry Trueman FIC TRU

A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.

The Killer’s cousin by Nancy Werlin FIC WER

After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld FIC WES

Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.