Monday, March 6, 2017

Murder, Mayhem & Mystery

This week, I am focusing on books for teens that include murder, mayhem and mystery . . . .

The Golden Day by Ursula Durbosarsky
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, follows the chilling stories of eleven school girls who struggle to identify a mysterious poet in the aftermath of a teacher's innocence-shattering disappearance.

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig
Flynn's girlfriend is missing, and people are suspecting him of knowing something, so he struggles to uncover her secrets as he must also face the truth about himself.

Fake I.D. by L.R. Riles
An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead.

The Invisible by Mats Wahl
A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

The Caged Graves by Dianne K. Salerni
Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.


More Books --
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Deadly Design by Debra Doktor
Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge by David Lubar
Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry
The Madman's Daughter by Megan Sheperd
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
Playing in Traffic by Gail Giles
Project Cain by Geoffrey Girard
Seraphina by Rachel Harman
A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby
Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger
Unlovely by Celeste Conway
Vango: Between Sky and Earth by Timothee de Fombelle


Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through March 24, 2017.

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